Global Cities Fund Grant

At a glance

What: Docket No. 1774, a message and order authorizing the City to accept and expend $500,000 from the Mayors Migration Council, awarded by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, to be administered by the Department of Immigrant Advancement. It funds city-led programs advancing relief, inclusion and opportunity for underserved communities in Boston through the Global Cities Fund.
Where it stands: passed 13-0 on October 21, 2026, on a favorable report from the Committee on Civil Rights, Racial Equity, and Immigrant Advancement.
Detail from the recording: Culpepper described the money as supporting Boston's first immigrant-led home care cooperative.

September 23: the order was introduced and, as the minutes print it, the Committee on Community Preservation Act is shown reporting it before it was referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Racial Equity, and Immigrant Advancement. Treat the committee attribution as a clerical oddity.
October 21: Culpepper, on behalf of the Civil Rights committee, submitted the report recommending passage. The report was accepted and the order passed, 13 yeas (all councilors). The captioned recording heard 12 votes, with Murphy later asking to be recorded as yes; the minutes show 13.

Order passed 13-0 on the committee's report.

Order referred to the Civil Rights, Racial Equity, and Immigrant Advancement Committee.