2018 Awards
Foundation Trust Establishes Scholarship with St. Mary of the Annunciation School of Melrose to Support Families in Need
New Scholarship Fund Relieves Family Burden We are thrilled to announce the establishment of the Foundation Trust Scholarship Fund with St. Mary of the Annunciation School in Melrose, MA. The scholarship was established to mitigate the financial burden of unanticipated adversity on a family’s ability to continue their child’s education at St. Mary’s. Returning students…
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…
Read MoreFoundation Trust Establishes Dante Dieso Scholarship Fund at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business
A Legacy Supporting Education As he approached his 100th birthday, Dante Dieso, Founder of the Foundation Trust, ensured that his legacy would support the educational and professional advancement of underprivileged youth and young adults for at least another century. In his last act as Trustee, Mr. Dieso made the new foundation’s largest donation yet: a…
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