Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts

The Community Foundation of North cnetral Massachusetts is a non-profit Foundation that manages charitable funds established by individuals, families, businesses and other non-profit organizations. Our mission is to promote philantrophy in our region and to support philanthropists to invest in the communities and causes they care passionately about. Donors established 12 new charitable funds this year with us, such as scholarship, designated, donor advised, fiscal sponsors and agency funds. We continued to rise to the occasion during the ongoing covid crisis in 2022. Along with 15 other Community foundations, we partnered with Massachusetts state funding sources and private funders to distribute over $2 million in covid grants to North Central massachusets. These grants focused on the support and needs of homeless people and addressing food insecurity in our communities. We continued to distribute from our discretionary funds to nonprofits in North Central Massachusetts and beyond who's missions aligned with our interest areas in the environment, education and career readiness, Community enrichment, organizational development, healthcare and critical Community needs. With the reorganization of our grant making schedule, we have seen an increase of board member involvement in each of these interest area grants committees. We have also begun to broaden the committees by inviting Community members to participate on the grant committees.