Do you have an idea for changing the world — or at least your corner of it? The United Way of Greater New Bedford is accepting applications for its 2025 Summer Changemaker Grants.
Donor Name: United Way of Greater New Bedford
State: Massachusetts
City: New Bedford
Town: Selected Towns
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/11/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
For more than 25 years, the United Way has been providing small grants — up to $2,500 — to help ordinary people accomplish extraordinary things to help their neighborhoods and their community.
Grant Criteria
Projects should be engaging, community driven, solutions-focused, and foster unity through community action. Volunteer groups should identify creative solutions to problems in the communities. Projects should also have the potential for long-term impact.
Changemaker projects should be working towards supporting one of the following (with rare exceptions):
- Healthy Community – Improving health and wellbeing for all.
- Youth Opportunity – Helping young people realize their full potential.
- Financial Security – Creating a stronger financial future for every generation.
- Community Resiliency – Addressing urgent needs today for a better tomorrow.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for Changemaker Grants, groups and organizations must:
- Be all-volunteer
- Have an annual budget/income of $40,000 or less
- Offer projects that are specific, small in scale and with a realistic plan to improve the local community
- Have an all-inclusive membership and mission, i.e., does not exclude people on the basis of gender, race, religious differences, etc.
- Be based in New Bedford, Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Freetown, Mattapoisett, Marion, Rochester, or Wareham.
For more information, visit United Way of Greater New Bedford.
