GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: Seed Magazine

Traditionally, women who do the bulk of the farming in Africa have had to haul water from long distances to tend their crops. An experimental partnership between an academic research group and and the Solar Electric Light Fund has introduced villagers to the transforming ability of solar powered drip irrigation in Benin’s remote sub-Saharan Kalalé district. To read the article, click here.

Featuring Solar Electric Light Fund a grantee of the Conservation, Food and Health Foundation.

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: New York Times

Three Massachusetts health centers are participating in a pilot program with local farmers’ markets to alleviate obesity in children and low-income families by increasing their consumption of fruits and vegetables. Doctors in participating health centers will give coupons of $1 a day for each member of a family of four in 50 families and will track their progress. To read the article click here.

Featuring the Codman Square Health Center, a grantee of Clipper Ship Foundation, Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust, Anna B. Stearns Foundation, Lalor Foundation.

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: The Boston Globe

The number of farms in Massachusetts is on the rise, even as the average acreage of these farms is decreasing. To read the article, click here.

Featuring the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, a grantee of the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust and the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation.

GMA Foundations hosts a lunchtime office hour every other month for grantseekers seeking an informal orientation to GMA Foundations and an opportunity to discuss developments in the field.   These events are scheduled for August, October, December, February, April and June.  For details please call Susan Haff at 617/391-3092.

Please call in September to sign up for the October 20 event or register online.

The stronger a neighborhood’s social identity, the worse for boys.- Lawrence Harmon, “Deadly Streets,” Boston Globe, May 10, 2010

On August 2, GMA Foundations hosted a funders briefing with sociologist David Harding focused on his recent book, Living the Drama: Community, Conflict and Culture Among Inner-City Boys. The meeting was facilitated by Boston Globe columnist Lawrence Harmon.

Harding’s book is drawn from interviews with 60 black and Latino boys living in separate neighborhoods in Roxbury, Dorchester and Dorchester Lower Mills. The first two neighborhoods are classified as areas of concentrated poverty, with 40 percent or more of residents living at or below the federal poverty level. Dorchester Lower Mills is primarily working and middle class and served as a control group for the study. Continue Reading »

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: Lowell Sun

The United Way of Massachusetts Bay & Merrimack Valley has awarded $100,000 to 13 youth programs in Lowell. The grants are a part of the Summer Experiences in Greater Lowell (SEGL) initiative and are largely financed by the Parker Foundation. The initiative is expected to serve 3,000 Lowell area youths with quality summer programming focused on developing leadership and social and academic skills while school is not in session.

To read the article, click here.

Featuring the United Way of Massachusetts Bay & Merrimack Valley, a grantee of the Parker Foundation