Awards
Elevating At-risk Youth and Communities: Recently Funded Initiatives
The Foundation Trust recently announced its inaugural grant and scholarship recipients. In total, $284,813 was awarded in 2019 to over 35 nonprofit organizations in select communities in Greater Boston. Grants were awarded in each of the Foundation Trust’s priority tracks: Overcoming trauma and adversity, Elevating high-risk youth and communities, Restoring dignity and quality of care…
Read MoreOvercoming Trauma and Adversity: Recently Funded Initiatives
The Foundation Trust recently announced its inaugural grant and scholarship recipients. In total in 2019, $284,813 was awarded in grants and scholarships to over 35 nonprofit organizations in select communities in Greater Boston. Contributions were made in each of the Foundation Trust’s priority tracks: Overcoming trauma and adversity, Elevating high-risk youth and communities, Restoring dignity…
Read MoreFoundation Trust Announces Complex Trauma Research Scholarship
The Foundation Trust is excited to announce the launch of the Complex Trauma Research Scholarship, which was established to provide mentorship and financial support to a graduate student doing empirical research in Psychology or related fields. This new scholarship falls under the purview of the Foundation Trust’s Overcoming Trauma and Adversity track. Within this track,…
Read MoreFoundation Trust Announces 2020 Grant Cycle
The Foundation Trust is pleased to announce that its 2020 grant cycle is now open for nonprofits and city-run public benefit programs serving the communities of Chelsea, Everett, and Stoneham. “In 2019, the Foundation Trust provided over $280,000 in grants and scholarships to local communities. We’re thrilled to expand our geographic reach to new…
Read MoreFoundation Trust Parochial School Scholarship Program Expands Regionally
The Foundation Trust, a private operating foundation serving Greater Boston, is pleased to announce the second year of providing financial need and family adversity-based scholarships to offset tuition costs for parochial school students. The trustees of the Foundation Trust established this scholarship to mitigate the financial burden of unanticipated adversity on a family’s ability to…
Read MoreFoundation Trust Announces 2019 Award Recipients
The Foundation Trust is pleased to announce its 2019 charitable funding. In total, more than $280,000 was awarded in grants and scholarships to nonprofit organizations and students in the Greater Boston area. 35 nonprofit organizations representing the 2019 catchment communities of Brockton, Lynn, Medford, Melrose, Revere, and Saugus, in addition to 12 other Massachusetts communities,…
Read MoreAward Archive 2019
We are currently in the process of finalizing review and awards for the current grant cycle. Award recipients will be posted by September 2019.
Read MoreFoundation Trust Announces First Recipient of the Dante Dieso Scholarship
The Foundation Trust is pleased to highlight the first recipient of the Dante Dieso Scholarship for the 2018-2019 academic year at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Rose Ogrodnik is a senior at the Questrom School, where she is studying for her bachelor’s degree in Business and Finance. Ogrodnik notes that “I chose a business…
Read MoreFoundation Trust Makes Major Gift to Boston Children’s Hospital
The Rooftop Garden The Foundation Trust is pleased to announce its capital gift of $100,000 to Boston Children’s Hospital towards the construction of the Hale Family Clinical Building, a new facility opening in the Fall of 2021. The building will include a comprehensive and integrated five-floor Heart Center, a new state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care unit,…
Read MoreFoundation Trust Provides Emergency Assistance To Family In Need
Isabel’s Health Journey Begins It began in December as a typical child’s cold that never fully went away. Being a conscientious mother, Jessica Clifford, a high school Spanish and ESL teacher from Acton, MA, took her 3-year-old daughter Maria Isabel to the pediatrician just in case. Nothing of concern was identified. By February, it was…
Read MoreFoundation Trust Supports Classical Music in New England through Major Gift to Boston Symphony Orchestra
rjasso / Pixabay Our Fourth Funding Track: Nature and the Arts Joseph Spinazzola, Executive Director of the Foundation Trust, explains, “While our other three priority funding tracks focus on providing direct services to vulnerable and overlooked individuals and communities, our fourth track seeks to preserve and advance those things that sustain and unite us as…
Read MoreFoundation Trust Initiates Partnership With Greater Boston Stage Company To Support Regional Theater
A curious observer might wonder why a new charitable foundation with an otherwise clear emphasis on supporting vulnerable communities and the nonprofit organizations that serve them has designated preservation of New England’s cultural and environmental heritage as its fourth priority funding track. Access to the Arts and Nature Is an Essential Part of Healing For…
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