Opioid Use Disorder: Strategic Grant Making Can Reduce Harm And Increase Hope by Julie Burns and Dr. Sarah Wakeman
RIZE in Health Affairs Blog on Harm Reduction and Strategic Grant Making
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Opioid Epidemic Threatens to Undermine Massachusetts Fiscal Health for Years to Come, Study Finds
Report from Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation (MTF) explains why employers need to help combat the growing crisis and its devastating toll on people’s lives, businesses and the economy MTF to host a Forum on November 16 featuring Governor Baker, Attorney General...
RIZE Massachusetts Awards Nearly $1 Million in Grants to Community-Based Organizations to Enhance Opioid Harm Reduction Services and Link with Clinical Care
BOSTON ––October 9, 2018 –RIZE Massachusetts (RIZE), a nonprofit created to end the opioid overdose epidemic in Massachusetts, announced today that it is awarding nearly $1 million in grants that will fund pilot programs or existing collaborations among local...
Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Improvement Grants
OPIOID USE DISORDER TREATMENT IMPROVEMENT GRANTS June 21, 2018 –Within its first year of operation, RIZE Massachusetts (RIZE), a nonprofit created to end the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts, announced today that it is awarding a total of more than $2.5 million in...
RIZE Massachusetts Contributes $50,000 to Fund That Provides Life-Saving Narcan To First Responders
Donation to depleted naloxone fund will help cities and towns purchase drug and prevent deaths BOSTON – April 17, 2018 – As part of its mission to substantially reduce opioid-related deaths, RIZE Massachusetts (RIZE) announced today that it will contribute $50,000 to...
RIZE Massachusetts Announces Senior Staff Appointments
Boston – January 31, 2018 –RIZE Massachusetts (RIZE) announced today two key hires in development and programming to help carry out its ambitious agenda to fight the Commonwealth’s opioid epidemic: • Mark Walsh, Director of External Affairs and Philanthropy • Anne...
RIZE Massachusetts awards first $300,0000 as part of a $2.3 million two-year program to improve treatment and recovery for people at greatest risk of opioid overdose
An estimated four percent of people in Massachusetts have an opioid use disorder and 2,107 people died of an overdose last year. BOSTON – December 20, 2017 – RIZE Massachusetts (RIZE), a state-wide philanthropic initiative, chose six...
Executive Director Named
BOSTON — June 27, 2017 – RIZE Massachusetts, a new private sector-funded initiative dedicated to addressing substance use disorders, reducing deaths from the opioid epidemic and improving the lives of individuals and families who are affected by substance use...
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