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Birth to 3rd Grade Partnership Newsletter (February 2022)

ARPA Committed and Recommended Projects to Date - November 30, 2021

City to Plant Third Miyawaki Miniforest at Peabody Elementary School.

The Health Promotion Mini-Grant Program will award up to $25,000 in total funding in spring 2023.

The Council on Aging (COA) has a free, accessible shuttle bus service that provides round-trip transportation from a resident’s home to the Cambridge Senior Center (806 Massachusetts Ave.)

Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and City Manager Louis DePasquale express profound gratitude on behalf of the City to Takeda Pharmaceutical for its $2 million donation to the Mayor’s Disaster Relief Fund.

New poetry will be coming to Cambridge neighborhoods as five winning poems will be imprinted in sidewalks across the city as part of the City of Cambridge’s annual Sidewalk Poetry Contest.

As a result of a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA), a new solar farm is being built in Illinois and Cambridge will receive credits for making new renewable energy available to the grid.

The City of Cambridge is excited to once again invite community members to vote on projects aimed at improving the city as part of the 10th Participatory Budgeting (PB) process. From March 7 to March 17, 2024, all Cambridge residents aged 12 and older, including all 6th graders and university students, will have the opportunity to participate.

During the 11th Participatory Budgeting cycle, Cambridge residents voted to fund Welcome Baby Boxes for new parents. This initiative, offered by the Center for Families, provides Baby Boxes to eligible Cambridge parents who have a child under one year old. Since outreach began in the Fall of 2025, more than 60 Cambridge households have signed up to receive a Baby Box.