September 2023

The Greater Worcester Community Foundation is proud to announce a significant donation of $4 million from the estate of Mary T. Cocaine, matriarch of the Table Talk Pie company. This transformative gift will create three new endowed charitable funds at the Foundation: a scholarship fund, a donor-advised fund, and a field of interest fund. The focus area of these funds are education, economic security of families, and immigrant and refugee populations in Worcester and contiguous towns.

To learn more about the funds we offer and how you can support the Greater Worcester community now and in perpetuity, visit Establish a Fund on our website.

We have moved to a new location! Our new address is One Mercantile St. Ste. 010 Worcester, MA 01608. Please join us on October 17th for our Open House to meet our staff, see the new office, and continue conversations where philanthropy and the community flourish!

Youth for Community Improvement (YCI), our teen-led youth philanthropy group, has returned to an in-person format for the first time in three years with its largest cohort to date! We’re so excited to kick off our 24th year of YCI with 30 students from 12 different high schools, representing six cities/towns across Greater Worcester. Over the next three months, these students will work together to award $40,000 in grants in areas they care about. Stay tuned for more details!

As we welcome college students back to the Worcester community this fall, we’re pleased to share our 2023 Scholarship Yearbook, featuring stories from our college-bound scholarship recipients, donors who have invested in young people’s continuing education, and education leaders across Worcester County. Congratulations to the 421 students that received scholarships this year!

The Mary B. Grogan Fund for Youth was established by the Worcester County 4-H Foundation with the focus to uplift and benefit young residents of Millbury.This fund is for any nonprofit organization located in or providing dedicated services to young people residing in Millbury. Applications are due October 20.

Curry Printing has been working with the Greater Worcester Community Foundation for more than 25 years as one of their printers, but it wasn’t until 2023 that the two organizations formed a mutually beneficial partnership with Curry coming on as an Annual Sponsor. We sat down with Peter Gardner, President of Curry Printing for the past 15 years, to share more about how this partnership came to fruition.

Can you tell us about Curry Printing's decision to support the Greater Worcester Community Foundation as a corporate sponsor? What inspired this partnership?

"The Greater Worcester Community Foundation has been a client for a long time and I know them to do great work. I currently volunteer as a corporator for the Foundation and have previously served on scholarship committees. I’ve always been impressed with the way the organization...



Thank you to our GWCF Corporate Sponsor: