The Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative is pleased to promote the following funding opportunities that help support inclusive age-and dementia friendly communities:
- Community Compact Best Practices Program
The Community Compact Best Practices Program is available for cities and towns. The program is a voluntary, mutual agreement entered into between the Healey-Driscoll Administration and individual cities and towns of the Commonwealth where a community will agree to implement at least one best practice that they select from across a variety of areas. The opportunity is available and applications will be accepted until program funds are exhausted.
One of the available options communities may choose is “Age and Dementia Friendly Best Practices.”
The community’s chosen best practice(s) will be reviewed between the Commonwealth and the municipality to ensure that the best practice(s) chosen are unique to the municipality and reflect needed areas of improvement.
Funding is available through the program and municipal leaders must be the lead applicant. Eligible communities are those municipalities who did not apply in FY24.
More information on the Community Compact Best Practices Program is available here.
The FY25 Community Transit Grant Program operating and mobility management cycle is now open! Applications are due November 1.
Learn more on the grant program’s website
Applications are due November 22. Please see the grant webpage for more information.
T-Mobile Hometown Grants is a $25 million, five-year initiative to support the people and organizations who help small towns across America thrive and grow. Hometown Grants are given every quarter to up to 25 small towns. Apply for funding to support a community project of your choice, like revitalizing or repurposing a historic structure, creating a downtown asset or destination, or improving a space where friends and neighbors gather. Projects that add to a sense of place or could lead to further investment are of particular interest.