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These 100 Massachusetts organizations are getting grants for summer jobs for teens

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office is awarding nearly $322,000 to 100 organizations across the state to fund summer jobs for young people that are focused on health and wellness.

“Our summer jobs program provides hundreds of young people across the state with an opportunity to challenge themselves, gain new skills, and make a difference in their own community,” Healey said in a statement. “We are pleased to be able to continue to support cities, towns and nonprofits with this funding that keeps young people active and safe in the summer months and improves public health in Massachusetts.”

This year’s Healthy Summer Youth Jobs Grant Program is funded with health-care related settlement money from the attorney general’s office. It’s the fifth year that the office is running the grant program, which allows teens to hold summer jobs in their own communities that are focused on promoting nutrition, physical fitness and healthy living.

The program runs until Aug. 30.

Examples of jobs funded through this year’s grant program include:

  • coaching sports or physical fitness activities at a summer camp;
  • building and maintaining a community garden or urban farm;
  • leading classes on cooking, nutrition, and healthy lifestyles;
  • creating a recycling awareness campaign for the community; and,
  • mentoring and educating youth about healthy relationships.

Since Healey launched the grant program in 2015, it has funded more than 800 jobs for young people across the state.

Staff from the Attorney General’s Community Engagement and Fair Labor Divisions will also visit the young workers and providing training on worker’s rights and wage and hour laws, according to a news release.

The 100 organizations — including nonprofits, municipalities, and other government offices — receiving funding through the program are:

The Cape and the Islands

  • Martha’s Vineyard Boys & Girls Club in Edgartown
  • Cape Cod YMCA in Sandwich
  • Island Grown Initiative in Vineyard Haven

Berkshire County

  • Berkshire Family YMCA in North Adams and Pittsfield
  • Berkshire South Regional Community Center in Great Barrington
  • Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield
  • Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams

Bristol County

  • Attleboro Area School to Career Partnership, Inc. in Attleboro
  • Boys and Girls Club of Fall River in Assonet
  • Greater Fall River RE-CREATION in Fall River
  • Boys and Girls Club of New Bedford
  • Coastal Foodshed Inc. in New Bedford
  • Community Boating Center, Inc. in New Bedford
  • Town of Norton
  • Saint Vincent’s Home Corporation in South Dartmouth

Essex County

  • Amesbury Recreation
  • Centro de Apoyo Familiar in Lawrence
  • Greater Lawrence Community Boating in Lawrence
  • Lawrence Boys & Girls Club
  • Groundwork Lawrence
  • Beyond Soccer, Inc. in Lawrence
  • Methuen Arlington Neighborhood, Inc. in Methuen
  • City of Newburyport
  • Camp Fire North Shore in Salem
  • Russian Community Association of Massachusetts in Lynn
  • The Food Project Inc. in Lynn, Beverly and Wenham
  • City of Gloucester Health Department
  • YMCA of Metro North in Peabody

Hampden County

  • The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Holyoke
  • The Boys & Girls Club of West Springfield
  • The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Westfield
  • Gandara Center, Inc. in Springfield
  • Gardening the Community, a project of Third Sector New England in Springfield
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Family Services in Springfield
  • New North Citizens’ Council in Springfield
  • Springfield Department of Parks, Buildings and Recreation Management

Hampshire County

  • All Out Adventures in Northampton
  • Mark Meadows After School Program (MMASDC, Inc) in Amherst
  • City of Easthampton

Middlesex County

  • Arlington Boys and Girls Club
  • Brazilian American Center Framingham
  • Mill City Grows in Lowell
  • UTEC in Lowell
  • Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell
  • REACH Beyond Domestic Violence in Waltham
  • Cambridge Camping Association
  • Groundwork Somerville
  • Middlesex Sheriff’s Office in Chelmsford
  • City of Marlborough
  • Scalabrini Assistance and Cultural Center in Somerville
  • Watertown Boys and Girls Club
  • Everett Public Schools
  • Centro Comunitario Scalabrini in Everett
  • Medford Recreation
  • Philips Brooks House Association, Inc. in Boston and Cambridge

Norfolk County

  • Town of Weymouth Recreation Department
  • South Shore YMCA in Quincy
  • Randolph Board of Health
  • Town of Norwood Public Health Department

Plymouth County

  • Old Colony YMCA in Brockton and Middleboro
  • Boys and Girls Club of Brockton

Suffolk County

  • Doc Wayne Youth Services in Boston
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez, Inc. in Boston
  • Action for Boston Community Development, Inc. in Boston
  • Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, Inc. in Boston
  • La Alianza Hispana in Boston
  • Fourth Presbyterian Church of South Boston
  • Save the Harbor Save the Bay in Boston
  • YMCA of Greater Boston
  • West End House Boys & Girls Club in Boston
  • Community Rowing in Brighton
  • Mothers for Justice and Equality in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan
  • Whittier Street Health Center in Boston
  • Sociedad Latina in Roxbury
  • Charlestown Coalition
  • All Dorchester Sports & Leadership
  • InnerCity Weightlifting in Dorchester
  • Level Ground Mixed Martial Arts in Dorchester
  • The Boston Project Ministries in Dorchester
  • Chelsea Collaborative
  • Piers Park Sailing Center in East Boston
  • Project R.I.G.H.T., Inc. in Dorchester
  • Hyde Square Task Force, Inc. in Jamaica Plain
  • Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition
  • Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families in Roxbury
  • Madison Park Development Corporation in Roxbury
  • Philips Brooks House Association, Inc. In Boston and Cambridge
  • City of Chelsea Department of Public Works in Chelsea
  • GreenRoots in Chelsea
  • Boys & Girls Club of Boston
  • City of Revere / Revere on the Move

Worcester County

  • City of Worcester
  • Worcester Youth Center
  • Girls Inc. of Worcester
  • YMCA of Central Massachusetts
  • City of Gardner
  • Boys & Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster
  • Town of Rutland Recreation Department
  • Town of Webster Recreation Department
  • Children Across America in Milford
  • Hockomock Area YMCA in Milford

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