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City committee reviews $200,000 Boston Foundation gift to expand immigrant legal access
Summary
The Boston City Council committee heard from the Mayor's Office for Immigrant Advancement about adding a $200,000 Boston Foundation donation into a grant pool supporting immigration legal services and community assistance; the chair said the docket will be brought to the full Council for a vote next week.
Councilor Ben Weber, chair of the Boston City Council Committee on Civil Rights, Racial Equity, and Immigrant Advancement, opened a July 30, 2025, virtual hearing on docket 0890, which would authorize the city to accept and add $200,000 from the Boston Foundation to the Mayor's Office for Immigrant Advancement (MOIA) grant pool for immigrant services.
The grant money will be added to MOIA's existing FY25 immigration legal access grant pool to fund programs, events, and small grants that “enable immigrants to play an active role in the economic, civic, social, and cultural life of the city of Boston,” the docket summary stated and MOIA staff described during the hearing.
Monique Wen, executive director of the Mayor's Office for Immigrant Advancement, told the committee that MOIA’s operating work serves an estimated 200,000 immigrants in Boston and that the office engages in resource development to supplement…
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