| Organization |
Program |
Award |
| Andover Youth Service |
To offer a wide variety of clinics, services, day trips, and extended trips for young people 11-18 years old |
$2,500.00 |
| Arlington Community Trabajando, Inc. |
To offer jobs for teenagers at the Adelante Youth Center and Arlinton Community Trabajando |
$500.00 |
| Asian Center of Merrimack Valley |
A summer camp that includes reading, writing, math and arts |
$5,000.00 |
| Blessed Stephen Bellesini, O.S.A. Academy |
To provide a four week summer program of academics, field trips, guest speakers and service learning |
$9,000.00 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence |
A program of team sports for youth
|
$11,000.00 |
| Brooks School |
A summer camp with recreational and creative activities for youth
|
$4,000.00 |
| Challenge Unlimited Inc. |
An opportunity for children from the inner city of Lawrence with and without disabilities to work with horses and have a chance to relax and appreciate the outdoors
|
$4,000.00 |
| The Children's Center |
Providing field trips and creative workshops |
$5,000.00 |
| Community Day Charter School |
An economical summer school
|
$1,000.00 |
| Easter Seals |
Offers children with disabilities social and recreational opportunities
|
$4,000.00 |
| Essex Art Center |
Provides a variety of art classes for students ages 3 to adult |
$7,500.00 |
| Family Service, Inc. |
Supports students in a week-long camping trip to the Youth Enrichment Center at Hilton-Winn Farm in Ogunquit, ME |
$5,000.00 |
| Greater Lawrence Community Action Council |
Provides children activities that promote preservation of the family unit in a society where drugs and violence are a part of everyday life |
$3,000.00 |
| Greater Lawrence Community Boating Program |
Teaches kids safe boating practices |
$14,000.00 |
| Greater Lawrence Council of Churches |
Provides a value-centered program for young children of all faiths, races and ethnicity in greater Lawrence |
$4,000.00 |
| Groundwork Lawrence |
Supports a 15 month intensive program that offers parttime employment for high school students from Lawrence to help lead local environmental initiatives, conduct outreach to their peers, and participate in hands-on improvement projects throughout the city and in partner communities |
$4,500.00 |
Lawrence Community Works
|
A project for 8 youth to create a video from start to finish about the greater lawrence summer fund. see video
|
$8,600.00 |
Lawrence Family Development & Education Fund
|
A program to address the multiple barriers to educational success experienced by many of the students enrolled at school |
$7,000.00 |
| Lawrence Public Library |
Provides for a series of eight free performances for kids including musicians, artists, magicians, storytellers and nature exhibits
|
$1,990.00 |
| Lawrence Recreation Department |
Recreation for the city's youth including nerf football, whiffle ball, double Dutch jump rope, sailing field trips, and parachute games with lunch provided
|
$3,000.00 |
| Lazarus House Ministries |
Supports the Rainbow Festival which is a one day neighborhood celebration held each July in Lawrence
|
$1,000.00 |
| Merrimack College |
Coaches at-risk urban youth from the Greater Lawrence area in social, athletic and academic skills, encouraging them to stay in school and become responsible members of their communities |
$3,000.00 |
| Merrimack Valley Community Service Corps |
Provides recreational and educational activities to the children |
$5,000.00 |
| Merrimack Valley YMCA - Lawrence Branch |
An educational and recreational program that combines reading, writing, and math with sports activities, crafts, field trips and swim lessons |
$7,500.00 |
| Merrimack Valley YMCA - Methuen Branch |
A combined schedule of both educational and recreational activities for children |
$7,500.00 |
| Methuen Arlington Neighborhood, Inc. |
To assist in implementing youth programming such as crafts, sports, field trips and camp activites |
$3,500.00 |
| Methuen Young People's Theatre |
Offers Greater Lawrence children the opportunity to perform in a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta |
$400.00 |
| MSPCA |
Shares lifetime lessons of compassion, responsibility and respect for all living things through discussions, arts, crafts, songs, games and hands-on care of animals awaiting homes |
$3,000.00 |
| North Andover Historical Society |
Provide a safe and stimulating environment for children interested in exploring the rich cultural heritage of Essex County, with emphasis on the Greater Lawrence area |
$400.00 |
| North Shore Youth Symphony Orchestra, Inc |
Provides Lawrence violin students with opportunities to continue their music studies over the summer |
$2,500.00 |
| Northeast Independent Living |
A program for disabled people to learn about the uniqueness and similarities of each other's disabilities, their own strengths and limitations, and how to use the Independent Living skills learned during the year to overcome barriers to independence |
$4,500.00 |
| Northern Essex Community College |
Provides scholarships and transportation for Lawrence kids to attend a summer camp
|
$4,500.00 |
| Notre Dame High School |
A summer school program for incoming 9th graders who are academically at-risk |
$5,000.00 |
| Phillips Academy ABL |
To enhance student writing skills and literacy and to improve the teaching of writing in urban public schools |
$3,500.00 |
| Phillips Academy PALS |
To offer academic enrichment, study skills, career exploration, and guidance in high school choices to 7th and 8th grade students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds |
$4,500.00 |
| Pingree School |
An academic enrichment program for students from Lawrence who have successfully completed the seventh grade |
$5,000.00 |
| Project RISE |
In support of the residential program at Governor's Academy in Byfield, MA. |
$2,500.00 |
| Si, Se Puede, Inc. |
Provides educational and recreational opportunities to low-income, urban youth |
$4,500.00 |
| St. Ann's Home |
To make available a summer camp experience for six weeks for several students living at St. Ann's home |
$7,000.00 |
| St. John's Preparatory School |
Pays for 10 incoming Prep students from the city of Lawrence to participate in the Academic Foundations program in July 2007 |
$2,500.00 |
| Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation, Inc. |
Offers horseback riding camp for disadvantaged, inner city children who would not otherwise have such an opportunity |
$4,000.00 |
| YWCA of Greater Lawrence |
Two programs: 1. For educationally and economically disadvantaged, inner-city, minority children between the ages of 6-13 2. A leadership program for 14-15 year olds |
$5,500.00 |
