NEIGHBORHOOD GROW PLAN is in a pivotal moment. We have received two prestigious grants—one from the City of Boston and one from CoFED (Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive) and a $4K one from our most consistent funder Grassroots Fund—and are leaning on them to leverage a $24,000 fundraising match.

🌱 MATCH TWO $10K GRANTS PLUS a $4K GRANT to INVEST IN NEIGHBORS, ORGANIZERS and CULTURE WORKERS of color SHAPING EQUITY in NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD ACCESS.

SIMULTANEOUS PRIORITY ITEMS

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Updated, as of Mar 2026:
Help Raise $3000 to Fund Second Facilitator $750 + Primary Facilitator $2250 for 9-month virtual Worker Co-op Business Literacy Study Build (Mar-Nov 2026). WORD FROM PARTICIPANTS WHO SIGNED UP !

We got emergency fund for this, as of Fall 2025: Help Raise $3,000 to Fund $100-Stipends for COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO PARTICIPATE IN A COMMUNITY GARDEN DESIGN WORKSHOP IN ROXBURY (Workshops take place in September). WORD FROM PARTICIPANTS WHO SIGNED UP!

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Updated as of Mar 2026: We raised $5366 of $9000 goal. We proportionally supported these members. We are still fundraising to meet full amount.

SUPPORT 3 BLACK IMMIGRANT ARTIST MEMBERS & COMMUNITY GROWERS AT NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN 🌱 GOAL $9000

Three of our core members are in crisis—folks who have poured love, labor, and wisdom into NGP and our broader community—yet navigating unrelenting financial precarity. This is about sustaining the people who sustain the work. TESTIMONIALS FROM A FEW OF OUR ADVISING MEMBERS.

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FAST ON OUR HEELS *SQUEALS*

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Updated as of Mar 2026: we were able to shift our entire cofed fund to support this effort as we were received a grant that allowed us to make this shift. So this $8,000 is now being fundraised to support Grief Rage and Mischief Circles and as well as Take Back the Dusk activities member organizers have been naming for a couple years.

$8,000 to Fund Stipends for MEMBERS to PARTICIPATE in 9-month WORKERS CO-OP STUDY and BUILD GROUP (Workshops start November)

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We are asking for the additional $4K match to account for fees and taxes because we believe in not undercutting what people need. The remaining will be split between LAND BACK efforts here and abroad (Sudvn C0ng0 and Fvlvast33n Frees). We cannot cherrypick g3noc1d3.

MORE TESTIMONIALS ON OUR WORK.

We call on our wider community to MATCH and AMPLIFY INVESTMENT in Neighborhood Grow Plan — we must invest in the futures we are all trying to build.

This is a moment of truth. Let's redirect resources towards joy, nourishment, and livable futures. Let's invest in culture workers and community organizers we are in relationship with.

We have more than enough. We just need to redirect the pipes.

GIVING IS BELIEVING.

Harvest Justice Fund