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Community Health Grants
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About Our Community Health Grants
Lahey Clinic has a history of providing grants to community-based organizations to support evidence-informed programs and services that address issues identified in our needs assessments.
Those receiving our grants report on the outcomes and impacts of their projects at the conclusion of their grant period.
For more information about our RFP process, please email Michelle Snyder, Community Benefits and Community Relations Manager.
Hospital Grant Support
In February 2023, Lahey awarded $238,000 in grant funding to 13 community-based organizations. These grants are part of Lahey’s ongoing community development commitment and will provide much needed funding for local organizations in support of their mission to meet their community’s needs.
Of particular emphasis for the grant awards are programs and services that focus on food access, behavioral health, transportation and housing stability — needs that were identified in the hospital’s recent community health needs assessment.
Each year grant applications are reviewed and selected by the Lahey Hospital Grant Selection Committee, which is comprised of hospital leaders and local partners from across Lahey's service area.
Application Information
Funding awards are decided by the Allocation Committee, a group that includes Lahey staff, Department of Community Benefits representatives, residents, and local experts and representatives from the Community Benefits Service Area.
The Committee oversees a transparent, public and competitive process for awarding funds for local strategies that address the health priorities and strategic focus areas identified by the LHMC Community Benefits Advisory Committee (CBAC).
All applications must be submitted online through BILH’s Community Benefits Database. To request a log-in/user id to access the database, please complete this form. Organizations can submit a maximum of one application as a lead organization.
Community Benefits FY23-FY25 Grant Recipients
Burlington Council on Aging Fitness Classes
Grant funding will support fitness classes for seniors to help them maintain or increase their strength, agility and balance.
Burlington Council on Aging Memory Cafe
Grant funding will help the Burlington Council on Aging to hold one Memory Café a month to offer lunch and some form of activity or entertainment to provide a couple of hours of connecting with each other and taking a break from daily life.
Community Teamwork Inc., Lowell
Grant funding will provide families experiencing homelessness with Secure Jobs services, which includes personalized employment services, job-readiness skills training, a year of stabilization services and assistance aimed at eliminating barriers to employment and connecting families with suitable employers.
Greater Lowell Health Alliance, Lowell
Grant funding will expand the Khmer Older Adult Action Group (KOAAG), which engages older Cambodian adults as paid community ambassadors to identify community needs and implement interventions. This group will help create programs, educational sessions, trainings, and/or events to address root causes of poor mental and physical health in the community.
Housing Corporation of Arlington, Affordable Housing, Family Stability and Tenant Leadership Development in Arlington
Grant funding will help provide an integrated set of social service programs that provide affordable housing, prevent homelessness, connect families to vital resources, and help low-income people develop as leaders so that they may advocate for themselves and their community.
Livestrong and Enhance Fitness Programs (North Suburban YMCA)
Grant funding supports Livestrong at the YMCA, a 10-12 week, small-group exercise and peer-support program designed to assists those who are living with, though or beyond cancer to strengthen their body, mind and spirit. Enhance Fitness is a 16-week evidence-based group exercise program for older adults that uses simple, easy-to learn movements that motivate individuals to stay active and prevent falls throughout their life.
Lowell Community Health Center
Grand funding will support the Health Equity Through Language Access Project, which ensures that each and every patient has access to health care in a language they understand, in all delivery modes including during primary care visits and follow-up phone calls/texting, printed materials and translated materials on the website and posted to various social media sites.
Merrimack Valley Food Bank, Community Market
The grant funding will help bring fresh produce to public housing residents. During the growing/harvesting season, the Community Market program will bring fresh produce and other food supplies to residents of four public housing projects in Lowell.
Metro North YMCA Enhance Fitness
Funding will support a 16-week evidence-based group exercise program for older adults that uses simple, easy-to-learn movements that motivate individuals to stay active and prevent falls throughout their life.
Mill City Grows
Grant funding will support Community and School Gardens to increase parent engagement in School Garden Education by hosting nine (9) family garden days at Lowell Public Schools and increase physical accessibility at Community Gardens by installing stone dust walkways in all community gardens, and building seven (7) tall, wheelchair accessible beds.
Minuteman Senior Services
Funding will support the Regional SHINE Program which provides Medicare beneficiaries, caregivers and families with no cost Medicare and public health benefits counseling at 20 locations in an 18-community service area including Arlington, Burlington and Winchester.
North Shore Community Health Center School-Based Health Center
The grant funding will support “To Create Safe Spaces for all Students to Access Services and Thrive” which takes place at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School and supports the Youth Advisory Council (YAC).
Place of Promise
Grant funding will support the Residential Addiction Recovery Program for Underserved Men & Women, which serves individuals that have tried and failed many other addiction recovery programs, are unable to understand and navigate the health care system, and have no financial resources.
Saheli
Funding will support community health outreach, and engagement and education for Arab and South Asian domestic immigrants and their families. Saheli will assist immigrants with a culturally competent Community Health Worker (CHW) who will improve access and engagement of health and safety services and will provide education and engagements with medical and mental health providers.
The Center for Hope and Healing, Inc.
Grant funding will support “The Reducing Barriers for Underserved Sexual Assault Survivors” program to provide capacity building to The Center for Hope and Healing (CHH) counseling staff to support BIPOC survivors of sexual assault and substance use disorder and conduct a needs assessment to identify barriers and opportunities in delivering support groups.
YMCA of Metro North/Torigian Family YMCA, Peabody
Grant funding will support the Torigian Family YMCA Youth Mental Health Support and Substance Use Prevention Program, which seeks to address the pressing mental and behavioral health concerns of children and teens in the community. The award will support a youth behavioral analyst position and further substance use prevention and behavioral health services for young people.
