The mission of the Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Fund, established in 1949 by Walter Noonan, is to support and promote quality education, family services, and healthcare for mental and physical illness recovery or treatment. Additionally, it aims to advocate for the arts among under-resourced populations, exclusively serving the Greater Boston community.
The grant program from the Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Fund focuses on enhancing educational opportunities, improving family services, and advancing healthcare related to mental and physical health recovery and treatment. It also seeks to promote the arts within under-resourced communities in Greater Boston. The fund accepts requests for general operating support, provided an organization's work entirely aligns with these goals, and also considers program support. Included within these requests can be small, program-related capital expenses. The fund is open to evaluating multi-year funding requests, expanding the potential for long-term impact in supported projects and initiatives. Applicants must submit their proposals by May 1, with notifications of grant decisions by the end of September.