GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: The Boston Globe

The nonprofit Food Project empowers youth while educating and engaging them in sustainable agriculture. Not only do teens learn about nutrition and health through farming, but they also gain vital workforce skills such as leadership training, community building and marketing through the organization’s Farmers’ Markets and Community Supported Agriculture programs. The Boston Globe highlighted the work of this unique organization and its impact on the urban agriculture movement.

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Featuring The Food Project, a grantee of the Ludcke Foundation, the Schrafft Charitable Trust and the Foley Hoag Foundation.

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe reports on efforts such as the inaugural poetry reading titled U35 (under 35) which take aim at ageism in the literary world. The story references the new publication “Small Things Can Grow Tall: Words from the Underestimated” of 826 Boston, a writing and tutoring center. The book is a series of essays by English High School inspired by Sherman Alexie’s short story “Indian Education”.

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Featuring 826 Boston, a grantee of the A.C. Ratshesky Foundation, the Clipper Ship Foundation, and the Ludcke  Foundation.

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: The Boston Globe

This week the youth empowerment and advocacy group Hyde Square Task Force released survey data that reported tensions between Boston youth and MBTA police officers. The survey data was presented at a press conference attended by the Transit Police Chief.

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Featuring Hyde Square Task Force, a grantee of the A.C. Ratshesky Foundation, Anna B. Stearns Charitable Foundation, Herman and Frieda L. Miller Foundation, the Schrafft Charitable Trust, the Foley Hoag Foundation and Ludcke Foundation.