YOU, Inc. is grateful for a recent grant of $15,000 from the Albert W. Rice Charitable Foundation, continuing their significant and longstanding support of Dynamy Youth Academy. Youth Academy is a five year, after-school leadership and college access program for promising, first-generation high school students with strong academic potential and college aspirations. The program’s comprehensive approach – combing academic supports with community service, internships, and assistance with all aspects of college planning – helps...

Children’s Friend would like to express their gratitude to the Diocese of Worcester and the St. Vincent Community Healthcare Fund Committee for the recent grant of $3,000.00 for the Carriage House Grief Support Center. The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the need for grief support in our community, especially for our youth. The Carriage House provides grief support groups to children and teens ages 3-18 whose parents, other primary caregivers, or siblings have died, as well as concurrent support groups for surviving...

Open Door Arts would like to thank the Massachusetts Cultural Council for their latest grant of $13,400 from their Cultural Investment Portfolio. Each year, in collaboration with partners, funders, and supporters, Open Door Arts makes schools, galleries, and theaters, across Massachusetts more vibrant and inclusive through groundbreaking statewide programs that engage more than 3,000 members of our community. Our COOL Schools program enable students with disabilities to experience inclusive arts learning and Our Open Door...

This season of giving is underway as demonstrated by our friends at Worcester State University’s Communications Sciences and Disorders program! Faculty members Katharine Bianchi and Jamie Marino joined students Katie Cleary, Aubrey Kutil and Taylor Soukas in donating children’s books to our programs that support children in need. Thank you from Family Services of Central Massachusetts, an affiliate of Seven Hills Foundation! You bring smiles to so many children we support!

Seven Hills Pediatric Center at Hopedale is so very grateful to the Help A Little One (H.A.L.O.) Foundation for the generous grant of $1,750 to support our Family Transportation program. Maintaining family connections, specifically through family visits is a vital part of each Hopedale youth’s plan of care. Hopedale is not near a major transportation hub, making the cost of family visits a huge burden on many of our families. Our Family Transportation program will provide Lyft ride credits for families in need. Thank you so...