Charlestown Community Impact Fund
The Fund was created to mitigate any impacts from the development and operation of the casino.
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Spring 2025 Community Grantees
The following Charlestown organizations have been awarded Spring 2025 community grants from the Charlestown Community Impact Fund:
- Old Charlestown School Boys Association, Inc
- Charlestown Sprouts
- Lt Michael P Quinn Scholarship Fund
- Harvard Kent Parents Association
- Charlestown Little League
- Bunker Hill Post #26 American Legion
- Future Chefs
- Bunker Hill Knights of Columbus 62
- Charlestown Coalition - Charlestown Trauma Response Team
- Charlestown High School Varsity Boys Basketball
- Charlestown Lions Club
- Charlestown Youth Basketball
- The Sproul Company
- New Health Charlestown (North End Community Health Committee Inc.)
- Bunker Hill Associates
- Bunker Hill Monument Association
- Battle Of Bunker Hill Parade Committee
- Charlestown Boys and Girls Club
- Charlestown Community Cares
- Charlestown Girls Softball
- Charlestown Historic Battlefield District Committee
- Charlestown Historical Society
- Charlestown Mothers Association (CMA)
- Charlestown Movement Lab (CML)
- Charlestown Cooperative Nursery School Inc.
- Charlestown Resident Alliance
- Charlestown Veterans History Project
- Charlestown Working Theater
- Charlestown YMCA
- Charlestown Youth Football & Cheer
- Charlestown Youth Hockey Association
- Charlestown Youth Soccer Association
- Courageous Sailing
- EquiTable Food Systems
- e inc. The Planet Science Action and Learning Center
- Friends of Doherty Park
- Friends of Memorial Hall - Veterans Outreach Program (Abraham Lincoln Post 11)
- Friends of Memorial Hall (Abraham Lincoln Post 11)
- Charlestown Library Friends
- Friends of John Harvard Mall Initiative
- Fund for Parks and Recreation
- Harvest on Vine/St. Mary-St. Catherine of Siena Parish
- John F. Kennedy Family Service Center
- Junior Achievement of Greater Boston
- MGH Institute of Health Professions
- Mystic River Watershed Association
- North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC)
- Partners for Youth with Disabilities
- Special Townies Autistic and Exceptional Children's Programs
- The Boston Debate League
- USS Constitution Museum
- Warren Prescott Foundation
About the Fund
A Surrounding Community Agreement (SCA) was a condition of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission’s gaming license approval. Following the casino’s opening and throughout the 15 year license term, an annual $2 million payment is made by Wynn MA, LLC (Encore Boston Harbor) to the City, whose purpose as described in the SCA shall include:
- Improvements to facilities within the City to facilitate water transportation and to fund staffing and other public safety initiatives related to increased use of water transportation in Boston Harbor related to the Project
- Support of Charlestown’s nonprofits, parks, after-school activities, senior programs, job training programs, cultural events and related activities that promote Charlestown’s heritage, quality of life, recreational and cultural activities
- Staffing and other public safety initiatives related to increased pedestrian and vehicular traffic in the City related to project following the opening
- Any other impacts, including any transportation infrastructure impacts and the Sullivan Square Infrastructure Project related to the Project
When the Surrounding Community Agreement (SCA) was signed by the City of Boston and Wynn MA, LLC, a one-time $1 million payment was made and has been distributed to support over 60 Charlestown nonprofits.
MANAGING COMMITTEE
The Charlestown Community Impact Managing Committee is comprised of:
- the City’s Collector-Treasurer
- District One City Councilor
- State Senator for the Middlesex and Suffolk District that includes Charlestown
- State Representative for the Second Suffolk District that includes Charlestown
- the City’s Commissioner of Public Works
- the City’s Transportation Commissioner, and
- the City’s Chief of Civic Engagement.
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