| Community
Building Grants |
| Concord Chorus, Concord,
MA $5,000 |
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To help the community celebrate
the Chorus’s 60th anniversary through a special
concert in the spring of 2006. |
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| Jewish Family Service
of MetroWest, Framingham, MA $20,000 |
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Continued support for Healing
Partners, a program that encourages and trains faith communities
to support the bereaved, caregivers and those living with
illness.
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| St. Elizabeth’s
Episcopal Church, Sudbury, MA $10,000 |
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For start up support of Metropolitan
Interfaith Congregations in Action, a coalition of the
region’s diverse congregations to enable them to
work together on such issues of shared concern as access
to health care and affordable housing. |
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| Organizational
Capacity and Effectiveness Grants |
| A Suitable
Image, Framingham, MA $15,000 |
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Over three-years,
to provide part-time administrative support to this start-up
organization which counsels unemployed, disadvantaged
women in appearance and other skills to help them return
to the workforce. |
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| Adolescent
Consultation Services, Inc., Cambridge, MA $30,000 |
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Over three years, to support
the Education and Advocacy Program which offers
a variety of follow-up services to low-income, court-involved
youth and their families in the Framingham area. |
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| Alliance
for Teen Safety, Inc., Concord, MA $7,000 |
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In support
of a project to restructure the board and develop a short
and long-term strategic plan for this coalition of youth
organizations formed in 1999 to address issues related
to risky teen behaviors. |
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| Boys
& Girls Club of Assabet Valley, Maynard, MA $20,000 |
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To support
a strategic plan process that addresses the growing membership
and facility needs of this organization promoting positive
youth development. |
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| Boys
and Girls Clubs of Metrowest, Marlboro, MA $5,000 |
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To upgrade the Clubs’
web site to facilitate program, and event registration
and secure online giving. |
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| Center
for Arts in Natick, Natick, MA $25,000 |
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For technology
enhancements at this community center for performance,
music, dance, theater and visual arts. |
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| Danforth
Museum of Art, Framingham, MA $30,000 |
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Over two
years, to create a gallery space for children’s
book illustration that links the first floor community
museum with its second floor museum school. |
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| Domestic
Violence Services of Central Middlesex, Inc., Concord,
MA $4,000 |
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For strategic
planning assistance as this five-year-old organization
realigns its organizational structure and mission to
reflect a recent expansion of services. |
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| Gaining
Ground, Inc. Concord, MA $2,500 |
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To purchase
a tractor to increase efficiency and effectiveness of
cultivation at the organization’s three farm sites
where fresh, organic produce is grown and donated to area
meal and shelter programs. |
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| Higgins
Armory, Worcester, MA $3,000 |
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To help fund
A Knight at the Goodnow, a series of programs at Sudbury’s
Goodnow Library that will illuminate the history of knighthood
and build a regional audience for this museum dedicated
to the collection, preservation, exhibition and interpretation
of arms and armor. |
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| Minute
Man Arc for Human Services, Inc., Concord, MA $5,000 |
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To enable
this agency serving individuals with developmental disabilities
and their families to retain fundraising counsel during
a critical year of expansion and opportunity. |
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| Sounds
of Concord, Concord, MA $3,500 |
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To help this
60-member barbershop chorus acquire sound and other basic
performance equipment. |
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| Worcester
Natural History Society/EcoTarium, Worcester, MA $60,000 |
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A two-year
grant to enhance the visitor experience by refurbishing
the indoor dining area at this center for environmental
exploration. |
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| Preservation
of Community Character and Assets Grants |
| Framingham
Historical Society & Museum, Framingham, MA $15,000 |
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To help
defray the cost of the Fabric of Framingham exhibit
which showcases the museum’s extensive costume
and textiles collections while celebrating the Town’s
history of diversity. |
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Friends
of the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge, Marlborough,
MA
$20,000 |
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To develop
a plan for the management of invasive plant species in
the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge and surrounding
conservation land. |
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| Louisa
May Alcott Memorial Association/Orchard House, Concord,
MA $23,000 |
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For repairs
and a historic structures report on the Concord School
of Philosophy, a center for adult education founded by
Transcendentalist philosopher Bronson Alcott. |
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| Musicians
of the Old Post Road, Waltham, MA $5,000 |
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For two
area concerts by this professional chamber ensemble which
reunites the music, instruments and performance styles
of earlier centuries at sites along the historic Boston
Post Road. |
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| Sudbury
Valley Trustees, Inc., Sudbury, MA $200,000 |
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Over four
years, to provide leadership support for SVT’s first
watershed-wide capital campaign through expansion of the
stewardship endowment. |
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| Youth
Development and Opportunity Grants |
| Community
Alliance for Youth, Acton, MA $4,000 |
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To help print
the revised and updated Red Flags Resource Guide, designed
to help communities identify and respond to the warning
signs of risky behavior on the part of their teens. |
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| Greater
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Inc., Boston, MA $5,000 |
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To help support
student scholarships for a summer tour to Latvia, Russia
and Estonia. |
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| Metrowest
YMCA, Framingham, MA $15,000 |
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In support
of the YMCA’s outdoor, adventure-based counseling
program for at risk youth. |
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| Sudanese
Education Fund, Lincoln, MA $3,500 |
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In support
of activities to strengthen local high school students’
involvement with the region’s Sudanese refuges. |
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| The
Children’s Room, Arlington, MA $5,000 |
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To build
the volunteer base in the Metrowest area for this organization
which provides bereavement support to children by offering
training sessions at the Framingham site. |
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The Children’s Room, Arlington, MA $5,000 |
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A second
year of support for opening the Framingham, MA site of
this organization which offers ongoing bereavement support
to children who have lost a loved one. |
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