Community Teamwork Inc. in Greater Lowell received a recent $10,000 grant from the Nashoba Valley Healthcare Fund for their Bone Builders Program, shown here are active adults from a recent program held at the Chelmsford Senior Center.
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Nashoba Valley Healthcare Fund Awards 18 Grants to Local Nonprofits to Improve Health
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The Greater Lowell Community Foundation and the Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts awarded $176,881 in grants to 18 local nonprofits, from the Nashoba Valley Community Healthcare Fund, to help improve the health of residents in area communities.
Priority was given to proposals pertaining to prevention of health problems, access to healthcare, elder health, youth and adolescent health, mental health and health care service provision. Recipients of the grants were selected by the Nashoba Valley Community Healthcare Fund Advisory Committee, comprised of local leaders in business, health care and education.
“These are impactful grants for our community and we greatly appreciate the hard work and diligence of the volunteer grant committee in prioritizing the needs,” said Jay Linnehan, President and CEO of the Greater Lowell Community Foundation.
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GLCF Receives LHA Community Partner of the Year Award
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On March 13, the Lowell Housing Authority honored GLCF with a Community Partner Award at the LHA's Annual Recognition Awards for the Foundation's support of programs such as Traveling Science Workshops and most recently the GLCF grant supported Tech Savvy Seniors. This program seeks to expand technology support services for elderly residents to include onsite seminars for residents living in the LHA's elderly developments.
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GLCF President Linnehan with LHA's Mary Ann Maciejewski, LHA Board Chair Vanna Howard, and LHA CEO Gary Wallace
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Nominations Wanted for the Tom Leggat Opportunities Fellowship Award for Youth
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The Trustees of the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation established a fellowship award at the Greater Lowell Community Foundation in honor of former Trustee Tom Leggat. In recognition of Tom’s interest in the advancement of youth and his dedication to the betterment of Lowell, an award of up to $5,000 will be granted to at least one young promising Lowellian.
Examples of the kind of opportunities the Trustees have in mind are a post graduate year at an independent school, challenging outdoors and wilderness programs, college-level summer school, overseas travel and homestay programs, year-long internships that have obvious enrichment potential, and foreign language acquisition and study courses. The Leggat award may
not be used for the purpose of conventional college scholarships.
Please see the below nomination form for more information. Nominations must be fully completed (typed) and returned
via email
, by
April 26th, 2019
for consideration.
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GLCF Awards Capital Grants to Organizations Battling Hunger and Homelessness
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The Greater Lowell Community Foundation (GLCF) has awarded $90,000 to 11 area nonprofit organizations through a 2019 Help Alleviate Hunger and Homelessness in Massachusetts grant. This generous one-time capital grant was made possible from an anonymous donor that partnered with the GLCF to distribute the funding to area nonprofits that are battling hunger and homelessness in the community.
“It is encouraging to see the great work that so many nonprofit organizations in our community are doing to address homelessness,” said Greater Lowell Community Foundation President and CEO Jay Linnehan. “GLCF, in partnership with a generous and visionary donor, is hopeful that these capital grants will provide some needed resources to battle the primary consequences of poverty - hunger and homelessness and ultimately positively impact the futures of so many.”
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Interns Amsetou Pamboudem of Boston and Christopher McDonald of Medford prepare meals for House of Hope in Lowell, which received a recent $10,000 capital grant, made possible from an anonymous donor that partnered with the Greater Lowell Community Foundation, for a commercial stove and upgrades to their fire suppression system at the Fletcher Street Building.
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Focus on Funds:
Women Working Wonders
“Well behaved women seldom make history.”
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Women Working Wonders just made 15 years of history! What began as a small group of women coming together to found a collective giving organization focused on women’s issues has grown to an endowment fund of over $800,000 that has made 36 grants of $5000 each in the Greater Lowell area. In order to ensure the future success of WWW and provide the means by which young women can engage actively and meaningfully in philanthropy, we are embarking on a campaign to grow our endowment fund to the $1 million mark. Nancy Donahue has generously offered a $50,000 matching challenge for gifts and pledges to the
WWW 15
th
Anniversary Crystal Campaign
. Please join us in celebrating women in philanthropy!
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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, call please call Jay or Howard at the Greater Lowell Community Foundation at 978-970-1600.
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GLCF Board Members in the News
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Congrats to GLCF Board Chair and
Enterprise Bank
EVP
Chet Szablak
! Chet Szablak
will be one of four individuals honored at the 18th annual Bishop John R. McNamara Awards Gala on Tuesday, April 9 at Lenzi's in Dracut.
Read more:
http://bit.ly/2U0DhZG
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Congrats to GLCF Board Member and
Trinity EMS President
John Chemaly
!
At their fifth-annual gala on April 4 at the UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center, they'll be honoring: John Chemaly, Lowell Fire Chief Jeff Winward, as well as Lowell General Hospital/Circle Health CEO Jody White.
Read more: http://bit.ly/2Ovf2wF
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
Cambodian Cultural After School Program
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The GLCF funded a 2018 Discretionary Grant request in support of
CMAA
's Cambodian Cultural After School Program (CCASP.) The program is free for participants, minus a modest registration fee that is waived for families who lack resources.
Utilizing academic, social, and recreational activities, 35 preteens and adolescents, ages 7-16, will improve academic performance, engage appropriately with peers and adults, and connect with their heritage through participation in cultural preservation and inter-generational opportunities which will strengthen further the underlying pride in the Cambodian community.
For approximately two and a half hours each weekday, students participate in: homework tutoring for at least an hour per afternoon; reading sessions utilizing books from CMAA’s mini-library; lessons in Khmer language, dance, games, and Tro – a Khmer instrument; and visits from Buddhist Monks who teach the youth about traditional cultural traits, such as greetings, language, Buddhist religion, and Cambodian history.
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The Nature Connection, Inc.
Therapeutic Programs For Elders in Concord and Bedford
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The GLCF funded a 2017 Discretionary Grant request in support of
The Nature Connection
's
programs combining seasonal natural materials, live animals, and hands-on activities with elders to connect individuals with nature’s capacity to heal, teach, and create joy. Participants in Nature Connection programs build year-long relationships with their peers, Nature Connection staff and volunteers, and animals.
The grant funds were used as seed money to expand the Nature Connection elder programs to serve more sites, while they continued to subsidize some of the programs that serve low-income individuals.
In FY18, Nature Connection served 15 different program sites, a total of 300 sessions were delivered -- with 2,749 contacts with Nature Connection constituents. Within the past year, programming has grown by 25%.
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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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President + CEO Jay Linnehan
participated in Lowell Community Charter Public School's #ReadAcrossAmericaDay - engaging a classroom of first graders with the Dr. Seuss classic
What Pet Should I Get.
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CEO Linnehan and GLCF VP Amidon, with
with Lisa Tellekson,
attended Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell's 12th Annual Dream Builders Gala
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Congresswoman Lori Trahan (D-MA-03) with GLCF CEO Linnehan
at the Annual Lowell Women’s Week Breakfast
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GLCF VP Aradhya with Lura Smith and Meg Moore at Annual Lowell Women’s Week Breakfast
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GLCF VP Aradhya with Open Pantry of Greater Lowell's
Executive Director Geoff Bryant
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