On love, on grief, on ev’ry human thing,
Time sprinkles Lethe’s water with his wing.

With Walter Savage Landor’s two-line poem, U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky illustrated the relevance of poetry as a form of human expression as elemental as music or dance.  The theme of this funder briefing, “Poetry in Hard Times,” demonstrated how the arts can flourish in an economic depression.  Continue Reading »

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: Yes! Magazine

The spring issue of YES! magazine features a photo essay about The Food Project, a program that grows healthy food on land in Boston, the North Shore and Lincoln, Massachusetts with the support of local youth and volunteers. 

Features Schrafft Charitable Trust grantee: The Food Project

 To see the photo essay, click here.

Representatives from leading green jobs innovators-the Eagle Eye Institute, YouthBuild Boston and the Trustees of Reservations-were invited to GMA Foundations to discuss the development of their collaborative Green Industry Career Pathway program. Continue Reading »