Nashoba Valley Community Healthcare Fund Grant
Kids in Disability Sports, Inc. – Fully fund membership cost for families experiencing financial and emotional hardship.
Alternative House, Inc. – Police Partnership Expansion project, to partner with Pepperell Police Department, to provide training & education to Pepperell police & partners on conducting on-scene risk assessment for potential domestic violence.
Habitat for Humanity North Central Massachusetts, Inc. – Critical Home Repair program, to continue to provide repairs for low-income economically distressed families who cannot afford to make repairs on their homes.
Doctor Franklin Perkins School – Provide mental and behavioral health services including individual and family therapy for adults with mental health diagnoses and developmental disabilities.
Able To Serve – New England, Inc. – Provide clients experiencing abandonment, abuse or loss of income with immediate help for food, clothing and/or personal hygiene items.
Virginia Thurston Healing Garden, Inc. – Expand support groups and mental health services for Nashoba Valley cancer patients.
Our Father’s House – Improve the health and welfare of vulnerable shelter children by promoting medical prevention efforts.
Gaining Ground, Inc. – Serve low-income families and individuals who struggle with food insecurity and rely on food programs to have access to fresh, organic produce to ensure good nutrition is available.
Central Massachusetts Agency on Aging – Provide mental health, nutritional, and behavioral support to families consisting of Grandparents raising their Grandchildren.
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell – Provide repairs for low-income senior and veteran homeowners.
Clear Path for Veterans New England – Provide rehabilitation techniques to address the unmet needs of low-income Veterans with traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress, military sexual trauma by reducing negative symptoms of poor brain health by improving brain function.
Discretionary Grants
Elder Services
Power of Flowers Project – Provide seniors and veterans in care communities and those who receive Meals on Wheels with a “Special Delivery” of floral bouquets to celebrate a holiday or special occasion.
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell – Provide repairs for low-income seniors and veteran homeowners.
Open Pantry of Greater Lowell – Continue monthly food distributions to four senior housing authorities in Lowell.
Virginia Thurston Healing Garden, Inc. – Provide transportation assistance for elderly Greater Lowell cancer clients.
Challenge Unlimited, Inc. – Touch Therapy program for seniors with memory impairment.
Clear Path for Veterans New England – Provide Brain Retrain Neural Mapping for elderly Veterans in Greater Lowell.
Children’s Services
Dignity Matters, Inc. – Provide menstrual care and underwear to low-income and homeless girls in Lowell middle schools and Lowell High School.
Seven Hills Extended Care Pediatric Center -Establish a switch adapted technologies library for students with limited ability.
Mission of Deeds, Inc. -Support the Beds for Kids Project to give beds, free of charge, to vulnerable children in need.
Discovery Museum, Inc. -Provide opportunities for children with disabilities and their families to explore the Museum free of charge.
Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, Inc. – Provide a bed for every child free of cost to children growing up in poverty.
Clarendon Early Education Services, Inc. -Apartnership between Clarendon and the DCF to provide Comfort Kits to traumatized children with essential items.
Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell, Inc. – Support 2022 Summer Enrichment Programming.
Wish Project, Inc. – Provide basic needs to Greater Lowell children from low-income families or living in homeless shelters.
Adolescent Consultation Services – Provide direct mental health services to children and their families in Middlesex County.
Racial Equity & Inclusion
Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Inc. (MRT) – Expand efforts to Amplify the Voices of Khmer Theatre Artists through community engagement activities and artist fees for LETTERS FROM HOME by Kalean Ung and KWEEN by Vichet Chum.
The Center for Hope and Healing, Inc. – Expand the Black Girls Rock Program.
Merrimack Valley Housing Partnership – Improve the opportunities of low- and median-income home buyers in Greater Lowell by underwriting costs for home inspections.
Mill City Grows – Establish the Lowell Food Policy Council (FPC), a new, independent advisory board in the city of Lowell to review issues that create inequality in Lowell’s food system.
Free Soil Arts Collective – Production of “The Cookie Referendum”, a political satire play written by local, first-time playwright Raysam Donkoh-Halm to be presented at different schools in Lowell and surrounding areas.
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell, Inc. – Provide additional racial equity staff training with a DEI consultant,
Coalition for a Better Acre – Youth-led DEI Training Program.
Project LEARN, Inc. – Support “Students Making Change,” to launch a series of student-led antiracism trainings, dialogues, and learning opportunities.
Water Resources Initiative (3 yr. grant)
Nashua River Watershed Association, Inc. – NRWA’s Water Monitoring Program (WMP) for continuous water monitoring.
OARS, Inc. – Tracking down pollution to restore clean water in the SuAsCo watershed.
Merrimack River Watershed Council, Inc. – Clean Water for Greater Lowell.
COVID-19 Emergency Response Grants Program
Alternative House, Inc. – Provide support to program participants with transportation, childcare, housing, and food.
Dignity Matters, Inc. – Provide low-income women and girls in Greater Lowell with the menstrual care they need to manage their periods in a safe and healthy way each month.
Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS) – Assist low-income, Portuguese-speaking clients from Lowell, Dracut, Tyngsboro and/or Tewksbury with rent and utility payments that are overdue due to COVID-related issues.
Coalition for a Better Acre – Assist CBA’s Lowell residents with essential items and utilities, rental/housing assistance, workforce training, transportation, and food.
Lowell Community Health Center – Reduce health disparities and ensure health equity for low-income, immigrant and refugee populations through support of language access services.
Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK) – Help limited English proficient Asian victims/survivors by developing in-language outreach and awareness resources in Asian languages.
Northeast Legal Aid, Inc. – Address the need for housing assistance in Lowell arising from the COVID economic downturn and the related eviction crisis.
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. (CMAA) – Offer assistance to Lowell Cambodian community during the pandemic through continued programing work.
Community Teamwork, Inc. (CTI) – Address housing, homelessness, food insecurity, and basic needs support related to the pandemic.
The Center for Hope and Healing, Inc. – Support DrivingHope Mobile Services and Resources to provide mental health support to survivors of sexual violence and their loved ones.
Catie’s Closet, Inc. – Meet the COVID-19 Needs of the Greater Lowell Community.
International Institute of New England – Support COVID-19 needs of Lowell clients.
Life Connection Center, Inc. – Homeless Outreach Interventions Project.
NETSCOUT Heart of Giving Community Grant Program
The Edinburg Center – Implement caregiver support groups to provide mutual support to caregivers of youth and young adult.
Hidden Battles Foundation – Support crisis and stress management programs for veterans and first responders.
Challenge Unlimited, Inc. – Equine Encounter: Mental Health Program for People Affected by Covid.
CDBG-CV Food Insecurity COVID-19 Grants Program
Lowell Transitional Living Center, Inc. -Support food services for shelter clients.
YWCA of Lowell – YWCA Lowell Roaming Food Bus.
Merrimack Valley Food Bank, Inc.- Implementing Mill Markets, in coordination with Catie’s Closet, in two additional Lowell public schools.
Life Connection Center, Inc. – Healthy Meals Outreach Sustainability Project.
Open Table, Inc. – The Robinson School Project and Council on Aging Mobile Pantry/Meals.
Boston Area Gleaners Inc. – Hunger Relief Program.
Dwelling House of Hope – For a pantry manager/driver.
Gaining Ground, Inc. – Farm fresh healthy food for Greater Lowell residents.
Mill City Grows – Sustaining fresh food access in Lowell.
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell, Inc. – “Club Love on Wheels”: Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Food Truck.
UTEC, Inc. – Madd Love Meals.
Women Working Wonders Grant
Alternative House, Inc. – Juntas Crecemos: to increase access to schooling and support for Spanish speaking survivors of domestic violence.
Mission of Deeds, Inc. – Furnish homes for struggling women.
Megan House Foundation, Inc. – “Metamorphosis” project: to financially supplement young women in transition from active substance use to re-entering the workforce and becoming independent.
The Center for Hope and Healing, Inc. – Self Love and Wellness Program for Women.
University of Massachusetts Lowell – UMass Lowell’s River Hawk Scholars Academy- Rising Women Leaders & Affinity Group.
Women Accelerators – Women Accelerators Peer Circles.
Juniper Networks Community Grant Program
Boston Area Gleaners Inc. – Hunger Relief Program.
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell, Inc. – “Club Love”: to meet both the immediate need of food insecurity and address the long-term problem with education.
Gaining Ground, Inc. – Food Equity: Farm-fresh and Culturally-Relevant Produce for Families and Seniors.
Strengthening Mental Health Support for Children and Adolescents in Greater Lowell
Westford Health Department – Youth Mental Health First Aid trainings.
UTEC, Inc. – Improving mental health for proven-risk adolescents.
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Billerica, Inc. – For a club social worker.
Alternative House, Inc. – Support for child survivors.
International Institute of New England – Lowell Refugee Youth Mental Health Initiative.
Adolescent Consultation Services – Direct Mental Health Services for Court-Involved Children in Greater Lowell.
ThinkGive – Social Emotional Learning program expansion to five Greater Lowell sites serving under-resourced youth in 2022–2023.
Newell Flather Legacy Fund Grant
Coalition for a Better Acre – Health Access Programming in Lowell.
