Medfield Grant Awards

Across our departments, staff seek out grant opportunities from private entities, state government, and the federal government to fund capital improvements, programming, planning initiatives, and professional consultants. Please find below information on grants recently awarded to the Town of Medfield: 

FY2023

Human Resources

  • The Town received a $15,000 through the MIIA Health Benefits Trust Wellness Grant Program to purchase appreciation and wellness boxes for all employees
  • A $6,102.50 Safety Grant was provided through MIIA Risk Management to fund the purchase of safety equipment
  • The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents provided a $2,433 Safety Grant for boom and scissor lift training

Council on Aging

  • The Town received a Community Transit Grant to replace two vans at the Council on Aging. The grant award is to be matched with $38,420.80, which will be made from the Council on Aging gift account and financial support from Friends of Medfield Seniors
  • The Massachusetts Department of Transportation Rail and Transit Division awarded a $900 Helping Hand Mini Grant to be used towards the purchase a new desktop computer

Outreach

  • Medfield is in the fourth year of a five year, $125,000 grant program funded by the Center for Disease Control Drug-Free Communities Grant to fund youth substance use prevention efforts

Land Use

  • The Town received a $45,000 grant from the Commonwealth to do an economic development study on our Industrial Extensive Zone. to see if any zoning changes would be recommended in order to maximize the district's utility and create more tax revenue
  • A Community Compact Cabinet IT Grant of $80,000 was awarded to Medfield to scan most, if not all, Planning/Zoning paper files and start creating an online database
  • The Commonwealth awarded a Community Planning Grant of $70,000 for MBTA zoning work, ranging from site analysis to the actual writing of the zoning bylaws 
  • The Massachusetts Housing Partnership awarded the Town provided a grant for $20,000 for technical assistance services and site analysis work to comply with the MBTA requirements for adjacent communities. 

Fire and Emergency Management

  • The Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Public Safety awarded a $18,679.10 Firefighter Equipment Grant for firefighting boots and gloves as well as two thermal imaging cameras. Medfield received an additional grant for $18,200 through this program for seven sets of fire gear
  • The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Administration awarded $94,867 for the purchase of new portable radios for the Fire Department. A 5% match was required
  • The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Administration also awarded the Town a $3,394 grant to purchase 29 sets of wildland gloves and wildland helmets which are to be used by department members when responding to brush/wildland fires in Medfield and when providing mutual aid
  • The Town received a $5,858 Student Awareness of Fire Education (SAFE) grant from the Commonwealth to educate kids and seniors on fire prevention.

FY2022

Town Grants 

  • The Commonwealth of Massachusetts awarded the Town a $25,000 grant in Fiscal Year 2022 to complete a new budget document to improve the Town's communications for its annual operating and capital budgets 
  • The Commonwealth of Massachusetts awarded the Town a $25,000 grant in Fiscal Year 2022 to perform a compensation and classification study for Town employees 
  • The Commonwealth of Massachusetts awarded the Town a $75,000 grant in Fiscal Year 2022 for three planning initiatives:
    • Review and recommend new open space residential zoning districts
    • Plan and prepare mixed use zoning changes for the downtown area
    • Conduct a zoning diagnostic to review and modernize the Town's zoning code
  • The Commonwealth of Massachusetts awarded the Town a technical assistance grant to complete a Wayfinding Study for the downtown area in Fiscal Year 2022
  • The Commonwealth of Massachusetts awarded the Town a $160,500 grant to redesign the intersection at West Street and Route 27 (North Meadows Road). This intersection is listed on the state's top 200 intersections for crashes and was previously identified by the Metropolitan Planning Organization for safety improvements. 
  • The Commonwealth of Massachusetts awarded the Town a technical assistance grant to conduct a Local Rapid Recovery Plan to identify economic development opportunities to assist Medfield's business community's recovery from COVID-19 impacts

Green Communities 

  • Medfield has achieved designation as a Green Community and has been successful at winning Green Communities grant funding. Green Communities grant projects are meant to make Town and School facilities more energy efficient and upgrade building systems: 
    • FY2022: The Town received a Green Communities grant in the amount of $179,884 in February 2022 for various projects, including lighting controls upgrades at the Medfield High School, heat pump hot water heaters at the Blake Middle School, and various other energy efficiency projects.

Additional information about the Town's Green Communities projects is located on the Medfield Energy Committee webpage. 

Town Clerk

  • The Commonwealth of Massachusetts's Fiscal Year 2022 budget included $36,000 for the Town of Medfield to purchase new voting machines. The Town's old voting machines are used by only 3 other communities in Massachusetts. 

Medfield Fire Department

  • The Department of Fire Services (DFS) awarded Medfield Fire $18,200 in Fiscal Year 2022 for the Firefighter Safety Equipment Grant Program. We will use this money to purchase structural firefighting jackets and pants for new Call FF's

Medfield Outreach

  • Medfield Outreach was awarded $13,500 in grant funding from the Medfield Foundation for a strategic plan and needs assessment 

FY2021

Medfield Fire Department

  • The Department of Fire Services (DFS) awarded Medfield Fire $15,000 in Fiscal Year 2021 to purchase brush gear, funding a capital budget request

Green Communities 

  • Medfield has achieved designation as a Green Community and has been successful at winning Green Communities grant funding. Green Communities grant projects are meant to make Town and School facilities more energy efficient and upgrade building systems:
    • FY2021: $168,174 in Green Communities projects

FY2020

Town Grants

  • In 2018 and 2020, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts awarded the Town two MassTrails grants in the amount of $100,000 each. These grants are being used to fund the construction of the Medfield Rail Trail, which is anticipated to open in Spring 2022

FY2019

Medfield Fire Department

  • The Department of Homeland Security awarded Medfield Fire $211,428.57 in Fiscal Year 2019 to purchase new self-contained breathing apparatus equipment and new air bottles. The Town was required to make a 5% match of $10,571.43. This grant fully funded a capital budget request