Spring Appeal
Will you help build a future where everyone in Western Mass can access care with dignity?
Thank you for supporting Tapestry Health and our community.
Tapestry has been the place people turn when they need care without judgment. This spring, we’re asking you to show up for us so we can continue supporting our community.
The best way to understand Tapestry’s impact is to hear it from the people who live it every day!
This spring, meet the people and programs behind our work:
- 🔬 Drug checking and the community research behind it
- 🍎 60 families, one food pantry
- 🏥 How same-day STI testing connects people to care
- ❤️ A deeper look into what makes vital, effective, inclusive care
Donate today and get a FREE Tapestry Health tote!
There are other ways to support Tapestry:
🚶Walk for Every Body: Join us for our annual event. Learn More >
📱Follow us on social and share our content with your community. View Tapestry’s IG >
💬 Know someone who needs care? Refer them to TapestryHealth.org >
23% of Tapestry’s budget comes from foundations, individual donors, and service fees.
That means community support directly sustains the programs that government funding doesn’t fully cover. From free safer sex supplies and Narcan training to WIC nutrition support and medication abortion access across Western Massachusetts.
Every gift goes directly to the programs your community depends on:
- 🩺 $15 provides free safer sex supplies, including condoms and birth control
- 💉 $25 provides syringes and Narcan that can improve health and save lives
- 🟠 $50 funds Narcan training so people have the tools to save a life from overdose
- 🍎 $150 gives a family access to healthy food and nutrition education through WIC
- 💊 $300 helps cover medication abortion services across all four counties in Western MA
- 🌟 $500 keeps Tapestry responsive to evolving community needs in a changing political climate
Tapestry's Impact
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)
This photo captures a part of our work that lives at the intersection of science and community care. We are using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) to analyze a sample submitted by one of our program participants while trying to make the local drug supply more visible and more understandable. In a setting shaped by uncertainty, risk, and uneven access to information, this work creates opportunities for people to respond with greater awareness and care.
The image highlights the concentration, collaboration, and responsibility involved in drug checking as it happens in real time.
Community Bag Board
Our “Bag Board” tells a story about how knowledge moves. Information from our community drug checking program does not remain confined to a machine or a spreadsheet. It is translated into forms that people can use in their everyday lives through conversation, community health education, and responses rooted in what people are seeing and experiencing locally.
This image captures how knowledge is carried outward from individual samples into collective understanding, making the realities of the drug supply more visible and more usable.
Breastfeeding Posters
Created by Tapestry staff for a National Breastfeeding Month (August) event, this poster highlights the care, connection, and support at the heart of breastfeeding. With messages like “there’s love in every drop” and “todas somos las mejores mamás” (we’re all the best mothers), it reflects the inclusive, community-centered approach of Tapestry’s WIC program.
Breastfeeding support is a vital part of WIC services, offering education, resources, and encouragement to help participants feel confident and supported in their feeding journeys.
Food Pantry
We are able to have food donated by Western Mass Food Bank and distribute these items at the Tapestry office. This project took time to start up, and we are currently seeing so many people in the community.
The community members say they are grateful to have a food pantry at Tapestry, as they don’t have money or an EBT card. We ask for low-barrier information, and they can come weekly to pick up food. We assist with about 60 households having the food pantry here.
Testing Set Up
The testing set up picture is the team getting ready to test for various illnesses. We have a lot of walk in testing at the NSAP office with many people wanting to get tested or are having a concern.
Having walk in hours is important as someone can walk in without having an appointment and to test them, and if they are positive, we can connect them to the Health Clinic or the Mobile Health van for treatment.
Diaper Drive Supplies
This photo captures the true impact of our diaper drive by highlighting the immediate and meaningful support it provides to families in need. They reflect not only the generosity of our community, but also the comfort, dignity, and relief that access to essential supplies brings caregivers and parents.
Through our diaper drive, you can see how a collective effort turns compassion into action, strengthening families and reinforcing that no one has to face hardship alone.
Tapestry's Health Services
Our efforts work directly to address the unjust health disparities that come from intersecting oppressions and barriers to accessing healthcare.
We provide comprehensive community-based healthcare for adults, teens and children.
Comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare, free safer sex supplies, and education for Western Mass locals.
Provide personalized nutrition education, access to healthy foods, 24/7 breastfeeding support, and referrals.
Services are free, confidential and available on a walk-in basis or through our Mobile Health service.
Harm reduction and medical services in Western Massachusetts by meeting participants in their neighborhoods.