Birth centers are safe home-like health facilities, staffed by midwives, offering personalized care, with the potential to transform community beyond childbirth.
In the US, as in Massachusetts, 98% of all births take place in a hospital, even though most births are low risk and can safely take place outside of the hospital.
Neighborhood Birth Center aims to improve health outcomes and experiences by creating a welcoming, home-like sanctuary for community-based midwifery care in the heart of Boston.
Rich with Black history and just minutes to Boston Medical Center and Longwood Medical Area, Roxbury is the perfect home for Boston’s birth center.
A decades-old vision of Boston midwives, Neighborhood Birth Center is poised to break ground summer 2026 and open in 2027!
Thank you to these generous institutional funders.
we also gratefully acknowledge the thousands of individual donors and families, including donor-advised fund supporters, whose contributions seeded our capital campaign and continue to support the growth of our operations.
Alnoba Lewis Family Foundation · Beck Foundation · Beth Israel Lahey Birth Center Fund · Birth Center Equity · Boston Children's Hospital Boston · Boston Women’s Fund · Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA Foundation · BOS Collaborative – an initiative of Boston Medical Center · City of Boston – Mayor's Office of Women’s Advancement · City of Boston – Office of Arts & Culture · Common Counsel Foundation · Community Movement Commons · Cummings Foundation · E.M. Lang Foundation · Every Mother Counts · Frieze Family Foundation · Gisele Hogan Foundation · Haymarket People's Fund · Jane's Trust · MA Department of Public Health · Ms. Foundation · New Commonwealth Racial Equity And Social Justice Fund · Noonan Memorial Fund · Samuel Rubin Foundation · Social Equity Access Fund · The Boston Foundation · Trefler Foundation · Wagner Foundation · WellWithAll Foundation · You Have Our Trust Fund.
(as of June 2026)
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Photo credits: Maria Fonseca Photography and Dar A Luz Birth and Health Center
