The Bridges Intergenerational program, a 20-year collaboration between the Sudbury Council on Aging and Sudbury Public Schools, brings local seniors into every 4th grade classroom to foster mutual understanding and positive relationships. The Foundation made an initial grant to the program in 2000 and supported it once again in 2011.

 

2011 Grants

Community Building Grant

Town of Sudbury/Park and Recreation Department, Sudbury, MA
A $4,300 start-up grant to create a community garden on the grounds of the Fairbank Community Center.

Youth Development and Opportunity Grants

Sudbury Extended Day, Inc., Sudbury, MA
A $4,500 grant to fund a training conference for Sudbury child care and nursery school staff members.

Sudbury Public Schools, Sudbury, MA
A $7,500 grant to update of the Bridges intergenerational curriculum, a collaboration between Sudbury Public Schools and the Sudbury Senior Center, offered in every 4th grade classroom.

Organizational Capacity and Effectiveness Grants

Goodnow Library Foundation, Inc., Sudbury, MA
A $15,600 grant to hire a development consultant to begin planning a multi-year endowment campaign.

Sudbury Public Schools, Sudbury, MA
A $10,765 grant to purchase five automatic external defibrillators to be placed in each Sudbury Public School building in order to respond to cardiac emergencies both during and after school hours.

2010 Grants

Community Building Grants

Town of Sudbury/Council on Aging, Sudbury, MA, $15,000
To encourage residents to support their neighbors through continued funding of the Senior Volunteer Coordinator position at the Fairbank Senior Center.

Town of Sudbury/Park and Recreation Department, Sudbury, MA, $2,000
To help purchase equipment to start a Power Soccer program for area residents who use motorized wheelchairs.

Youth Development and Opportunity Grant

Sudbury Public Schools, Sudbury, MA $1,500
To fund a presentation to parents and community members on How to Ensure Cyber Success by Dr. Elizabeth Englander, a prominent spokesperson on cyber-world safety.

Organizational Capacity and Effectiveness Grants

Longfellow’s Wayside Inn, Sudbury, MA, $50,000 over 2 years
To hire a part-time development staff member to create the Inn’s first fundraising infrastructure.

Town of Sudbury/Department of Public Works (DPW), Sudbury, MA, $37,000
To create an automated data tracking system for DPW activities that will be tied to the Town’s current GIS system. The project is a follow-up to the CORE management process funded by the Foundation in 2008 and 2009.

 

2009 Grants

Community Building Grants

Friends of Sudbury Park and Recreation, Inc., Sudbury, MA, $20,000
To support the creation of a handicapped-accessible playground and park for ages 2-5 at Sudbury’s Haskell Field in partnership with the adjacent Boundless Playground, also handicapped accessible, for ages 5-12.

Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Sudbury, MA, $2,375
To provide transitional funding for the L-S Civic Orchestra until a new fundraising mechanism is formulated.

Town of Sudbury, Sudbury, MA, $4,500
To purchase fencing and timbers to complete the handicapped-accessible playground at Haskell Field.

Town of Sudbury/Council on Aging, Sudbury, MA, $15,000
To encourage residents to support their neighbors through continued funding of the Senior Volunteer Coordinator position at the Fairbank Senior Center.

Youth Development and Opportunity Grant

Sudbury Public Schools, Sudbury, MA, $65,000
An additional year of funding for the School and Family Social Worker position, designed to support students with emotional, family and mental health issues and their families.

Organizational Capacity and Effectiveness Grants

Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School/L-S Adult Education, Sudbury, MA, $5,000
To cover the cost of printing and mailing the program’s 2009 Spring and Fall course catalog.

Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Sudbury, MA, $4,800
To purchase a new server and integrated database and circulation software for the school’s library.

Longfellow’s Wayside Inn, Sudbury, MA, $12,000
For a second year, to host the Longfellow Big Read, a series of community events that encourage the multi-generational reading of the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Sudbury Education Resource Fund, Inc., Sudbury, MA, $1,200
To redesign the organization’s web site.

Sudbury Extended Day, Inc., Sudbury, MA, $5,200
To support a workshop for Sudbury childcare workers on “How to Handle Hard to Handle Children.”

Town of Sudbury, Sudbury, MA, $3,000
For a facilitated process designed to help the Department of Public Works develop strategies and initiatives for improved operating efficiencies.

Other

American Chestnut Foundation, Bennington, VT, $10,000
To plant a tree in ACF’s new Legacy Orchard in honor of Sudbury Foundation Trustee John Taft’s 30+ years of service.

 

2008 Grants

Community Building Grants

Town of Sudbury/Council on Aging, Sudbury, MA $15,000
To encourage residents to support their neighbors through continued funding of the Senior Volunteer Coordinator position at the Fairbank Senior Center.

Town of Sudbury, Sudbury, MA $4,500
To establish a citizens’ education program so Sudbury residents can learn more about how Town government works.

Town of Sudbury/Local Emergency Planning Committee, Sudbury, MA $1,000
To support outreach activities for Sudbury’s Community Emergency Response Team.

Town of Sudbury/Local Emergency Planning Committee, Sudbury, MA $1,000
Through the Vulnerable In-Town Populations subcommittee, to distribute a questionnaire to encourage vulnerable Sudbury residents to engage in emergency planning and to help first responders locate frail seniors and people with disabilities in the case of an emergency.

Sudbury Historical Society, Sudbury, MA $9,500
In partnership with the Sudbury Public Schools, to develop a unit of study on the history of Sudbury to enhance the third grade Colonial America curriculum and to pilot the first year of the program, which will culminate in a field trip for all third graders to historic sites in Town Center.

Preservation of Community Character & Assets Grants

Sudbury Valley Trustees, Inc., Sudbury, MA $350,000
To help purchase a Conservation Restriction on 300 acres of the Knox Trail Council’s 450-acre Nobscot Scout Reservation. (An additional $450,000 grant was made to the project from the Foundation’s Atkinson Donor Advised Fund at Crossroads Community Foundation.)

Town of Sudbury/Ponds and Waterways Committee, Sudbury, MA $1,000
To mount and frame 10 color maps of the town’s ponds and waterways for use by and display at Sudbury’s public schools and town buildings.

Youth Development and Opportunity Grants

Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Sudbury, MA $12,250
Scholarship support for a nine-day trip to Puerto Rico that will provide 15 METCO students with an opportunity to travel, experience another culture and perform community service.

Sudbury Public Schools, Sudbury, MA $6,000
In partnership with the Sudbury Historical Society, to develop a unit of study on the history of Sudbury to enhance the third grade Colonial America curriculum and to pilot the first year of the program, which will culminate in a field trip for all third graders to historic sites in Town Center.

Organizational Capacity and Effectiveness Grants

Goodnow Library Foundation, Inc., Sudbury, MA $10,000
To hire a consultant to help set this new Foundation’s strategic direction.

Town of Sudbury/Fire Department, Sudbury, MA $3,900
To purchase a “Transfill Portable Oxygen Analyzer” to assure the quality of oxygen generated, bottled and delivered to ambulance patients.

Town of Sudbury/Sudbury Public Schools, Sudbury, MA $15,000
For a facilitated process designed to help the Town of Sudbury and Sudbury Public Schools work together to develop strategies and initiatives to contain and/or reduce the costs of town and school services.

Woods Walk Sanctuary, Inc., Sudbury, MA $2,000
To assess the feasibility of acquiring and renovating a Sudbury property as a group home for mentally and/or physically disabled residents with accessibility to the property’s nature trail.