Mission in Action

A Holiday Celebration of Belonging: The Mabazza Foundation and Age Strong Commission Bring Joy to Chinatown Seniors

A Holiday Celebration of Belonging: The Mabazza...

Age Strong Commission · December 2025 A holiday table where every senior belonged. The Mabazza Foundation joined the City of Boston’s Age Strong Commission and the Wang YMCA of Chinatown...

A Holiday Celebration of Belonging: The Mabazza...

Age Strong Commission · December 2025 A holiday table where every senior belonged. The Mabazza Foundation joined the City of Boston’s Age Strong Commission and the Wang YMCA of Chinatown...

Silent Auction Donation for Wang YMCA 2024 Gala

Silent Auction Donation for Wang YMCA 2024 Gala

Wang YMCA Annual Gala · November 2024 A century of service, painted in red and gold. The artwork 110 Years in Red and Gold was donated to the Wang YMCA...

Silent Auction Donation for Wang YMCA 2024 Gala

Wang YMCA Annual Gala · November 2024 A century of service, painted in red and gold. The artwork 110 Years in Red and Gold was donated to the Wang YMCA...

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.