GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: Forbes

A blue-ribbon panel of experts selected social entrepreneurs who are tackling the world’s most intractable problems.  The magazine named One Acre Fund founder, Andrew Youn as one of the world’s top 30 on its list.

To read the article, click here.

Featuring One Acre Fund, a grantee of the Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: New York Times

Writer Michael Winerip followed Nathaly Lopera, a high school senior enrolled in the Let’s Get Ready college access program in Boston.

To read the article, click here.

Featuring, Let’s Get Ready, a grantee of the Babson Foundation, AC Ratchesky Foundation, and the Ludcke Foundation

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY

Located in a renovated firehouse in a primarily low-income East Boston Latino neighborhood, Zumix engages youth in music and the arts. First Lady Michelle Obama recently presented the 2011 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award to Zumix youth and staff at the White House. Zumix is one of only 12 programs chosen from a national pool of more than 471 nominees and 50 finalists for the country’s highest honor for youth arts programs.

To read the full press release, click here.

Featuring Zumix, a grantee of the Foley Hoag Foundation, Clowes Fund, Mabel Louise Riley Foundation and Schrafft Charitable Trust