Boston Resiliency Fund grantees
Each of the grantees focus on helping Boston individuals and families disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.
The priorities of the Boston Resiliency Fund are to provide food for children and seniors, technology for remote learning for students, and support public health in the City of Boston
By The Numbers
- $34.5 million raised for COVID-19 relief efforts. Of that, $34.1 million has already supported 377 nonprofits and over 250,000 Boston families.
- 55% of grantees identify as led by a person of color
- 60% of grantees identify as woman-led
- 649,000 prepared meals
- Food for 3.7 million meals through Greater Boston Food Bank and Lovin' Spoonfuls
- 368,000 bags of groceries & produce
- 15,580 gift cards for families to use at their local grocery store
- 55 unemployed workers hired for food distribution
- 20 local, minority-owned restaurants cooking meals
- 8,000 Chromebooks purchased for Boston Public Schools students
- 1000+ families provided with a one-month supply of diapers and formula
- 960 emergency childcare seats for essential workers
- 18 community health centers with COVID-19 testing and 21 with expanded telehealth services
Full List of Grantees
Featured grantees
Boston Resiliency Fund Grantee: YMCA
The YMCA of Greater Boston serves food and basic needs to thousands of families.
Boston Resiliency Fund Grantee: Catie's Closet
Catie's Closet is providing school supplies and toiletries for students now at home in Boston.
Boston Resiliency Fund grantee: Immigrant COVID-19 Collaborative
The collaborative brings together 11 diverse immigrant-serving organizations.
Boston Resiliency Fund grantee: Heading Home
Heading Home, together with Tatte Bakery, the Katsiroubas Brothers and the Bruno Brothers, packaged and distributed nutritious food to 244 families in need.
Boston Resiliency Fund grantee: Breaktime
Breaktime partnered with Community Work Services to employ 10 young adults experiencing homelessness and help serve over 20,000 meals around Boston during COVID-19.
Neighborhood Impact of Grantees
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Grantees by date
Grantees by date- About Fresh: About Fresh will utilize the grant from the Boston Resiliency Fund to fund an online ordering and food pickup program pilot. The aims of this pilot are to improve the shopping experience of vulnerable shoppers seeking to limit their exposure to winter weather and further minimize their potential exposure to COVID-19.
- Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition (BBCC) Community Support, led by Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition (BBCC): BBCC will continue to conduct contact and wellness checks, encourage residents to get tested and support access to vaccination sites for Black residents in Boston. BBCC will also create and share robust, culturally-competent messaging and ensure that residents are connected to existing resources.
- Boston Chinatown Vaccine Education and Basic Needs Relief, led by Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc. (BCNC): BCNC, the Asian Community Development Corporation, the Chinese Progressive Association and the Greater Boston Legal Services Asian Outreach Campaign will collaborate to provide essential resources regarding vaccine education and financial relief to the Chinese-speaking Asian immigrant community in Boston. Coordinating between organizations will maximize resources and enable them to align messaging and communication regarding the vaccine.
- Boston Girls Empowerment Network: Boston Girls Empowerment Network’s Culturally Responsive Support for Homeless Immigrant and Refugee Women will work across ethnic communities to coordinate and boost support services that include rental assistance and housing placement, immigration services, food and feminine hygiene products, mental health/wellness and case management support.
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester, Inc.: With the support of the Boston Resiliency Fund, Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester will increase Dorchester families’ access to nutritious food through an expansion of their current program and through weekly Grab & Go meals. Funding will be used to support the production and delivery of weekly grocery boxes to families.
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Bridge Over Troubled Waters will use BRF funding to provide homeless, runaway and at-risk youth, ages 14-24 with safety, food and basic needs, and hope for the future both through its Boston-based outreach, drop-in and housing programs.
- Bunker Hill Community College Foundation: Funding from this BRF grant will pay the salary of a delivery driver contracted to BHCC from the New England-based culinary organization Snap Chef. The BRF grant will enable them to continue to leverage the existing online ordering system to increase the accessibility of food through the delivery system developed at the beginning of the pandemic.
- Cathedral Church of St. Paul: The Cathedral Church of St. Paul will continue providing weekly meals to the unhoused people they serve. Additionally, they will continue to provide water, access to bathrooms, PPE for staff and guests, phone charging outlets, and information about and assistance accessing other resources for the unhoused in the city.
- Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston, Inc.: Catholic Charities will use resources from the Boston Resiliency Fund to support its two Boston food pantries and to address the continued and expanded demand for food in low-income communities. The two pantries serve approximately 4,000 people each week.
- Immigrant COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign, led by Center to Support Immigrant Organizing: The Center to Support Immigrant Organizing will collaborate with other organizations to use this BRF grant to develop messaging, education and outreach strategy regarding the COVID-19 vaccine.
- Central Assembly of God Church, East Boston: The Central Assembly of God Church will use the Boston Resiliency Fund grant to continue to close the food insecurity gap experienced by Boston residents experiencing joblessness.
- Chica Project: BRF funds will help Chica Project continue to provide stipends to Peer Leaders, and training to mentors as they continue to offer a targeted micro-public health campaign/community forum that improves public education for Latinx girls and other young women of color about how to prevent COVID-19.
- Community Work Services: Community Work Services will address the rapidly increasing community need to provide nutritional support to food-insecure individuals during this public health crisis by delivering food to families among the most impacted by COVID-19 by partnering with local church networks across the City of Boston.
- Daily Table: Daily Table will use BRF funding to subsidize the delivery fees for customers and others who have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. Daily Table plans to offer free delivery to these customers to ensure access to healthy, affordable food without additional risk to COVID-19 infection.
- East Boston Community Soup Kitchen: East Boston Community Soup Kitchen will use this BRF grant to address the additional needs of their guests during the COVID-19 pandemic by modifying the way they provide meals by incorporating a take-out format and increasingly, gift card distribution. They will use the funds to purchase items from food warehouses at a discounted rate to provide a good variety of food items to the soup kitchen's guests.
- East Boston Neighborhood of Affordable Housing, East Boston Neighborhood Health Center and East Boston Social Center: The ‘Stronger Together’ team will provide nutritious food relief to East Boston households (including seniors and families). Their program will continue to purchase quality fresh produce and culturally appropriate dry goods from both The Greater Boston Food Bank and Costa Fruit and Produce in Charlestown.
- Eastie Farm: Eastie Farm will use BRF funding to continue their work providing prepared meals, dairy, and meat to Boston residents and expand their outreach efforts.
- Elizabeth Stone House, Inc.: Elizabeth Stone House will use BRF funding to support residents facing housing and food insecurity, ensure access to critical medical care and opportunities for COVID-19 vaccine administration, provide safe and hygienic emergency housing and keep front-line staff protected and able to provide critically important domestic violence counseling and safety planning services.
- Ellie Fund: Ellie Fund will use this BRF grant to support their Breast Cancer Patient Services Program, which distinctly serves both curative and metastatic (lifelong) patients, who are immunosuppressed, physically weakened, and more susceptible to contagious illnesses. This program provides essential non-medical services for these patients undergoing costly breast cancer treatment amid the pandemic. Services include nutrition and food assistance, transportation, childcare, house cleaning, and integrative therapies, free of charge.
- FamilyAid Boston: FamilyAid Boston (FAB) will use grant funding to build awareness, education and support for obtaining vaccines for Boston residents. FAB will provide vaccination roll-out support with clients.
- Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts: A third grant from the Boston Resiliency Fund will support the direct aid to families in Dorchester, Roslindale and Hyde Park in the form of gift cards for groceries and other basic needs.
- Fair Foods Inc: Fair Foods will use this grant to sustain their weekly efforts at food distribution sites across the city and continue to grow its $2 dollar bag sites all over Boston. In addition, Fair Foods has enlisted new and expanded distribution partners, such as Maverick Landing Community Services (MLCS) in East Boston and other partners in Dorchester and Mattapan. These partners pick up food boxes at the Fair Foods warehouse in South Boston and conduct deliveries across the city.
- Fenway Civic Association: (Fiscal Sponsor: Fenway Community Center) Fenway Civic Association will use BRF funding to support their work with the Fenway Cares mutual aid collaborative, which serves all Fenway residents and visitors who attend or sign up for food distributions. Fenway Civic Association will distribute food boxes and other items, including hand sanitizer and PPE, in bi-weekly distribution events and associated deliveries.
- Freedom House, Inc.: Freedom House will use the Boston Resiliency Fund grant to address food insecurity and provide PPE and COVID information to the community.
- Friends of the Children-Boston: Friends-Boston will use this BRF grant to provide resources in the form of store credits, allowing direct access to food and household supplies for children, youth, and family members. They will partner with up to five bodegas and/or small and mid-size grocers that are walkable to where families live and that offer a variety of fresh food and household cleaning supplies.
- Fundo Arcu: Fundo Arcu will use this BRF grant to provide boxes of ethnically competent food boxes, diapers, cleaning products, laundry products and personal hygiene products for women and men in the Dominican/Latinx community.
- Vaccination Without Barriers/Sin Barreras, led by Greater Boston Latino Network: With BRF support, GBLN will strategically realign their ongoing COVID-19 prevention campaign to focus on vaccination and emerging trends such as viral variants. The campaign will deepen and expand its focus on prevention and protection while providing direct resources including, but not limited to, free masks, food, gift cards, unemployment assistance, eviction prevention and medical referrals.
- Greater Love Community Cares: With the grant from the Boston Resiliency Fund, Greater Love Community Cares will provide periodic food distribution and food deliveries to certain seniors and residents who are home-bound.
- Grove Hall Neighborhood Development Corporation: Grove Hall Neighborhood Development Corporation requested BRF funds to support their work combating the spread of COVID-19. Grove Hall NDC will clean local church buildings and non-profit locations who are open for essential services and provide hand sanitizer for Boston residents.
- Haley House: Haley House will use this BRF grant to continue supporting the increased level of emergency services they are currently offering. Specifically, funding will be used to purchase food beyond their donations from the Greater Boston Food Bank and Lovin’ Spoonfuls, take-away materials, extra cleaning/sanitization supplies, and increased operating costs for increased services (e.g. trash, utilities for outdoor heaters).
- Hawthorne Youth and Community Center, Inc.: The Boston Resiliency Fund grant will be used to support home delivery of fresh produce, shelf-stable foods and grocery store gift cards to high-risk residents. Additionally, it will allow for the home delivery of cleaning supplies, PPE, and hygiene items, as well as the distribution of current COVID-19 vaccine information to Highland Park residents. Boston youth will be engaged in food distribution and farming activities.
- Hope & Comfort, Inc.: Hope and Comfort will use this BRF grant to distribute hygiene products in Boston. The primary items distributed will be bars of soap, in order to support personal hygiene to help contain COVID-19. Soap distributions will be accompanied by other hygiene products, including toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, and more, to ensure youth and families have comprehensive hygiene access.
- Java with Jimmy: Java with Jimmy will use the BRF grant to continue to curate conversations that promote CDC, State, and Local guidance to stop the spread of COVID-19. They will expand their outreach to share information by creating public service announcements to promote the availability of COVID-19 related services. Java with Jimmy will also partner with local entities and organizations to host the “pop up” community giveaways, providing nonperishable foods and/or gift cards.
- John F. Kennedy Family Services: This BRF grant will allow JFK Family Service Center to add temporary staff and distribute critical supplies, as well as provide internet-based services to their clients. The JFK CARES project is a continuation of their multi-pronged efforts to provide assistance to meet the basic needs of those struggling during the pandemic.
- Lifeboat Boston: Lifeboat Boston will continue to provide nutritional support to families with infants through the distribution of infant formula, diapers, cleaning supplies, and hygiene products.
- Love Your Menses, Inc.: Love Your Menses will continue using Boston Resiliency Fund grant funds to purchase menstrual hygiene and postpartum items to support girls, women, and new moms. They will also continue installing period product dispensers at local community organizations.
- Louis D. Brown Peace Institute: The Peace Institute will use this BRF grant to support The Live in Peace Fund. This fund ensures that Boston’s families, children and seniors get the food security, clothing and other necessities that they deserve through gift cards and vouchers.
- Madison Park Development Corporation: MPDC will utilize an additional Boston Resiliency Fund grant to sustain its weekly food distribution efforts, currently serving approximately 380 households within its affordable housing portfolio/programs.
- Massachusetts Immigrant Collaborative (MIC) Emergency Relief Fund: MIC will provide access to emergency cash, food assistance and other basic needs, including diapers, formula, cleaning supplies, and hygiene products. Funding will be allocated equally across the eleven participating partner organizations, each of which will distribute assistance according to the unique cultural and logistical needs of the communities they serve.
- Mothers for Justice and Equality, Inc.: Mothers for Justice and Equality, Inc. will use this BRF grant to serve 50 families weekly with a range of $25-$50 per week in groceries or gift cards. On average, the agency delivers groceries to approximately ten elderly or disabled families each week. This service provides access to clients who may be extremely isolated to provide support and resources while we also address food insecurity for families in poverty.
- Omega Men in Action: OMIA will use the Boston Resiliency Fund grant to expand the capacity of its Emergency Food Pantry. The grant will allow OMIA to immediately provide access to healthy dietary and hygiene options for the increased number of families who now find themselves in need due to the pandemic.
- Park Street Church: Park Street Church will use this BRF grant to support their Park Street Church Fellowship Center. The warming center offers four inside shifts, with a thirty-minute sanitization and volunteer-switching break. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are served at the center. Hand warmers are also available for those who are waiting or just stopping by. This grant will also support the hiring of a Director and a Trauma Care Facilitator.
- Pine Street Inn: BRF funding will be used to support emergency food distribution for the formerly homeless tenants living in Pine Street Inn’s supportive housing. Emergency food deliveries will be prioritized for tenants with the most acute food insecurity and those who are either self-isolating or in quarantine because they have come into contact with someone with COVID-19 or have contracted COVID-19.
- Prince Hall Grand Lodge: Prince Hall will continue to partner with community health centers to provide free COVID testing to community members each week and to distribute other critical supplies like face masks and hand sanitizer. They will execute a community outreach program that will implement measures and provide literature necessary to prevent, test, report, and contain COVID-19 within communities of color.
- Project Restore Us: Project Restore Us would use this BRF grant to purchase and distribute food from a collective of restaurants to a network of community-based organizations that serve the immigrant population. In building on existing relationships with vendors and food manufacturers, PRU can bring revenue to restaurants in need while feeding families at a fair and low price.
- Project Bread - The Walk for Hunger, Inc.: Project Bread will continue to respond effectively to the pandemic by scaling existing programs and initiatives to address food insecurity. Project Bread will use this grant to expand its outreach and awareness efforts and, with the help of UMass Boston’s Center for Survey Research, conduct a survey of Boston residents on their knowledge of and perception about SNAP benefits.
- Rebel Cause Inc: This grant will provide direct support to their BIPOC community members for emergency aid with rent, medical bills, etc. as needed. Rebel Cause also provides PPE, hygiene and other basic needs supplies to its community members.
- Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, Inc.: Rescuing Leftover Cuisine will use BRF funding to support their standard operations of excess food rescue as well as their COVID-19 specific initiatives. These initiatives reduce wasted food, assist restaurants, alleviate hunger, and lessen food insecurity.
- Shaloh School Oholei Torah: Shaloh House will use BRF funding to support their Open Food Site, which is the only open meal site in Massachusetts that provides kosher meals. Shaloh House will use funding to purchase kosher ingredients needed for the preparation of kosher meals and increase the number of families and children in need that are served at its Open Food Site.
- South Boston en Accion, Inc.: South Boston en Accion (SBEA) will circulate and post printed and digital flyers in English, Spanish and Vietnamese throughout the Mary Ellen McCormick, the Old Colony, and the D Street/West Broadway public housing developments to announce the weekly hours when residents can pick up supplies. On Saturdays, SBEA distributes PPE kits and information, cleaning and sanitizing supplies, grocery store gift cards, and basic personal hygiene items.
- Sportsmen's Tennis & Enrichment Center: With the Boston Resiliency Fund grant, Sportsmen’s Tennis & Enrichment Center will provide COVID education and vaccine education targeted for the community. They plan to have additional vaccine education forums and continue to provide timely COVID-19 information to keep our families safe during this challenging period.
- St. Mary's Center for Women and Children: St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children requested funds to provide three meals per day to all of those who are in their residential programs across Boston and provide to those visiting their food pantry in East Boston. Additionally, funds will be used to purchase cleaning supplies to continue sanitizing their campus and to support the acquisition of items needed for the babies and children in their care as well as their mothers (for example, diapers, feminine hygiene products, formula and toiletries).
- The Community Builders: This Boston Resiliency Fund grant will support a two-part approach to meet the needs of Boston senior residents. This includes the hiring of a Community Life COVID Coordinator (CLCC) and inclusive campaigns on COVID-19 prevention strategies and TCB’s vaccine-related efforts.
- The Family Van - A Program of Harvard Medical School: With support from the Boston Resiliency Fund, The Family Van will train Community Health Workers and volunteers to provide education about the COVID-19 vaccine and other prevention measures and help clients navigate health and social service systems so they can follow best practices for preventing the spread of COVID, get tested as appropriate, and get vaccinated.
- The Greater Boston Food Bank: The Greater Boston Food Bank will use this BRF grant to support the purchase of food to be distributed to 139 Boston-area food pantries and meals programs. This grant will facilitate the purchase of 825,000 pounds of food, which would provide 750,000 meals to Boston residents in need.
- The Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts: The grant will allow the Domestic and Sexual Violence Project staff to purchase weekly bags of food needed by clients in their program.
- Transgender Emergency Fund Of MA Inc.: With a Boston Resiliency Fund grant, the Transgender Emergency Fund of MA will provide COVID-19 and vaccine education targeted for their community. The organization will expand its series of free monthly educational forums. They plan to have additional vaccine education forums and will continue to provide timely COVID-19 information to keep families safe during this challenging period.
- United South End Settlements: With a grant from the Boston Resiliency Fund, USES will be able to extend the duration and expand the reach of their neighbor2neighbor food delivery program. With available funds, USES will also be able to purchase diapers and make them available to interested families.
- Urban Guild, Inc. (The Guild): This grant from BRF will enable The Guild to carry on its pandemic relief work through the pantry, delivery services, virtual wellness sessions, and health-related travel vouchers. Funds will support the purchasing and transport of supplies, the staff and volunteer coordination of the activities.
- Fields Corner Crossroads Collective COVID-19 Response, led by VietAID: On behalf of the Fields Corner Crossroads Collaborative, which includes Dot House Health, Boys/Girls Club of Dorchester, Asian American Resource Workshop, VietAID, New England United for Justice, Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, Dorchester Youth Collaborative, MassCOSH, and All Dorchester Sports and Leadership, this group will meet the needs of residents by continuing to coordinate service referral, increase capacity for food distribution, and coordinated outreach on vaccine and testing. Funds will be used to purchase bulk food and supplies for distribution, bring on staff to increase the availability of food at new sites, and create/distribute materials on vaccination and testing.
- Voice of Tabernacle Multi-Service Center, Inc. (VTMC): VTMC will use BRF funding to provide emergency food to Haitian immigrants and refugees impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Mattapan and Dorchester. The VTMC emergency food program serves low-income, Haitian families, and homebound seniors, who are dealing with multiple issues that are tied to their resettlement process, such as: homelessness, low English proficiency, poor nutrition, poverty, unemployment, under employment and unaddressed health care needs.
- Wilahmena's Place Inc.: Wilahmena’s Place Inc. supports seniors and other home-bound families who may lack access to farm-fresh fruit and vegetables with grocery delivery. Through this grant, they can continue to offer food, personal protective equipment, toiletries, sanitizer, soap, cleaning supplies, and some gift cards to seniors, students and families in need.
- 2Life Communities Inc.: 2Life Communities will use this Resiliency Fund grant to deliver emergency frozen meals and provide emergency boxes containing produce, perishables, shelf-stable supplies, and personal care items. They will also use the grant to connect residents equitably to services, programming, and telehealth/telemedicine, and conduct intensive disinfection to protect the health and safety of residents and frontline essential workers.
- Advocates: Advocates will use this Resiliency Fund grant to support families that care for a loved one who has a developmental/intellectual disability. These families also have a reduced income and are also balancing remote learning, while sometimes struggling with a language barrier. With support from the Boston Resiliency Fund, they will provide families with stipends to buy essential items like food and hygiene products.
- BEST Corp. Hospitality Training: BEST Corp. will use this Resiliency Fund grant to provide grocery gift cards to families struggling because of the pandemic. They will continue to use their Local 26 network to determine the people most in need.
- Boston BullPen Project, Inc.: The Boston BullPen Project will use this Resiliency Fund grant to continue to help people facing eviction, homelessness, food insecurity, technology deficits and medical crises.
- Boston Girls Empowerment Network: Boston Girls Empowerment Network will use this Resiliency Fund grant to support immigrant women ages 18-40, who are financially impacted by the COVID-19 Crisis. BGEN will expand its staff by hiring a women's service coordinator and work across ethnic communities to create support services that includes food and personal/feminine hygiene products distribution for undocumented women who are unemployed, underemployed and are not be able to collect state or federal unemployment benefits.
- Boston Missionary Baptist Community Center Inc.:Boston Missionary Baptist Community Center will use this Resiliency Fund grant to distribute food from their pantry in Roxbury, deliver food door-to-door throughout the week to seniors and people with disabilities,and work in partnership with local partners who host distribution at locations around Boston and nearby communities. In addition, they will train and deploy volunteers to provide nutrition guidance and respond to signs of COVID-19 and advise them about social distancing.
- Breaktime: Breaktime will use this Resiliency Fund grant to support young adults experiencing homelessness with living-wage employment and deliver groceries to families in need through their non-profit partners.
- Building Audacity: Building Audacity’s will use this Resiliency Fund grant to offset costs of their grocery delivery program.
- Call for Action: Call for Action will use this Resiliency Fund grant for outreach and educational workshops in Spanish about COVID-19 testing, prevention, and education. These materials will also include information about the vaccine once it is available to the general public. They will create digital content and do educational workshops, forums, and digital support groups.
- Cape Verdean Association of Boston: The Cape Verdean Association of Boston will use this Resiliency Fund grant to partner with local restaurants and grocery stores to provide an ethnically appropriate hot dinner to seniors. In addition, they will be working with low-income families, undocumented immigrants, and the elderly to connect them to City and State resources and provide them with weekly grocery bags filled with fresh produce and food, gift cards, interpretation, and translation services about COVID-19 information.
- Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston, Inc.: Catholic Charities will use Resiliency Fund funding to support staff who are packing and distributing food bags to more 1,500 households at their pantries in Dorchester and in the South End. The two pantries distribute approximately 80,000 pounds of food each week.
- Catie's Closet, Inc: Catie’s Closet will use the Resiliency Fund to fund basic essentials including toiletries, feminine products, socks, underwear and clothing. This will help close gaps in product availability for people of color by improving and meeting the need for culturally-appropriate products.
- Children's Services of Roxbury: Children's Services of Roxbury will use this Boston Resiliency Fund grant to support the families in their homeless shelters, home-based childcare programs, and their behavioral health programs. In addition, this grant will support education and access to COVID-19 testing, deliver gift cards to families to purchase food and basic needs, and provide bags of groceries.
- City Mission, Inc.: City Mission will use this Resiliency Fund grant to purchase online gift cards for groceries and essential items and distribute the cards to the families on their waiting list. In addition, City Mission will provide information about additional available community resources, and support families facing special circumstances or challenges.
- Common Cathedral: Common Cathedral will use this Resiliency Fund grant to expand their Boston Warm day center to include Fridays from January through April. The day center provides people experiencing homelessness access to bathrooms, food, essential supplies and a safe space to warm up.
- Community Servings: Community Servings will use this Resiliency Fund grant to cover raw food costs, packaging, and home-delivery of 650 medically-tailored Blizzard Boxes, containing a week’s worth of shelf-stable meals, a recipe booklet to support understanding of the box contents and easy meal preparation. Each box will also contain disposable masks. In addition, Community Servings will use this BRF grant to support safety and sanitation costs, including weekly electrostatic cleaning of their kitchens and delivery vans and masks for their kitchen staff, drivers, and volunteers.
- Dignity Matters, Inc.: Dignity Matters will use this Resiliency Fund grant to distribute menstrual care products to women in Boston through their COVID-19 partners. They will allocate the items purchased through this grant to the Greater Boston YMCA, Family Aid Boston and Catie’s Closet/BPS Emergency Centers.
- Elizabeth Stone House: Elizabeth Stone House will use the Resiliency Fund grant to ensure the safety and emergency daily needs for clients including food, prescription medicine, personal hygiene products, and disinfection services. In addition, the grant will ensure the safety of clients and staff from COVID-19 exposure and to ensure the continuity of emergency staff payments for direct service on-site staff at their emergency shelter /transitional housing location.
- FamilyAid Boston: FamilyAid Boston will use the Resiliency Fund grant to continue to deliver high-quality fresh food to 870 homeless and unstably-housed children and parents, while keeping them safe from community spread of the coronavirus.
- Families First Parenting Programs, Inc: Families First will use this Resiliency Fund grant to provide grocery store gift cards for parents attending their programming to purchase food and basic needs items.
- The First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain: The First Church in Jamaica Plain will use this Resiliency Fund grant to purchase additional food, equipment and supplies for the pantry. Additionally, this grant will support the Food Pantry Program Coordinator, who works directly with food insecure households to assess needs and oversees volunteers and the delivery of groceries.
- Hyde Square Task Force: Hyde Square Task Force will use this Resiliency Fund grant to support their ongoing efforts to provide youth and low-income families of color with gift cards that enable them to purchase food and groceries.
- Livable Streets Alliance: This Resiliency Fund grant will provide continued support for the LivableStreets “ChatBot”, an interactive tool that monitors Boston EMS staff for COVID-like illness symptoms. This tool is important for Boston EMS’s infection control doctors and nurses to keep the front-line EMTs and paramedics safe. The “ChatBot” tool provides early notification of symptoms, a key to keeping the department safe, and to decrease the spread of the virus.
- Love Your Menses, Inc.: Love Your Menses will continue providing menstrual care packages with essential menstrual hygiene items in a reusable bag for people in need. They will also install period product dispensers in community organizations, such as homeless shelters, youth organizations, and community health centers across the city so people can easily access products.
- Presentation School Foundation Community Center: Presentation School Foundation Community Center will use this Boston Resiliency Fund grant to support the “Allston-Brighton Pandemic Relief Center” in response to a need for storage space for pandemic relief items. This grant will enable the PSF Community Center to make 750 square feet of space available to Allston-Brighton organizations seeking space to store and disseminate pandemic relief items including, but not limited to, food, diapers, toiletries, school supplies.
- Rosie's Place: Rosie's Place will use this Resiliency Fund grant to continue to serve hundreds of women experiencing homelessness each day by providing prepared and to go meals from their dining room, and a week’s worth of groceries from their food pantry.
- Rose's Bounty COVID Surge Support: Rose’s Bounty will use this Resiliency Fund grant to procure food as well as to purchase COVID safety items.
- Rounding the Bases: Rounding the Bases will use this Resiliency Fund grant to conduct virtual training classes to teach seniors basic computer skills.
- Silver Lining Mentoring: Silver Lining Mentoring will use this Resiliency Fund grant to provide financial help for basic utility bills and food for 50 families.
- Sociedad Latina: Sociedad Latina will use this Resiliency Fund grant to pay for their alumni Youth Leaders who outreach in Mission Hill/Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan. The Youth Leaders will distribute Personal Protective Equipment and bilingual reading materials on the importance of mask wearing and social distancing. This campaign targets young Latinos and immigrants and their families to take measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and contribute to keeping their community healthy.
- The South Boston Association of Non-Profits (SBANP): The South Boston Association of Non-Profits will bring together nine partner organizations and use the Resiliency Fund grant to bring fresh food, perishable and non-perishable food items, grocery store gift cards, and prepared meals to vulnerable populations of children, families and seniors in South Boston. Those nine organizations will also help provide health, safety and hygiene items such as diapers, wipes, hand sanitizer, and cleaning products to families and seniors who are struggling to access them during the pandemic.
- South Boston en Accion, Inc.: South Boston en Accion will use this Resiliency Fund grant to purchase needed supplies, create PPE kits, available at two central distribution points at Boston Housing Authority buildings in South Boston. Kits will contain disposable masks, hand sanitizer, hand soap, disinfectant wipes, and useful information.
- St. Stephen's Youth Programs: St. Stephen’s Youth Programs will use the Resiliency Fund grant to support families through cash assistance and grocery store gift cards.
- Tifereth Raphael Inc: Tifereth Raphael will use this Resiliency Fund grant to support storage costs that will help optimize their kosher food pantry facility in Brighton.
- We Are Better Together The Warren Daniel Hairston Project: We Are Better Together will use this Resiliency Fund grant to identify, reach out, and engage the individuals and families at risk of domestic or other violence. They will provide information on community forums/workshops and existing community resources to address violence, trauma and community healing. We Are Better Together will also provide gift cards and essential supplies to people in need.
- West End House Inc.: Due to the loss of USDA Farmers to Families boxes, West End House will use this Resiliency Fund grant to support the purchase of similar produce boxes from Fresh Truck, as well as food purchases from Greater Boston Food Bank, and the costs associated with delivering and storing food. Groceries will be distributed every two weeks through volunteer led delivery to elderly or disabled individuals, or families without transportation.
- Wilahmena's Place Inc.: Wilahmena's Place Inc. will use this Resiliency Fund grant to sustain their efforts to provide non-perishables, fresh fruit and vegetables, toiletries, sanitizer, soap, cleaning supplies and gift cards to students, elders and families in need, with a focus on the Grove Hall neighborhood.
- Young Man with a Plan: Young Man with a Plan will use this Resiliency Fund grant to deliver food gift cards and food to students and families.
- Youth Vybz Inc.: Youth Vybz Inc. will use the Resiliency Fund for fresh vegetable pre-packaged food care boxes, PPE and gift cards.
- Boston After School and Beyond: Boston Beyond will use the BRF grant to support a network of youth development programs that have committed to serving high-need Boston students and providing care for children who are doing remote learning so families can work and children can be safe. In total, over 130 nonprofit Boston programs are hosting 300+ different in-person learning and enrichment opportunities during and after the school day reaching 6,250 students. The network includes partners like the YMCA of Greater Boston, Boys & Girl Clubs of Boston, Catholic Charities of Boston, East Boston Social Centers, West End House, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, and many others.
- Kelli Bos Sewing for Success: Kelli Bos will use the BRF grant to support extra-curricular learning and activities for students, seniors and families within the City of Boston. They will work with the Boston Centers for Youth and Families to teach sewing classes; students will learn how to make masks to distribute to the community.
- Transformative Culture Project: Transformative Culture Project will use the BRF grant to expand their Creative Classrooms to additional schools and community centers that need support by hiring additional teaching artists and providing stipends to students for their time participating in the program. In addition, they will work with Outside the Box to increase community investment in these projects, as well as expand the reach of online Community Classroom resources to families throughout Boston.
- Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition: The Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition will use the BRF grant to collaborate with the City of Boston's Health and Human Services to increase the amount and continuity of testing, outreach and community health messaging in Boston's Black communities. They will also utilize youth and young adult outreach workers to spread educational information and conduct COVID-19 wellness and safety checks for seniors and other vulnerable residents who continue to be homebound. Finally, the Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition will collaborate with the Health Commission on culturally-competent messaging on masks, physical distancing, education about COVID-19, holiday gatherings, and vaccines.
- Building Alliance to Support Immigrant Mental Health (BASIMH): BASIMH will use the BRF grant to retain the services of 6 different multilingual providers and 2 program coordinators to support essential workers who are experiencing extreme stress related to COVID-19.
- TeleHealth Access for Seniors: TeleHealth Access for Seniors will use this grant to provide TeleHealth-compatible smartphones or tablets to elderly and low-income patients in partnership with Mattapan Community Health Center so that patients will be able to manage their care at home through video-calls.
- Trinity Boston Connects: Trinity Boston Connects will use the BRF grant to sustain services for frontline youth workers. In addition, they will coordinate emergency resources for high need participants in their Trinity@McCormack program.
- Boston Cares: Boston Cares has seen a 35% increase in the need for volunteers compared to this time last year, and BRF funding will allow them to continue to provide recruitment, management, and tracking of volunteers to fill these needs, specifically at Boston Public Schools.
- Delta Sigma Theta, Boston Alumnae Chapter: Delta Sigma Theta, Boston Alumnae Chapter will use the BRF grant to ensure they can continue to meet the academic and social-emotional needs for over 100 young girls, all of whom are Boston Public School students or residents of the City of Boston, through their Delta GEMS program.
- English for New Bostonians: Responding to needs raised by English as a Second Language (ESOL) students, ENB will recruit, train and deploy an "Allies for Immigrants ESOL Virtual Team" to work with students in virtual classrooms and small groups. The Virtual Team will help approximately 240 ESOL students get connected, offer Zoom troubleshooting, and help parents navigate school communication and support their children's online learning.
- Neighborhood Villages: Neighborhood Villages will use the Boston Resiliency Fund grant to support the Boston Children's Relief Initiative. This initiative will place AmeriCorps members in Boston early learning centers and after-school organizations that are caring for and educating young children during the day while their parents work. AmeriCorps members will support the instruction of young children and support efforts to ensure that wraparound supports, such as nutrition and material goods, are delivered to children and families in need.
- United South End Settlements: United South End Settlements will use the BRF grant to continue providing fresh produce and pantry items for 200 households in the South End and Roxbury.
- STEAM Ahead: STEAM Ahead provides free S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) programming to underserved groups of youth throughout Boston. STEAM Ahead will use the BRF grant to prepare healthy grocery packs along with educational materials and deliver them directly to their participants and their families. They will also distribute free personal protection supplies to city residents who are at the highest of pandemic risk.
- The Community Builders, New Franklin Park: The Boston Resiliency Fund grant will enable The Community Builders to operate and stock the New Franklin Park (NFP) food pantry for residents. The pantry currently distributes food almost every week to over 400 households in its Dorchester neighborhood.
- The Food Project, in partnership with Dudley Square Neighborhood Initiative: DSNI has addressed the need for food access in its community by coordinating an outdoor food distribution site throughout the pandemic, providing resources from the YMCA, Breaktime, The Food Project and the Mayor's Office of Food Access. Together, they will use the BRF grant to establish an indoor food hub in the community space at The Food Project's office, with capacity to sort, pack and distribute food on a curbside basis on West Cottage Street in Dorchester.
- Transgender Emergency Fund of Massachusetts, Inc.: The Transgender Emergency Fund of MA will use the BRF grant to provide ongoing support to low-income and homeless transgender and gender non-conforming individuals living in Boston.
- Urban Guild, Inc.: The Guild will use the BRF grant to continue their work of providing holistic support for their community, including distributing personal care supplies and providing food access support for their community by purchasing and distributing food boxes through local businesses.
- Asian American Civic Association, Inc.: Asian American Civic Association will use these funds to continue serving disabled and elderly residents, as well as households that have experienced job loss due to the pandemic. AACA will support residents by providing local supermarket gift cards, transportation assistance, and support for childcare expenses for families.
- Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston, Inc.: The BMA will use funds to provide supports to groups of churches and ministries. The first group are those with regular distribution days that are well-known by our community residents. The BMA will support ongoing efforts and help expand food distribution. The second group comprises smaller churches, organizations, and ministries that have smaller, intimate relationships with the local community. These groups hand-deliver necessary resources to seniors and other abled people who are housebound during the pandemic.
- Catholic Charitable Bureau of Boston: Catholic Charities will use funding to support the expanded demand and continue to serve approximately 4,000 people each week at their two Boston pantries. Each household receives a bag of 25 to 30 pounds of food, and they are able to visit the pantry once per week. Catholic Charities also will support the Teen Center at St. Peter's and its community partners to provide bags of food for an additional 200 households each week.
- Charlestown Mothers Association, Inc.: CMA will use this grant to create family support kits for residents in need. Each support kit will contain items such as grocery store gift cards, health essentials, and activities to engage small children while staying safe at home. Kits will be distributed at partner sites in Charlestown including the Charlestown Boys & Girls Club, the Kennedy Center, and Harvest on the Vine.
- Grove Hall Neighborhood Development Corporation: Grove Hall NDC will work with non-profit organizations and churches in the greater Grove Hall area who need support to clean their spaces. They will contract with a local WMBE, who is OSHA- and CDC-certified, to thoroughly clean these community spaces and train existing staff to do follow up cleaning on a regular basis.
- Prince Hall Grand Lodge: Prince Hall Grand Lodge will use this grant to support increased COVID-19 testing in the Grove Hall neighborhood to two days a week to increase testing in communities of color. Prince Hall will also use the BRF grant to support their remote learning program, which supports students and their parents to ensure that they receive technical and holistic educational support as needed
- Breaktime: Breaktime will use the funding to increase their meal delivery capacity. Using this grant, Breaktime will distribute fresh produce and groceries to East Boston, Roxbury and Dorchester. They will also use this funding to empower young Bostonians experiencing homelessness with job opportunities.
- Boston BullPen Project Inc.: The Boston BullPen Project continues to help people avoid eviction, homelessness, food insecurity, technology deficits and medical crises while maintaining their dignity. Their partner agencies identify individuals/families in a crisis situation and they financially help prevent the crisis from worsening.
- Cape Verdean Association of Boston: Using the Boston Resiliency Fund grant, the Cape Verdean Association of Boston will continue their distribution of groceries, fruits and vegetables, and PPE to families and seniors in need.
- Dress for Success Boston: Funding from the Boston Resiliency Fund will enable Dress for Success Boston to continue its Suiting Program virtually. Women who contact them for professional attire will be connected with a volunteer stylist via Zoom. Clothing will be paid for by Dress for Success Boston and shipped directly to the client. With funding from the Boston Resiliency fund, Dress for Success would be able to cover the cost of clothing that is purchased online.
- Family Nurturing Center of MA: Using this grant from the Boston Resiliency Fund, the Family Nurturing Center will be able to continue to provide food, diapers, wipes, and cleaning supplies for families in need.
- The Food Project: The Food Project will use this Boston Resiliency Fund grant to continue to grow and distribute affordable, nutritious food to residents all over Boston during their harvest season.
- Mujeres Unidas Avanzando (MUA): Mujeres Unidas Avanzando (MUA) will use the grant from the Boston Resiliency Fund to purchase grocery store gift cards to distribute to low-income families.
- New England Baptist Hospital: NEBH will use BRF funds to mitigate food insecurity by distributing prepared meals, grocery gift cards, and clothing to low-income families in Mission Hill and Roxbury, working with the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard, Maria Sanchez House and the Tobin Community Center. For elderly neighbors who are homebound, NEBH is coordinating fresh food/meal delivery weekly. Funds will also be used to purchase basic necessities such as cleaning supplies.
- Wilahmena’s Place Inc.: Wilahmena's Place Inc. will use this BRF grant to sustain their efforts to provide non-perishables, fresh fruit and vegetables, toiletries, sanitizer, soap, cleaning supplies and gift cards to students, elders and families in need, with a focus on the Grove Hall neighborhood.
- YMCA of Greater Boston: Using this Boston Resiliency Fund grant, the YMCA of Greater Boston will be able to continue the operation of meal sites at 11 area YMCAs, in addition to delivering grocery bags to schools and other community-based locations.
- Building Audacity: Building Audacity will use the grant to offer grocery gift cards, hot lunch delivery, and a virtual academic recovery program. To ensure that we are fully supporting multilingual student learners and families, we will offer academic recovery sessions and family engagement in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
- Central Assembly of God Church, East Boston: Central Assembly of God Church in East Boston will use the grant to sustain efforts to provide a twice-weekly distribution of food that gives East Boston community members access to essential and nutritious foods by combining fresh produce from a local vendor and food staple items from inexpensive local sources. This grant will also help sustain the local business economy by purchasing fresh produce items from a local community grocer.
- Community Caring Clinic LLC: Community Caring Clinic will use the grant to provide grocery gift cards to clients, who are mostly frontline workers in essential retail, transportation and healthcare, and from the low- income, immigrant, and/or Islamic communities of Boston.
- Company One: Company One will use the grant to serve the 50-100 diverse organizations that provide services to BPS schools, as partners or in a support capacity to assist in the transition to online services. All programming will be offered for free and additional resources, such as handouts, video training and connections with similar organizations will be made available to all partner organizations through the BPS Partnership Office in multiple languages. All digital content will have simultaneous interpretation and captioning.
- DeeDee's Cry Suicide Prevention and Family Support: DeeDee's Cry will use the grant to provide Amazon gift cards for basic supplies and groceries through Amazon Fresh to families or individuals that reside within the communities of Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan, and have fallen behind on rent or bills or lost wages due to COVID-19.
- Dimock Community Health Center: The Dimock Center started to offer onsite COVID testing to patients in March 2020, and expanded to community testing in May 2020, thanks to the support of a Boston Resiliency Fund grant and additional federal funds. This grant will allow them to employ additional staff for testing operations off-side and expand the hours for test at the Dimock.
- Fair Foods: Fair Foods will use the funding from Boston Resiliency Fund to increase food access in two ways for 18 immigrant-serving nonprofits. For 11 of their nonprofit partners, Fair Foods will supply fresh produce to distribute to individuals at no cost. The Boston Resiliency Fund grant will also allow Fair Foods to empower 7 of their nonprofit partners with vouchers to distribute to individuals. Each voucher has the purchasing power of two bags of fresh produce. Without a voucher, individuals can purchase one bag of fresh produce for $2, valued originally at $15 to $20. Vouchers can be used at Fair Foods locations throughout the City of Boston. Locations can be found online.
- FUNDO ARCU (Dominican Foundation of Arts and Culture): FUNDO ARCU will use the BRF grant to support the Dominican Community in the City of Boston by providing gift cards, ethnic food boxes, laundry baskets and supplies, baby formula and diapers, and other basic hygiene products.
- Haitian American Public Health Initiatives, Inc: Haitian American Public Health Initiatives, Inc. (HAPHI) will use the grant to purchase nutritious food including vegetables, cereal, meats, fish, poultry, and fruits for Boston residents. Many clients of HAPHI have children with disabilities. For parents or seniors who are unable to cook, pre-made meals will be provided from a local restaurant. HAPHI drivers will provide door to door delivery of groceries and meals so parents and seniors do not need to leave their homes.
- Hearth, Inc: The Hearth Inc. will use the grant to purchase 100 grocery gift cards for their clients, as well as three months of PPE for direct care staff and cleaning products for six Hearth owned sites in Boston.
- Louis D. Brown Peace Institute: The Louis D. Brown Peace Institute (LDBPI) will use the grant to support Boston's families, children, and seniors with food access through gift cards and monetary food vouchers for groceries. LDBPI will also provide programming for critical mental health and behavioral training for Boston's front line workers so that they can give essential crisis and trauma management to the families of Boston who have been impacted by murder, trauma, grief and loss during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- METCO, Inc.: METCO will use the grant to provide wrap-around service support and referrals to Boston students in the METCO program. A case manager will meet virtually and individually with each family to evaluate needs, directly assist with application processes such as SNAP, unemployment, and financial assistance (especially relevant for literacy-challenged or English learners), compile a comprehensive hub of resources and provide referrals to agencies that can further address additional needs.
- Mount Olives Community Center: Mount Olives Community Center will use the grant to support digital literacy at their space in Hyde Park.
- St. Stephen's Youth Programs: St. Stephen’s Youth Programs will use the grant to support their COVID-19 response program called B-LOVE. The intent of B-LOVE is to support the community’s most basic needs by distributing food, paper products, cleaning supplies, and gift cards.
- Salesian Boys & Girls Club: Salesian Boys & Girls Club will use the grant to support their Weekly Family Dinner Night Program. These funds will be used to increase the numbers of families served from 60 to 90 families this fall.
- Sociedad Latina: Sociedad Latina will use the grant to fund essential care packages of PPE for families and at-home kits with supplies and materials that enable our youth to participate in programming at home.
- Tifereth Raphael: Tifereth Raphael will use the BRF grant to increase their food and basic needs inventory through the purchase and storage of specialty kosher food items to support the Jewish community in Boston.
- Urban Guild Inc.: Urban Guild Inc. will use the grant to continue their current work to help with holistic support for their community, including stewarding communal Guild gardens, and to provide food access support for their community by purchasing and distributing food boxes through local businesses.
- Vietnamese American Initiative for Development, Inc. (VietAid): VietAid will use the grant to continue supporting staff coordination of meal sites, and provide temporary staff to assist with benefit applications and culturally appropriate meals for older adults and groceries for families in Fields Corner. Funds will also be used to purchase necessities such as hand sanitizer, diapers, and PPE.
- Boston Lyric Opera: Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) will work with its local costume shop partner, CostumeWorks, to initially produce over 1,800 lip-reading-friendly clear-front face masks to support Boston's Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities, and others who rely on facial expression to communicate. BLO will manage distribution of the face masks in partnership with the Mayor's Commission for Persons with Disabilities. The masks produced will be donated, or sold at a discounted rate.
- Codman Academy: Codman Academy will support families that have been hit the hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic. They will optimally leverage their network of local food businesses, like Fresh Food Generations, Commonwealth Table, local farms like Urban Farming Institute, Daily Table to plan, prepare and deliver healthy fresh produce, delicious, culturally diverse prepared meals and assortment of groceries to feed our community families in need.
- Fundación de Milagros Marte: Fundacion de Milagros Marte will continue to help provide baby formula and diapers to families in need. In addition, they will provide boxes of culturally competent meals and groceries for the Latino community.
- Greater Love Community Cares: Greater Love Community Cares will provide support for residents who are unemployed or under-employed with rent, utilities, and other economic hardships. They will also hire drivers to deliver medicine and other essential supplies to seniors and immunocompromised residents.
- Love Your Menses: Love Your Menses will continue purchasing menstrual hygiene and postpartum care products for people in need. Since the beginning of the pandemic, they have personally packaged and delivered over 300 menstrual and postpartum care kits to girls and women in the Boston area. They will work with partners in the community, such as The Guild, to help distribute the products.
- Neighborhood Development Corp (NDC) of Grove Hall: Grove Hall NDC will work with 20 non-profit organizations and churches in the greater Grove Hall area who need support to clean their spaces. They will contract with a local MBE, who is OSHA- and CDC-certified, to thoroughly clean these community spaces and train existing staff to do follow up cleaning on a regular basis.
- South Boston Association of Non-Profits: Working collaboratively, the South Boston Association of Non-profits will bring together nine local non-profit member organizations to provide fresh food, perishable and non-perishable food items, grocery store gift cards, and prepared meals to the diverse and vulnerable populations of children, families and seniors in South Boston. The organizations are collectively providing weekly access to food pantries, grocery deliveries, cleaning products, and prepared meals, as well as responding to immediate needs as they arise.
- The Boston Home, Inc: The Boston Home will update its technology so that front line staff can provide uninterrupted care to the 93 residents and 27 community members who have disabilities and require wheelchairs due to advanced neurological disorders. Due to COVID-19, their residents are relying on technology devices for telehealth appointments, virtual program engagement, and maintaining connection to family.
- African Bridge Network: African Bridge Network, in partnership with the Nigerian American Multi-Service Association and Church of Pentecost Boston, will support the African immigrant community in Boston by distributing grocery gift cards to families in need. In addition, they will work with their clients to help them sign up for SNAP and other food resources through Project Bread as well as help them apply for rental assistance through Emergency Rental and Mortgage Assistance (ERMA) program.
- Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation: Allston Brighton CDC will support residents in their affordable rental portfolio by providing laptops and technology education.
- Boston Area Rape Crisis Center: BARCC is pivoting its Medical Advocacy Program to a telemedicine model using secure software that will interface with the hospital systems and ipad tablets for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners to use to connect victims with Medical Advocates in the Boston SANE hospitals. BARCC responds to over 548 survivors in Boston emergency rooms annually.
- Ethos: Ethos will continue providing Home Delivered Meals to food insecure adults between the ages of 55 and 60 with underlying health concerns and/or weakened immune systems, who are caregivers for elders or other individuals with disabilities, without reliable and safe transportation, or those whose living situations do not allow for adequate food preparation.
- Elizabeth Stone House: Elizabeth Stone House will continue to support the needs of the most vulnerable infants and children in their residence by providing diapers/pull-ups, wipes and infant and toddler formula and toddler foods.
- Fenway Community Development Corporation: Fenway CDC will provide a weekly food distribution to 150 food insecure Boston residents, in partnership with Fair Foods. Each resident will receive fresh fruits and vegetables to help feed their household. Residents will get a resource flyer in each food bag on how to get free assistance with applying for unemployment, SNAP, MassHealth, or get assistance from FCDC with job skills, career training, and job placement.
- Fresh Food Generation and the Food Project: Working with The Food Project, Fresh Food Generation will provide 125 additional East Boston residents in need of support with food packages including fresh vegetables, fruit, dry goods and two prepared meals.
- Garrett Pressley Autism Resource Center: Garrett Pressley Autism Resource Center will support low income families who have children on the autism spectrum by providing food gift cards and tablets so families can engage in virtual social skills classes, exercise, cooking classes, family support groups, and one on one consultation to address physical and emotional well being.
- Newmarket Community Partners: Newmarket Community Partners will continue to support last mile delivery of food to Boston neighborhoods in partnership with the YMCA, the Food Bank and others through trucking services.
- Talented And Gifted Association, Inc.: TAG Latino Program will use this grant to purchase gift cards for 75 families who are low income and have an identified need for household support.
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. / Bowdoin Street Health Center: Bowdoin Street Health Center will use the BRF grant to expand services to neighborhood residents. The BRF grant will expand the number of produce boxes, coupons to be used at local grocery stores, and increase SNAP application assistance.
- Breaktime Cafe, Inc.: Breaktime will use BRF funding to hire 10 young adults experiencing homelessness and five returning citizens full time to produce 5,000 meals per week for Bostonians in need, in support of Cape Verdean Association of Boston, St. Ambrose Family Shelter & Nazareth Family Shelter, Sojourner House, Project Hope, and more. A video highlighting Breaktime can be watched here.
- Caribbean Youth Club, Centro Presente, & Brazilian Workers Center: Through the Summer Dreamers Fellowship Project, a pilot program for “Dreamers” (immigrants who came to the U.S. as children) in partnership with the City of Boston, the BRF grant will allow to offer youth a $300 weekly participation stipend, 135 hour of mentoring, 45 hours of leadership training, 90 hours of work readiness preparation. The program teaches youth leadership training on social justice issues, civic activity planning, team building, community outreach and partnership development. In addition, youth will learn workplace values and behaviors, discover new career paths, assess their strengths, review short-term job choices and/or long-term career plans, and build skills such as writing resumes, interviewing, effective communication, task management.
- Common Cathedral: Common Cathedral will use BRF funds to continue expanded service hours at their emergency day shelter at the Emmanuel Church.
- Community Coming Together: Community Coming Together will use the BRF grant to continue to purchase PPE and other supplies (masks, gloves and hand sanitizer) for those with the highest need, free of charge.
- Elevate Boston: Elevate Boston will use this BRF grant to sustain their efforts to provide hot meals, non-perishables, groceries, toiletries, sanitizer, soap and gift cards to students, elders and families in need.
- Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families: This BRF grant will support BCYF in conducting their youth summer programming this summer. Funding will be used to purchase webcams so staff can conduct virtual youth summer programming, and it will allow BCYF to purchase 400 tablets for program participants.
- Friends of the Children-Boston: Friends of the Children-Boston will use the BRF grant to deliver weekly kits of groceries, meal kits, cleaning supplies, PPE, and family support kits, support technology and access issues to enable distance learning for children, and create learning opportunities.
- Gilbert Albert Community Center: Gilbert Albert Community Center will use this Boston Resiliency Fund grant to continue its partnership with a local restaurant to provide six healthy, culturally-appropriate meals a week to 60 clients for four weeks.
- Haitian Americans United: Haitian Americans United will use this Boston Resiliency Fund grant to continue serving homebound, immigrant elders who cannot cook for themselves, in partnership with two local Haitian cuisine caterers.
- Health Care Without Walls: The BRF grant will be used to continue conducting health screenings at Rosie’s Place and for other in-person meetings with HCWW clients. In addition, HCWW will use the BRF grant to provide gift cards to their most vulnerable homeless elderly and pregnant/postpartum clients in need of food, diapers, over-the-counter medicine, cleaning supplies, masks, and other essential items.
- Hope & Comfort, Inc.: Hope & Comfort will use the BRF grant to continue their work supporting the needs of youth and families experiencing hygiene insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic. Hope and Comfort is currently distributing at nearly three times their usual rate.
- Horizons for Homeless Children, Inc.: Through this funding request, Horizons for Homeless Children will use the BRF grant to give families an average of $350 in gift cards to purchase food.
- Madison Park Development Corporation: MPDC will utilize the Boston Resiliency Fund grant to expand its existing weekly food distribution efforts to 380 additional households within its affordable housing portfolio. MPDC will engage a local minority-owned catering business, Ethnica Catering, to provide hot prepared meals once a week to 200 older adults and adults with disabilities, while also engaging local meal kit company EatWell to provide 100 meal kits per week for family households with children. Finally, MPDC will provide supplementary food assistance to those who will be best served by financial assistance in the form of grocery store gift cards.
- Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress: The MA Down Syndrome Congress will use the BRF grant to provide $100 Market Basket gift cards and provide care packages customized for children and families that are in need.
- Rounding The Bases, Inc.: The BRF grant will allow Rounding the Bases to expand their program delivering fresh fruits and vegetables to families and family child care providers in partnership with Fair Food.
- Tech Goes Home: Tech Goes Home will use the Boston Resiliency Fund grant to bring Boston families a computer, internet connection, and specially-designed digital skills training that covers ordering groceries and other essentials online, accessing school lunch pick-up locations, researching city support services, applying for SNAP benefits, and more.
- The Family Van: The Family Van will utilize the BRF grants to support their work in providing grocery store gift cards and counseling on purchasing healthy foods to families in need.
- The People's Academy: The People’s Academy will use the BRF grant to partner with three churches in providing fruit and vegetables and household items like tissues, lysol wipes and other cleaning supplies to 200-300 families.
- Transitional Remedies Solutions: TRS would use the BRF grant to support their “Hope Line,” which they use to receive calls and make check-in calls to the community, in order to help them process their concerns, fears, and anxieties. The grant would also be used to provide support for people in the form of gift cards for food, miscellaneous items, school items for youth, and resources.
- Youth Vybz Inc.: Youth Vybz will use the BRF grant to provide gift cards to be used to purchase food and hygiene supplies for students and families in need.
- BellXcel (The B.E.L.L. Foundation, Inc.): BellXcel will use the grant to support the implementation of their new BellXcel summer learning program, developed in direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in partnership with Charlestown High School, Bridge Boston Charter School, and the YMCA of Greater Boston.
- Boston Girls Empowerment Network: Boston Girls Empowerment Network (BGEN) Girls leadership project provides high-quality educational and recreational summer activities, ensuring that girls of color will continue the social development progress, prevent summer learning loss, and keep them safe.
- Building Alliance to Support Immigrant Mental Health (BASIMH): The grant will allow BASIMH to hire additional providers to conduct group and individual sessions targeting CNAs, nurses, technicians and other health workers who need a safe place to share their traumatic experiences as it relates to their lines of duties during the pandemic.
- Caribbean Youth Club: Caribbean Youth Club will use the grant to engage Afro-Caribbean immigrant and refugee youth ages 16-21 to access summer employment, build leadership skills, and engage in safe, evening recreation.
- Catie's Closet, Inc.: The grant will allow Catie’s Closet to continue to provide basic necessities, including toiletries and feminine products to homeless and low-income families through the City’s youth meal sites throughout the summer.
- Chinese Progressive Association (CPA): CPA will provide consistent and reliable staffing for food distribution sites across the City, including YMCAs, Boston Housing Authority properties and other other high volume sites in the community, including VietAID, and the Egleston, East Boston, Washington Beech, and Wang.
- City Mission, Inc.: City Mission will use the grant to purchase online grocery store cards and distribute them to 50 families experiencing homelessness.
- City of Boston Department of Youth Engagement and Employment (DYEE): The grant will provide 400 Chromebooks for youth to perform virtual work through the Summer Jobs Program.
- East Boston Neighborhood Health Center: East Boston Neighborhood Health Center will receive $70,000 to boost outreach and engagement efforts to support COVID-19 testing and contract tracing. The funding will increase internal marketing and outreach capacity to work with residents in East Boston and the South End and educate the community on the benefits of being tested for COVID-19.
- Greater Boston Latino Network (GBLN): Greater Boston Latino Network is a coalition of nine Latinx-led community-based organizations that includes Sociedad Latina, Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion, Boston Higher Education Resource Center, Hyde Square Task Force, Latinos For Education, Latino STEM Alliance, East Boston Ecumenical Community Council, La Alianza Hispana, and Lawyers for Civil Rights. The network will receive $275,000 to provide direct support services to the Latinx community and to hire bilingual Youth Outreach Workers directly from communities to work collaboratively with health care providers from East Boston Neighborhood Health Center and Whittier Street Health Center. The Youth Outreach Workers will provide linguistically and culturally competent support to the Latino community. These outreach workers will help elevate care for mental and physical health, fill any gap in resources created by language or cultural barriers, and connect families to food, housing vouchers and direct financial help. GBLN will create and launch a bilingual marketing campaign that will engage youth, alongside artists, educators, musicians and other influencers who will help us spread public health messages, to wear masks and provide masks to their peers.
- Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston: Habitat for Humanity will provide grocery store gift cards for 85 low-income families, as well as provide protective items and disinfectants.
- Homes For Families (HFF): HFF will provide care packages to help meet immediate needs of families residing in shelter or in permanent supportive housing. In collaboration with Boston Healthcare for the Homeless, the funding will provide educational materials on an on-going basis with COVID-19 related information and prevention; safety; and mental health resources.
- Lifeboat Boston: Lifeboat Boston is an outreach organization located in the Fenway neighborhood that works to end food insecurity through a weekly fresh food pantry. They will use the grant to rent a cargo van for four weeks to expand home delivery services and provide assistance to homeless clients.
- LivableStreets Alliance: The grant will fund an automated SMS/texting ChatBot tool for EMS to perform daily wellness checks with all frontline staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Multicultural AIDS Coalition (MAC): MAC provides trusted and culturally specific services to support clients often not reached by traditional programs, including gay / bisexual men of color, those in the recovery community, immigrants and other residents as appropriate. Specifically, funds will be used to utilize street outreach, provide COVID19 prevention and education materials, and provide food vouchers and packaged meals.
- My Brother's Keeper 617: This grant will allow My Brother's Keeper 617 to continue their work in Dorchester providing gift cards for low-income families.
- Rescuing Leftover Cuisine: The grant will allow Rescuing Leftover Cuisine (RLC) to waive fees paid by food providers for pick-up. The grant will also help expand RLC’s tech platform and strengthen infrastructure to facilitate coordination of one-off donations and delivery to households; provide essential PPE, supplies to volunteers; and supplement current volunteer corps with 10 paid staff rescuers to minimize safety risks, enhance reliability and systemize operations.
- Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute, Inc.: The grant will be used to expand zoom and audio conference support services for women in substance abuse treatment and transitional recovery programs and build the skills of first responders and community service workers in the areas of wellness, stress management, self-esteem and self-care, and to expand access to Self Esteem Boston's new online learning center for vulnerable populations.
- STEAM Ahead: STEAM Ahead provides free S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) programming to youth throughout Boston. The programs serve as a vehicle to help close the education gap for underrepresented groups of youth. Many of the families served are in need of food assistance and staff will prepare healthy food packages along with educational materials and deliver them directly to their homes.
- Team New England: Team New England (TNE) will assist youth and their families by providing food, household essentials, and virtual check-ins and games to help keep young people occupied over the summer. In addition, they will work with youth to make care packages for seniors that will consist of healthy snacks, hand sanitizer, masks, coloring books, puzzles, fuzzy socks, slippers, and other essentials. As a youth community service project, TNE will be partnering with the Grove Hall Senior Center who will be identifying seniors. These care baskets will be delivered to the homes of these seniors by the youth accompanied by an adult.
- The DREAM Program: The DREAM Program will provide weekly deliveries of activity materials to its students, tailored to their specific interests and needs, to ensure that they are able to engage online and offline. The grant will specifically equip youth with laptops and internet access to support academic development and combat stress and trauma
- The Wily Network: A grant from the Boston Resiliency Fund will support the Wily Network’s emergency funding needs for their students.
- Transgender Emergency Fund of Massachusetts, Inc.: The Transgender Emergency Fund of Massachusetts serves low-income transgender residents of Boston, mostly transgender people of color. This funding will be used to purchase and distribute nutritious food bags and boxes as well as hygiene supplies to low-income transgender people living in Boston.
- Trinity Boston Connects: Trinity Boston Connects will use the grant to increase and subsidize clinical mental health services for frontline youth workers.
- True Alliance Center: True Alliance Center will use this grant to augment existing cash assistance work, translate documents and support for Boston's Haitian community, and provide educational materials to educate immigrants about their rights, and about health and prevention.
- Turn It Around (Charlestown): Many of the youth served by Turn It Around are in need of financial stability, mental health services, academic support, and social connection. The grant will fund engagement stipends through physical fitness bootcamps.The funding will also provide volunteers with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to deliver food and basic hygiene items to those impacted by COVID-19. It will also provide grocery store gift cards based on family needs.
- Union of Minority Neighborhoods: The Union of Minority Neighborhoods will use the grant to continue to manage a trusted community helpline and work with service agencies collaboratively for needs of callers for resource referrals.
- United South End Settlements: The grant will support the Neighbor2Neighbor Food Access and Delivery Program, an emergency food assistance and access effort available to the residents of Boston with a focus on those living in the South End and Lower Roxbury. The Neighbor2Neighbor Food Access and Delivery Program provides nutritious and healthy dry groceries, fresh produce, and prepackaged prepared family style dinners each week to help fill the food gap many families are experiencing. In addition, it will support providing families access to SNAP, WIC and other related benefits, and provide cash assistance in the form of gift cards for local food and other essential purposes.
- Urban Guild Inc.: The Guild will use the grant to pay for continued holistic community support, with a portion of the funds to steward communal Guild gardens for residents to tend and harvest vegetables, fruits, and herbs. The grant will also allow for additional food distribution as well as children's diapers, adult diapers, baby wipes, and feminine hygiene products.
- Vietnamese American Initiative for Development, Inc. (VietAID): VietAID will use the grant to continue providing hot meals from a Dorchester Vietnamese restaurant to older adults and groceries distribution to over 500 families. VietAID utilizes a network of volunteers and staff to deliver and distribute food items that are culturally appropriate to the families being served.
- Whittier Street Health Center: Whittier Street Health Center will receive $75,000 to expand their culturally sensitive outreach, enrollment and testing efforts. They will utilize staff who understand the cultural challenges and share similar backgrounds. The goal is to educate, empower, and engage members of the Latino community to support testing and to encourage long-term primary care relationships.
- Youth on Board (YOB/BSAC): YOB/BSAC serves the needs of 18,000 high school students by actively engaging them to advocate for student rights, equitable schools, stronger youth-adult partnerships, and environmental justice within and beyond their schools. YOB will use the grant to safely engage youth during the summer months by providing stipends for program alumni and program coordinators.
- Boston Area Domestic Violence Partnership: Boston Area Domestic Violence Partnership will use the funding to expand capacity in the domestic violence shelter system over the summer and provide food, and emergency supplies to these families. Casa Myrna will serve as the lead partner for the group that includes: Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence, Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery at BIDMC of Boston, Domestic Violence Program at Boston Medical Center, Elizabeth Stone House, HarborCOV, HAVEN at MGH, Passageway at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Renewal House of the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry, RESPOND, and Transition House.
- Common Good Project: The Common-Good Project will use BRF funds to provide CSA shares to working-class and underemployed minority women, isolated seniors, and community members with disabilities in the Dorchester, Mattapan, and Greater Boston area. The grant does not cover community health worker salaries.
- Community Outreach Ministries, Inc.: Community Outreach Ministries will use the BRF grant to help connect seniors to services and their broader support community through technology.
- DRIVE Boston Community Resources, Inc.: DRIVE Boston will purchase grocery store and general gift cards, along with needed supplies, to support residents in need across the City.
- Ellie Fund: Ellie Fund will use the funding to support and protect vulnerable breast cancer patients from COVID-19. Services include grocery support and delivery, prepared and delivered meals, and safe transportation to/from medical appointments.
- Family Aid Boston, Inc.: Family Aid Boston will use the funding to deliver food, supplies, and grocery gift cards weekly, directly to client apartments. Social workers will survey clients bi-weekly to assess needs and monitor health and housing status.
- Faith Based Grassroots Addiction Recovery Coalition: Leaders of the Faith Based Grassroots Addiction Recovery Coalition (FBGARC), along with The Gavin Foundation and community partners, will provide support to people in recovery and returning citizens during the pandemic through:
- Care Packages: Provide care packages to people entering sober homes, either through the probation/parole partnership or through other treatment programs. These care packages will include personal hygiene items, bedding, towels, flip-flops, and a grocery store gift card, and will be provided directly to the 14 participating sober homes in Boston.
- Peer Support Meetings: Bring together local houses of worship and recovery service providers to facilitate outdoor peer support meetings. FBGARC plans on enlisting approximately 5-6 places of worship or community spaces, which would be equipped with picnic tables, sun umbrellas, podiums, PPE, and cleaning supplies. All meetings would comply with social distancing and other public health guidelines.
- Friday Night Supper Club: For Boston's homeless population, the COVID-19 pandemic has been particularly devastating as food, shelter and medical care are even harder to secure during this health crisis. Friday Night Supper Club will use the funding to purchase groceries and supplies for their Friday Night Supper Program (FNSP), which serves nutritious takeaway meals at the Arlington Street Church in Boston to anyone in need.
- Lena Park Community Development Corporation (CDC): Lena Park CDC will use the funding to secure essential goods and supplies, for 750 residents for a 4-week period. They are planning for the re-opening of the Community Engagement Center (contingent upon and in accordance with local, state, and federal approval/guidance) and will also prioritize funds to offer their broader, non-resident community access to their COVID-19 relief supports and services as they continue moving their lives forward as the community recovers from the devastating effects of the pandemic. The funding will support work to support Lena Park households with grocery store gift cards.
- Mass Farmers Market: Mass Farmers Market will use the funding to provide access to farm fresh local fruit and vegetables for families, seniors, and individuals this summer. The program will provide weekly coupons to those in need regardless of immigration status, while supporting the local economy and urban agriculture. A map of farmers markets in the City, days and hours of operation, and available payment methods can be found online.
- New England Community Services: New England Community Services will provide grocery gift cards to families in the community.
- Project Bread: Project Bread will develop and implement a public awareness campaign to promote Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) enrollment and utilization, targeting SNAP gap households and other eligible but unenrolled families. These funds will provide operational and additional language support to the FoodSource Hotline and train community-based organizations and health centers to screen for SNAP eligibility and support with applications.
- Voice of the Tabernacle Multi Service Center Inc (VTMC): VTMC would use the funding to support critical support services to Haitian refugee and immigrant youth and emergency housing assistance. This program is heavily utilized by unaccompanied youth who need assistance in finding stable, long-term housing in culturally-connected communities.
- We Are Better Together Warren Daniel Hairston Project: We Are Better Together (WABT) will use the funding to purchase food gift cards and groceries. Access to food/financial insecurity is a significant need for their families, many of whom are seniors or single caregivers caring for children due to the loss of a parent/caregiver to homicide and/or incarceration. These families often face barriers in mainstream supportive services.
- West End House: The West End House Boys and Girls Club in Allston will use the funding to continue their food delivery program to families they serve.
- African Bridge Network (ABN): Working with four other Boston-based African organizations (Ghana Association of Greater Boston, Community Care Clinic, International Central Gospel Church - Boston and Throne of Grace Ministry - Mattapan), ABN will use funding to purchase and distribute grocery store gift cards to 200 families, who have experienced a loss in income or job as a result of COVID-19.
- Boston Youth Wrestling Inc. (BYW): In order to directly assist families financially during the pandemic, BYW will use the funding to hire youth who will manage the free meal distribution site which has been up and running out of the Boston Youth Wrestling offices in Roxbury and has served 4,500 meals since March. The funding will allow the organization to serve and deliver fresh made meals and pantry items throughout the summer. In addition, the youth will also grow fresh fruits and vegetables at the two BYW community garden plots in Roxbury.
- FAMILY Movement: FAMILY Movement will use the funding to support families that are transitioning out of homeless shelters and into stable and permanent living situations by virtual support workshops, food and financial assistance.
- Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF): The Foundation for BCYF will use the funding to supplement 1,000 personalized care packages for Boston’s youth, families, and seniors with grocery store gift cards. The packages will include a collection of items to support individuals and families while they struggle with concerns such as loss of income, school and camp closures, loss of support services, feelings of loneliness and isolation, and illness.
- Fundación de Milagros Marte: Fundacion de Milagros Marte will use the funding to provide groceries, grocery store gift cards, hygiene products, and baby formula for families and seniors in need. It will also be used to provide delivery services of prepared meals and groceries for housebound elderly.
- Gilbert Albert Community Center: The Gilbert Albert Community Center will use the funding to continue partnering with a local restaurant to provide healthy, culturally-appropriate meals to 45 clients per week. One meal will be served to each client, everyday, Tuesday-Friday, and two meals on Saturday, for four weeks.
- Haitian Americans United (HAU): This grant will renew a partnership between HAU and two Boston-based Haitian catering companies to serve elders who are home-bound and are unable to cook for themselves.
- Health Leads: Health Leads will use the funding to train and deploy a workforce of resource advocates to ensure students and families in need have essential food needs met, including access to all available food resources in their community. Advocates will call or send text messages to all guardians school rosters to ensure food distribution information is understood. Health Leads will pilot this model at two schools in East Boston.
- Heller Summer of HOPE Program: The funding will allow Summer of HOPE to provide food for system-involved youth in its summer diversion program. Many students are from low-income families that experience food insecurity.
- Hyde Park Emergency Pantry, Inc: The Hyde Park Emergency Pantry will use the funding to purchase the additional food required to serve more clients each month and acquire the needed refrigeration equipment to store that food.
- Hyde Square Task Force: The Hyde Square Task Force will use the funds to support ongoing efforts to provide youth and low-income, families of color with grocery store gift cards.
- Hawthorne Youth and Community Center (HYCC): The HYCC will offer food assistance to local families in need through the produce grown at their urban farm located at 95 Thornton Street in Roxbury, as well as supplementary grocery store gift cards.
- Jamaica Plain/Roxbury Mutual Aid: Jamaica Plain/Roxbury Mutual Aid will use the funding to support their current work of providing food and financial assistance to families in need.
- Mattapan Tech: Mattapan Tech Covid-19 Citizens Response is a local initiative created to respond to COVID-19 pandemic, focused on immigrants and youth experiencing homelessness. Mattapan Tech will use the funding to continue to provide financial assistance for families in need through the end of June. They have already provided financial assistance to over 41 families in Mattapan.
- Newmarket Community Partners, Inc: In the last 6 weeks, Newmarket Community Partners has been a key partner with the Greater Boston Food Bank to support Boston Housing Authority residents and the Age Strong Commission’s constituents by providing “last mile” transportation for food distribution to various locations around the city. This service is essential to ensuring that those most in need and the elderly receive the food they need, where they need it. This grant will allow for extended service through the end of July and will employ Boston residents as truck drivers.
- NOAH/Neighborhood of Affordable Housing, Inc.: NOAH will use the funding to provide emergency gift cards to Boston households severely impacted by the pandemic, especially those facing financial hardship and/or experiencing homelessness. NOAH’s staff, volunteers, and partners will distribute emergency grocery gifts to between 50 and 70 households weekly. The amounts of the emergency grocery gift cards given will range from $50 to $200, depending on the size of the households.
- The Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts: The Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts will use the funding to deliver groceries and provide financial assistance for survivors of domestic and sexual violence and their families through the Domestic and Sexual Violence Project. The project will support 30 to 35 families with groceries for the month and support 20 to 25 families with financial assistance for the month, with the amount varying by household.
- Boston BullPen Project: The Boston BullPen Project is providing funding to help people avoid eviction, homelessness, and medical crises while maintaining their dignity.
- Boston Dream Center, Corp.: The Boston Dream Center is providing families and individuals with up to $250 mini grants for essential needs.
- Breaktime: In partnership with the Culinary Training Program at Community Work Services (CWS), Breaktime will be producing and transporting approximately 1,000 nutritious hot meals each day to organizations such as Sojourner House, Children's Service of Roxbury, Rosie’s Place, and MANNA. Simultaneously, this work will create living-wage, career-launching jobs for young adults experiencing homelessness along with returning citizens and adults with disabilities.
- Brighton Marine: Brighton Marine is providing restaurants and grocery gift cards to Allston-Brighton residents with food insecurity, supporting both local residents and community members.
- Cape Verdean Community UNIDO DBA Cape Verdean Association of Boston: This grant will cover food costs and stipends for drivers. Cape Verdean Community UNIDO will partner with health centers to serve families who have tested positive for COVID-19 and provide them with meals and PPE, and will also continue to provide and deliver ethnic meals, toiletries, and essential needs to elderly, undocumented immigrants, and low-income families.
- Codman Academy Foundation on behalf of Codman Academy Charter Public School: This grant would fund Chromebooks for Codman Academy Foundation, allowing teachers to fully take advantage of systems like Google Classroom.
- Collaborative Parent Leadership Action Network (CPLAN): CPLAN is using the funding to address the basic needs of over 100 parents of color. CPLAN is helping underserved Boston parents obtain food, cleaning supplies, internet access and laptops for their children and emergency financial stipends. CPLAN will also provide online workshops and parent coaching including technical support around technology-based, distant learning tools. In addition, their bilingual team will offer virtual social emotional family activities to strengthen families’ mental health.
- Commonwealth Land Trust: This grant will fund targeted substance addiction supports, to be implemented on-site at permanent supportive housing locations in Boston. These services will include on-site group and individual sessions, and groups and related activities.
- Conservatory Lab Foundation: This grant would fund Chromebooks for Conservatory Lab allowing teachers to fully take advantage of systems like Google Classroom.
- Eastie Farm: This grant will allow Eastie Farm to continue their work serving families with meals prepared by local restaurants Bon Me and Tawakal Halal Cafe, as well as groceries and produce through local distributors, to over 600 East Boston households who are homebound.
- Fair Foods: Fair Foods currently utilizes four trucks to deliver 60,000 pounds of fresh food per week citywide. The organization has transitioned to a free distribution model since the COVID-19 pandemic and additional staff needed to meet the demand across the city of Boston.
- Jewish Family And Children's Service: Jewish Family and Children’s Service Family Table is stretching its capacity to serve more households each month due to the crisis. These funds will be used to purchase necessities including food, diapers, and wipes, support the delivery of food to clients, and support an increase in staff hours to coordinate food relief.
- Judge Baker Children's Center (JBCC): Serving children with disabilities at the Manville School, JBCC will use the grant to provide weekly gift cards for food relief and to cover telehealth visits for caregivers, foster parents, and families who would not be able to access care without financial assistance.
- Maverick Landing Community Services: This grant will provide food and supplies for one month of running the food program including expansion to a second drive by site to the Umana parking lot with partners Personnel participating costs to each partner organization to support planning, rapid assessment of immediate family needs, and supporting effort to provide food and cash aid disbursements to families.
- New England Blacks in Philanthropy: New England Blacks in Philanthropy will use the funding to purchase, package and deliver PPE items to seniors, youth, and families through community partners around the city.
- Nuestra Comunidad Community Development Corporation (CDC): Nuestra Comunidad CDC has assessed resident needs for resources and this grant will allow them to they will purchase meals and grocery store gift cards for over 350 households in Dorchester, Mattapan and Roxbury.
- Project Isaiah: Since launching in Boston in April, Project Isaiah has provided approximately 185,000 meals to residents in congregate living settings through partnerships with the Boston Public Health Commission, Family Aid Boston, Greater Boston Food Bank, Pine Street Inn and others. The funding will allow Project Isaiah to continue this work.
- St. Mary's Center for Women and Children: This grant will support additional costs such as food, sanitation and supplies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic across three of St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children’s programs.
- The Salvation Army Boston South End Corps: This grant will enable the Salvation Army South End Corps to provide more food and hygiene kits to Boston residents.
- Visiting Nurse Association of Boston: The funding will expand and strengthen services needed to care for some of the area’s most vulnerable elder individuals with chronic conditions and other illnesses, including COVID-19, and support costs such as equipment and medical supplies for patients in need. Through a combination of telehealth and in-person visits, these services can lessen the number of exposures between clinicians and patients, while being able to identify any new or worsening health issues to avert complications.
- Women's Lunch Place, Inc.: Women’s Lunch Place continues to operate six days per week with essential employees and additional staff hired to increase capacity to provide additional meals. The funding will provide one month of outreach services.
- About Fresh: The funding will allow About Fresh to sustain door-to-door delivery of ‘Fresh Boxes’ to approximately 2,500 Boston households through the end of June, and hire staff needed to increase the number and operating hours of Fresh Air Mobile Markets in neighborhoods throughout the City.
- Boston Public Market Association & Pine Street Inn: The funding will extend the partnership between Boston Public Market and Pine Street Inn for two additional weeks. Funds cover the cost of ingredients and staff time to assemble and pack around 560 meals a day for Pine Street Inn, as well as transportation, delivery and operational/administrative costs.
- Breakfast IV Brothers: Breakfast IV Brothers (BIVB) will use the funding to partner with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (HPHC), DoorDash, and Fresh Foods for meal delivery and grocery store gift cards for BIVB community members in Mattapan, Roxbury, and Dorchester. BIVB will support connectivity for multiple young men and veterans in Mattapan, Roxbury, Dorchester, who relied on libraries, employers, and community center computers and are unable to invest in their own personal computer. The organization will also provide coordinated sessions with mental health professionals of color, as well as facilitate targeted conversations related to the trauma males of color in Boston are facing both personally and culturally during the pandemic.
- Caribbean Integration Community Development: Caribbean Integration Community Development (CICB) will hire part-time staff who speak Haitian Creole to work with individuals/families and assist with applications and referrals to appropriate agencies.
- Catholic Charities Boston & Teen Center at St. Peter’s: Catholic Charities and the Teen Center at St. Peter's will use the funding to continue the delivery of food and prepared meals to the families of over 350 youth who live in Bowdoin-Geneva and support the increased need at the agency's two Boston food pantries in Dorchester and the South End, which are now serving more than 10 times as many people as they were before the pandemic.
- Circle of Hope, Inc.: Circle of Hope (COH) will use the funding to purchase essential supplies like towels, toiletries, underwear, and clothing and make emergency deliveries to homeless and domestic violence shelters. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, shelters no longer have the ability to sort used clothing donations.
- Community Caring Clinic: Community Caring Clinic will use the funding to open up mental health services to first-line responders and low-income individuals with a focus on immigrant communities by adding a bilingual clinician. Community Caring Clinic will also provide grocery store gift cards for those clients in need.
- Dignity Matters, Inc.: Dignity Matters, Inc. will use the funding to purchase and deliver one months of essential feminine hygiene products to 600 adult women in Boston in partnership with the YMCA of Greater Boston and the Mattapan Food Pantry. This will ensure these women do not experience the negative physical and social effects of a disruption in access to menstrual care.
- Franciscan Children's: As the largest pediatric post-acute medical and pulmonary rehabilitation hospital in the Northeast, Franciscan Children’s will use the funding for universal screening of patients to help decrease disruptions to critical care.
- Greater Love Community Care: Greater Love Community Care will use the funding to provide box groceries for one week, financial support, and transportation as needed to support low-income families and seniors.
- Health Care For All: Health Care For All (HCFA) runs a free multi-lingual consumer assistance HelpLine that provides health insurance enrollment support for those with public or private healthcare coverage, as well as those who are uninsured. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the HelpLine’s call volume has soared with thousands of newly unemployed and uninsured residents, the long-term uninsured seeking coverage for the first time in years, and those who disenrolled or did not renew their coverage and now need health care services. The funding will allow Health Care for All to hire multilingual health counselors in Spanish and Portuguese.
- La Alianza Hispana: The funding will provide food and supplies for La Alianza Hispana’s Latino senior clients, as well as support for transition to online telehealth services.
- Neighborhood Network Center, Inc.: Neighborhood Network Center’s ‘Operation Safety Net’ will use the funding to provide boxes of food to high-risk or immuno-compromised households, and provide two weeks of food and supplies for households where there is an active case(s) of COVID-19.
- The PIM Project: With over 25 years of experience in dealing with servicing the City of Boston’s at-risk youth, the PIM Project will provide food and financial assistance for youth who are having financial difficulty at this time.
- Project Place: Project Place will use the funding to provide stipends to clients in the organization’s stabilization program for access food, clothing, etc. and remote stabilization services through Zoom and Google Classroom.
- Somali Development Center: The Somali Development Center will use funding to make 80 hot meals per day for 30 days from two local restaurants, Tawakal Halal Cafe in East Boston and Khadija Express Cafe in Roxbury, and hire eight out-of-work drivers to distribute the meals to seniors and other home-bound families.
- South End Community Health Center: The funding will allow South End Community Health Center to expand access to neighborhood-based COVID-19 testing by funding new self-contained screening units and test kits. In addition, the Center will provide culturally-competent outreach and education to individuals, in conjunction with testing, to increase knowledge of disease transmission and ways to prevent spread.
- The Urban Farming Institute of Boston, Inc: The Urban Farming Institute of Boston (UFI) will use the funding to teach families dealing with food insecurity, and who may be unemployed, in Mattapan, Dorchester and Roxbury, how to grow food, in order to add fresh food into their diets.
- Wilahmena's Place, Inc: Wilahmena’s Place will use the funding to provide essential and immediate services to Boston women and girls in the form of hygiene products, feminine products, diapers/baby formula, and grocery store gift cards.
- Young Man with a Plan: Young Man with a Plan provides front line academic and social-emotional support for 110 young men, with an average of over three years tenure with the program. During this crisis, their weekly meetings were replaced by Zoom meetings. The funding will allow the organization to provide food, personal care and cleaning supplies to households in need.
Assistance to housebound seniors:
- Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation: Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation is sourcing and delivering culturally appropriate foods — including fresh produce and shelf-stable ingredients — and essential supply deliveries to 60 vulnerable households weekly.
- Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center Inc.: Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center is one of two Meals on Wheels providers in Boston. This funding will allow them to continue preparing and delivering 3,400 daily meals to seniors in all neighborhoods in Boston and provide needed sanitation and personal protection supplies.
Support for homeless or previously homeless individuals:
- Caritas Communities: Caritas Communities owns and manages 33 properties that provide safe, permanent housing to very low-income individuals. This grant will support food assistance for vulnerable residents and additional professional cleanings to ensure that shared bathrooms, kitchens and common areas remain clean and safe.
- The Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless: The Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless (MCH) will work with Procter & Gamble (P&G) to make hand sanitizer available to every homeless shelter in Boston.
- Y2Y Network: Y2Y Harvard Square serves youth and young adults experiencing homelessness in Boston. In response to the pandemic, Y2Y has increased staffing, hired professional cleaners who deep clean the shelter each morning, outsourced laundry services and food preparation, and installed handwashing stations.
Ensure food access citywide:
- Lovin' Spoonfuls: Lovin' Spoonfuls will continue to rescue and distribute more than 120,000 pounds of food to 56 nonprofit partners, such as food pantries, in Boston.
Funding for expanded mental health capacity:
- Brookview: Brookview will expand its mental health services to serve families in their residential and community programs. Brookview serves women and children disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, such as homeless families and domestic violence survivors who may be feeling more anxious, afraid, depressed. In addition, this grant will provide financial assistance to support basic needs.
- De Novo Center for Justice and Healing: This grant would allow De Novo to retain a clinical social worker to provide free mental health services for low-income members of our community who are struggling to cope with the effects of COVID-19 and a fund for financial assistance to clients who have been hardest hit by the crisis, helping them to secure food and other basic necessities.
Support for youth, families and children:
- Boston Asian: Youth Essential Service: Boston Asian: Youth Essential Service will provide gift cards, financial assistance, and information to under-resourced and vulnerable agency clients -- youth, young adults, and their families -- so they can purchase food, groceries, toiletries, hygiene products, and other basic necessities.
- Center for Teen Empowerment: Center for Teen Empowerment will provide grocery gift cards and financial assistance as needed for the low-income families they work with. They also will use a small portion to continue our online events and initiatives for youth around mental wellness and violence prevention.
- East Boston Neighborhood Health Center: East Boston Neighborhood Health Center will provide infant vaccinations, prescription drop-offs, and need-based deliveries of diapers, baby wipes, and formula to the East Boston community. Delivery essentials will be supplemented with grocery store gift cards.
- Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC): JPNDC will purchase grocery store gift cards for families in their Family Prosperity and Childcare Services who have lost employment and are in need of food.
- St. Stephen's Youth Programs: St. Stephen’s Youth Programs will use this funding to continue their Thursday distributions of food and financial assistance to families through "B-LOVE Bundles" consisting of beans, rice, pasta, dried fruit, toilet paper, paper towels, personal hygiene products, crayons, games, chalk and books.
Funding for community, neighborhood-based organizations:
- African Community Economic Development of New England (ACEDONE): ACEDONE aims will secure and deliver halaal breakfast on Eid-Al-Fitr for Muslim Families in Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, Dorchester and neighboring areas.
- Boston Missionary Baptist Community Center Inc.: The Boston Missionary Baptist Community Center will expand staff and outreach at their food pantry to increase food distribution for the Haitian community. They will also bring a mobile food pantry van to different church sites in Dorchester, Mattapan and Roxbury.
- Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation (CSNDC): CSNDC will use the funds to support their low/moderate income tenants who have been identified through a survey of constituents. CSNDC will purchase gift cards for groceries and related essential expenses for residents to meet their essential and immediate needs.
- Community Labor United: Community Labor United (CLU) will work with its partner organizations in the Asian American, Latinx, and black communities in East Boston, Chinatown, Mattapan, Dorchester, Roxbury and beyond to support families of color who have been impacted directly by COVID-19. CLU will work with a network of 9 other organizations including Alternatives for Community and Environment, Asian American Resource Workshop, Brazilian Worker Center, Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity, Chinese Progressive Association, City Life / Vida Urbana Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, New England United for Justice, Vietnamese American Initiative for Development.
- Elevate Boston: Elevate Boston is coordinating efforts to provide essential services for the most vulnerable residents impacted by the pandemic. They are focused on distribution of groceries, hot meals, PPE, and toiletries and have supported over 12,000 Boston children, seniors and families. In addition, they are also providing stipends to drivers and volunteers to distribute these supplies and have already distributed over 5,500 resource and information packets. This grant will continue supporting their work.
- IPC Irish Pastoral Centre: Irish Pastoral Centre will work with seniors, mothers, and immigrant families in Dorchester, Allston-Brighton and West Roxbury and provide emergency relief through grocery store gift cards, crisis counseling and financial assistance.
Expanding testing at neighborhood-based community health centers:
The Boston Resiliency Fund has now dedicated $1.24 million to expand COVID-19 testing and conduct culturally appropriate outreach and education at 17 community health centers across City of Boston neighborhoods. This week, grants include:
Support for frontline and essential workers:
- 1199SEIU Training and Employment Funds (TEF): The grant will support Home Health Care Aides working or living in Boston by providing a health and safety training that emphasizes infection prevention, specifically deep hand cleaning protocols, proper handling and removal of personal protective equipment (PPE), and safe use of chemicals. Those who participate in the training will receive a small stipend upon completion.
- The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare: The Schwartz Center will launch a new initiative with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD to offer Stress First Aid (SFA) training to teams from Boston healthcare institutions. Once trained, these teams will be able to offer SFA as well as train others, thus becoming “force multipliers” and having a positive ripple effect throughout their organization. This funding would allow the Schwartz Center to expand beyond their member hospitals and work with Community Health Centers as well.
- YMCA Emergency Childcare: With previous support from the Boston Resiliency Fund, the YMCA has provided 380,000 “grab & go” meals for children; over 25,000 meals for adults; 17,000 bags of groceries, diapers, baby formula and other hygiene products for families and seniors; and 360 child care slots for essential workers in Boston. This additional support will enable the YMCA to keep emergency child care centers open through the end of June.
Expansion of community telehealth services:
- Expansion of Community Health Centers (CNC) Telehealth with the Mass League: The grant will expand telehealth capacity from the pilot with 9 initial Community Health Centers to 19 Community Health Centers in Boston. Those centers that were part of the pilot have already coordinated and placed orders for needed telehealth equipment for staff and patients in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Increasing access to food and basic needs for residents:
- Catie's Closet: The grant will allow Catie’s Closet to continue to provide basic necessities, including toiletries and feminine products to homeless and low-income families through the City’s youth meal sites.
- Community Servings: Community Servings will continue to prepare and deliver healthy wellness meals, in partnership with the City of Boston, for approximately 1,500 food insecure Boston residents including children, seniors, and families.
- NAACP Boston Branch: The NAACP Boston Branch will use the grant to support families with the financial support necessary to purchase groceries and pay for prescriptions.
- Newmarket Community Partners: Newmarket Community Partners will coordinate essential "last mile" transportation, in partnership with the City of Boston, to distribute food to Boston Housing Authority and Age Strong residents. They will support this work by adding additional trucks and hiring more drivers through mid-June. They will also continue to support opportunities for small businesses at risk of permanent closure.
- Paulist Center: The Paulist Center will use funds to continue providing take-out meals for their Wednesday Supper Club and bagged groceries for their food pantry.
- St. Mary's Episcopal Church: St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Dorchester will use funds to purchase groceries for their food pantry and continue food deliveries to food pantry clients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Support for community-based organizations and Boston residents:
- Asian American Civic Association: The grant will be used to provide financial assistance to Boston households to prevent homelessness due to inability to pay rent or mortgage due to COVID-19.
- Boston Housing Authority (BHA) Charlestown Adult Education: BHA Charlestown Adult Education program will use funds to distribute gift cards and food essentials to Boston residents in need.
- Chica Project: Chica Project will support 90 Boston girls and young women of color who have been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic by providing grocery gift cards to girls and their families, supporting staff and facilitators for their school-based and community-based programming, and offering emergency stipends for housing insecure families that have lost income.
- Massachusetts Coalition of Domestic Workers: The grant will allow the Massachusetts Coalition of Domestic Workers to fund three outreach workers and connect domestic workers with financial assistance and additional supports, such as food and access to health care insurance.
- The Guild: With previous support from the Boston Resiliency Fund, The Guild has supported over 1,700 residents since April 1st, including seniors, home-bound residents, and immigrant families. This additional support will allow The Guild to continue assembling and delivering critical care packages of food, toiletries, cleaning, personal, senior and child care supplies to households across Dorchester, and Roxbury, Mattapan. The grant will also support group wellness and healing for pregnant and new mothers.
- YouthBuild USA/Youth on Board: The grant will allow Youth on Board and Boston Student Advisory Council to continue their advocacy and programming in partnership with the Boston Public Schools leadership.
- Youth Guidance - Becoming A Man (BAM) Boston: Through BAM, Youth Guidance provides critical counseling services for over 500 young men through a virtual platform. To address the needs of their community and augment the counseling services they are already providing, the grant will support the purchase and distribution of gift cards to families in-need to acquire basic necessities and essentials.
Expanding testing at neighborhood-based community health centers: The Boston Resiliency Fund has now dedicated $1.1 million to expand COVID-19 testing and conduct culturally appropriate outreach and education at 15 community health centers across City of Boston neighborhoods. This week, grants include:
Increasing food access through local restaurants in the neighborhoods:
- CommonWealth Kitchen: Starting in early May, Commonwealth Kitchen (CWK), in partnership with local, minority-owned restaurants in neighborhoods across the City, will launch the second phase of CommonTable, an effort to provide free meals to needy families and seniors at community sites. The program will be piloted with 3 restaurants, Tawakal Halal Café, 50Kitchen, and Achilitos Taqueria. By the end of May, CWK expects to have 10+ restaurants participating, with the goal of reaching 20 restaurants in June. CWK is working with the City of Boston's Office of Food Access to identify the pick-up sites.
Providing essentials to parents for their young children:
- Action for Boston Community Development: ABCD will increase emergency distribution of baby formula to families with infants through food pantries and deliveries where possible.
- Families First: Families First provides virtual parenting programs for parents with young children on topics like stress reduction and resilience and connects parents with emergency food resources and basic need items.
- Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts, Inc.: Family Nurturing Center coordinates neighborhood-based family support programs on a weekly or bi-weekly basis to assess needs of families. FNC will distribute diapers, wipes, and cleaning/hygiene supplies to families who are participating in FNC or partner programs.
Continued support for neighborhood-based organizations:
- BEST Corp.: BEST will distribute grocery cards, help with internet access costs, and provide financial assistance for unemployed hospitality workers who do not meet the criteria for other stimulus funds but are in great need.
- Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston: BMA staff will purchase grocery gift cards and engage with their network of pastors and local congregations to immediately begin food card distribution.
- East Boston Social Centers: East Boston Social Centers, in partnership with the ICA Watershed and Grace Church Food Pantry, will deliver food three days per week to vulnerable families, children, and seniors who are finding it challenging to get what they need due to increased demand & scarcity of goods.
- First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain: The First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain will continue to serve and deliver hot meals from their commissary kitchen three days per week to seniors, homeless individuals, and low-income Bostonians.
- Gilbert Albert Community Center (GACC): GACC and St. Mark Community Education Program will partner with a local restaurant to deliver healthy, culturally-appropriate meals to immigrant and refugee adults five days per week.
- Harvest on the Vine Food Pantry: During the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvest on the Vine is serving more Charlestown families, especially the families living in the Bunker Hill Housing Development, and will use funds to supplement supplies from the Greater Boston Food Bank.
- Mattapan Greater Boston Technology Learning Center, Inc.: The Mattapan Tech Covid-19 Citizens Response will continue to provide financial assistance for immigrant families in need and provide food for the guests that are temporarily housed through the response effort.
- MissionSAFE: MissionSAFE will continue to deliver food and supplies to families and seniors who are unable to leave their homes.
Continued support to community health centers and healthcare systems: The Boston Resiliency Fund has now dedicated $1,000,000 to expand COVID-19 testing and conduct culturally appropriate outreach and education at 13 community health centers across City of Boston neighborhoods.
- Charles River Community Health
- Fenway Health
- Greater Roslindale Medical & Dental Center
- Harbor Health Services, Inc.
Ensuring Boston's children, families, and seniors have access to food and basic needs:
- Daily Table will expand their prepared meals program to produce an additional 500 meals per day (2,500 per week) and deliver them to a meal pick-up site in Dorchester.
- Greater Boston Food Bank will expand its capacity to continue receiving and distributing healthy food to those in need in Boston, including a new partnership to distribute produce boxes to Boston Housing Authority residents and the Age Strong community.
- South Boston Association of Nonprofits will support South Boston families in need by coordinating access to food pantries, daily senior lunch deliveries, and weekly prepared meals and grocery deliveries. Partner agencies include: Fourth Presbyterian Church, Gavin Foundation, Julie's Family Learning Program, Paraclete Center, South Boston Neighborhood House, South Boston Action Center, South Boston Aide Network, South Boston Boys and Girls Club, and St. Monica's Food Pantry.
Support for organizations doing work in Dorchester, Roxbury, Hyde Park, Mattapan, and Roslindale, neighborhoods experiencing higher rates of COVID-19:
- Fathers’ Uplift, Inc. will provide at-risk families with financial assistance in the face of economic hardship and will offer mental health and wellness options. Their services are specifically targeted towards fathers of color and their families in Dorchester, Mattapan and Roxbury.
- My Brother’s Keeper Boston, in partnership with MBK 617, will continue to build safe and supportive communities for boys and young men of color and will provide gift cards for basic necessities and essentials.
- Nehemiah Project for Hope and MA Association of Haitian Parents will deliver weekly groceries and basic toiletry needs to families in the Haitian Community.
- Violence in Boston, Inc., in partnership with Food 4 the Soul: will continue to make and deliver hot meals to medically vulnerable and food insecure Boston residents.
Support for food delivery to older Bostonians who are unable to leave their homes:
- 2Life Communities will prepare and deliver seven home-delivered meals per week to over 900 low-income seniors who live in their Brighton facilities and are unable to leave their apartments.
- Bunker Hill Associates will deliver grocery items for the most vulnerable or immunocompromised residents living in senior buildings in Charlestown who are unable to leave their home to get groceries.
- Haitian American United will work with two Haitian cuisine caterers based in Boston to prepare two meals for community elders at least three times per week. In addition, two Haitian drivers will be hired to deliver food to families.
- Rose’s Bounty Food Pantry will continue making personal deliveries to the elderly now that senior centers are closed, and will keep open their drive-through pantry.
Support for Boston’s vulnerable populations including immigrants, homeless individuals and domestic violence survivors:
- Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK) will financially assist clients who are undocumented or pending status, many of whom are living below the poverty level.
- Cathedral Church of St. Paul will medically screen and welcome up to 200 unhoused people, in shifts, providing them hot meals and bagged lunches, water, access to restrooms, and outlets for charging phones.
- Common Cathedral will work to meet the increased demand for access to boxed take-out meals, a safe place to rest, and bathrooms for homeless individuals in and around Boston Common.
- Somali Development Center will coordinate the pick-up and delivery of meals from a local Somali restaurant by hiring drivers that have lost their means of income due to COVID-19.
Continued support to community health centers and healthcare systems:
- Expanded COVID-19 Testing for Community Health Centers that will allow the Harvard Street and Dimock Community Health Centers increase neighborhood-based testing. So far, the Boston Resiliency Fund has supported nine community health centers in neighborhoods that are seeing higher incidences of COVID-19. We have an updated map of testing sites online.
- Mass. League of Community Health Centers will pilot telehealth expansion with nine community health centers in Boston. This pilot will allow community health centers to screen for testing virtually and conduct follow up appointments at home with those who test positive. It will also give patients access to virtual visits and health monitoring devices for better management of chronic disease.
- Personal Protective Equipment that will protect Boston’s frontline and essential workers at health centers, long-term care facilities, shelters, and other nonprofit providers across the City. This additional funding from the Boston Resiliency Fund matches the $500,000 MAPFRE Foundation grant awarded to the City of Boston on April 16, 2020.
Ensuring Boston's children, families, and seniors have access to food and basic needs:
- African Community Economic Development of New England, in partnership with ISBCC’s Ascia Foods, will provide Iftar (sunset) meals to Boston’s Muslim community during Ramadan.
- Boston Public Market Association will work with the Market’s local vendors to prepare and deliver nourishing, safe meals for various senior centers and meal sites and to homeless guests and residents at the Pine Street Inn.
- Boys and Girls Club of Dorchester will provide "grab and go" bags of groceries and baby formula to low-income families with young children in Dorchester.
- Hope & Comfort supplies basic hygiene items to under-resourced youth and families via meal sites, including those run by the Boston Public Schools and the YMCA of Greater Boston.
- More Than Words will buy and deliver food and hygiene supplies to more than 300 youth and young adults who are facing food insecurity.
Support for organizations doing work in East Boston, a neighborhood experiencing higher rates of COVID-19:
- Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity will offer financial relief for East Boston families in need who are ineligible to receive support from other resources.
- East Boston Soup Kitchen will continue distributing grocery gift cards to families in need in the East Boston community.
- Eastie Farm will work with East Boston Mutual Aid, East Boston Soup Kitchen, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, and Chinese Progressive Association to identify families in need of food. Two local restaurants, Bon Me and Tawakal Halal Cafe, will then prepare and distribute safely prepared meals to families in East Boston and Chinatown.
- Maverick Landing Community Services, in partnership with The Harborside Community Center, Neighbors United for a Better East Boston, and Veronica Robles Cultural Center, will offer food, supplies and financial assistance to East Boston families who do not have access to stimulus dollars, unemployment assistance, or who do not qualify for public benefits.
- Salesian Boys and Girls Club distributes meals from the Club and provides home delivery of breakfast, lunch, hygiene products, and at-home art activities to children and families.
Support for Boston’s most vulnerable populations, including those experiencing homelessness and persons with disabilities:
- Commonwealth Land Trust will support vulnerable residents with HIV/AIDS in their supportive housing programs by providing increased frequency and extent of cleaning and enhancing social distancing policies.
- Developmental Evaluation and Adjustment Facilities, Inc. will adapt their service delivery to provide deaf-accessible essential health information relating to COVID-19, how to access basic needs online, and more.
- Haley House will prepare 500 additional hot take-out meals and expand their food pantry services at their South End soup kitchen.
- Health Care Without Walls will staff screening stations at Rosie’s Place to promote the health and safety of guests and will provide gift cards to vulnerable clients in need of basic supplies.
- Home for Little Wanderers will provide extra meals for children and youth living at their group homes and residential sites and grocery assistance to families and individuals identified by their clinicians.
- New England Paralyzed Veterans of America will continue transporting disabled veterans to the VA Boston Healthcare System, help veterans combat feelings of isolation and loneliness, and assist home-bound veterans with their food needs.
- Rosie’s Place will continue to be a safe space where vulnerable and homeless women can access services such as medical screening, showers, both daytime and overnight shelter, prepared to-go meals and snacks, and groceries.
- Boston Family Shelter Collaborative will bring together 18 shelter agencies that operate the 38 family shelter programs in Boston, with United Way as the fiscal sponsor. This collaborative will purchase grocery store gift cards for families, create a basic needs fund to purchase hygiene necessities that are needed in congregate settings, and provide telecommunications support as needed. Shelter agencies include: Atask, Brookview House, Casa Nueva Vida, Catholic Charities, Children’s Services of Roxbury, Crossroads Family Shelter, Dimock Community Health Center, Economic Mobility Pathways, Elizabeth Stone House, FamilyAid Boston, Fenix House, Hildebrand Family Self-Help, Middlesex Human Service Agency, Project Hope, Sojourner House. St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children, Victory Programs, and YMCA of Greater Boston. Casa Myrna and Heading Home received separate grants from the Boston Resiliency Fund in previous funding rounds.
- Boston Girls Empowerment Network (BGEN) will coordinate a culturally competent response for Afro-Heritage immigrant and refugee women by connecting them to ethnic food distribution sites near their home, enhancing food pantries with relevant feminine hygiene kits, and creating virtual support circles in Dorchester, Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale, and Roxbury.
- Brazilian Worker Center will partner with designated sites around the City that serve vulnerable populations to make these spaces safe, healthy, and disease-free. These sites will be open to residents without options for sanitary and hygiene needs. This grant will support qualified, trained cleaners in these spaces for one month.
- Dimock Community Health Center will stand up a quarantine/isolation space for men and women with substance use disorder from their residential recovery program and older adults with developmental disabilities who live in Dimock’s off-campus group homes in various Boston neighborhoods.
- Elevate Boston, in partnership with Families for Justice as Healing, will continue their efforts to provide hot meals, groceries, toiletries, sanitizer, and gift cards to students, elders and families in need across Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mission Hill, Roslindale, South Boston, and the South End.
- Expanded COVID-19 Testing for Community Health Centers: Initial data collected by the City of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts suggest that COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting people of color and people living in certain neighborhoods, including Mattapan, Dorchester, East Boston and Hyde Park. This grant will expand access to testing in these communities by funding new screening units and test kits at six Community Health Centers (CHCs). In addition, these CHCs will provide culturally-competent outreach and education to individuals, in conjunction with testing, to increase knowledge of disease transmission and ways to prevent spread. The following health centers will work together to ensure access to neighborhood-based testing
- Bowdoin Street Health Center (Dorchester)
- Codman Square Health Center (Dorchester)
- DotHouse Health (Dorchester)
- Mattapan Community Health Center (Mattapan)
- Uphams’ Corner Health Center (Dorchester)
- Whittier Street Health Center (Roxbury)
- East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (East Boston) - Funded separately on 4/6/2020
- Mothers for Justice and Equality will continue providing gift cards, in addition to online services such as workshops, check-ins, support groups and case management, for their youth and families in Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roxbury, who are now in isolation and dealing with extreme anxiety and facing a lack of access to mental health services.
- Mujeres Unidas Avanzando will purchase grocery store gift cards for students and their families so that they can have choice and buy the food and other necessities that they most need. MUA serves students and families from Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Mission Hill, Roslindale, and Roxbury.
- Project RIGHT will provide grocery store gift cards for mothers with infants and toddlers in Dorchester and Roxbury to ensure that families in need have formula, diapers, wipes and other sanitary products.
- RIZE Massachusetts will work with the Mayor’s Office of Recovery Services to support front-line health care workers and harm reduction programs serving people with substance use disorder. RIZE will provide a 100% match grant, leveraging the Boston Resiliency Fund's investment. This grant will increase infection control for on-street populations by funding additional handwashing stations, provide operational support for harm reduction and street outreach staff, and create incentives for unhoused clients to complete quarantine/isolation.
- St. Francis House continues to serve guests at its day shelter seven-days a week and is providing enhanced essential services through pre-bagged food service, clothing distribution, mental health counseling and showers. SFH will also use this grant to contract outside cleaners, screen guests entering for COVID-19 symptoms, and support additional personnel costs for services previously provided by volunteers.
- The Guild will purchase and distribute food and provide virtual mental health and wellness supports to residents of Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan.
- Voice of Tabernacle Multiservice Center will deliver food and support to seniors in Dorchester, Hyde Park, Mattapan, and Roxbury, who are not able to come and pick up their own food and no longer have access to ethnically appropriate hot meals at senior centers. The Center will also expand staffing in their food pantry to manage the increased demand due to the pandemic.
- Black Economic Justice Institute is currently providing grocery gift cards to those in need and has already distributed $20,000 in grocery gift cards. This grant will help continue that work.
- BMEN Foundation has helped facilitate support for hundreds of people in Dorchester through coordinating phone banking efforts. This grant will be used to help deliver food, gas cards, and gift cards to additional residents in need.
- Boston Cares mobilizes and trains individual and corporate volunteers who strengthen communities and improve the lives of people in need. This grant will support volunteer recruitment and management for food access and distribution at Boston Public Schools meal sites.
- Boston Immigrants COVID-19 Collaborative brings together 11 diverse immigrant-serving organizations to provide direct emergency relief and culturally competent food to over 1,200 families. Partners include: Rian Immigrant Center (fiscal sponsor), Agencia ALPHA, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, Brazilian Worker Center, Centro Presente, Immigrant Family Services Institute, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, Center for Collaborative Education (BINcA), Caribbean Youth Club, Sociedad Latina, and ICNA Relief.
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters is expanding capacity to effectively and safely provide food, shelter, housing, physical and mental health care and safety to individuals experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Building Audacity delivers breakfasts and lunches to Boston residents each week. This grant will help provide additional groceries and meals for families in need.
- Cape Verdean Association of Boston provides food from local restaurants, toiletries and essential needs to low-income immigrant families and seniors. This grant will help continue that work.
- Casa Myrna provides direct support for food, medical supplies, and emergency housing for survivors of domestic violence, and members of their household. Domestic violence survivors forced to remain with abusers due to the virus are at increased risk and will need additional supports.
- Catholic Charities of Boston has two food pantries that serve 180 to 200 people per day and provide food bags for partners to distribute to clients. This grant will help provide food, emergency essential supplies and food pantry program supplies.
- Catie's Closet provides access to basic necessities, such as toiletries and feminine products, to students and families in collaboration with Boston Public Schools’ meal sites.
- Chinese Progressive Association will work with partners to staff city meal sites and deliver food straight to the homes of families in need. Staffing efforts will be focused on residents who have been laid off because of COVID-19 and who represent the diverse languages and cultures of Boston. In addition, this grant will support the Asian Community Relief Fund, launched in partnerships with Asian Community Development Corporation, AAARW, GBLS Asian Outreach Unit and VietAID.
- City Mission will utilize this grant to increase food security for low-income single mothers in Boston through the purchase of gift cards.
- CommonWealth Kitchen will meet the growing need for prepared foods for seniors, low-income families, and other frontline workers by engaging member businesses to help with meal production and distribution.
- Dominican Development Center will use this grant to provide essential needs to domestic workers and immigrant mothers in need of food and other supplies.
- East Boston Neighborhood Health Center provides COVID-19 testing services for first responders at a drive-through clinic at Suffolk Downs in East Boston, in coordination with the City, State and EMS agencies. This grant will support the staffing and supplies needed to operate the testing site.
- Emergency Child Care Program Relief (Boston Opportunity Agenda) will support current family child care and center-based emergency childcare providers for essential workers. This grant will help close the gap between state funding and operational costs to ensure the continuity of emergency child care operations through May 4. Partners include: 20 family child care programs, 9 YMCA programs, Whittier Street Health Center, Nurtury, and Wee Care JP.
- EMS Wellness Screening Automated Texting Tool (LivableStreets Alliance) will allow central EMS staff to connect, interact with and monitor the health of front-line EMS staff through a new mobile automated texting tool.
- Elizabeth Stone House will provide food, medicine and hygiene products to low-income and/or homeless domestic violence survivors, who are unable to openly travel to established food pick-up sites.
- Heading Home currently serves over 500 households through our shelter and housing programs. This grant will provide food, water, baby formula and the logistics support needed to deliver to Heading Home’s Boston families.
- International Institute of New England will provide Boston refugees, unaccompanied minors, and undocumented immigrants in their care with emergency food.
- John F. Kennedy Family Service Center will provide low-income families and seniors in Charlestown with additional needed emergency food relief.
- Lovin' Spoonfuls rescues food from grocery stores and produce wholesalers and delivers it directly to over 60 Boston-based nonprofit partners each week. This grant will rescue approximately 120K lbs of food, creating more than 96,000 meals over the next month.
- Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is continuing to deliver services via telehealth to its clients, including teen parents, grandparents raising grandchildren, and children with behavioral health needs. This grant will support the purchase of food, diapers, formula, and medicine.
- Off Their Plate collaborates with Boston restaurant owners to restore food industry jobs while safely preparing and delivering meals to Boston hospitals and health care facilities.
- Smart from the Start provides home deliveries of food and supplies and are currently delivering over 300 meals per week. This grant will help provide additional home deliveries of food and emergency care packages.
- Vietnamese American Initiative for Development (VietAID) provides meal packages and hot meal delivery to older adults and families in Dorchester. This grant will help expand the capacity to additional households in need.
- Women's Lunch Place will provide boxed breakfast and lunch for take-out, COVID-19 educational materials, toiletries, and feminine products for women experiencing homelessness.
- WORK Inc. operates a Family Support Center for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. This grant will support the delivery of food, toiletries and supplies to the families at the center.
- YMCA of Greater Boston strives to meet the needs of low-income Boston families through the activation of food sites and emergency child care centers throughout the city.This grant will support additional staffing costs, food supplies, and meal delivery.
- Greater Boston Food Bank will expand its capacity to continue receiving and distributing healthy food to those in need in Boston.
- Ethos regularly delivers over 8,000 meals to homebound and isolated elders each day through its Meals on Wheels program, and will increase its capacity to do home delivery during the pandemic.
- About Fresh / Fresh Truck will partner with Katsiroubas Brothers, YMCA and Office of Food Access on its delivery of fresh produce and groceries.
- Community Servings provides medically tailored, nutritious, scratch-made meals to chronically and critically ill individuals and their families, and will expand their food delivery to these populations during the pandemic.
- Project Bread's FoodSource Hotline is the statewide resource for people looking to access food resources and has seen a four fold increase in calls during the pandemic. This grant will support the increase in staff needed to field calls and direct Boston residents to the services they need, as well as mini-grants for city meal sites.
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless has rapidly shifted its focus to include new screening and testing initiatives, creating isolation units, and operating the new medical tents that were created by the City of Boston with the support of Suffolk Construction.
- Boston Medical Center will utilize this grant to provide expanded care for its patients, increase support for its medical providers and staff, and sustain safe, effective, and efficient hospital operations as they operate in additional temporary facilities.
- Pine Street Inn provides a comprehensive range of services to 2,000 men and women experiencing homelessness every day. During this pandemic, Pine Street Inn staff are increasing cleaning of their facilities and working with the Boston Public Health Commission to staff quarantine sites for people experiencing homelessness.
As a result of a $2 million grant from the fund, along with $3.5 million in City resources, Boston Public Schools was able to purchase 20,000 Chromebooks for Boston students.
The Chromebooks are are now being distributed to students across the district in grades 3-12 who don't have access to a computer at home. To learn more, please visit the Boston Public Schools website.
About the fund
A Steering Committee was established after the Fund’s formation to provide direct oversight and funding recommendations based on statement of interests received. The three-member Steering Committee includes:
- Jack Connors, Jr.
- Anne Klibanski, MD, President and CEO of Mass General Brigham, and
- Jeff Leiden, MD, PhD, Executive Chairman of Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
The steering committee vetted and validated each step of the selection process. The review committee, which reviews applications and provides recommendations to the Steering Committee, is composed of more than 25 representatives from diverse City Departments.
Each of the grantees focus on helping Boston individuals and families disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. They support a wide range of approaches that serve different, targeted populations with an applied lens of equity, including:
- seniors and children
- people experiencing homelessness
- undocumented immigrants
- residents with limited English proficiency
- first responders, front-line workers, and healthcare workers
- people with disabilities
- low-income families, and
- communities of color.