The health of forests, farms, and people continued to be the main theme in the Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation’s grantmaking in 2012.

Foundation grantees regularly receive recognition for their work as social innovators.  Examples include:

International Rivers’ partner, Ikal Angelei won the 2012 Goldman Environmental Prize winner for Africa for her work with Friends of Lake Turkana.  The foundation is helping fund work to stop the Gibe III dam that flows into Lake Turkana – the world’s largest desert lake. The lake is home to the world’s largest population of Nile crocodiles, hippos, and hundreds of bird and fish species. Continue Reading »

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The American Textile History Museum will present GMA Foundations’ founder Newell Flather with its 2012 Community Service Award  at a Gala on Friday, November 2nd.

The Community Service Award honors an individual or individuals who  have shown outstanding community service through their good works, exemplary  volunteer service, compassion, and involvement with the American Textile  History Museum (ATHM) and the community.   Past honorees include Nancy and Richard Donahue, John H. Pearson Jr., George and Carol Duncan, Michael Creasey and the Lowell National Historical Park and Brenda Costello.

Newell Flather has been an originator and leader in the field of philanthropy for over 40 years. He was Second Marshal of his Harvard class, chaired his Class Alumni Committee since 1971, and served three terms as Director of the Harvard Alumni Association. He taught high school in Ghana from 1961-63 as a member of the first Peace Corps volunteers. “By being first, we got to break everything that became the Peace Corps rules.”

In 1974, he was a founding trustee of Oxfam America, which today raises over $75 million annually for projects in the developing world. While Chair of Oxfam, in 1980, he visited the massive refugee camps on the Thai-Cambodian border, where he had his first contact with many courageous Cambodians who are citizens of Lowell today. Continue Reading »

The Tanne Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2012 awards, given in furtherance of the foundation’s mission to underscore the importance of supporting individual artists with unrestricted funding.

Over fourteen years, the foundation has recognized sixty-eight artists and nine organizations for their outstanding achievements in a variety of fields in the visual and performing arts, including performance art, painting, poetry, music, acting, and dance.

The 2012 awards, totaling $39,000, honor six artists in recognition of their artistic achievements as well as one artist-run organization which has presented exceptional work for over 35 years.  The 2012 recipients are: Continue Reading »