Funded Organizations
About Our Grantees
After a collaborative and transparent multi-year process, BIDMC has selected the first set of organizations to receive funding for impactful initiatives in the areas of housing affordability, jobs and financial security, behavioral health, and healthy neighborhoods. BIDMC has also awarded funds in these areas to two organizations based in the City of Chelsea and through the Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative.
Cross-Sector Partnership for Systems Change Grantees ($1,000,000)
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters | Housing Affordability, Jobs and Financial Security, Behavioral Health
- Metro Housing|Boston | Housing Affordability, Jobs and Financial Security
Focused Investment Grantees ($500,000)
- Asian Community Development Corporation | Housing Affordability
- BAGLY (Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth) | Housing Affordability
- City Life/Vida Urbana | Housing Affordability
- Community Servings | Jobs and Financial Security
- English for New Bostonians | Jobs and Financial Security
- The Family Van | Behavioral Health
- Fathers' Uplift | Behavioral Health
- Fenway Community Development Corporation | Housing Affordability
Capacity Building Seed Funding Grantees ($100,000)
- African Community Economic Development of New England (ACEDONE) | Behavioral Health
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center | Behavioral Health
- Charles River Community Health | Behavioral Health
- Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center | Behavioral Health
- Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation | Housing Affordability
- Sociedad Latina | Jobs and Financial Security
City of Chelsea Grantees
- North Suffolk Mental Health Association | Behavioral Health
- La Colaborativa | Jobs and Financial Security
Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative Collectives
- The Healthy Bowdoin Geneva Collective received funding to improve social cohesion through community-wide events, create more effective referral processes between agencies, design a multilingual resource guide for residents, and engage residents in community projects.
- The We're Here for You Fenway/Kenmore Collective received funding for community health navigation services, financial counseling and case management. Funds will also expand free healthy food distributions and increase resident leadership opportunities.