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Woburn Charities Get Boost From Beacon Grille
Cummings Properties' restaurant donates proceeds to 60 charities.
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We are delighted to share the complete and very diverse list of 60 local charities that recently received major funding from Cummings Foundation, the beneficiary of 100 percent of Beacon Grille's net profits. Through its first cycle as a grant-making organization, the Foundation awarded a total of $6 million this summer, primarily to not-for-profits based in eastern Middlesex County and the Beverly area. Several charities in Suffolk County also received grants.
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With a goal of supporting the communities in which the Cummings organization, including Beacon Grille, operates and where most of its employees live, the Foundation was pleased to make grants of $100,000 each to charities that address a variety of important issues, including education, healthcare, social justice, and underserved populations. These organizations were, of course, in addition to a broad array of not-for-profits that the Foundation has supported, in some cases, since it began in 1986. One such organization is the Cummings/Hillel Program for Holocaust and Genocide Education at Tufts University, to which Beacon Grille's profits are specifically allocated.
See below for the complete list of recipient organizations, as well as brief descriptions of the newly funded projects. This information is also available on our website.
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We recognize and greatly appreciate your support of Cummings Foundation through your patronage of Beacon Grille.
Cummings Foundation's 2012 Grantees
$100,000 grants awarded to each
American Islamic Congress
Boston, Massachusetts
To support its efforts of fostering respect for human rights and civil rights, driving genuine relations, and promoting tolerance and the exchange of ideas between people of all faiths.
North Andover, Massachusetts
To provide free scheduled or emergency air transportation, ensuring patients receive the medical care they need without depleting their financial and emotional resources.
To enhance the organization's online presence, and to help provide valuable educational and learning opportunities for visitors to the new Armenian Heritage Park in Boston.
Beverly, Massachusetts
To help expand the operating room of this full-service community hospital to meet the healthcare and surgical needs of its patients from the North Shore and beyond.
Boston, Massachusetts
To establish the Ada Louise Huxtable Fellowship in Civic Engagement and Service Learning in honor of the Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic of The Wall Street Journal.
Bridge Over Troubled
Waters
Boston, Massachusetts
To support its Transitional Day Program, the only 24-hour drop-in center in Greater Boston designed specifically for high-risk homeless youth who need critical survival services.
To help provide a safe, supportive environment for homeless moms and kids while these families pursue self-sufficiency through education, job training, and employment.
Catholic Charities, Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
To support its nearly 100 programs and services around eastern Massachusetts that provide social services to thousands of our neediest neighbors of all faiths.
Catholic Charities - North
North Shore, Massachusetts
To benefit the programs and services offered throughout the North Shore via the organization's offices and child care centers in Danvers, Gloucester, Lynn, Peabody, and Salem.
Conversation Project
Cambridge, Massachusetts
To support the Massachusetts launch of this project, founded by Ellen Goodman, that encourages the sharing of end-of-life wishes to create a more humane experience for the dying and their loved ones.
Wellesley, MassachusettsTo support its Stem Cell Consortium through which researchers will develop, study, and maintain Alzheimer's neurons that will be used to screen for new drugs.
Emmanuel College
Woburn, Massachusetts
To help develop an interdisciplinary program in Middle East Studies and an Arabic Foreign Language Certificate as part of its Global Studies and International Affairs Program.
Empower Peace
Boston, Massachusetts
To support its Stand Up anti-bullying program and fund a delegation of emerging female leaders from New England to attend The Women2Women International Leadership Conference.
Endicott College
Beverly, Massachusetts
To help fund construction of a new, state-of-the-art facility that will support its expanded Entrepreneurship Center and its rapidly growing biotech/life sciences program.
Facing History and
Ourselves
Brookline, Massachusetts
To help nurture democracy and combat racism, anti-Semitism, and prejudice through educational programs, including the June 2012Holocaust Remembrance Project.
Family Service of
Greater Boston
To increase its capacity to provide in-house services for children and families with intensive therapeutic needs, who are referred through childcare centers participating in its Strong Start program.
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)Boston, Massachusetts
To help fund legal challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), according to which the federal government refuses to acknowledge the marriages of same-sex couples.
Germaine Lawrence School Arlington, Massachusetts
To support its services for girls who have been sexually exploited, including clinical therapy, academic education, support groups, mentoring, and creative activities.
Giving Camp
Medford, Massachusetts
To help provide fun activities and friendship for Woburn area people with physical and mental challenges, as well as a respite for their families and caregivers.
Winchester, Massachusetts
To support its exhibits and programs that promote an appreciation of photographic art and a broader understanding of its visual, emotional, and social impact.
Hallmark Health
Stoneham, Massachusetts
To help fund its new, state-of-the-art Comprehensive Breast Center, which will provide residents of Boston's northern suburbs with ready access to the most advanced care for breast disease.
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
To support the research of Arlan Fuller, Jr., which explores how Roma (Gypsy) youth in Serbia, Romania, and Italy experience exclusion, and also identifies mechanisms for change.
Boston, MassachusettsTo support its Healthy Housing for Seniors program, which seeks to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare for frail elders living in subsidized senior housing.
Home for Little Wanderers
Roxbury, Massachusetts
To support Roxbury Village, a new program that provides former foster youth with safe, stable housing and the necessary support to become self-sufficient adults.
Boston, Massachusetts
To provide financial assistance to Boston area students of all faiths attending Catholic elementary and secondary schools, helping to ensure the accessibility of a quality education.
Irish International
Immigrant Center
Boston, Massachusetts
To benefit its Inclusion and Integration Project, which will educate its large network of clients, students, partners, and supporters on the value of diversity and inclusion.
Marlborough, Massachusetts
To help fund construction of a state-of-the-art Cancer Pavilion, bringing all of the hospital's cancer services together under one roof to provide comprehensive care and treatment.
Middlesex Canal Commission
Woburn, Massachusetts
To reconstruct the Middlesex Canal Towpath in Woburn and connect it to pedestrian outlets at Alfred Street and School Street, providing a recreational path for Woburn area residents.
Mission of Deeds
Reading, Massachusetts
To help provide more needy families in Middlesex and Essex counties with beds, furniture, and basic household items, free of charge and with a minimal waiting period.
Montserrat College of Art
Beverly, Massachusetts
To develop a much needed new website and other tools to increase functionality and enhance relations with students and their families, community members, and potential supporters.
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, Massachusetts
To support the exhibition Ori Gersht: History Repeating, a survey of the artist's work, which serves to promote intercultural understanding and discussions about anti-Semitism in the past and present.
Museum of Science
Boston, Massachusetts
To help underwrite the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition, bringing its ancient artifacts to Boston and helping visitors understand the divisions and inequalities that still echo in modern society.
Mystic Valley Elder Services
Malden, Massachusetts
To support Project Reach, which includes needs identification, outreach, programs, and services targeted to a growing population of diverse and marginalized elders in the region.
National Alliance on Mental
Illness
Woburn, Massachusetts
To help prevent unnecessary arrests of persons with mental illness, diverting them instead to community-based crisis treatment and stabilizing follow-up care.
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
To help expand its classroom offerings to include fourth grade, enabling the school to have a more significant effect on each student's learning experience.
Neighbors Who Care
Waltham, Massachusetts
To help fund outreach services to assist underserved homebound elderly and chronically ill adults without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap.
To support the most urgent needs of this two-year, public college, offering programs leading to Associate in Arts and Associate in Science degrees as well as one-year certificates.
OpenAirBoston
Boston, Massachusetts
To support Tech Goes Home, providing low-income families with a new netbook or mobile device, classroom training, and access to low-cost home Internet.
Our Place Daycare Center for the Homeless
Cambridge, Massachusetts
To support a one-time building expansion project to expand the children's daycare facility by 25 percent and increase the program's enrollment capacity.
Pine Street Inn
Boston, Massachusetts
To help homeless US Veterans and low-income individuals who have served in any branch of the U.S. armed forces access resources for housing, employment, and community services.
Salem, MassachusettsTo help establish the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, which will increase access to related educational resources and connect with area survivors of genocide.
Social Capital Inc.
Woburn, Massachusetts
To help train teen leaders, expand theWorldFest Multicultural Leadership program, develop an online guide and training program, and pilot a Social Capitalist Fellows program.
Medford, MassachusettsTo support a pilot program that helps its students explore their multicultural roots and discuss with their families issues of prejudice, discrimination, and racism.
To help fund its adaptive sports and recreation program, enhancing the independence, physical health, and emotional well-being of people with disabilities.
Tufts Cummings School
of Veterinary Medicine
North Grafton, Massachusetts
To help fund a recognized leader for the school's signature International Veterinary Medicine program, part of a comprehensive global health network across Tufts University.
Tufts Osher Lifelong
Learning Center
Medford, Massachusetts
To increase the size of the office staff, upgrade computer and A/V equipment, develop an online registration system, and introduce new audiences to the program.
To support the Cummings/Hillel Program for Holocaust and Genocide Education, which hopes to teach a new generation the importance of moral action in the face of persecution and oppression.
United Way of Mass Bay
Boston, Massachusetts
To support Project BOOST, which works with struggling youth in four specially identified underperforming middle schools to create emotionally safe environments and increase graduation rates.
Wilmington Youth Soccer
Wilmington, Massachusetts
To help fund TOPSoccer, a special athletic program helping Wilmington area kids with physical, emotional, and intellectual challenges develop social and gross motor skills.
Winchester Field Development
Winchester, Massachusetts
To support a capital program to renovate and restore Winchester's athletic fields, providing the community and its athletic teams with safe, adequate, and accessible facilities.
Winchester Hospital
Winchester, Massachusetts
To benefit a variety of areas, including its new Ambulatory Services Center, patient services at its Center for Cancer Care, and nursing education and scholarships.
Winchester
Multicultural Network
To help fund a new executive director position, which will enable the organization to sustain and expand its programming, which promotes the recognition, understanding, and appreciation of diversity.
Woburn (North Suburban)
YMCA
Woburn, Massachusetts
To further its mission to connect people of all backgrounds, and to provide scholarships, childcare, and programs for healthy living, social responsibility, and youth development.
Woburn Boys & Girls Club
Woburn, Massachusetts
To support its strategy to deepen program impact and promote capacity building at this organization that welcomes boys and girls of all races, religions, and ethnic cultures.
Woburn Council of Social Concern
Woburn, Massachusetts
To help serve those in need through its food pantry, children's center, family childcare system, parenting education program, and supervised visitation program.
Woburn Historical Society
Woburn, Massachusetts
To support the planning, production, and promotion of programs and exhibits that inform and educate the citizens of Woburn about their city's history and rich heritage.
To help fund individualized support services and professional care at Warren House, allowing survivors of brain injury to live more independently in a home-like atmosphere.
Woburn, Massachusetts
To help further its mission to provide comprehensive care and support to patients and families facing the challenges of life-limiting illness and loss, regardless of acuity, cost, or ability to pay.
Youth Villages
Woburn, Massachusetts
To support Transitional Living, a program designed to help young adults who are aging out of state custody learn skills to transition into independent and productive lives.
Boston and Stoneham, Massachusetts
To help expand cultural participation in its zoos with free and discounted days, community pass programs, cultural activities, and more user-friendly signage and promotional materials.
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