GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Boston Globe

Unique in Boston’s Metro West, Waltham’s Community Day Center provides 600 homeless people a year with a daytime base of operations for job searches, short-term services and a midday meal.

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Featuring Community Day Center of Waltham, a grantee of the Clipper Ship Foundation.

CLIENT ADVISORY

Summary: Web-based applications make it easy for foundations to receive and evaluate proposals, help funders communicate with applicants and collect information about how nonprofit organizations make a difference.

GMA Foundations recently partnered with Foundant Technologies to move over 20 of our foundation clients to online applications.

On the basis of our early experience, we found that the advantages of an online system outweigh the challenges of switching to the new system. Continue Reading »

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY

The Physicians Foundation released a report which examines the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and provides physicians with guidance on how this legislation will directly impact their practice of medicine.

The report, titled A Roadmap for Physicians to Health Care Reform, describes a detailed perspective on the issues that are influencing health care reform as well as major legislative changes, such as changes in payment systems, quality reporting, shared savings programs and reshaping the private health insurance market. Continue Reading »