Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers

Overcoming barriers · Promoting health and quality of life · Building and uniting communities · Maintaining cultural pride

Funding Sources

MAPS depends on a variety of funding sources to help support its programs and services to the community. Many thanks go out to the generous individuals, businesses, organizations, foundations and government agencies who support us from year to year. The following is a list of MAPS’ most recent major funding sources:

Public Contracts

  • Boston Police Dept.
  • Boston Public Health Comission/Ryan White CARE Act
  • Boston Community Development Block Grant
  • Cambridge Community Development Block Grant
  • Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley
  • Lowell Community Development Block Grant
  • Mass. Executive Office of Public Safety/VAWA
  • Mass. Dept. of Public Health/Bureau of Infectious Disease
  • Mass. Dept. of Public Health/Bureau of Substance Abuse Services
  • Mass. Dept. of Public Health/Bureau of Family and Community Health
  • Mass. Division of Violence & Injury Prevention
  • Mass. Dept. of  Children and Families
  • Mass. Medicaid Office
  • Mass. Office for Refugees and Immigrants
  • Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services
  • Somerville Community Development Block Grant
  • Somerville Affordable Housing Trust Fund
  • US Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Admin./Cambridge Health Alliance

Foundations, Corporations, Other

  • Bank of America
  • Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mass. Foundation
  • Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Mass. Catalyst Fund
  • Boston Globe Foundation
  • Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
  • Cambridge Community Foundation
  • Cambridge Health Alliance
  • Cambridge Savings Bank
  • Bushrod H. Campbell &  Adah F. Hall Charity  Fund
  • Citizens Bank
  • Clipper Ship Foundation
  • CPCU Credit Union
  • Draper Laboratory
  • Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation
  • Family Justice Center of Boston
  • Health Care For All
  • Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund
  • Heinz Family Foundation
  • Greater Lowell Community Foundation
  • Institute for Community Inclusion
  • Jimmy Fund/Dana Farber Cancer Institute
  • Susan G. Komen for the Cure
  • Leclair Foundation
  • Lowell Community Health Center
  • The Medical Foundation
  • Neighborhood Health Plan
  • Network Health
  • NStar
  • Paine Social Services
  • Project Bread/The Walk for Hunger
  • Riverside Management Group/Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins
  • Rockefeller Financial Services/JB Fernandes Trust
  • SafeStreets Boston
  • Sailors’ Snug Harbor of Boston
  • TJX Foundation
  • Unicco
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay & Merrimack Valley