40 for 40: Tufts Health Plan Foundation contributes $1 million to over 40 New England non-profits to mark Tufts Health Plan’s 40th anniversary
Tufts Health Plan Foundation announced today it is donating an additional $1 million to area non-profits focused on health equity and the social determinants of health.
WATERTOWN, MA – The 40 grants will be distributed to organizations in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island in honor of Tufts Health Plan’s 40th anniversary and its longstanding tradition of giving back to the community. This $1 million is above the Foundation’s annual grantmaking levels.
“We recognize that non-profit organizations are on the frontlines of service and play a crucial role in building stronger and healthier communities for all of us,” said Tom Croswell, president and CEO of Tufts Health Plan. “These angel grants are a way of saying ‘thank you’ to those organizations addressing the economic and social conditions that influence the health of our diverse communities and helping them to keep up the great work they do.”
The $25,000 grants—10 in each of the states where Tufts Health Plan serves members—support a range of nonprofit organizations doing exemplary work to promote community health and wellness. The organizations receiving grants work on a variety of issues including housing and homelessness, assistance to vulnerable children and families, and ensuring a complete count in the upcoming U.S. Census. (Census data are used to determine the distribution of federal funds, grants and support to states, counties and communities.)
“We know that health happens where we live, work and play,” said Nora Moreno Cargie, president of Tufts Health Plan Foundation and vice president for corporate citizenship at Tufts Health Plan. “Our motivation is to boost organizations addressing issues that adversely affect health and reduce health disparities.”
The Tufts Health Plan Foundation has given more than $35 million to community organizations since 2008 and will give nearly $5 million in community grants this year.
The anniversary grants were awarded to:
- Agency on Aging of South Central Connecticut Connecticut
- CATCH Neighborhood Housing New Hampshire
- Center for Latino Progress Connecticut
- Center for Medicare Advocacy Connecticut
- Children’s Friend Rhode Island
- Clinica Esperanza Rhode Island
- Connecticut Community Care Connecticut
- Connecticut Community of Addiction Recovery (CCAR) Connecticut
- Connecticut Food Bank Connecticut
- Connecting for Children and Families (Woonsocket) Rhode Island
- Crossroads Rhode Island
- End Hunger Connecticut Connecticut
- Enlace de Familias/Holyoke Family Network Massachusetts
- Families in Transition – New Horizons New Hampshire
- Family and Children’s Service of Greater Lynn Massachusetts
- Friendly House Massachusetts
- Friends Way Rhode Island
- Granite State Organizing Project New Hampshire
- Health Equity Solutions Connecticut
- Health Imperatives Massachusetts
- Hispanic Alliance of Southeastern Connecticut Connecticut
- Latino Health Insurance Project Massachusetts
- Marguerite’s Place New Hampshire
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Massachusetts
- New Futures New Hampshire
- New Hampshire Food Bank New Hampshire
- North Central Area Agency on Aging Connecticut
- North Country Health Consortium New Hampshire
- Operation A.B.L.E. Massachusetts
- Rhode Island Community Food Bank Rhode Island
- Rhode Island for Community and Justice Rhode Island
- Rhode Island Free Clinic Rhode Island
- Rhode Island Kids Count Rhode Island
- Seacoast Family Promise New Hampshire
- Senior Resources Agency on Aging Connecticut
- Sojourner House Rhode Island
- Southwestern CT Agency on Aging and Independent Living Connecticut
- Square One Massachusetts
- St. Francis House Massachusetts
- TLC Family Resource Center New Hampshire
- Welcoming New Hampshire New Hampshire
- Western Connecticut Area Agency on Aging Connecticut