Awards
Foundation Trust Celebrates Culminating Performance of 2025-2026 Teen Artist Fellowship Recipient at Urbanity Dance
Left to right: Jana Pressley, Foster Woodberry, Joseph Spinazzola, Miranda Lawson, Betsi Graves Last month, the Foundation Trust was honored to attend the culminating performance of Foster Woodberry, recipient of the 2025-2026 Foundation Trust Teen Artist Fellowship. Foster, under the guidance of mentor Miranda Lawson, created Patchwork, a dance they describe as “exploring how different…
Read MoreHighlights from the 2nd Annual Complex Trauma Training Summer Institute – Professional Growth, Experiential Learning, and Collegiality
Last month, the Complex Trauma Training Institute (CTTI), supported in part by the Foundation Trust, held its second annual Summer Institute in Hyannis, MA. Over 50 clinicians from around the world gathered for an intensive learning experience featuring leading treatment model developers, clinical researchers, and innovators in the field of complex traumatic stress. Participants had…
Read MoreAnnouncing the Recipients of the Foundation Trust Emerging Artist Initiative at Urbanity Dance!
We are thrilled to announce the recipients of the Foundation Trust Emerging Artist Initiative at Urbanity Dance. This initiative is part of the Foundation’s Priority Track 4, which aims to promote opportunities for underrepresented individuals in the arts. Under the guidance of Betsi Graves, Director and Founder of Urbanity Dance, the initiative included development of…
Read MoreAward Archive 2023-2024
GrantsExpandBoys and Girls Club of Greater Salem Bread of Life Follow Your Art (Writing Fellowship and Youth Program) Greater Boston Stage Company Giving Voice Melrose Alliance Against Violence Melrose Council on Aging Melrose YMCA Revere Community School Revere High School Outdoors Club Revere PAL/CAPIC Large GiftsExpandScholarshipsExpandComplex Trauma Research Scholarship Dante Dieso Scholarship, Boston University Questrom…
Read MoreREVERE NONPROFITS RECEIVE PARTNERSHIP GRANTS FROM THE FOUNDATION TRUST
The Foundation Trust is pleased to announce its 2023 Revere grant recipients. Since its first grant solicitation cycle in 2019, over $80,000 has been awarded in scholarships and grants to nonprofit organizations serving the Revere community, including over $23,000 this year. “Thank you so much for once again including Revere in your charitable giving…
Read MoreMELROSE NONPROFITS RECEIVE PARTNERSHIP GRANTS FROM THE FOUNDATION TRUST
The Foundation Trust is pleased to announce its 2023 Melrose grant recipients. Since its first grant solicitation cycle in 2019, over $100,000 has been awarded in scholarships and grants to nonprofit organizations serving the Melrose community, including over $37,000 this year. “Every year, we observe the positive impact funding from the Foundation Trust has…
Read MoreBoys and Girls Club of Greater Salem Receives New Bus Funded in part by Foundation Trust
Over 60 campers attended the event On July 14th, the Boys and Girls of Greater Salem (BGCGS) celebrated the arrival its new bus at Collins Middle School. BGCGS staff, supporters, friends, and over 60 campers were in attendance at the event as well as City Councilors, School Committee members, Senator Joan Lovely, and Salem…
Read MoreSpecial Performance of Boulevard of Bold Dreams for Local Students Sponsored by Foundation Trust
Boulevard of Bold Dreams imagines the evening Hattie McDaniel won the first Academy Award by a Black actor in 1940. Image courtesy of Nile Scott Studios. Last month, the Foundation Trust sponsored a student event at our partner the Greater Boston Stage Company. Over 300 students from Everett High School, Boston College High School, Groton-Dunstable…
Read MoreTheresa Okokon Selected for 2023 Foundation Trust Black Writer Fellowship
Theresa Okokon is the 2023 Foundation Trust Black Writer Fellowship recipient Boston-based writer and storyteller Theresa Okokon has been awarded the 2023 Foundation Trust Black Writer Fellowship at Follow Your Art Community Studios in Melrose. Her debut essay collection The Okokon Family Orchestra is slated to launch later this year. Okokon, originally from Wisconsin,…
Read MoreFoundation Trust Announces 2023 Grant Cycle
The Foundation Trust is pleased to announce that it is currently accepting Letters of Inquiry for its 2023 Partnership Grant program. Interested nonprofit organizations and municipal-run programs in the communities of Melrose and Revere are invited to propose innovative programming, to be designed and/or implemented in partnership with the Foundation Trust, in one or…
Read MoreShredded Beauty: Transforming Trauma Through Fashion
Several looks created by designer Stephanie Couchell graced the stage at the Greater Boston Stage Company For one night only, the stage at the Greater Boston Stage Company transformed into a captivating display of ten gowns, created by local designer Stephanie Couchell. Couchell, a graduate of the School of Fashion Design, Boston, is a recipient…
Read MoreNovember 30th Event: “Shredded Beauty” Art Exhibit at the Greater Boston Stage Company
2022 Foundation Trust Emerging Artist solo exhibit explores recovery from trauma though fashion. Members of the public are invited to attend Stephanie Couchell’s exhibit on November 30th at the Greater Boston Stage Company from 7-8:30 pm. Couchell is a recipient of the 2022 Foundation Trust Emerging Artist Fellowship. Curated as an immersive gallery experience, the exhibit…
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