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Boston Foundation Funding Targets Substance Abuse Prevention, Elderly Services

Excerpt From: www.tbf.org
December 16, 2004

Noteworthy in this quarter are a number of grants to help the area’s elderly residents remain living in their home communities through a variety of strategies. A $35,000 grant to the Haitian Multi-Service Center will provide services such as ESOL programs and citizenship classes to Haitian elders; additional grants to Beacon Hill Village, United South End Settlements, Rogerson Communities, the MAB Community Services, and the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts will also target the needs of elders.

The Foundation selected the Committee to End Elder Homelessness to receive its $75,000 ‘Out of the Blue’ grant this quarter. The Committee to End Elder Homelessness (CEEH) works on behalf of Boston’s elderly population to develop new housing and social services to meet the needs of homeless seniors, operating an extensive outreach and housing placement program throughout the area. “Over the past four years, since the hiring of Dr. Elizabeth Babcock as CEO, the Committee to End Elder Homelessness has demonstrated the kind of innovation and development that will continue and expand upon its solid track record of accomplishment and service,” Grogan noted.

The ‘Out of the Blue’ grants are unsolicited, one-year grants that are made to high performance organizations that are deemed to be making a difference in the community. The primary focus of these grants is to provide unrestricted support to established organizations in recognition of their highly effective work in areas of major interest to the Boston Foundation. The program was launched in 2002.