To help shape future strategies, United Way is providing one-year unrestricted grants to local coalitions and grassroots organizations that are currently implementing initiatives or campaigns to affect local change, or Community Action.
Donor Name: United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
State: Massachusetts
Cities: Selected Cities
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/30/2023
Size of the Grant: $15,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
The United Way Community Action Grants will be awarded to strategies that are collective action (led by agencies) or grassroots action (led by residents within a community) and work to expand one of the following four avenues to economic prosperity:
- Early Education and Out-of-School Time: Quality, affordable early education and out-of-school time programs when and where they are needed, offering developmentally appropriate learning environments that support social emotional wellbeing.
- Youth and Young Adult Pathways: Educational and career pathways for marginalized youth and young adults audaciously charting their own course to economic prosperity.
- Housing Stability: A continuum of housing opportunities, resources, and supports that are effectively resulting in homelessness becoming a brief, exceedingly rare, one-time event.
- Economic Inclusion and Wealth Building: Economic systems are fair and equitable, supporting individuals to experience financial stability and economic mobility.
Funding Information
United Way intends to provide a total of 16 grants with awards of $15,000 each.
Grants will provide one-year, unrestricted support to local community coalitions and grassroots organizations implementing strategies, efforts, campaigns or initiatives that are coalition focused, and led by agencies to affect local change, or community focused and led by residents. The work will center on economic justice by expanding the accessibility of at least one of the following critical avenues to prosperity.
Criteria
Funding is prioritized for the following geographies:
Attleboro, Boston (Citywide efforts, Dorchester, East Boston, Mattapan, Roxbury, South Boston), Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Malden, Quincy, Randolph, Revere, Salem, Somerville, Taunton.
Applying grassroots organizations are required to have a Black, Indigenous, person of color (BIPOC) and/or a person who identifies as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual, Queer, Intersexual, Asexual (LGBTQIA+) on their leadership team. Collectives must have at least one participant as part of their leadership group that identifies as BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+.
For more information, visit Community Action Grants.
