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.

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

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source:  Lives, a partner publication of Scientific American

Pacific Environment and Resources Center and its partner in China, Green Anhui, were featured in an article about extreme water pollution in some of Asia’s most iconic rivers. The organizations were engaged in a two-year struggle against entrenched interests and lax enforcement of regulations to shut down three chemical plants that were dumping a toxic soup into the Huai River Basin causing an alarming increase in cancer deaths.

To read the article click here .

Featuring Pacific Environment, a grantee of the Conservation, Food and Health Foundation.

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: The Boston Globe

Every Friday and Saturday during peak evening hours for juvenile crime and violence, 25 police officers bring up to 100 children from the Boston’s housing developments to the Sportsmen’s Tennis Club, first African-American owned nonprofit tennis club in the United States.   A Boston Globe article reports on the partnership that helps youth to bridge neighborhood divides and build new relationships through playing tennis.

To read the article, click here.

Featuring Sportsmen’s Tennis Club, a grantee of the Dolphin Trust and the Anna B. Stearns Charitable Foundation.