Award 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 Launches New Resource Website on Complex Trauma
The Foundation Trust is proud to announce the launch of complextrauma.org/ a curated repository of classic and emerging information and resources on complex trauma exposure and adaptation.
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 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…
Read MoreFoundation Trust Launches New Website
In time for the beginning of 2018, Foundation Trust is pleased to announce the creation of their new website. On the website, you can read about our funding tracks, the range of awards that we offer and make a tax-deductible donation to our fund. Look around. We hope you like what you see.
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