Tuesday, October 15
UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center
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5:30 p.m.
Reception + Business Philanthropy Exhibitors
6:30 p.m.
Program Begins
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Tickets:
$100 per person
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Celebrate Giving 2019
Business Philanthropy + Community Impact
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Join the Greater Lowell Community Foundation as we celebrate business philanthropy and community impact at this year's Celebrate Giving. This annual event celebrates the impact of philanthropy on our community and showcases poignant stories about the importance of charitable giving with keynote speaker: Prabal Chakrabarti, Senior Vice President & Community Affairs Officer, Boston Federal Reserve.
The event will also include our community partner, Paul Blount, President of Custom MMIC who will talk about the company's commitment to scholarship support of women in engineering. Additionally, we will also be presenting the 2019 GLCF Business Philanthropy Partner Award to NETSCOUT for their Heart of Giving community grant program.
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Women Working Wonders Fund Awards $25K in Grants to Support Local Women and Girls
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From l to r: Bopha Malone, WWW Board President, Brenda Costello, WWW Grants Committee Co-Chair, Jeffrey D. Thielman, President and CEO of International Institute of New England and Carrie Meikle, WWW Grants Committee Co-Chair.
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The Women Working Wonders (WWW) Fund, a permanently endowed fund of the Greater Lowell Community Foundation, recently announced the recipients of $25,000 in grants. These grants will support local programs that empower women and girls to effect positive change in the community.
WWW Grant Recipients:
- $5,000 to Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell to support F.L.Y. (Forever Loving Yourself)
- $5,000 to Girls Inc. of Greater Lowell to support Stepping Stones Early Education Program
- $5,000 to International Institute of New England to support Lowell’s English for Empowerment Program (E-FEM)
- $5,000 to Lowell Community Health Center to support Strong Women, Strong Families Program
- $5,000 to Megan House Foundation of Lowell to support “Coming Home” Program
“We’re proud to celebrate our 15th anniversary and provide an additional grant to the community this year,” said Bopha Malone, Women Working Wonders Fund board president. “These nonprofits work wonders to improve the lives of girls and women, and we’re honored to help them make a difference and create positive change in countless lives.”
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Women Working Wonders Fund - Power of the Purse
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The Women Working Wonders (WWW) Fund will host the Power of the Purse event on
Thursday, October 24
at the UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center. Proceeds benefit the WWW grants.
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Community Partners open Children’s Reading Resources at Lowell Family Shelters
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The Greater Lowell Community Foundation (GLCF) recently partnered with local nonprofits to open four reading resources at Lowell family shelters. The reading resources were officially opened on August 4.
The Foundation identified a need for these resources as many at-risk children from families who are living in transitional living facilities do not always have access to books. These facilities also do not always have resources for books or a way to display/organize books to make them inviting and accessible to children and families. Project partners include On the Move Inc. who supplied the books with funding from GLCF, bookcases were provided by CTI YouthBuild and Community Teamwork provided the resource site selection and management.
More than 500 books, selected from current summer reading recommendations, were purchased for the children at four local sites. The children will be able to keep their selected books and the supply will be replenished as needed.
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Advancing Lowell: A Funders' Overview
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On Tuesday, August 20th, in partnership with the Theodore Edson Parker and Nathanial and Elizabeth P. Stevens Foundations, and Philanthropy Massachusetts, the Greater Lowell Community Foundation hosted a gathering of more than 50 philanthropic foundation and business funders. Area experts led conversations about
The Homelessness Initiative
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Immigrant Inclusion and Leadership Development
, and
Arts and Culture
to inform the funders about current initiatives, and opportunities for impact. A follow up day of visits is being planned for October.
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Nashoba Valley Healthcare Fund Grant Recipients
The Greater Lowell Community Foundation and the Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts awarded $176,881 in grants this year to 18 local nonprofits, from the
Nashoba Valley Community Healthcare Fund
, to help improve the health of residents in area communities.
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Gaining Ground in Concord received a 2018 Nashoba Valley Healthcare Fund $5,000 Grant for Growing Fresh Produce for Hunger Relief with Community Volunteers.
Gaining Ground's grant for support of their hunger relief and farm volunteer program to help ensure that local food programs are supplied with fresh, organic produce throughout the growing season. These programs are a vital resource for the families struggling with food insecurity and make a difference to the problem of food insecurity in Massachusetts.
"We are so grateful for the support from the Nashoba Valley Community Healthcare Fund Grant. Without our generous funding partners, we would be unable to provide our healthy, organic produce to those in need, " said Amy Capofreddi, Executive Director, Gaining Ground.
Gaining Ground regularly supplies twelve food programs with freshly harvested produce throughout the growing season: Open Table (Concord), Open Table (Maynard); Bedford Community Table; Food for Families (Concord, Carlisle); House of Hope (Lowell); Gaining Ground’s free farmers’ market at Children’s Village at the Mill and Phoenix Ave (two Head Start programs, Lowell); Loaves and Fishes (Ayer); Mill City Grows (Lowell); Westford Council on Aging Pantry; Pine Street Inn (Boston); Rosie’s Place (Boston); and the Sudbury Food Pantry. Surplus harvest is shared with Boston Area Gleaners. Many of these programs serve older clients. The Concord and Carlisle Councils on Aging (COA) refer more than half of the guests who attend Food for Families.
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Ashby
Fire Chief Mike Bussell with Cameron Milewski and the Rad-57 Monitor
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The Ashby Fire Dept. received a 2018 Nashoba Valley Healthcare Fund $5,595 Grant for Rad-57 Pulse CO-Oximeter with SPCO adult and pediatric monitor that will allow EMS service to assess the carbon monoxide levels in a patient's blood.
Rural and urban communities all around the Commonwealth face the challenge of providing the highest level of care possible to their residents. Small rural communities face additional funding challenges when attempting to provide the capital for purchases to support these efforts. One of the technologies that can be out of reach for a rural EMS service is the ability to assess Carbon monoxide levels (SPCO) in patients. SPCO devices provide valuable information about patients for responders involved in the most common Hazmat call all fire departments respond to, alarm activations with suspected Carbon Monoxide poisoning. The Rad-57 meter also provides invaluable information to EMTs during fire rehab operations.
"The high cost of these important devices make it difficult for a small fire department such as ours to afford to add or replace this equipment. This SPCO device can quickly recognize, monitor and help us provide proper treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning in the field prior to arriving at the hospital," shared Ashby Fire Chief Mike Bussell.
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To learn more about the
Nashoba Valley Community Healthcare Fund
grants, visit our
website
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Merrimack Repertory Theatre's Young Company Culminates with Performance
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On Friday, August 2, GLCF attended 2019 MRT's Young Company Special Showcase Presentation. Young Company was a recipient of a 2018 GLCF Children's Services grant.
Program Director Robert Cornelius said, "The opportunity to work with these young people has been a gift. This group brought their hearts and souls to this project and will take with them the skills and confidence to continue to create - and appreciate - art. The students collaborated on three short plays, giving voice to their emotions and feelings in their own words about things that are relative to them in the world today. I am proud to have been there to witness it."
MRT's Young Company is a professional theatre training program for high school students interested in all aspects of performing arts and new play development as a career. Nationally recognized playwrights, actors, and directors will work closely with students to develop their own voice in their scripts and learn about performing improv, musical theatre, and modern approaches to acting and auditioning.
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Scenes from 2019 MRT's Young Company Special Showcase Presentation
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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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GLCF is Confirmed in Compliance with National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations.
Our accreditation provides assurance that we have sound policies and practices in place. In short, it means we meet the highest standards for local giving.
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