In calendar 2011, The Parker Foundation awarded a total of $978,519 in grants in fields of interest including the arts, education, community and economic development, and human services, all for the benefit of Lowell, Massachusetts, the fourth largest city in Massachusetts.

In the arts, the Foundation followed up on a 2010 grant to the Lowell National Historical Park for a major exhibition commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. Dickens visited the new city of Lowell in 1841 and reported, in a special chapter of his American Notes, on the high value placed on the arts by the Lowell “factory girls,” who enjoyed music-making, subscribed to lending libraries, and contributed to the Lowell Offering, a local literary publication. Continue Reading »

EVENTS OF NOTE

The Lalor Foundation’s Anna Lalor Burdick Program hosted representatives of fifteen grantee organizations from as far away as Hawaii and close as Boston for a November conference.  A group of Boston teens from the Hyde Square Task Force got the event under way by presenting their new video, “Sex in School, Does Ignorance Keep Us Safe?” promoting comprehensive sex education in the Boston public schools. Continue Reading »

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: Outside Magazine

Outside Magazine ranks Health In Harmony on of the top 30 charities for citizen philanthropy.

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Featuring, Health In Harmony, a grantee of the Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation.