Massachusetts Community Health and Healthy Aging Funds
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Massachusetts Community Health and Healthy Aging Funds support Massachusetts communities with policy, systems, and environmental change, health planning, and healthy aging work to address root causes of health inequities.
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Funder: Health Resources in Action
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2027 (Submissions due)
Funding Amounts: Not specified
Summary: Supports Massachusetts communities addressing root causes of health inequities through policy, systems, and environmental change.
Key Information: For-profit businesses, hospitals, and colleges/universities cannot apply as lead applicants.
Description
The Massachusetts Community Health and Healthy Aging Funds, administered by Health Resources in Action, combine grantmaking and capacity building to address the root causes of health inequities. The Funds support upstream policy, systems, and environmental changes that disrupt barriers to health across Massachusetts, with an explicit focus on people of color and older adults.
Created through a 2017 revision of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Determination of Need regulation, the Funds prioritize communities that have not historically and routinely benefited from Determination of Need funding. They invest in innovative, sustainable approaches that bring people and partners together to improve population health and strengthen equitable systems across sectors.
