The Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative is pleased to promote the following funding opportunities that support inclusive age- and dementia friendly communities.
- Massachusetts Community Health and Healthy Aging Funds, Mass. DPH – applications are due March 31st.
The Massachusetts Community Health and Healthy Aging Funds (the Funds) is now accepting proposals for the 2026 grantmaking cycle. The Healthy Aging Funds will support age-friendly efforts while advancing the objectives in ReiMAgine Aging 2030: The Massachusetts Plan.
This opportunity is designed to disrupt the root causes of inequitable health outcomes—such as structural racism, poverty, and power imbalances—by supporting Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) changes. Our goal is to support approaches that move upstream from programmatic work and create lasting, community-centered change.
Massachusetts-based nonprofit organizations, municipalities, quasi-governmental groups, and coalitions may apply for the funding streams below:
- PSE Change supports approaches at local, regional, or statewide levels that pass or change laws and rules, retool organizational and cross‑organizational systems, shift power, and improve economic, social, or physical environments.
- Community Health Improvement Planning (CHIP) invests in local or regional assessment, planning, and implementation processes that use Community Health Assessment data to set priorities, align partners, and drive measurable health improvement through PSE change.
- Healthy Aging supports PSE strategies aligned with the Commonwealth’s ReiMAgine Aging 2030 plan and the WHO/AARP domains of livability, elevating upstream change that helps older adults thrive across gateway cities and rural areas.
More information on the Funds are available here.
- Creative Experiences Grant, Mass Cultural Council (application deadline, April 30)
Creative Experiences provides grants to organizations, creative businesses, government entities, and schools to fund festivals, projects, residencies, and other cultural activities in the arts, humanities, and sciences.
The program provides one-year grants of $2,500 or $5,000 to fund activities taking place between July 1, 2026 and June 30, 2027.
This is the second year the Agency is offering Creative Experiences grants. The first year drew 1,551 applications from nonprofits, schools, for-profits, municipalities, and community groups. You can read more about previously-funded Creative Experiences.
As part of Mass Cultural Council’s ongoing work to build more accessible and equitable programs, we’ve updated Creative Experiences so that:
- Creative businesses — including sole proprietors and single member LLCs — can apply if they have an eligible fiscal agent.
- All eligible Creative Experiences projects can apply for $2,500. Projects with a mission, values, and activities that are primarily based in the arts, humanities, and sciences are able to request $5,000.
The application deadline is April 30, 2026 at 11:59pm (ET).