by James Fuccione | Dec 1, 2020 | News and Updates
The 2020 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Racial Equity and Justice Grant continues the work and energy of their company-wide Service Week in September to build a more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient future by supporting not-for-profit organizations...
by James Fuccione | Nov 18, 2020 | News and Updates
Informed by data and stakeholder interviews, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office released a report, “Building Toward Racial Justice and Equity in Health: A Call to Action,” meant to lay out ways stakeholders should come together to address...
by James Fuccione | Nov 18, 2020 | Data and Reports
Dramatically higher percentages of Black, Latino and Asian older adults live on incomes that don’t meet their cost of living, even with Social Security, according to research by Jan Mutchler, PhD of UMass-Boston’s Gerontology Institute. The article highlighting...
by James Fuccione | Nov 11, 2020 | News and Updates
The latest round of Mass. Department of Transportation’s (MassDOT) Shared Winter Streets and Spaces features new project categories that award bonus points for proposals that include older adults. Through the Shared Streets and Spaces Grant Program, MassDOT...
by James Fuccione | Nov 11, 2020 | News and Updates
Recently, leaders from the John A. Hartford Foundation, Milbank Memorial Fund, Mass. Healthy Aging Collaborative and four age- and dementia friendly community initiatives in Massachusetts joined together for a webinar titled “A Conversation on Healthy...
