Grant history

Healthy Aging

2024|$45,000|One year

Support community leadership to improve environmental and social conditions in Bridgeport through greening the urban landscape; creating community gardens; leading public education on environmental stewardship; and supporting civic engagement.

Healthy Food Access

2022|$45,000|One year

Build community leadership to improve the built environment in Bridgeport, Connecticut’s most diverse city.

Healthy Food Access

2016|$150,000|Three years

To increase community participation and use of subsidy/incentive tools at three farmers markets and a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program; a youth-led urban agriculture program; and a series of culturally relevant educational workshops on gardening, cooking/nutrition, shopping on a budget, and food preservation at their new teaching kitchen. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation grant.

Healthy Food Access

2019|$75,000|Three years

Increase volunteerism at Costello Urban Farm to grow more produce, deepen fresh food impact, and broaden community engagement. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation grant.

Changing Inequitable SystemsHealthy Aging

2018|$199,813|Two years

Age-Friendly Lawrence: To lead a multi-stakeholder group that will plan, assess and develop strategies to support age-friendly efforts in Lawrence. Tufts Health Plan Foundation grant.

Healthy Food Access

2020|$25,000|One year

To increase volunteerism at Costello Urban Farm to grow more produce, deepen fresh food impact, and broaden community engagement. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation grant.

COVID-19 Response Grants

2020|$10,000|One year

Healthy Food Fund – COVID-19 relief grant. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation grant.

Changing Inequitable SystemsHealthy Aging

2021|$170,000|Two years

Implement the City of Lawrence’s healthy aging action plan with a resilience framework lens. Tufts Health Plan 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.

Healthy Food Access

2021|$20,000|One year

Discretionary grant. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation grant.