Grant history

Special Programs

2025|$10,000|One year

Nominated by the Abilities + CRG

Healthy AgingPolicy and Advocacy

2021|$140,000|Two years

Continue organizing older adults on transportation solutions for people with low incomes in Chelsea, Mass. Tufts Health Plan Foundation grant.

Healthy AgingHealthy Food AccessPolicy and Advocacy

2023|$165,000|Three years

Advance transit, food and health justice through resident engagement and community power building in Chelsea.

Healthy AgingPolicy and Advocacy

2018|$130,000|Two years

A Diverse, Intergenerational Model for Equitable Public Transit Delivery: To support organizing and advocacy by older adults on transportation issues affecting people with low-incomes in Chelsea, Mass. Tufts Health Plan Foundation grant.

Social and Racial Justice

2021|$20,000|One year

Enhance capacity of the youth service-learning program focused on revitalizing urban neighborhoods in Bridgeport. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation grant.

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.