Point32Health Foundation

03/18/2026

Bridgeport residents have long faced an aging public housing infrastructure. Now, organizations are working together to rebuild and revitalize the system and structures to better meet community needs. In a recent Connecticut Mirror Piece, Vanessa Liles of PT Power - PT Partners outlines how vital it is to center community voice when rebuilding public housing in Bridgeport, Conn. Read the story here:

Residents in Bridgeport's public housing — tired of waiting for someone else to fix what’s broken — are stepping up and speaking out.

03/18/2026

Health Care For All's AHEM mini-grants support community-led work that strengthens connection, trust and access to supports. Deadline is April 3. Learn more and apply here:https://hcfama.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Mini-Grants-Description.pdf

With support from Point32Health Foundation and Molina Health, HCFA is serving as a backbone partner in the five-year Advancing Health Equity in Massachusetts (AHEM) initiative focused on maternal health and social determinants of cardiometabolic health in Brockton, Lawrence, and Lowell.

We're offering mini-grants to organizations serving these cities to support community-led work to improve health outcomes and strengthen support, trust, and access to supports. Deadline is April 3!

Learn more here: https://hcfama.org/advancing-health-equity-in-massachusetts-ahem/

03/18/2026

Mass General Brigham's Kraft Prize supports transformative organizations, programs, or innovations that are making a measurable impact on health outcomes and have the potential to serve as scalable models for improving community health. This year, funds prioritize innovations in cancer, cardio metabolic disease, maternal health and substance use disorder. Deadline is April 30. Learn more and apply here:

The Kraft Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Community Health recognizes and celebrates transformative organizations, programs, or innovations that are making measurable impact on health outcomes and have the potential to become scalable models for improving community health and health equity.

03/17/2026

Applications are now open for the Institute for Nonprofit Practice's Core Certificate and RISE programs. Designed for social impact practitioners at every career stage, these cohort-based programs combine essential leadership development and skill-building with deep, lasting connection to a supportive, nationwide learning community of peers. Deadline for applications is March 30. Learn more and apply here:

Our programming takes down barriers to ensure social impact leaders have the skills they need to be effective in accelerating change. Apply today!

03/16/2026

A new video from New Futures tells the story of healthy aging champions across the Granite State. The video highlights the coalition work of New Futures and NH Alliance for Healthy Aging, working with community leaders to share their story and testimonials leading to recent legislative victories, including new state budget funding for caregiver respite.

New Hampshire is home to 168,000 unpaid family caregivers who provide essential support to their loved ones—often while balancing work, family, and their own...

03/11/2026

the Grassroots Fund is actively accepting applications from grassroots groups across New England for its grow and seed grant programs. These grants fund small, volunteer-driven groups in New England working on environmental issues. Deadline for grow grants is March 17, deadline is rolling for seed grants. Learn more and apply here:

The Grassroots Fund's grant programs are designed to energize and nurture long term civic engagement in local initiatives that create and maintain healthy, just, safe and environmentally sustainable communities.

03/11/2026

On February 3, Maine Council on Aging, AARP Maine, AgeWise Maine and the Association of Agencies on Aging, including Southern Maine Agency on Aging came together with older people to celebrate Older Mainers Day and call for continued support of older people from lawmakers at the Augusta State House. Throughout the day, the legislature heard information about the needs for Maine’s aging population and federal policy impacts in Maine. Watch the WABI TV5 coverage here:

WABI TV5 News at 11

03/10/2026

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations' 2025 National Study of Philanthropic Practice — the only survey about philanthropic practice sent to all staffed foundations in the U.S. — draws on responses from 765 grantmakers to highlight where philanthropy is making progress and where gaps remain. The report shows that general operating support has grown significantly in the last decade. Explore all the findings here:

Since 2008, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations has tracked trends in effective grantmaking practices through its national field study. The 2025 National Study of Philanthropic Practice — the only survey about philanthropic practice sent to all staffed foundations in the U.S. — draws on resp...

03/09/2026

Register for the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health Older Adult Behavioral Health Network conference on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m at TAG Holy Cross. The event brings aging and behavioral health advocates, service providers and others together for a day of discussion and connection around Aging & Behavioral Health: Practice, Policy and Partnership. Learn more and RSVP here:

Join MAMH for "Aging & Behavioral Health: Practice, Policy and Partnership," this year's Older Adult Behavioral Health Network (OABHN) in-person…

03/04/2026

Check out MA Food System Collaborative's new website and 2025 annual report. Learn more about the collaboratives' vision of a local food system where everyone has access to healthy food, to land to grow food, to good jobs and to the systems where policy decisions are made here: http://ms.spr.ly/6189QdSzd

03/04/2026

Join The BASE on Wednesday, March 18th for the 9th annual Women’s Leadership Breakfast at UMASS Club in Boston. Hear from business and civic leaders from across the region, including Beth Chandler from the Foundation, as they share insights from their personal and professional journeys.

03/04/2026

Join Urban Farming Institute of Boston and Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources on March 28 at the UMass Boston Campus Center for a one-day, in-person convening focused on farmer-led resilience, youth leadership and community-driven food systems across Mass. The symposium brings together urban farmers, growers, youth, policymakers and partners for learning, collaboration, and action. Learn more and register here:

A one-day, in-person urban farming symposium in Boston bringing together Massachusetts farmers, youth, and policymakers to strengthen resilient local food systems.