BOSTON — Several area organizations are getting a long-term boost courtesy of United Way of Massachusetts Bay.
In late October, UWMB announced that 13 organizations in the region were among 124 recipients of the organization’s new partnership grants.
UWMB is committing a total of $56 million across seven years to address poverty and injustice.
Area organizations selected to receive a share of the $56 million are:
- Building Audacity, Lynn
- Camp Fire North Shore, Lynn
- Girls Inc. of Lynn
- Gregg Neighborhood House Association, Lynn
- LEO Inc., Lynn
- Love Your Magic, Lynn
- Lynn Housing Authority & Neighborhood Development
- New American Association of Massachusetts, Lynn
- North Shore Community Development Coalition, Salem
- Raw Art Works, Lynn
- Root North Shore, Salem
- The Haven Project, Lynn
- YMCA of Metro North, Peabody
The recipients were announced at an Oct. 26 ceremony at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
According to UWMB, the organization “has spent the past two years developing a new organizational strategy aimed at advancing our vision of an economically just region where access to financial well-being is universal, and prosperity is shared across race and ethnicity.”
UWMB primarily targeted 12 communities with the new partnership grants: Boston, Cambridge, Chelsea, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Malden, Quincy, Revere, Salem, and Taunton.
The aim of the new partnership program is to improve financial well-being and inclusion, as well as reduce wealth gaps in the targeted communities.
UWMB’s website described its goal as the creation of “a future where every individual is empowered to meet their financial goals; high-quality early-education and out-of-school-time programs are available when and where they are needed most; youth and young adults, especially those who have been disconnected from school or work, have access to education and career pathways; and safe and stable housing is abundant, and homelessness is a rare, brief, one-time event.”
