GRANTEES IN THE NEWS
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Skip Rosen highlights Boston’s Community Rowing in an article about the current state of rowing in the United States.
Features Community Rowing, Inc., a grantee of the Clipper Ship Foundation, the Anna B. Stearns Charitable Foundation, the Hayden Foundation, and the Rutland Corner Foundation.
To read the article, click here.
CLIENT ADVISORY
Summary: Families without wealth such as property, cash, and other investments, often get trapped on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder. Foundations can help develop asset building strategies that allow low-income Americans to save for home ownership, higher education, retirement, or a small business.
GMA Foundations hosted a briefing highlighting the progress of the asset building movement in Massachusetts.
The June 2nd briefing featured consultant Christine Robinson, one of the pioneers of the foundation asset development movement, Monalisa Smith, a vice president at Citizens Bank, the lead funder of Greater Boston Interfaith Organizations’ “From Debt to Assets Program”, and Angela Brown, Senior Program Officer of the Hyams Foundation and a member of the Asset Development Commission for the State of Massachusetts. Continue Reading »
