Following her graduation from Skidmore College last summer, Atkinson scholarship recipient and talented artist Hannah Mode used an Atkinson Opportunity Grant to work with the Awamaki Weaving Project in Peru, helping impoverished Quechua women revitalize an endangered weaving tradition while encouraging their financial independence. An exhibit of Mode’s photography from her two-month volunteer experience and […]
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New Program Announcement
The 2012 Children, Youth & Families Capacity Building Grant Program For the past 10 years our Regional Grants Program has funded a broad range of nonprofits in the 10 towns surrounding Sudbury. Beginning in 2012, we will narrow our grant focus to support agencies serving Children, Youth and Families. Our goal is to help shift the life trajectories […]
Farewell to the Regional Program
December 2011 marked the close of our Regional Grants Program, offered in its current configuration since late 2001. During that time, the Foundation awarded more than 200 grants totaling $3 million in four interest areas: Youth Development and Opportunity, Community Building, Preservation of Community Character & Assets and Capacity Building. It’s been a wonderful program that […]
Regional Program Grants Announced
Getting a Facelift The Robbins House in Concord (circa 1830) was built and inhabited by the descendants of Revolutionary War veteran and former Concord slavery survivor Caesar Robbins. Saved from demolition, the house was recently returned close to its original site across from The North Bridge and Old Manse where renovation is underway. A December […]
TEMPO named 2012 Social Innovator!
It’s sure to be an exciting year for Wayside Youth & Family’s TEMPO Young Adult Resource Center and its Program Director Yolanda Ortiz, recently named one of six 2012 Social Innovators by Root Cause last night. TEMPO received the award for the grant track funded by the Sudbury Foundation entitled “At-Risk Youth in MetroWest: Providing […]
Four SIF Finalists Selected
The four finalists for the Root Cause-Social Innovation Forum “At-Risk Children and Youth in MetroWest” grant track are all winners in our eyes. They are four great agencies serving youth in MetroWest in a variety of innovative ways. Congratulations to: Everybody Wins! MetroBoston supports youth in Framingham and Waltham through Power Lunch, a reading and […]
Sudbury’s Gem of a Food Pantry
The Sudbury Food Pantry’s Pat Mullen (left) tells Sara Barker all about the Pantry during the HOPEsudbury Telethon on November 5, 2011. A great and timely profile on Channel 5/WCVB of one of Sudbury’s little gems – The Sudbury Community Food Pantry The all-volunteer, choice pantry has been serving Sudbury and surrounding communities since 1990. […]
Local authors unveil new book
Book Launch for “From Your Loving Son” Join the Sudbury Historical Society for the launch of the new book “From your loving son” Civil War Correspondence and Diaries of Private George F. Moore and His Family. Sunday, November 6 at 2:00 p.m. at First Parish of Sudbury. Based on the Society’s unique collection of letters from […]
Do What You Love
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, gave one of the most profound commencement speeches at Stanford University in 2005. I think of it every year at graduation time and often pass along his simple and sage advice to the students in our scholarship program as they head off to college. His […]
Say Goodbye to the Deficit Model
Imagine this scenario: You go into your boss’s office for a performance review, and he or she confirms you’re doing a great job. Why? Not because of your strong work ethic or your brilliant project management skills, but because you haven’t gotten into an argument with a customer. You weren’t late to the office. And […]
