The Massachusetts Federal Funds and Infrastructure Office (FFIO) is hosting a hybrid event for community advocates and local officials with a focus on submitting successful federal grant applications. The Community Tour will provide attendees with an opportunity to meet the FFIO team, learn about the FFIO office, and what resources the FFIO has available for potential applicants.

In-person location:

Suffolk University Sargent Hall, Keches Room, Room 170, 1st Floor

120 Tremont Street Boston, MA 02108

Virtual option:

Please visit the event registration page for more information.

We encourage you to also visit MAPC's Federal Funding Opportunities Center webpage to stay updated on federal grants as they become available.

City of Somerville's Economic Development Division in collaboration with MAPC, has created a Commercial Leasing Handbook to aid small businesses or anyone in Somerville looking to start a small business.

Somerville's Economic Development Division and MAPC invite you to join us virtually for the Handbook launch event - The Lease Handbook: Protecting Your Small Business. You will learn more about this resource, and why commercial lease negotiation is integral to small business success.

This resource is available in multiple languages, and you can learn more and access the Handbook on the resource webpage.

Questions? Please contact:

Camille Jonlin, Senior Economic Development Planner, cjonlin@mapc.org

Join us for this second to last session of the Community Engagement Conversations series, to gain an understanding of tools to implement evaluation of equity in your community engagement.

After registering to join us, we encourage you to visit the Community Engagement Conversations webpage, to view recordings and other materials from previous Conversations.

The Series:

The MAPC Community Engagement Team has been hosting once-a-month Conversations since September 2024 (and they will go through May 2025) focused on different community engagement topics. The goal of these Conversations is to support this work within your own community, and to introduce you to the services MAPC offers when you work with the MAPC Community Engagement Team.

Questions? Please contact:

Javier Gutierrez, Director of Community Engagement, jgutierrez@mapc.org

Please join Housing Navigator Massachusetts and MAPC for the release of Data Opens Doors!

Join Housing Navigator Massachusetts and MAPC for this webinar sharing key findings and policy recommendations from new collaborative research that measures the gap between the supply of affordable rental housing in Massachusetts and the number of households who need it.

Housing Navigator Massachusetts' novel dataset of income-restricted housing in Massachusetts enables us to understand this gap in detail for the first time. The findings of this research provide a clear view into the scale of demand for affordable housing and a detailed accounting of the kinds of units that are most needed to fill the gap--now and into the future. We recognize the urgency of building more housing in Massachusetts, and hope this research provides actionable insight for the state, municipalities, housing advocates, and policy makers into the kinds of affordable housing we need to meet the needs of Massachusetts’ low-income residents.

Questions? Please contact:

Casey Williams, Regional Housing and Land Use Planner II (cwilliams@mapc.org)

Lily Perkins-High, Analytical Services Manager (lperkinshigh@mapc.org)

Questions? Please contact Amanda Belles (abelles@mapc.org).