The Nantucket Contract Review Committee met remotely on Nov. 14, 2025, to interview nonprofit applicants seeking municipal grants for social programs and organizational capacity. Chair Veronica Bolchick confirmed a quorum and set a 10-minute presentation limit for each applicant.

Applicants who presented included Safe Place (requesting $75,000 to support a 24-hour domestic-violence hotline, hospital and police advocacy, counseling and community outreach), PASCON (palliative-care outreach and staffing), Nantucket Lighthouse School and MAS Nantucket (an educator well-being series with a $108,058 program budget and $100,000 request), Hope On Act/New Hope (two LENS neurofeedback pilot programs for middle-schoolers and adults with substance misuse), Small Friends childcare (seeking $60,000 to offset a recurring tuition gap), Health Imperatives (reproductive health, WIC and harm-reduction services), the Visiting Nurse Association of Cape Cod (town nurse and vaccine programs), Fairwinds (IT and cybersecurity work), NCTV (youth prevention curriculum), Mast (healing-arts recovery programming), Addiction Solutions (medication-assisted treatment expansion), the Warming Place (shelter planning), NAMI (capacity building) and Nantucket Food, Fuel & Rental Assistance (relocation plans for a new Boynton Lane site).

Presenters described concrete program goals, local partnerships and measurable outcomes. Jennifer Frizzi of Safe Place said the agency is requesting $75,000 and described an 8% cut from the state Department of Public Health that equals roughly $18,000 this fiscal year and $30,000 in fiscal 2027. Addiction Solutions detailed clinic volumes and proposed expanding hours, preserving medication-assisted treatment and pursuing injectables such as Vivitrol to limit diversion. Janice, representing Nantucket Food, Fuel & Rental Assistance, told the committee the Land Bank purchased the Boynton Lane property and the group aims to occupy space and open by April pending architect plans and lease negotiations.

Committee members asked for follow-up materials in several cases — for example, Small Friends agreed to submit a detailed tuition-offset spreadsheet, and Fairwinds described a verbal donor commitment to cover a funding gap. The committee formally accepted the meeting agenda at the start of the session by roll call and adjourned after completing interviews. Deliberations and scoring are scheduled for the next meeting; members were asked to submit rubrics to staff by Wednesday ahead of deliberations.