2024 List of Grants
Regular Grants
Aaron’s Presents
$25,000 to support preparing for growth of Aaron’s Presents in Lowell
Allies in Music Education
$5,000 to support The Common Voice: Community Chorus
Carroll Center for the Blind
$10,000 for the Age with Independence program
Coalition for a Better Acre
$20,000 challenge grant to support furnishing of the new Youth & Community Space
Eliot Presbyterian Church
$45,000 for the Eliot Day Center
$15,000 special grant to assist with the homeless
Lantern Light Camps
$25,000 for Nature’s Gateway: Lowell Youth to Wah-Tut -Ca Overnight Camp
Lowell Festival Foundation
$7,500 to improve Lowell Folk Festival accessibility
Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE)
$15,000 to find permanent adoptive homes for youth in foster care in Greater Lowell
Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers
$25,000 for MAPS Lowell Office Renovation Project Phase II
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of cruelty to…
$12,500 for Lowell Community Outreach
Merrimack Valley Food Bank
$200,000 multi year grant for the Feed and Nourish Capital Campaign
Middlesex Community College
$29,615 for the Paraprofessional to PK-12 Teacher Pathway Program
One Can Help
$20,000 for providing missing resources to at-risk foster children in Lowell
Project Citizenship
$25,000 to support citizenship services for metro Lowell
Project Kompass
$25,000 to enable Project Kompass to accommodate additional unhoused women in their facilities
Project Play2Learn
$10,000 challenge grant to support the Power2Play collaboration with the Multilingual Language Education Department of Lowell Public Schools
Riverbend
$75,000 to support the outreach program
THRIVE Community of Massachusetts
$25,000 to support capacity building for wraparound reentry in Lowell
UMass Lowell
$10,000 to support the Philanthropy Program
Mini Grants
African Cultural Association
$7,500 for the African Festival
Annie Powell, Inc.
$5,000 to support “Chasing Annie Powell” – Lowell Photographer to be posted throughout Lowell
Brush Art Gallery
$5,000 to support the Lowell Youth Program Collaboration
CASE Lowell
$5,000 to support Winter Fest, focused on free entertainment for children
Cervitude Coalition
$7,500 to help fund phase II of opening a community clinic in downtown Lowell to provide quality mental and holistic health direct care services for BIPOC people living with complex trauma
Coalition for a Better Acre
$7,500 to purchase 750 Legends of Little Canada books for free distribution to Lowell High School students
Communidad Columbiana Lowell
$7,500 for the installation of La Fuerza Obrera Columbiana to pay tribute to Columbian immigrants who came to Lowell in the 1970s
Points of Light
$5,000 for the Points of Light Lantern Celebration
Generation Citizen
$5,000 to provide PD and coaching to 25 Lowell High School teachers to implement Action Civics to teach 2 Lowell Lead Teachers and 1275 students over two years
Greater Lowell Community Foundation
$6,000 for their Board Diversity Training Program
Image Theatre
$5,000 to fund actors and musicians for the world premiere of the musical “Lost Cellphone Weekend”
Lowell Southeast Asian Water Festival
$7,500 supporting the Festival Manager to reorganize the planning work for the festival
Nigerian American Multi-Service Association
$7,500 to support the Certified Nursing Assistant training program for African immigrants
On the Move
$7,500 for book distribution in Lowell schools
Project Play2Learn
$5,000 to bring “Play2Learn program to low-income, homesless, immigrant, and refugee children of Lowell
SayDanar
$7,500 for Barriers to Education: The Struggles of Myanmar Refugee Parents
St. Patrick School & Educational Center
$7,454 to provide chromebooks for students and touch view screens for classes
Strongwater Farm Therapeutic Equestrian Center
$7,500 for youth programs