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Age-Friendly Funding Alerts: Community Development Block Grants, MetroWest Health Foundation, Deadline Reminders

Feb 7, 2024

The Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative is pleased to promote the following funding opportunities that help support inclusive age-and dementia friendly communities:

The Community Development Fund (CDF) awards grants to communities throughout the Commonwealth.  This program helps eligible cities and towns to meet a broad range of community development needs in housing, infrastructure, revitalization, economic development and public social services.  It supports CDBG eligible activities and encourages applicants to develop coordinated, integrated and creative solutions to local problems. Senior centers and other programs benefitting older adults are eligible.

Information on eligibility is available here along with an informational PowerPoint and DBG Application Q & A Document. 

The foundation is pleased to solicit proposals from eligible nonprofit and government organizations for the following grantmaking initiatives: Girls’ Mental Health, Improving Health Equity, Health and Housing Stability, Innovative Action to Address Community Health Priorities.

More information is available here.

Additional funding opportunities are available in our previous posts below: