A notice to all Members of the Greater Lowell Community Foundation:
You are hereby notified that the Annual Meeting of the Greater Lowell Community Foundation is scheduled for June 13, 2019 at 6:00PM at the UMass Inn and Conference Center, 50 Warren Street, Lowell Massachusetts to, among other things, elect new director(s).
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GLCF/LHS Scholarship Program Awards more than $682,000 to 271 Seniors
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On May 7, 2019, as part of the 2019 Lowell High School Honor Awards Night more than $682,000 was awarded to 271 graduating seniors at Lowell High School. Hundreds of students and their family members attended the ceremony.
From families who have lived in Lowell for several generations, to refugees arriving from war-torn countries, the audience reflected the diversity of the city. Over half of this year’s 311 applicants will be the first in their family to attend college.
The scholarship program is made possible by a partnership between Lowell High School and the Greater Lowell Community Foundation.
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GLCF awards additional grant to support Detox Transportation for Lowell Community Health Center
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The Greater Lowell Community Foundation has awarded an additional $1,000 grant to the Lowell Community Health Center to continue support of a transportation initiative to facilitate patients’ timely access to offsite detox treatment.
“This grant has allowed the Lowell Community Health Center to remove a key barrier, the lack of transportation, to the assist their patients in getting the help they desperately need. This critical intervention can change the trajectory of their lives for the better and improve the community in which we live. We are grateful to Rep. David Nangle’s office for bringing this need to the Foundation’s attention,” said Greater Lowell Community Foundation President and CEO Jay Linnehan.
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GLCF Gives Back
To celebrate GLCF's 22nd birthday, we wanted to give back to our beautiful community. This year we selected Lucy Larcom Park as the service site. We worked together to clean up the park honoring Massachusetts Teacher, Abolitionist and Poet: Lucy Larcom.
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Give to the Future: Make a Planned Gift
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Your legacy can be shaped to support the causes you
care about now and provide financial and estate savings.
Everyone has a legacy. What’s yours?
To discuss creating a personalized estate plan that supports issues important to you, please call Jay or Howard at the Greater Lowell Community Foundation at 978-970-1600.
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Virginia Thurston Healing Garden
Nashoba Valley Healthcare Community Fund Grant
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Harvard, MA – The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden Cancer Support Center in Harvard received a recent $20,000 grant from the Nashoba Valley Healthcare Fund for their Clinical Cancer Support Programs and Services.
“The Healing Garden is extraordinarily grateful for the generous support from the Greater Lowell Community Foundation and the
Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts
. Knowing the financial impact that a chronic illness makes, the Healing Garden strives to provide programs and services for low to no cost to patients,” said
Margaret Koch
, Executive Director, Virginia Thurston Healing Garden. “Receiving a $20,000 grant from the Nashoba Valley Health Care Fund to help underwrite our costs, ensures that residents living in the Nashoba Valley towns can get access to rigorous evidence-based best practices in complementary cancer care which supports and enhances conventional medical treatment of the disease. These programs and service aim to improve quality of life by building coping skills, increasing physical and mental resiliency and providing compassionate patient centered support.”
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Northeast Legal, Inc
Giving free legal advice to families struggling with opioid use disorders
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Northeastern Legal, Inc.
started a new project in 2017 that is the first of its kind in Massachusetts. With the help of a GLCF grant, they offer free legal services to grandparents and other non-parent caregivers of children living in families struggling with opioid use disorders. Hosting more than fifteen community presentations and outreach events as well as creating information cards written in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Khmer to inform potential about their services has been helpful in identifying approximately twenty-five clients that have received direct assistance.
Their efforts and research have shown that about 35,407 grandparents are responsible for their grandchildren who live with them.
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PLATINUM PARTNERS:
Nancy L. Donahue
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A complete list of our sponsors is viewable on the Foundation's website (click
here).
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Linda Gallagher and 2019 Linda R. Gallagher Scholarship recipient Dellina Nhep
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2019 marks our 5th year of partnering with NETSCOUT for their Heart of Giving grant program. The grant finalists: Merrimack Valley Food Bank, The Nature Connection and Thrive, were invited to pitch their organization.
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LHS Scholarship Recipients Celebrate at Honors Night
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LHS students and
scholarship
recipients Eunice Tabea, Colin Martin, Saomenea Phorn and Moureen Mathenge (left to right) shared their inspiring stories with the Honors Night Selection Committee during LHS’s annual luncheon.
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On May 23, President Linnehan was honored at Community Teamwork Inc.'s annual Spring Celebration: Leading the Way Home with The Sisters of Charity of Ottawa and Eric Cousineau, state Sen. Edward Kennedy and Mayor William Samaras for their efforts to end youth homelessness
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