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Find similar grantsMassachusetts Community Health & Healthy Aging Funds is sponsored by Massachusetts Councils on Aging. These funds support community-centered approaches that disrupt barriers to health and their root causes, including structural racism, poverty, and deep power imbalances. Organizations working on healthy aging initiatives would be relevant.
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Age-Friendly Funding Alert: Massachusetts Community Health and Healthy Aging Funds, Grant Reminders - Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative Marketing and Communications Systems and Best Practices Age-Friendly Funding Alert: Massachusetts Community Health and Healthy Aging Funds, Grant Reminders The Massachusetts Community Health and Healthy Aging Funds (the Funds) is now accepting proposals for the 2026 grantmaking cycle.
The Healthy Aging Funds will support age-friendly efforts while advancing the objectives in ReiMAgine Aging 2030: The Massachusetts Plan. This opportunity is designed to disrupt the root causes of inequitable health outcomes—such as structural racism, poverty, and power imbalances—by supporting Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) changes.
Our goal is to support approaches that move upstream from programmatic work and create lasting, community-centered change.
Massachusetts-based nonprofit organizations, municipalities, quasi-governmental groups, and coalitions may apply for the funding streams below: PSE Change supports approaches at local, regional, or statewide levels that pass or change laws and rules, retool organizational and cross‑organizational systems, shift power, and improve economic, social, or physical environments.
Community Health Improvement Planning (CHIP) invests in local or regional assessment, planning, and implementation processes that use Community Health Assessment data to set priorities, align partners, and drive measurable health improvement through PSE change.
Healthy Aging supports PSE strategies aligned with the Commonwealth’s ReiMAgine Aging 2030 plan and the WHO/AARP domains of livability, elevating upstream change that helps older adults thrive across gateway cities and rural areas. This is a unique opportunity to invest in communities across the Commonwealth that have historically not benefitted from Determination of Need (DoN) dollars.
We especially encourage organizations led by people with lived experience to apply. Throughout the grant, HRiA will provide convenings, technical assistance, and evaluation support so awardees can build capacity, measure progress, and share lessons learned. Awards reflect the different ways organizations engage in upstream work.
Full Grants support implementation over three to five years: PSE: Up to $200,000 per year Healthy Aging: Up to $100,000 per year CHIP: Up to $375,000 total across the grant period Planning Grants are available in each stream for one to two years (up to $50,000 per year) to build capacity and move emerging approaches toward PSE change.
The application deadline is March 31, 2026, by 5pm EST, and grants are anticipated to start July 1, 2026. The application and more information is available on the Funds site here. Previously announced funding alerts are available here, and are listed below: AARP Community Challenge (application due March 4) Since its inception in 2017, the AARP Community Challenge has awarded 2,100 grants totaling $24.
3 million to projects that benefit residents — especially those age 50 and older — and accelerate community change. Details on grant categories and supporting information are available here. MassTrails , MassDOT and Department of Conservation & Recreation (applications due Feb.
2, 2026) MassTrails provides matching grants to communities, public entities, Native nations, and non-profit organizations to plan, design, create, and maintain the diverse network of trails, trail systems, and trails experiences used and enjoyed by Massachusetts residents and visitors. Applications are accepted annually for a variety of well-planned trail projects benefiting communities across the state.
The award maximum depends on the project type and needs and is generally $100,000 for recreational trails projects and up to $500,000 for shared-use path projects demonstrating critical network connections of regional or statewide significance.
Eligible grant activities include project development, design, engineering, permitting, construction, and maintenance of recreational trails, shared-use pathways, and the amenities that support trails. MassTrails grants are REIMBURSEMENT grants, meaning grantees must first pay for expenditures and then submit for reimbursement using the required documentation.
MassTrails grants are MATCHING grants and require that proponents provide a minimum of 20% of the total project cost. Eligible projects require documented land owner permission submitted with the application and are subject to all applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations.
MassTrails grants are reviewed and recommended by the Governor’s Inter-Agency Trails Team and the Massachusetts Recreational Trails Advisory Board (MARTAB ) . More info and the online application are available here. Community Compact IT Grant Program, applications due Feb.
5 The Community Compact IT Grant Program is a competitive grant program focused on driving innovation and transformation at the local level via investments in technology. Using the transformative powers of IT, we can drive innovation, make government more efficient, save taxpayer money, and make it easier for residents to interact and transact with their local government.
Communities working to become more age- and dementia friendly can consider this grant to imrpove digital equity among older adults and people of all ages. Grants of up to $200,000 support the implementation of innovative IT projects by funding related one-time capital needs such as technology infrastructure or software.
Incidental or one-time costs related to the capital purchase such as planning, design, installation, implementation and initial training are eligible. Applications from eligible municipalities will be accepted from January 5, 2026 and closes February 5, 2026 at Noon. Projects awarded grants must be completed within 18 months of the grant award.
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According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Not specified; likely non-profit organizations and community groups in Massachusetts. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
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Service Incentive Grants (SIG) for Caregiver Respite (Massachusetts) is sponsored by Massachusetts Councils on Aging (MCOA). These grants, administered by MCOA, are part of the Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA) grant funds. Categories of SIG grants are subject to change, but the FY25 categories most relevant to Dementia Friendly Massachusetts (DFM) work included Caregiver Respite.
Municipal Americans with Disabilities Act Grant is a grant from the Massachusetts Office on Disability (MOD), shared through Massachusetts Councils on Aging, that funds capital improvements to remove barriers and improve access for persons with disabilities in municipal facilities. Eligible projects include adding ramps, elevators, power lifts, LULAs (Limited Use/Limited Application), signage, communication access devices, curb cuts, and other features that improve architectural or programmatic access. Grants are awarded competitively to projects demonstrating real and tangible positive impacts for people with disabilities. Any Massachusetts city or town is eligible to apply.
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Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH) is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF) & National Institutes of Health (NIH). This interagency program supports high-risk, high-reward advances in AI and data science for biomedical and public health research. Projects must cross disciplinary boundaries.
The Cummings Foundation's flagship program will award $35 million to roughly 150 eastern-Massachusetts nonprofits in 2027, up from $30 million — and nearly all of it now flows as unrestricted general operating support. Letters of Inquiry opened July 15 and close September 16, 2026. Here is who qualifies, how the multi-year and 10-year tracks work, and how to write an LOI that survives the first cut.
Read articleCummings Foundation grew its annual local program from $30 million to $35 million for 2026 awards, but the dollar increase is the smaller story. Nearly every grant now flows as unrestricted general operating support — the funding nonprofits ask for most and receive least. For eligible Massachusetts organizations, the 2027 cycle opens July 15 with a September 16 letter-of-inquiry deadline. Here is who qualifies, why the shift to operating support changes the calculus, and how a small nonprofit should approach a program that hands out 150 grants a year, most of them chosen by community volunteers.
Read articleThe Cummings Foundation lifted its flagship local grant program from $30M to $35M for 2026, citing government funding cuts and rising costs, while shifting nearly all of its 150 grants to unrestricted general operating support. Here is who qualifies, how the July-to-January application cycle works, and how a Massachusetts nonprofit should build a competitive letter of inquiry.
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