Grant Partners

Resilient Sisterhood Project, Inc.

Year: 2022
Amount:$7,500
Middlesex, Suffolk
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding requested for laptops, software, and IT support to improve cyber security and virtual work to increase the capacity of the organization.

Greater Boston Veteran’s Collaborative

Year: 2022
Amount:$7,000
Statewide
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to provide resources to service members, veterans and their families to assist in purchasing food and groceries.

Gratis Healthcare

Year: 2022
Amount:$3,000
Franklin
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for technology needs to facilitate applications for MassHealth and ongoing contact with patients seeking mental health services.

The Home for Little Wanderers

Year: 2022
Amount:$7,500
Bristol, Dukes
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to purchase modular furniture to promote community meal services to help their young clients enhance their social and developmental skills during mealtimes.

Brockton Workers Alliance, Inc.

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Brockton
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to address racial equity in vaccine access through outreach and education in Brockton’s Cape Verdean, Ecuadoran, Haitian, Honduran, and Mexican communities.

This grant was made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Empty Arms Bereavement Support

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Florence
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to hire a clinician to develop a program for its volunteer group facilitators about nervous system responses to trauma. The program will include simple strategies for the facilitators to teach clients to use to regulate their nervous system if activated during and after groups or during times of crisis.

Boys & Girls Clubs of MetroWest

Year: 2021
Amount:$4,500
Marlborough
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to partially support a 10-week, research-based, daily mental health check-in series. The series teaches positive coping strategies and builds cognitive-behavior skills to support youth in pandemic-related healing.

This grant was made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Revitalize Community Development Corporation

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Springfield
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to purchase office equipment and computers for new staff hired to meet increased demand due to the pandemic.

This grant was made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Community Nurse Home Care

Year: 2021
Amount:$4,200
Fairhaven
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for training sessions to support home hospice nurses manage pandemic-related stress, which has resulted in compassion fatigue and burn out. The session will help nurses continue to be strong caregivers.

This grant was made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Just Roots, Inc.

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Greenfield
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to hire a consultant to help transform its work culture and service delivery model with an enhanced focus on racial equity, inclusion, and cultural competency to better serve its clients.

DeeDee's Cry Suicide Prevention and Family Support

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Roxbury
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to support a 24-week health and wellness initiative for people with low-income. The initiative includes group sessions, nutrition, exercise, and relationship building to address depression, stress, isolation, anxiety, and suicidal ideation in communities of color.

Respond, Inc.

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Somerville
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to hire a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging consultant to audit its staff training model, using a racial and gender equity lens, to ensure that staff deliver inclusive, equitable services to victims of domestic violence.

Ellie Fund

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Needham
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to translate outreach materials into languages other than English for women at risk of inequities in access to cancer care, including: women of color, women with language and cultural barriers, older women living alone, and women hesitant to seek help due to immigration status.

Shattuck Partners, Inc.

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Jamaica Plain
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to update its seven-year-old strategic plan to better serve the complex medical and socioeconomic needs of its clients in a changing public health landscape.

The Open Door / Cape Ann Food Pantry, Inc.

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Gloucester
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for an online food delivery system and fulfillment center that will enhance capacity to meet increased need due to the pandemic. This effort will connect more people to healthy foods of their choosing through safe, socially distanced curbside pick-up or home delivery.

This grant was made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.