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With all the recent financial challenges and changes to services, the 413Cares website is a busy place! Has your organization checked and updated its information recently? Maybe you have updated your website links, launched new services, or added locations. The 413Cares webpage for organizations has lots of helpful resources for you to learn how to use 413Cares, access materials, request trainings, and more. If your nonprofit wants to better understand how you can utilize the tools offered with 413Cares, there is training available to present to you, your team, and your network, Help ensure that our local community members can find the care, services, and support that people need. Update your listing!

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Update from PHIWM: Health Coverage at Risk

If you missed the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts webinar about health coverage changes in Massachusetts, check this out. Here is the info-packed slide deck from this event with vital information about how local communities and populations will be affected by new health insurance rules. This presentation includes key updates on health insurance access, work requirements, and immigrant access, plus other issues. Hat tip to the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation for all their work on this event!

See the full deck here

Effects of Hampshire College closure

On June 25th, join a Community Conversation hosted by the Town of Amherst. “Grief and Love are Sisters: Processing the Closure of Hampshire College:" this is a conversation focused on the community impacts of Hampshire College’s closure facilitated by Dr. Pat Romney, a higher education consultant and former Associate Professor of Psychology at Hampshire College. This event will be held at the Bangs Community Center. *Quote attributed to Francis Weller.

HSF Leadership Communication on July 1st

This Human Service Forum training session looks at the building blocks of communicating clear messages to others. In a core aspect of leadership that is often taken for granted, those who excel at communicating often excel in supervision. Learn to avoid noise and interference, and how to properly process feedback to fine tune your messages for clearer understanding. This series is presented over Zoom, 9am-12:30pm.

All proposals are due by 12:00 p.m. on July 13th.

Grant opportunity: BCBSMA Foundation

Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts Foundation Announcement: The OB3 Impacts Defense Fund – Mitigating Coverage Loss will support up to 9 grants in the amount of up to $60,000 a year for two years in counties across the state. New federal requirements resulting from the July 2025 passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (known as “OB3”) make fundamental changes to Medicaid eligibility – meaning 141,000 to 203,000 MassHealth members could lose coverage. Under these changes, certain adult Medicaid members must comply with new and complex work reporting requirements and these policies represent some of the most significant changes to MassHealth in a decade. The OB3 Impacts Defense Fund was created to mitigate coverage losses with a focus on MassHealth as part of the Foundation’s Coverage and Care focus area.

Grant details are here