Grant history

Healthy AgingPolicy and Advocacy

2018|$165,000|Three years

Building a Massachusetts Community of Age-Friendly Walking Advocates: To expand the Massachusetts cohort of age-friendly walking advocates and practitioners while enhancing the capacity of the Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative and other leaders to promote walking and walkability as core elements of the age- and dementia-friendly movement. Tufts Health Plan Foundation grant.

Healthy AgingPolicy and Advocacy

2021|$165,000|Three years

Create more walkable age-friendly communities through state and municipal policy change. Tufts Health Plan Foundation grant.

COVID-19 Response Grants

2020|$10,000|One year

Grant Program for Agencies Serving Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation grant.

COVID-19 Response Grants

2020|$10,000|One year

Community-Based Organization Response to COVID-19 Grant Program. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation grant.

COVID-19 Response Grants

2020|$5,000|One year

Tufts Health Plan Foundation made an additional $1 million available to nonprofit organizations to support community efforts addressing coronavirus in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Connecticut.

COVID-19 Response GrantsHealthy Food Access

2020|$5,000|One year

Tufts Health Plan Foundation made an additional $1 million available to nonprofit organizations to support community efforts addressing coronavirus in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Connecticut.

Healthy AgingMomentum Fund

2018|$9,900|One year

Taking TRIPPS to Watertown: Using a New Online Tool to Create a Transportation Plan for Older People: To create a plan for accessible, affordable transportation for older people using the new TRIPPS toolkit. A Momentum Fund grant for early-stage age-friendly and/or dementia-friendly work. Tufts Health Plan Foundation grant.

Healthy AgingMomentum Fund

2019|$10,000|One year

Transportation Initiative for Seniors – Phase II: To pilot a program with Transportation Network Companies (TNCs), including providing education to older people about using TNCs. A Momentum Fund grant for early-stage age-friendly and/or dementia-friendly work. Tufts Health Plan Foundation grant.

Equity in Aging

2024|$285,000|Three years

Through the Chestnut Community Alliance and Flexing Civic Muscle Program, advance older adult resident-led advocacy and community organizing focused on digital equity, housing justice and other community priorities in Springfield and Holyoke. Activities offered in English and Spanish.

Healthy AgingPolicy and Advocacy

2018|$140,000|Two years

Flexing Civic Muscle for Equitable Infrastructure and Improved Public Safety: To increase the capacity of local older adult advocates working on policy and system changes in Springfield. The older adult advocates are residents of a low-income neighborhood and lead efforts targeting the built community environment and community safety. Tufts Health Plan Foundation grant.