Philanthropy Massachusetts

GMA Funder Community 2020 Opioid Response Fund

The GMA Funder Community has established the Opioid Response Fund (“the Fund”) to explore effective, community-based responses to the opioid addiction crisis that is ravaging our country. The Fund offers a six-month pooled giving & immersive learning experience to donors eager to understand the complexity of the problem and fund solutions with results and reach. The Fund will award a few significant grants to organizations in the greater Boston area that are doing exemplary work preventing and treating opioid use, and mitigating the epidemic’s widespread effects.

CATEGORY: Programs & Services
LOCATION: Boston, MA
AMOUNT: $15,000
YEAR AWARDED: 2020
WEBSITE: philanthropyma.org


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