Programs

Foundation Program Areas:

1. Education
   Education grants focus on organizations and programs that enhance cognitive and social skills in an effort to support educational success. Education grants are limited to programs and organizations serving disadvantaged youth and their families.
   
   Examples of education projects funded:
   Plymouth Boys and Girls Club
   Day Care Project Upgrade, Brockton
   Get on BASE – Building After School Excellence, Brockton
   Plymouth Boys and Girls Club, Capital Campaign and Program Funding
   Cape Cod Boys & Girls Club
   Brockton Trails Project
   Boys Hope/Girls Hope
   
   
2. Environment
   Priority is given to land protection, coastal pollution, ecological preservation and restoration, and environmental education. Projects that leverage public and/or private grants are given priority.
   
   Examples of projects funded:
   Wildlands Trust of Southeastern Massachusetts: operating, land acquisition, Coastal Plains Pond Project
   The Nature Conservancy, Massachusetts Chapter, Plymouth Pinelands Program: operating and land acquisition
   Taunton River Campaign
   Jones River Watershed Association
   New England Wildlife Center
   Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies

Project Highlights
The Foundation is strategic in its grantmaking, and is geographically focused. We aim to build partnerships among grantees working in similar fields in an effort to enhance the effectiveness of the groups’ missions.