Mission in Action

Mabazza Foundation Awarded $5,000 Asian Community Fund Grant

Mabazza Foundation Awarded $5,000 Asian Communi...

The Asian Community Fund · June 2026 An investment in the work behind the work. The Mabazza Foundation has been awarded $5,000 in general operating support to strengthen the projects,...

Mabazza Foundation Awarded $5,000 Asian Communi...

The Asian Community Fund · June 2026 An investment in the work behind the work. The Mabazza Foundation has been awarded $5,000 in general operating support to strengthen the projects,...

Mabazza Foundation Awarded $9,999 Grant to Support Boston Veterans Facing Cancer

Mabazza Foundation Awarded $9,999 Grant to Supp...

Bridge the Gap Mini Grant · June 2026 Care carried in a backpack. Dignity carried much further. The Mabazza Foundation has been awarded $9,999 to expand hospital-based wellness support for...

Mabazza Foundation Awarded $9,999 Grant to Supp...

Bridge the Gap Mini Grant · June 2026 Care carried in a backpack. Dignity carried much further. The Mabazza Foundation has been awarded $9,999 to expand hospital-based wellness support for...

Making Waves Together

Making Waves Together

City of Boston Let’s Play Sports Grant · 2026 Stronger swimmers. Wider lanes. One community moving forward. Through the City of Boston’s Let’s Play Sports Grant, the Mabazza Foundation helped...

Making Waves Together

City of Boston Let’s Play Sports Grant · 2026 Stronger swimmers. Wider lanes. One community moving forward. Through the City of Boston’s Let’s Play Sports Grant, the Mabazza Foundation helped...

Art, Service, and Healing

Art, Service, and Healing

Boston Veterans · August 23, 2025 When art is created not only to be seen, but to serve. The Mabazza Foundation’s first public exhibit and silent auction brought art, gratitude,...

Art, Service, and Healing

Boston Veterans · August 23, 2025 When art is created not only to be seen, but to serve. The Mabazza Foundation’s first public exhibit and silent auction brought art, gratitude,...

A Field of Light

A Field of Light

Wang YMCA Legacy Gala · 2025 A field of light. A path through hardship. At the 2025 Wang YMCA Legacy Gala, the Mabazza Foundation introduced its first collaborative digitally designed...

A Field of Light

Wang YMCA Legacy Gala · 2025 A field of light. A path through hardship. At the 2025 Wang YMCA Legacy Gala, the Mabazza Foundation introduced its first collaborative digitally designed...

A New Year of Good Fortune, Belonging, and Community

A New Year of Good Fortune, Belonging, and Comm...

Age Strong Commission · January 2026 Good fortune begins when no one welcomes the New Year alone. The Mabazza Foundation joined the Wang YMCA of Chinatown, community partners, local nonprofits,...

A New Year of Good Fortune, Belonging, and Comm...

Age Strong Commission · January 2026 Good fortune begins when no one welcomes the New Year alone. The Mabazza Foundation joined the Wang YMCA of Chinatown, community partners, local nonprofits,...

Mabazza Foundation Awarded $5,000 Asian Community Fund Grant
The Journal of Impact

Mission in Action

Stories of art becoming service, community becoming connection, and lived experience becoming a source of care for others.

8 Public chapters and growing
Where Purpose Becomes Visible

A mission is measured by what it makes possible.

These are the moments when intention leaves the page and enters a neighborhood, a gallery, a celebration, a hospital, a pool, or a room where someone needs to feel less alone.

Mission in Action documents the Foundation’s public work through exhibitions, grants, charitable initiatives, partnerships, cultural celebrations, and direct acts of service.

Each story is part of a larger record: art can carry memory, community can interrupt isolation, and one experience of survival can become a source of strength for many.

The Continuing Record

Stories from the field.

Explore the people, places, partnerships, and defining moments carrying the Foundation’s purpose into public life.

8 Stories Displayed
03 Making Waves Together

Making Waves Together

City of Boston Let’s Play Sports Grant · 2026 Stronger swimmers. Wider lanes. One community moving forward. Through the City of Boston’s Let’s Play Sports Grant, the Mabazza Foundation helped provide...
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05 A Field of Light

A Field of Light

Wang YMCA Legacy Gala · 2025 A field of light. A path through hardship. At the 2025 Wang YMCA Legacy Gala, the Mabazza Foundation introduced its first collaborative digitally designed and...
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01 · Art

Make experience visible.

Original artwork and visual storytelling give form to emotions that are often difficult to explain, creating space for recognition, reflection, and human dignity.

02 · Service

Turn empathy into action.

Grants, educational resources, charitable initiatives, and direct support move compassion beyond sentiment and into practical, meaningful public benefit.

03 · Community

Create places of belonging.

Events and partnerships bring people together across illness, age, culture, and circumstance, reminding each participant that no life should be reduced to its hardest chapter.

The Work Continues
Impact begins when private compassion becomes public care.

Every story preserved here is evidence of an idea moving beyond intention and becoming something that another person can experience, use, remember, or carry forward.

Become Part of the Next Chapter

Help the mission move forward.

Your contribution helps the Mabazza Foundation create healing-centered art, develop educational resources, build thoughtful partnerships, and reach people navigating illness, survivorship, caregiving, recovery, grief, and isolation.