2010 CFNCM Grants

Grants from CFNCM General Endowment

The City of Leominster received $5,000 for its initiative, Artist Gateway, which seeks to create economic development activity by introducing local arts and culture to the downtown area. “Every artist is indeed their own small business and has clientele – many outside Leominster. We want to bring those people to Leominster to explore restaurants and shops, while visiting their favorite artist,” said Wendy Wiiks, grant administrator for the City of Leominster.

A $16,000 grant to the Fitchburg State College Foundation will fund a summer reading clinic. The pilot program will serve a dual purpose, to provide continued assessment and intensive instructional interventions for 25 economically disadvantaged students with low reading achievement scores in grades K-8 from Fitchburg, while providing professional development for licensed teachers working toward an additional license as a reading specialist.

Habitat for Humanity of North Central Massachusetts will use its $20,000 grant as start-up funds for Habitat ReStore, a retail store that will sell donated new and gently used items, such as doors, windows, kitchen cabinets, appliances and furniture, at 50 to 80 percent below retail. The Fitchburg-based nonprofit will use the proceeds to provide additional support to build affordable housing.

Montachusett Interfaith Hospitality Network, which provides emergency housing, will use its $20,000 grant to fund the engineering and design of a sprinkler system for its facility at 196 Mechanic St. in Leominster, MA.

A $10,000 grant to Veteran Homestead, Inc. will provide funding for its Northeast Veteran Training and Rehabilitation Center (NVTRC) in Gardner. The facility has room for up to 20 veterans and their families, or as many as 60 single veterans, who receive ongoing family support during the rehabilitation process. The NVTRC is the first such facility to simultaneously offer counseling, therapy and vocational skills to wounded soldiers; it will operate out of Mount Wachusett Community College.

A $20,000 grant to Young Women's Christian Association of Central Massachusetts' Battered Women Resources will allow for the expansion of their high-risk response model for domestic violence to Gardner and Winchendon. The program was launched in 2008, in partnership with the Ayer District Court. The teams include police chiefs, medical professionals, and court personnel, all of whom receive specialized training.

Growing Places Garden Project, Inc. (GPGP) of Clinton will provide 10 new households with vegetable gardens that they will grow and maintain for their families, through a $5,000 grant. GPGP's mission is to help people of limited economics means learn to grow their own food and make nutritious choices about food consumption.

Just Understand My Potential, Inc., of Harvard, will use its $18,400 grant to fund Leave No Trace Outdoor Ethics, a program that will teach 32 youths basic outdoor skills, in addition to overnight hikes. The participants will learn how to set up a shelter, read a map, dress properly for the outdoors, pack a backpack, and other basic skills.

North County Land Trust, Leominster, in collaboration with the Nashua River Watershed Association and the Massachusetts Audubon Society, received a $20,000 grant that will bring a professional team of experienced, dedicated science educators to Fitchburg's Longsjo Middle School and Crocker Elementary School.

At Crocker Elementary School, approximately 75 students in grades 3 and 4 will participate in an after-school environmental enrichment program, over four to six sessions during the 2010-2011 school year. Some 165 students in grades 5 and 6, from The Longsjo Middle School, will participate in the NRWA's "Scientist-in-Residence" program, over four to six sessions during the school day, supplemented by two field trips.

The Pat Brody Shelter of Lunenburg will offer a spay/neuter clinic for cats to low-income residents of Fitchburg and Leominster with its $5,000 grant. In addition to providing services to domestic cats, stray colonies will be trapped and altered. All adoptable cats will be sheltered in their facilities, and healthy feral cats will be released back into the community to live out their lives.

Donor Advised Distributions

American Cancer Society - $1,000
American Red Cross of Central MA - $4,300
Arc of North Central Inc. - $1,000
Ashby Free Public Library Fund Inc. - $3,110
Ashby Little League - $325
Associated Grant Makers - $6,245
Autism Resource Center - $250
Ayer Fire Department - $7,271
Ayer School District - Office of Supt. - $7,500
Battered Women's Resources (YWCA of Central Massachusetts) - $875
Bentley College - $1,000
Boston Foundation - $500
Boys & Girls Club of Ennis - $1,000
Boys & Girls Club of North Central MA - $229,907 Bridgewater State College - $9,089
Brigham and Women's Hospital - $200
Brookline Fire Department - $500
Catholic Charities - $250
Central Ma Regional Library - $1,835
Chester Mossman Teen Center - $1,505
Child Medical Connection Inc. - $5,000
Children's Community Fund - $250
City of Leominster - $5,000
Clinton FIRST Partnership & Foundation, LTD - $500
Clinton YMCA - $350
Colby College Annual Fund - $5,000
Community Healthlink - $17,600
Community Helping Community - $100
Cooperative Elder Services, Inc. - $2,175
Cornell University - Johnson Scholl - $2,500
Crocker Field Restoration Fund - $5,000
Dieth Flores - $888
Doctors without Borders USA - $1,000
Doyle Field Commission - $10,906
Easter Seals Massachusetts - $3,000
Farnsworth Art Museum - $5,000
FHS Band Parent Association - $350
Fitchburg Art Museum - $11,000
Fitchburg Community Lions - $500
Fitchburg Cultural Alliance - $300
Fitchburg Historical Society - $120,784
Fitchburg Lions Club - $500
Fitchburg School District - Office of Supt. - $330
Fitchburg State University Foundation - $69,550
Franklin County Home Care Corporation - $10,000
Friends of Cameron Senior Center - $7,500
Friends of Groton Elders - $250
Friends of Townsend Seniors - $800
Friends of UML Crew Endowment - $250
Fruitlands Museum - $750
Ginny's Helping Hand - $1,000
Greater Lowell Community Foundation - $483
Groton Conservation Trust - $2,000
Groton Dunstable Alliance for Youth - $250
Groton Dunstable Athletic Booster Club - $250
Groton Dunstable Education Foundation - $250
Groton Public Library Endowment - $2,250
Groton Scholarship Committee - $250
Growing Places Garden Project, Inc. - $6,500
Groton Dunstable Regional High School - Roboti - $500
Habitat for Humanity, No. Central MA - $20,250
Haitian Outreach Fund - $500
House of Peace & Education, Inc. - $8,350
Indian Hill Music Center - $15,000
Indian Hill Music, Inc. Arts & Culture - $22,500
Just ‘Cause - $250
Just Understand My Potential (JUMP) - $18,400
Lake Havasu Little League - $350
Lawrence Academy - $2,000
Literacy Volunteers of Montachusett Area - $246
Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry - $12,600
Loaves and Fishes - $4,000
Longsjo Legacy of Champions - $37,500
LUK Crisis Center Inc. - $7,801
Massachusetts Soldiers Legacy Fund - $100,000
Montachusett Opportunity Council Inc. - $4,404
Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical - $20,000
Montachusett Regional YMCA - Camp Lowe - $540
Morgan Memorial Goodwill - $3,000
Museum of Russian Icons - $500
Nashoba Associated Boards of Health - $15,610
Nashoba Learning Group - $500
Nashua River Watershed Association Inc. - $121,494
Nashua Valley Council Boy Scouts of America - $55,297
National Fire Safety Council, Inc. - $340
National MS Society - $150
National Multiple Sclerosis Society - $250
New England Forestry Foundation - $250
NMRS Scholarship Fund - $6,000
North Central Charter Essential School Foundation - $3,000
North County Land Trust, Inc. - $20,000
North Middlesex Patriots AYF - $500
North Middlesex Pop Warner - $300
Northeast Veteran Training and Rehabilitation - $200,000
Nypro Foundation - $1,000
Oakmont Regional High School - $300
Our Father's House Inc. - $3,000
Our Father's Table - $250
Pan Mass Challenge - $200
Partners in Health - $2,500
Pat Brody Shelter For Cats Inc. - $5,000
Piedmont Technical College Foundation - $50,000
PMC Jimmy Fund - $250
Project Contact at Bonnie Brae - $8,650
Rhode Island ASPCA - $500
Richville Baseball Association - $750
River Cities United Way - $41,450
Rosary Hill Home - $246
Salvation Army - $48,000
Seven Hills Foundation - $1,000
Seven Hills Pediatric Center - $1,591
Share Our Strength - $500
Shine Initiative Fund - $500
St. Leo's Parish Building Fund - $150
T.A.P. Youth Basketball - $250
Teddy Bear Land, Inc. - $4,000
The Children's Hospital Foundation/Courage Cl - $150
The College of William & Mary - $10,000
The Jimmy Fund $200
Top Fun Aviation Toy Museum - $255
Town of Townsend - $40,000
Townsend Ashby Band Supporters - $50
Townsend Cooperative Playschool - $300
Townsend Ecumenical Outreach - $7,000
Townsend Gifts and Donations Account - $300
Townsend Little League - $250
Townsend Pack 11 - $100
Townsend Public Library - $109,500
United Neighbors of Cleghorn, Inc. - $17,392
United Way of Central Alabama - $52,354
United Way of Greater Ennis - $50,003
United Way of Greater Stark County - $32,317
United Way of Laurens County - $50,743
United Way of North Central Massachusetts - $826,316
United Way of Tri-County - $8,000
University of Michigan - $10,000
Veteran Homestead, Inc. - $10,000
William E. May Endowment Fund - $5,832
YWCA of Central Massachusetts, Inc. - $40,000
Scholarships Awarded:
- Mr. Guilmar Cabrera - $150
- Mr. Ryan Fioretti - $450
- Mr. David Leo - $189
- Mr. Ben Simon - $500
- Mr. David L. Stanke - $250
- Mr. Jose Diaz - $1,060
- Mr. Miguel Torres - $100
- Ms. Danielle Knight - $575
- Ms. Dorothy Cassady - $250
- Ms. Emily Amico - $450
- Ms. Emily Yost - $300
- Ms. Margaret Grier - $350
- Ms. Meagan Dame - $250
- Ms. Meaghan Valliere - $450
- Ms. Michelle Cree - $528
- Ms. Rachel LeBlanc - $1,000
- Ms. Sara Carlisle - $150
- Ms. Susie Kowaleski - $150
- Ms. Anne Foresman - $160
- Ms. Asia Snyder - $100
- Ms. Catelynn Melus - $10,000
- Ms. Dianne Cintron - $200
- Ms. Elizabeth Syvari - $100
- Ms. Josephine Rivers - $408
- Ms. Kim L'Ecuyer - $135
- Ms. Pamela Hill - $2,401
- Ms. Patricia Aube - $133
- Ms. Sandy Lor - $400
- Ms. Sophia Mercadante - $1,000
- Ms. Stephanie Quintal - $10,000
- Ms. Nan A. Kaipainen Gibbons - $200