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.

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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.

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

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: The Boston Globe

The nonprofit Food Project empowers youth while educating and engaging them in sustainable agriculture. Not only do teens learn about nutrition and health through farming, but they also gain vital workforce skills such as leadership training, community building and marketing through the organization’s Farmers’ Markets and Community Supported Agriculture programs. The Boston Globe highlighted the work of this unique organization and its impact on the urban agriculture movement.

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Featuring The Food Project, a grantee of the Ludcke Foundation.

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: Newsweek

The Family Van is an affiliate of Harvard Medical School that provides medical services to Boston’s underserved population from a mobile clinic. Approximately 50,000 Boston residents utilize the van each year for health education, screenings, preventive services and referrals to medical and social service agencies. National weekly news magazine Newsweek explains how this innovative model could provide effective solutions for some of the problems facing American health care.

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Featuring The Family Van, a grantee of the Ludcke Foundation.

IDEAS / Q & A – Phil Hall

Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs stand as mythical figures in the history of urban planning and represent two sharply different approaches. Moses was a builder of epic proportions, whereas Jacobs was known for her preservationist work. Moses operated unilaterally, whereas Jacobs was rooted in community and organized successfully against two Moses projects.  Moses was a great strategist.  As an advocate of “organized complexity” Jacobs veered close to anarchy. These two giants helped to reshape urban life.  Phil Hall of GMA Foundations explains what they might teach present-day philanthropy. Continue Reading »

GRANTEES  IN THE NEWS

Source: WBUR

La Vida Scholars is a new college preparation program in Lynn, Massachusetts that requires parents to deposit $50 a month for three years. These college savings accounts are then matched dollar-for-dollar and can be used to cover college costs. A radio segment on WBUR, the Boston affiliate of National Public Radio, takes an indepth look at how such incentives for greater family involvement can improve the educational attainment of low-income youth.

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Featuring La Vida, Inc, a grantee of the Ludcke Foundation, the Ratshesky Foundation and the Clipper Ship Foundation.