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Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

To launch a "ready" acquisition-preservation pooled fund supporting non-profit and other socially minded developers and organizations in the Greater Boston area to acquire property as a strategy to stabilize communities of color, expand the affordable and workforce housing stock, and increase community ownership of land.

  • Award Date: 12/6/2023
  • Amount: $5,000,000
  • Term: 60 months
  • Program: Special Initiatives

Boston Foundation, Inc.

To provide additional funding for Mass ECHOS (formerly Color of Wealth) project

  • Award Date: 11/29/2023
  • Amount: $825,000
  • Term: 36 months
  • Program: Special Initiatives

Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, Inc.

To support the exploration of a Resilience Hub and other resiliency activities and to provide capacity building for its Greater Boston Community Land Trust Network program

  • Award Date: 11/29/2023
  • Amount: $1,000,000
  • Term: 36 months
  • Program: Special Initiatives

Lawyers for Civil Rights, Inc.

To provide general operating support

  • Award Date: 11/29/2023
  • Amount: $450,000
  • Term: 36 months
  • Program: Special Initiatives

Mystic River Watershed Association, Inc.

To support the next phase of the Little Mystic Annex Parcel Harborwalk and creation of a publicly accessible dock

  • Award Date: 11/29/2023
  • Amount: $750,000
  • Term: 12 months
  • Program: Special Initiatives

Mystic River Watershed Association, Inc.

To support the analysis of the current state and future potential of Boston’s working port

  • Award Date: 11/29/2023
  • Amount: $200,000
  • Term: 12 months
  • Program: Special Initiatives

New England Aquarium Corporation

To support the next phase of its Special Initiatives for All vision

  • Award Date: 11/29/2023
  • Amount: $500,000
  • Term: 24 months
  • Program: Special Initiatives

The American City Coalition, Inc.

To support its Waterways: Connecting Residents of Roxbury and Dorchester to Boston's Special Initiatives work

  • Award Date: 11/29/2023
  • Amount: $600,000
  • Term: 24 months
  • Program: Special Initiatives

The Vii Foundation, Inc.

To provide support for the screening and marketing costs of David Abel's independent film, Inundation District

  • Award Date: 11/29/2023
  • Amount: $10,300
  • Term: 12 months
  • Program: Special Initiatives

Trustees of Reservations

To support the Trustees of Reservations’ One Special Initiatives Initiative to develop signature, equitable, and climate-resilient parks on the Boston Special Initiatives

  • Award Date: 11/29/2023
  • Amount: $500,000
  • Term: 12 months
  • Program: Special Initiatives