2024-2025 COMMUNITY INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO

UWFH is the only flexible funding and convening organization specifically attuned to the needs of Franklin and Hampshire Counties and the North Quabbin Region. We provide general operating support to 56 programs of nonprofit agencies tackling the greatest needs of our community. Giving through UWFH allows donors to take a holistic approach to addressing the needs of our community by letting them invest a single gift into multiple programs working on different parts of the same problem. This increases the probability of real change. We use a volunteer-led process called Community Investment to evaluate the greatest needs of our region. We then invest in the best strategies and solutions to meet those needs.

2024-2025 Impact Priority Areas

Youth Wellbeing and Mental Health: Aligned Impact
Multi-agency approach promoting social activities, mental health, mentoring, and skill-building programs in order to nurture the mental health and wellness of youth in our region. Read more about this Aligned Impact initiative here.

• Brick House Community Resource Center: Mind/Body Art Project (MAP)

  • Supporting agencies: Montague Catholic Social Ministries, Center for Human Development, Montague Public Libraries

• Children's Advocacy Center of Hampshire County: Mental Health

• Community Health Center of Franklin County: Portable Youth Mental Health

  • Supporting agencies: DIAL/SELF Youth & Community Services, Mary Lyon Foundation, Franklin County’s YMCA, Brick House, Community Action Youth Programs, Community Action Family Center, Franklin Regional School Nurses, Center for Human Development, and Communities That Care Coalition

• Hilltown Youth Performing Arts Program: Youth Recovery Theatre

Children, Youth, & Their Families
Nurturing the healthy growth, development and general well-being of children, youth, and families.

• Center for Human Development, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampshire County

• Children’s Advocacy Center of Franklin County and North Quabbin Area: Trauma-Focused Therapy for Child Victims of Sexual Abuse

• Cutchins Programs for Children & Families: Children’s Clinic

• Friends of Children   

• It Takes a Village: Parent Support and Education

• Just Roots: Farm Education and Food Access

• Mary Lyon Foundation: Student and Family Assistance Program

• Northampton Parents Center: Programs for Young Children and their Families

• Pathlight: Whole Children

• Resilient Community Arts: Community Building through Intergenerational Art

• The United Arc: Independent Parenting
  

Economic Security
Ensuring that individuals and communities have the ability and resources to meet their basic needs sustainably and with dignity. 

• 18 Degrees: Community-Centered Family Support

• Amherst Survival Center: Food & Nutrition Programs

• Center for Human Development: Not Bread Alone

• Center for New Americans: Supporting Immigrant Journeys to Self-Sufficiency

• Community Action Pioneer Valley: Community Resources & Advocacy

• Community Action Pioneer Valley: VITA Program

• Community Action Pioneer Valley: Center for Self-Reliance

• Community Legal Aid: Legal Aid for Economic Security

• Craig’s Doors: Emergency Overnight Shelter

• Easthampton Community Center

• Food Bank of Western Massachusetts: SNAP Outreach, Enrollment, and Case Management

• Franklin County Community Meals Program    

• Hilltown Community Development Corporation: Affordable Housing

• International Language Institute of MA: Bridge to Careers and Education

• It Takes a Village: The Village Closet

• Montague Catholic Social Ministries: Keeping Connected

• Northampton Survival Center: Emergency Food Pantry

• Quaboag Hills Community Coalition

• The Literacy Project: Adult Literacy and College & Career Readiness

• The Salvation Army, Greenfield: Food Insecurity Program

• The Salvation Army, Greenfield: Housing Assistance

• The Salvation Army, Greenfield: Utility Assistance

• Way Finders: Resident Services

Health & Safety
Building lasting wellness and security while strengthening physical, social, and emotional well being in our community. 

• Amherst Community Connections: Housing-Based Homeless Services  

• Center for Human Development, Family Outreach of Amherst: Immigrant Services

• Collaborative for Educational Services: Community Gardens at Affordable Housing Complexes

• Community Action Pioneer Valley: WIC

• Community Legal Aid: Veterans’ Medical-Legal Partnership

• Franklin County’s YMCA: Prescribe the Y, Adult Adaptive Aquatics, and Fit Life Center

• Hilltown Community Health Center: Social Services

• It Takes a Village: Home Visit Program

• LifePath: SHINE

• New England Learning Center for Women in Transition: First Response Crisis Intervention, Counseling, and Advocacy Program

• North Quabbin Citizen Advocacy

• Stavros Center for Independent Living: Supporting Independence for Individuals with Disabilities

• Stone Soup Café: Pay-What-You-Can Community Meal

• Tapestry: Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare Services

• The Care Collaborative: Essential Care Worker Initiative

• Western MA Training Consortium: People’s Medicine Project

• Western MA Training Consortium: Recovery Center of H.O.P.E.

• Western MA Training Consortium: Wildflower Alliance