Brookline’s MAB Community Services Receives $81K Grant

BROOKLINE, MA — MAB Community Services in Brookline, a Brookline nonprofit that creates opportunities for individuals with a range of disabilities, has received an $81,240 grant from The Community Care Corps, which provides much-needed non-medical assistance to older adults, people with disabilities, and family caregivers.

Through MAB’s Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (MABVI) division, this grant will support a volunteer program for local caregivers, older adults, and people in the blind and low vision community by improving MABVI’s volunteer retention, increasing recruitment for bilingual volunteers, and designing new consumer training for adults who are aging into vision loss.

Community Care Corps grants are awarded to local organizations nationwide to establish, enhance, and grow innovative volunteer models. This year, the program is granting $2.85 million to 23 innovative local programs nationwide and MAB is one os 14 grantees in the 2022-2024 cohort.

The program was extremely competitive. In all, 171 organizations requested funding for their programs. The organizations selected serve a mix of urban, suburban, rural, and Tribal communities across the country.