The Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative is pleased to promote the following funding opportunities that support inclusive age- and dementia friendly communities:
- Community Power Grants, Project Bread (LOI due July 21st)
Project Bread is accepting applications (letter of interest/LOIs) for Community Power Grants to community-based orgs with the goal of permanently ending hunger in Massachusetts. The grants – up to $20K – will fund work that influences public perceptions and policies related to hunger through collaboration with Project Bread’s Make Hunger History Coalition. Participation in this coalition ensures that grantees’ community leadership, lived experience, and organizing efforts are directly connected to this statewide movement. Here’s the link for filing a Letter of Intent (LOI) with more details on the funding criteria.
- Advancing Community Driven Mental Health, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation (LOI due July 24)
Advancing Community Driven Mental Health grant program will fund five community based organizations with grants of up to $100,00 a year for two years, starting in December 2025 to improve and increase access to community based mental health services for adults experiencing mild to moderate mental health distress and practical problems of daily living, and develop the skills of a non-clinical workforce.
Under this grant program, the BCBSMA Foundation and its collaborators (Partners in Health, The Family Van, and the Institute for Community Health) will provide training, technical assistance, and implementation support to organizations selected to develop and implement PM+ services through the grant program.
More information is available here.
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Retrofit Ancillary Grantee (RANGE) Program (funding round opens Aug. 4th)
The Residential Retrofit Program (Retrofit Program), launched in 2024, deploys state-of-the-art broadband infrastructure to public and affordable housing properties across Massachusetts. The Retrofit Program intends to increase opportunities for low-income residents by improving access to high-quality, reliable and affordable internet service in their homes. This is achieved by addressing deficient wiring and infrastructure through grants for the deployment of fiberoptic cabling to the unit to qualified Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who will install, own and maintain equipment.
To ensure that the infrastructure enhancements being made under the Retrofit Program are utilized to their fullest extent, MBI introduced the Retrofit Ancillary Grantee (RANGE) program. Grants in the amount of $8M will be made available directly to housing operators participating in the Retrofit Program through an open application process. RANGE awards will allow housing operators to make investments in four areas.