BOSTON – Governor Maura Healey’s office announced grant awards for $8.5 million in capital funding to 20 organizations across Massachusetts. The funding supports renovation of early education and out-of-school program facilities that primarily serve low-income families.
The administration said these investments “will support renovation projects to expand capacity and improve the indoor and outdoor quality and accessibility of learning environments for children, ensuring they have safe, healthy, inclusive, and developmentally appropriate spaces to learn, play, and grow.”
The funding enabled awards of $200,000 to $500,000 per project.
The projects receiving funding in Worcester County:
- Rainbow Child Development Center (Worcester) – $500,000
- Funding supports replacing windows and the building’s front door and sidelights.
- Guild of St. Agnes (Webster) – $500,000
- Funding supports replacing the HVAC system, installing a new fire alarm and adding a new video surveillance system
- YMCA of Central Massachusetts (Southbridge) – $495,000
- Funding supports installation of accessible play structures, new tables and a shade canopy, removing diseased trees and replacing a fence.
Other organizations funded across the state include:
- Angela’s Preschool and Daycare (Peabody) – $500,000
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Holyoke – $421,000
- Bright Futures Early Learning Center (Springfield) – $500,000
- Child Care of the Berkshires (North Adams) – $483,000
- Children’s Express Child Care (Dorchester) – $500,000
- East Boston Social Centers – $246,000
- Greater Holyoke YMCA – $500,000
- Kid-Start (Lawrence) – $500,000
- L.P. College (Dartmouth Street, New Bedford) – $370,000
- L.P. College (Acushnet Ave, New Bedford) – $500,000
- Pathways for Children (Beverly) – $246,000
- South Boston Neighborhood House – $236,000
- South Shore Stars (Quincy) – $500,000
- The Community Group (Lawrence) – $272,000
- The Learning Tree Daycare and Preschool (Medway) – $500,000
- Woburn Council of Social Concern – $500,000
- YMCA of Greater Boston – $251,000
