/PRNewswire/ Point32Health Foundation today announced grants totaling $1 million to advance social and racial equity. The funds will support nonprofit.
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The ribbon-cutting for the Seaweed Shelter was attended by, from left, artist David Wilson, Portland Mayor Kate Snyder, Dinah Minot of Creative Portland, artist Eric Hopkins and Greg Jordan of Greater Portland Metro.
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Community leaders and elected officials celebrated new bus shelter art by Maine
artist David Wilson at an informal ribbon-cutting June 1.
The installation titled “Seaweed Shelter” – a gothic seaweed fantasy at the Portland Transportation Center at 100 Thompson’s Point Road – was inspired by Maine’s rockweed-covered coast and the elaborate wrought-iron gate work found in Portland’s West End.
The artist was born in Kirkintilloch, Scotland, and moved to Maine in the ’70s. A painter, printmaker and designer, Wilson earned an MFA in Painting from Syracuse University in New York.
Weymouth Food Pantry receives $2.2K in Community Spirit Grants
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Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation recently announced Weymouth Food Pantry was awarded $2,200 from the Foundation’s Community Spirit 9/11 Mini-Grant program.
Four employees of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Health Plans Inc. nominated the organization for the award. Funds will be used to purchase healthy, nutritious food for the Weymouth community.
To commemorate those Harvard Pilgrim members who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001, Harvard Pilgrim and the Foundation created the Community Spirit 9/11 Mini-Grant program. This program allows each Harvard Pilgrim employee to award a $500 grant, completely funded by the foundation, to the local charity of his or her choice each calendar year. Since the community grants program began in 2002, Harvard Pilgrim employees have directed more than $7 million to thousands of organizations throughout Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and New Hamps
Local nonprofits get Harvard Pilgrim grants for COVID-19 efforts
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Two local nonprofits recently received grants from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation for COVID-19 relief efforts.
Growing Places in Leominster and Fitchburg-based Making Opportunity Count each received a $10,000 grant for supporting community needs during the pandemic, such as food access and meal delivery, services for older adults and immigrant families, social and community services, and emergency response.
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation committed more than $3.5 million in initial grants for COVID-19 relief efforts in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut.
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Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation has announced that the Wampatuck Parent Teacher Organization in Scituate was awarded $500 from the Foundation’s Community Spirit 9/11 Mini-Grant program.
Jamie Giacomozzi, an employee of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, nominated the organization for the award. Funds will be used to purchase classroom supplies for teachers and students for the school year.
To commemorate those Harvard Pilgrim members who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001, Harvard Pilgrim and the foundation created the Community Spirit 9/11 Mini-Grant program. This program allows each Harvard Pilgrim employee to award a $500 grant, completely funded by the foundation, to the local charity of his or her choice each calendar year. Since this community grants program began in 2002, Harvard Pilgrim employees have directed more than $6.8 million to thousands of organizations throughout Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.