September 24, 2026

Point32Health colleagues direct grants to nine community nonprofit organizations

The Foundation recently announced nine general operating grants. The grants, directed by Point32Health’s Colleague Resource Groups (CRG), will go to community organizations in the region to help improve health outcomes.

In addition to the grants, colleagues will engage with the organizations through volunteer service or other opportunities throughout the coming year.

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Point32Health #19 on top Massachusetts charitable contributors list

Point32Health made the Boston Business Journal's Top Charitable Contributors in Massachusetts list, ranking #19.

The Boston Business Journal publishes this list annually to recognize companies that prioritize community giving. The companies honored this year collectively gave more than $417 million in cash contributions to Massachusetts-based nonprofit organizations.

Together, Point32Health and Point32Health Foundation supported 750+ Massachusetts nonprofits through grants, matching gifts, sponsorships, volunteer time, in-kind and other donations.

Team members pictured at the BBJ event, from left: Allie Richards, communications manager; Stacey Mann, director of corporate citizenship; and Clarisse Beauvais, senior corporate citizenship specialist.

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N.H. Chronicle features innovative Dine Out Club

Meals on Wheels of Hillsborough County was recently featured on WMUR's NH Chronicle. The Chronicle team checked out the Dine Out Club at Francoeur’s Cafe, a restaurant-based meal program that brings older adults together for nutritious food and meaningful social connection. More than 2,500 southern New Hampshire residents have participated in the program in the last year.

The Chronicle team chatted with older adults sharing a meal together and heard from John Eriquezzo from Meals on Wheels of Hillsborough Country and Caitlin Sullivan from the Foundation on the program's evolution. Watch the piece below.

Foundation takes trust-based philanthropy report on the road

Since the launch of the report on the impact of the Foundation's trust-based philanthropy, the Foundation team has been actively sharing the resource at several funder forums and events. Flexible funding, measurable impact: Learning about trust-based philanthropy and systems change shares what is possible for organizations and the communities they serve when we employ trust-based practices and values.

Foundation staff presented the report's findings with members of the Maine Philanthropy Center, N.H. Funders Forum and the Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island. If you have any suggestions on possible speaking or presenting opportunities, please reach out.

GRANTEE STORIES

Celebrating aging well in Connecticut

Earlier this month, Connecticut Age Well Collaborative hosted AgeWellFest; a two-part celebration of aging well in Connecticut. The event began with presentations from the Community Leaders Fellows, AARP’s Age-Friendly Network and Dementia-Friendly America. The event brought together older adults and local governmental leaders to learn more about the process of bringing age-friendly initiatives to their communities.

Later in the evening, attendees joined a walking tour of Weathersfield, honored this year’s Wellspring Award winners and engaged with community based organizations including Foundation grantees Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness and Health Equity Solutions.

Age Well initiatives in Avon, Newtown, Weathersfield and West Hartford were celebrated for their efforts to support older adults and strengthen their communities.

Maine hub providing technical assistance to rural collaboratives

MCD Global Health serves as the backbone Technical Assistance Hub for Maine's Rural Community Health Improvement Partnership (R-CHIP), helping rural regions integrate health care, public health and social services. As the TA Hub, MCD creates peer learning opportunities for joint problem solving, funding, communications and resource sharing across the three most rural regions in the state: Northern, Central, and DownEast Maine.

Through R-CHIP, Aroostook County Health Improvement Partnership, convened by Aroostook Agency on Aging, developed an innovative micro volunteer network, Time4Good. Community members can post and respond with volunteer needs and offers through the online platform. Downeast Housing Collaborative, convened by Healthy Acadia, created a patient-centered workgroup with healthcare partners and developed a strategic plan to address the broader housing crisis through collaborative planning and action. In Central Maine, after more than a year of research for a method to coordinate referrals between healthcare and community-based services, Healthy Living for ME signed a contract with Cumulus and will be piloting this at the Belgrade Health Center.

Community loan fund unlocks home ownership for Granite staters

Thanks to the work and financing of New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, residents of Albany Acres Cooperative celebrated the purchase of their manufactured-home community in June.

The co-op is the state's 153rd resident-owned community (ROC). ROCs are corporations whose members, the homeowners, own and operate their community as a not-for-profit, with coaching from the Community Loan Fund’s ROC-NH program. Each home is individually owned, while the land and infrastructure under the homes is owned by the co-op.

Albany Acres, a community of 42 homes and eight vacant lots, is a multi-generational community with a mix of long-time residents, retirees, essential workers and young families with children. In addition to the establishment of the co-op, four rental homes will be converted into homeownership opportunities.

New Rhode Island policy priorities for a more resilient food system

The RI Food Policy Council acts as both a forum for issues and a platform for coordinated action around food policy and regulations in the Ocean State. The organization's envisions a just and resilient food system, one in which all Rhode Islanders have enough to eat and local farm, fish and food businesses are thriving.

The Council’s annual legislative priorities are based on members’ interests and advocacy goals. Work groups discuss policy priorities at the beginning of the Council year (Summer), and are officially set each Fall using a modified consensus decision-making process. For the rest of the year (through June) they work to educate and advocate for them.

This month, the council held it's annual policy retreat and will soon release new policy priorities.

Simplifying energy discount programs in Massachusetts.

GreenRoots recently celebrated a major policy win for Low-Income Energy Customers Across Massachusetts. The Department of Public Utility (DPU)'s Phase II Order on the new low-income tiered discount rate reflects nearly every priority GreenRoots worked for.

As a result of their tireless work, residents will not longer need to complete unnecessary paperwork and utilities will now meet strict web accessibility standards, expand automatic enrollment, accept a broader range of benefit documentation and offer a full year of self-attestation enrollment.

Read the official DPU order and search "GreenRoots" to view the impact.

RESOURCES

Share your feedback with the Mass. Department of Public Health

Want to make sure your community’s priorities show up in the data that state government and community organizations use to make decisions about funding, services and policies? Take The Massachusetts Department of Public Health Community Health Equity Survey (CHES). Your experiences and ideas will help guide decisions about programs and resources in your community.

The survey is available in 11 languages, easy to take and anonymous.

Access the survey.

New report shares best practices for funding systems change

FSG recently launched a new resource to help people working in philanthropy better understand the full range of tools available to them. The Funder’s Palette: A Spectrum of Approaches for Systems Change was developed from a simple question: How can foundations best contribute to equitable systems change?

For each of the approaches identified (right), you’ll find:

Clear, updated descriptions of each approach
Practical tactics foundations can implement through grant funding, staff efforts, and using their relationships and platform
Real-world examples of foundations putting these tools into action

Explore the findings.

CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP UPDATES

Looking for volunteers? Nonprofit organizations are invited to submit an application to host Point32Health colleagues. While the application is open year-round, please submit the form by October 9 to be considered for the #GivingTuesday Volunteer Day.

Providing kids with essentials they need for learning

Eleven Point32Health colleagues teamed up with hundreds of volunteers from companies across Massachusetts to support Cradles to Crayons in July. In total, volunteers packed 50,000 backpacks full of school supplies and clothing items for students across Massachusetts, southern New Hampshire and Rhode Island ahead of the new school year.

Turning a day of tragedy into a day of doing good

Honoring the National Day of Service on Sept. 11, more than 350 colleagues volunteered across 21 volunteer projects. Colleagues assembled care packages, wrote well-wish notes, revitalized outdoor spaces, sorted food pantry staples and much more.

Volunteers supported the following nonprofits doing critical work in the communities where we live and work: Animal Welfare Society, Birchtree Center, Boys & Girls Club of Manchester, Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket, The Carroll Center for the Blind, Community Harvest Project, Community Renewal Team, Cradles to Crayons, Food for Free, Girls' Leap, Happy Hope Foundation, Hearth, Jewish Family & Children’s Service, My Brother's Keeper, New England Center & Home for Veterans, Operation American Soldier, Salem Sound Coastwatch, Victory Programs, Watertown Boys & Girls Club and Weymouth Food Pantry.

Point32Health takes steps to end Alzheimer's

Point32Health will be participating in Walk to End Alzheimer’s events across the region during the weekends of Oct. 17-18 and Oct. 24-25. Participation in these walk events is driven by the passion of colleagues affected personally and those committed to making a difference. Since 2012, Point32Health teams have raised more than $2 million to support the Alzheimer’s Association’s work. We walk:

Friends and family of Point32Health are encouraged to join walk events this fall or support the Point32Health team. Walk in-person at a designated location or on your own in neighborhoods and communities near you. Every dollar we raise will be matched by our Foundation - doubling our impact.

Visit the team page to sign up for the location that works best for you and/or donate to the team.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

This monthly round-up is organized by due dates. For additional information, please contact funders directly.

October 1 | The Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust

Geography: Maine
Focus: Medical; education, arts/culture and environment

November 30 | DoorDash – Project DASH

Geography: National
Focus: Food

Rolling | New Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation

Geography: N.H.
Focus: Nonprofits experiencing reductions, delays or termination of funding, or facing increased demand for services

Rolling | United Way Rhode Island Emergency Funding

Geography: R.I.
Focus: Emergent needs caused by unforeseen events

Rolling | United Way Massachusetts Bay Response Fund

Geography: Boston, Chelsea, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Malden, Quincy, Salem and Taunton, Mass.
Focus: Immediate needs

Rolling | Emergent Fund

Geography: National
Focus: Rapid response

Rolling | The Smart Family Fund

Geography: National
Focus: leadership development for nonprofits

Rolling | Black Farmer Fund

Geography: Conn., Maine, Mass., N.H., R.I., Vt., N.J., N.Y., and Pa.
Focus: Food, rapid response

Rolling | New Commonwealth Fund Immediate-Need Investments

Geography: Mass.
Focus: Immediate needs

Rolling | New England Grassroots Environment Fund Seed Grants

Geography: New England
Focus: Environment, launching new projects

Rolling | Haymarket's Urgent Response Grants

Geography: New England
Focus: Rapid response

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UPCOMING EVENTS

The following list consists of events in community that the Foundation team is attending, sponsoring or could serve as a resource to you and your organization. For additional information, please contact event organizers directly.

NH Alliance for Healthy Aging’s 2026 Quarterly Meetings

Dates: Thursday, September 24; Thursday, December 17

Location: Northeast Delta Dental, Conference Center, Two Delta Drive, Concord, N.H.

Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition’s 20th Anniversary Gala

Date: Sunday, September 27

Location: Venezia, Dorchester, Mass.

The Economic Progress Institute's 15th Annual Policy & Budget Conference

Date: Monday, September 28

Location: Crowne Plaza-Warwick

Philanthropy Massachusetts' 57th Annual Conference

Date: Tuesday, September 29

Location: Big Night Live, Boston, Mass.