MRF Recipients
After redistributing $738,000 to 27 community-led relief efforts since we launched in May, the Mass Redistribution Fund has temporarily paused our fundraising. But COVID's impacts on our communities has not abated, and our grassroots groups continue to provide critical relief by distributing food and supplies, providing rental assistance, managing multi-lingual help hotlines and more, while continuing to organize and lead policy campaigns for a just recovery.
We encourage you to support their ongoing relief and recovery efforts by donating directly to one or more of the 27 grassroots groups listed below. If you are able, please consider committing to the long-term success of these community-led efforts by becoming a monthly sustainer (an ongoing donor). Follow the links below to learn more about each group's relief efforts.
About our Grassroots Partners
Based in historically exploited communities, grassroots organizations are working around the clock to support us and our neighbors through the COVID-19 pandemic. Recipients include low-income renters facing eviction, undocumented families and workers, people in detention or prison, and many others facing disproportionate impacts of the economic and public health crisis.
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These 27 community-led relief efforts were selected according to funding criteria and allocation guidelines developed by the MRF's grassroots Advisory Board.
Activated Massachusetts African Communities
MA Statewide: Waltham, Brockton, Malden, Rosindale, Boston, Revere, Lowell, Chicopee, Worcester, Springfield and Longmeadow
South Asian Workers' Center
Cambridge, Arlington, Somerville, Medford, Malden, Everett, Quincy, MA
Egleston Square Main Street
Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, Boston, MA
ACE Youth COVID-19 Relief Efforts
Roxbury and Dorchester, Boston
Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE)
Mutual Aid Eastie Fund
East Boston
Neighbors United for a Better East Boston (NUBE), Eastie Farm, Cosecha Boston, and Empower East Boston
ECCO Emergency Solidarity Fund
North Shore, including Lynn and Salem, MA
Essex County Community Organization (ECCO)
One Chelsea Fund
Chelsea, MA
GreenRoots, Chelsea Collaborative and The Neighborhood Developers
COVID-19 Community Support Fund
South Coast, including New Bedford, Attleboro and East Taunton, MA
Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance / Alianza para Movilizar Nuestra Resistencia (AMOR)
COVID-19 Emergency Fund
East Boston
El Centro Cooperativo de Desarrollo y Solidaridad (CCDS)
Dorchester Not for Sale
Dorchester, Boston
Dorchester Not 4 Sale
New England United for Justice
Mattapan and Dorchester, Boston
New England United for Justice (NEU4J)
MassUndocuFund
Massachusetts Statewide
MA Jobs with Justice, ONE FAIR WAGE, Matahari Women Workers' Center
Eviction Defense Fund
Greater Boston, Lynn and Western Massachusetts
City Life / Vida Urbana
Asian Community Emergency Relief Fund
Massachusetts Statewide, including Boston, Worcester, Lynn and Lowell, MA
Chinese Progressive Association, Asian Community Development Corporation, VietAID, Asian American Resource Workshop, and the Asian Outreach Unit of Greater Boston Legal Services.
