Area organizations get seven-year financial commitment from United Way

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BOSTON — Several area organizations are getting a long-term boost courtesy of United Way of Massachusetts Bay.

In late October, UWMB announced that 13 organizations in the region were among 124 recipients of the organization’s new partnership grants.

UWMB is committing a total of $56 million across seven years to address poverty and injustice.

Area organizations selected to receive a share of the $56 million are:

Building Audacity, Lynn
Camp Fire North Shore, Lynn
Girls Inc. of Lynn
Gregg Neighborhood House Association, Lynn
LEO Inc., Lynn
Love Your Magic, Lynn
Lynn Housing Authority & Neighborhood Development
New American Association of Massachusetts, Lynn
North Shore Community Development Coalition, Salem
Raw Art Works, Lynn
Root North Shore, Salem
The Haven Project, Lynn
YMCA of Metro North, Peabody

The recipients were announced at an Oct. 26 ceremony at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

According to UWMB, the organization “has spent the past two years developing a new organizational strategy aimed at advancing our vision of an economically just region where access to financial well-being is universal, and prosperity is shared across race and ethnicity.”

UWMB primarily targeted 12 communities with the new partnership grants: Boston, Cambridge, Chelsea, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Malden, Quincy, Revere, Salem, and Taunton.

The aim of the new partnership program is to improve financial well-being and inclusion, as well as reduce wealth gaps in the targeted communities.

UWMB’s website described its goal as the creation of “a future where every individual is empowered to meet their financial goals; high-quality early-education and out-of-school-time programs are available when and where they are needed most; youth and young adults, especially those who have been disconnected from school or work, have access to education and career pathways; and safe and stable housing is abundant, and homelessness is a rare, brief, one-time event.”

James Jennings is The Daily Item’s Lynn reporter. A native Vermonter, his more than 20 years in newspaper journalism have brought him to Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas and Iowa before bringing him home to New England in 2023. He has covered everything from presidential debates to 4-H livestock shows and even three Super Bowls.

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