March 10, 2021
Central Mass. agencies share in $181K in health, wellbeing grants
Photo | Grant Welker
The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden in Harvard
Health and community aid agencies across Central Massachusetts and just beyond have received more than $181,000 in grants from community foundations based in Fitchburg and Lowell.
The grants to 16 agencies were announced Monday by the Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts and the Greater Lowell Community Foundation, whose combined Nashoba Valley Community Healthcare Fund provides annual funding to organizations, municipalities and agencies in 13 communities from Bolton to Westford to Ashby.
This year's recipients:
- $20,000 to Framingham-based Advocates for its Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Local Seniors program
- $20,000 to Clear Path for Veterans-New England in Devens for a brain neural mapping program and integrated health and wellness program for veterans
- $20,000 to Habitat for Humanity North Central Massachusetts in Acton for their critical home repair program supporting economically distressed families in Nashoba Valley
- $20,000 to North Star Family Services in Leominster for its Family and Children Wellness Initiative
- $16,000 to Our Father’s House in Fitchburg for its Ensuring Health Wellness in Homeless Children project
- $15,000 to Doctor Franklin Perkins School in Lancaster for Perkins Behavioral Health Services
- $10,000 to the Boys & Girls Club of Lunenburg for its after-school COVID program
- $10,000 to the Virginia Thurston Healing Garden in Harvard for its Equitable Access to Psychosocial Therapeutic Services for Cancer Patients, Families & Caregivers project
- $10,000 to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell for critical home repair for seniors
- $9,598 to Littleton Community Farm for expanding a hunger relief program
- $7,800 to Townsend Ecumenical Outreach for its Healthy Food for Vulnerable Populations project
- $6,313 to Ashby fire and emergency medical services for improvement of provider training and skill maintenance
- $5,000 to Living Water Fellowship in Ayer for its Stone Soup Kitchen Ministries
- $5,000 to United Methodist Action Reach Out in Mission by Youth for a New England branch of the Texas-based group
- $5,000 to the VNA Care Network in Worcester for its Removing Barriers to Health: Nursing and Social Work Case Management program
- $1,500 to Able to Serve-New England in Lowell for its Hope for Women with Children project
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