2024-2025 Community Partner Grants (CPG)
Through Community Partner Grants, ARAW invests in community partners which demonstrate a commitment to low-income, elderly women in the Greater New Bedford community.
As ARAW works to embrace a Trust Based Philanthropy approach, there are some significant changes to our 2024/2025 Community Partner Grants (CPG) program. Over the past three years of the Community Partner Grants (CPG) program, we have come to recognize that the funder-grantee partnership is strongest when both parties prioritize trust, dialogue, transparency, relationship-building and the iterative process in their practices. Therefore, by adopting the Trust Based Philanthropy philosophy and practices, we endeavor to go beyond the check and create a true partnership with the organizations with whom we chose to invest.
On April 1, 2024, ARAW awarded nineteen Community Partner Grants to organizations which demonstrated a commitment to low-income elderly women in New Bedford, Acushnet, Fairhaven, Dartmouth and Westport. These grants provide $5,000 to $30,000 in general operating support for one-year (4/1/24-3/31/25).
2024-2025 Program Partner Awards
Buzzards Bay Area Habitat for Humanity
Buzzards Bay Coalition
Cape Verdean Association in New Bedford
Coastal Foodshed, Inc.
Coastal Neighbors Network, Inc.
Community Nurse Home Care
Dartmouth Council on Aging
DEAF Inc.
Fairhaven Council on Aging
New Bedford Art Museum
New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center
New Bedford Symphony Orchestra
PACE
South Coast LGBTQ+ Network
South Coastal Counties Legal Services
Westport Council on Aging
Women’s Fund SouthCoast
YMCA Southcoast
Zeiterion Performing Arts Center
2023-2024 Community Partner Grant
awarded over $200,ooo on April 1, 2023
2023-2024 Outreach Partner Awards
Westport Council on Aging
2023-2024 Program Partner Awards
Cape Verdean Association in New Bedford
Coastal Neighbors Network, Inc.
DEAF Inc.
New Bedford Art Museum (NBAM/ArtWorks!)
New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center
South Coast LGBTQ+ Network
South Coastal Counties Legal Services
Zeiterion Performing Arts Center
For information and to learn about the grant process,
please contact ARAW Executive Director, Clare Healy Foley
at cfoley@arawofnb.org or (508) 717-0400
