GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: The New York Times

The New York Times features a unique collaboration between City Life/Vida Urbana , Boston Community Capital and Harvard Law School that is helping families impacted by the foreclosure crisis. Through advocacy and post-foreclosure negotiations, a number of families in working-class neighborhoods of Boston are able to stay in their homes and rent or buy back their foreclosed properties.

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Featuring City Life/Vida Urbana and Boston Community Capital, grantees of the Herman & Frieda L. Miller Foundation.

GMA Foundations founder Newell Flather recently donated a painting to the new Art of the Americas wing at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting is “Black Tie” by Robert Freeman, a prominent Boston artist. The gift was commemorated in a reception at the museum on March 17, 2010.

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: The New York Times

If the magic ingredient for good schools is high quality teachers, what makes a great teacher? This article profiles Doug Lemov and his interesting response. Lemov was a co-founder of the Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter School in Boston, and now works for Uncommon Schools, a nonprofit that starts, manages and networks outstanding charter schools in the Northeast.

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Featuring Uncommon Schools, whose associate member schools Boston Collegiate Charter School and Roxbury Preparatory Charter School are grantees of the Clipper Ship Foundation, Charles Hayden Foundation, Mabel Louise Riley Foundation and the Schrafft Charitable Trust.