This organization serves as a grantor/manager for a number of service grants such as Americorps, and the state-wide Commonwealth Corps grants. They use volunteers to review the initial grant applications from the nonprofits that seek the funding. It also has a small staff of highly qualified, dedicated people who manage and track the grant through the award process.
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- EIN 04-3088234
- (617) 542-2544
- 98 N Washington St Ste 400 Boston MA 02114-1913 USA
- mass-service.org
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Causes: Community Coalitions, Environment, Pollution Abatement & Control
Mission: The massachusetts service alliance, established in 1991, is a private, nonprofit organization that serves as the state commission on community service and volunteerism. Our mission is to catalyze the innovation and growth of service and volunteerism by creating partnerships that maximize resources, expertise, capacity, and impact.
Programs: The americorps program provides funding for nonprofits, public agencies, and faith-based programs to develop and support americorps members. Full and part-time members spend one year performing intensive service to meet critical needs in community and economic development, education, youth development, disaster recovery and relief, environment, health and nutrition, human needs and housing. In the 2016-2017 program year:-invested in 25 americorps programs-1,356 americorps members served, invested over 1. 2 million hours of service and engaged over 18,000 additional volunteers
in 2016-2017 the commonwealth corps program engaged 43 corps members serving with 17 partner organizations across massachusetts. The corps is a diverse group of residents who dedicate a year of their lives to addressing unmet needs in the commonwealth including - mentoring in communities; tutoring in schools; delivering critical health information; and spearheading neighborhood revitalization efforts. Last year commonwealth corp members:-served 46,992 hours strengthening communities, build organizational capacity, increase volunteerism, and positively impact massachusetts residents. -through their capacity building efforts, commonwealth corps members recruited or managed over 3,200 community volunteers to contribute over 39,775 hours of service, leveraged over $806,240 of cash or in kind support, and supported approximately 7,192 new beneficiaries in receiving services. Their service has impacted over 13,877 unique individuals.
with the support of the volunteer generation fund grant, msa increased the ability of massachusetts' nonprofit to utilize volunteers effectively, thus increasing their capacity to serve clients. With a heavy focus on organizations who support youth development programming, msa assisted nonprofits building their infrastructure through (1) deep and intensive capacity building with 17 organizations through the delivery of the service enterprise initiative; (2) focused training on best practices in volunteer management; and (3) mini-grants to 24 organizations to support volunteer engagement activities to national days of service and 9 capacity-building grants to organizations that engage volunteers to support youth programming. Overall through these grants, organizations engaged over 15,500 volunteers.