The Linden Foundation funds non-profit organizations that
strengthen families facing multiple barriers in accessing community resources by helping provide
them with the skills and support systems they need to become
cohesive, internally supportive, and self-sufficient. Preference
is given to comprehensive programs that most directly help those
in need, involve multiple family members, provide sustained support
to the participants, and are administered by community-based
organizations.
The Foundation has three funding strategies:
1. Family Relationships: Support families through programs that nurture,
build, and strengthen family relationships. Particular areas
of interest include:
- Educational programs that develop: mediation skills, parenting
skills, relationship building skills
2. Economic Opportunities: Help families gain economic security through programs that
make it feasible for family members to become and remain employed.
Areas of interest include:
- Workforce development / Job training / Entrepreneurial assistance
- Family budgeting assistance
- Quality child care, when provided in conjunction with an educational
program for parents. (Note: Stand alone child care programs are
not eligible.)
3. Housing Opportunities: Help increase and preserve housing opportunitiesĀ for families
facing housing instability by providing:
- Operating support for organizations that provide transitional
housing, supportive housing with social services, and/or permanently
affordable housing for very low income (below 30% of median income)
- Homelessness Prevention: Emergency or short-term financial assistance to enable families
to stay in existing housing
All applicants must be non-profit, 501(c)(3) organizations, generally serving communities in need of greater economic investment, in the following areas:
Massachusetts: the North Shore area, especially Gloucester, Lynn, and Salem, and the
Merrimack Valley area, especially Haverhill, Methuen, Lawrence and Lowell.
New Hampshire: the Lakes Region and northern New Hampshire, the Capital region, Greater
Manchester, and the Seacoast region.