In early 2025, DESE awarded MA FRESH grants of over $500,000 to 25 school districts and childcare centers, and awarded MA FRESH CORP grants of $350,000 to 15 school districts and early education centers across the Commonwealth. These grants support not only local food and food education in schools, but also capacity building for farm to school programs.

MA FRESH Grantees

K-12 Schools

• Billerica Public Schools ($16,668)
• Boston Public Schools ($30, 000)
• Brockton Public Schools ($20,000)
• Chicopee Public Schools ($1,985)
• Dennis-Yarmouth Public Schools ($26,870)
• Gill-Montague Regional School District ($27,540)
• Hatfield Public Schools ($3,848)
• Leominster Public Schools ($10,565)
• Lowell Public Schools ($30,000)
• New Bedford Public Schools ($28,054)
• North Middlesex Public Schools ($6,550)
• Orange Public Schools ($6,710)
• Oxford Public Schools ($2,950)
• Provincetown Public Schools ($8,000)
• Taunton Public Schools ($29,985)
• Westford Public Schools ($16,600)
• Whitman-Hanson Public Schools ($30,000)

Early Education Programs

• Brockton Day Nursery, Inc ($30,000)
• Communities United, Inc. (Lexington) ($21,112)
• Community Action, Inc (Haverhill) ($28,053)
• East End House (Cambridge) ($29,214)
• Merrimack Valley YMCA (Lawrence) ($20,785)
• People Incorporated (Fall River) ($22,871)
• South Shore YMCA (Quincy & Hanover) ($21,648)
• Worcester Public Schools ($30,000)

MA FRESH CORP Grantees

• Acton-Boxborough Public Schools ($28,961)
• Boston Public Schools ($48,316)
• Bristol County Agricultural Public School District ($35,420)
• Chicopee Public Schools ($16,620)
• Collaborative for Regional Educational Service and Training (Andover) ($14,950)
• Crispus Attucks Children’s Center (Dorchester) ($17,600)
• Frontier Regional School District ($27,372)
• Gloucester Public Schools ($16,075)
• MetroWest YMCA ($15,023)
• Nauset Public Schools ($17,700)
• Northampton Public Schools ($15,125)
• Robbins Children’s Programs, Inc (Attleboro) ($26,591)
• Salem Public Schools ($44,039)
• Watertown Public Schools ($26,200)

In early 2024 DESE awarded over $400,000 to 23 school districts and childcare centers across the Commonwealth to support local food and local food education in schools. This second round of applications saw over $2.5M in requests from nearly 80 applicants.

Read 2024 Grant Report. 

K-12 Schools

• Codman Academy
• Community Charter School of Cambridge
• Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School
• Greenfield Public Schools
• Haverhill Public Schools
• Holyoke Public Schools
• Lenox Public Schools
• Mashpee Public Schools
• Medway Public Schools
• Norfolk County Agricultural High School
• Prospect Hill Academy
• Salem Public Schools
• Webster Public Schools
• Westford Public Schools

Early Education & After School Programs

• ABCD Head Start and Children’s Service
• Boys & Girls Club of Metro South
• Community Action Pioneer Valley Head Start & Early Learning Program
• Ellis Early Learning
• Holyoke Chicopee Head Start
• MetroWest YMCA
• Mystic Valley YMCA
• PACE Head Start
• Waltham Boys & Girls Club

Read 2023 Grant Report.

K-12 Schools

• Boston Public Schools
• Bridge Boston Charter School
• Fitchburg Public Schools
• Gloucester Public Schools
• Medway Public Schools
• Northampton Public Schools
• Provincetown Public Schools
• RFK Alliance/Dr. Franklin Perkins School (Lancaster)
• Shaloh House (Boston)
• Somerville Public Schools
• Springfield Public Schools

Early Education Centers

• Assonet Day Care (Freetown)
• Guild of St. Agnes (Worcester)
• Metro North YMCA
• Rainbow Child Development Center (location)
• South Shore YMCA
• Springfield Public Schools