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Tufts University employee grant program helps local community organizations across Greater Boston

Thirty-four local organizations in Tufts’ four host communities have been awarded $28,000 in grants from the Tufts Community Grants (TCG) program.

A woman wearing a protective mask sorts packaged fruits and vegetables in a parking lot. Tufts University is donating the use of one of its dining centers to a coalition of Massachusetts food rescue organizations during the pandemic.

Tufts Lends Campus Space to Food Relief Groups Facing Sudden Demand

An anti-hunger coalition will have room to store and sort food for those in need

The facade and exterior of a Miller Hall on the Res Quad

Tufts to Make Residence Halls Available to Local Hospitals and Host Cities

Housing slated for medical personnel, police and firefighters, and patients, with campus segmented into separate zones for different types of populations

An older N-95 face face mask, left, and a new one with prototyped parts, right. Tufts Medical Center needed more than 6,000 masks fixed fast, so Tufts students, staff, and alumni are jumping in, along with MIT and Harvard students, to make it happen

Team Comes Together to Repair Thousands of N-95 Masks

Tufts Medical Center needed more than 6,000 masks fixed fast, so Tufts students, staff, and alumni are jumping in, along with MIT and Harvard students, to make it happen

Tufts University calls on host community non-profits to apply for Tufts Community Grants

Non-profit organizations in Boston, Grafton, Medford and Somerville are invited to apply for individual grants from the Tufts Community Grants (TCG) program until March 13, 2020.

The Medford and Somerville High Schools' boys basketball teams play each other in a sunlit Tufts-branded gymnasium as stands full of spectators look on.

Medford and Somerville high school basketball teams to renew rivalry at 2020 Tufts Classic

Mustangs and Highlanders tip off in doubleheader at Tufts University on Sunday, Jan. 19, for right to take home Tufts Classic trophy; donations will be collected for area food banks

New MBTA Green Line Station to Be Named Medford/Tufts

Located at College Avenue near the center of campus, the stop will be the terminus of the Green Line extended from Lechmere

A statue of Jumbo the elephant in the sunlight is in front of a green space filled with community members celebrating Community Day

Tufts University hosts 17th annual Tufts Community Day

Annual festival celebrates university's relationship with Medford, Somerville communities

A child in a dental chair handling some dental accessories handed to him by a dental student. The Tufts Autism Smiles program helps children on the autism spectrum become comfortable with dental offices in preparation for a visit to the dentist.

At Autism Smiles, Easing Anxiety About the Dentist

A morning at the Tufts clinic teaches kids on the spectrum what to expect