| Organization |
Description |
Award |
| Big Brother-Big Sister of Greater Lawrence |
General operating support in providing positive mentoring to children in need |
$1,000 |
| Blessed Stephen Bellesini, O.S.A. Academy |
To support a weekly after-school art instruction program at the Essex Art Center |
$3,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence |
To provide dance instruction and performance opportunities for approximately 50 Boys & Girls Club members a day to develop their creative talents while providing aerobic exercise and fun |
$3,000 |
| Elder Services of Merrimack Valley, Inc. |
To pay the costs for volunteers to take elders to medical appointments, act as their advocates and if necessary act as their surrogate family member |
$2,500 |
| Firehouse Center for the Arts |
To expand the services at the Firehouse Center For the Arts to include physically and developmentally challenged youth through a' Very Special Arts Festival' |
$3,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Spar and Spindle Council, Inc |
To support the "Girls Got Goals" program at the Lawence Girls and Boys Club. This program helps girls with self relliance and self sufficiency, career interests and job searching skills |
$2,500 |
| Greater Lawrence Council of Churches |
To support 'Manos Felices' (Happy Hands), an after-school program for children in pre-school through fifth grade at the Hancock Housing Project |
$2,000 |
| Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center |
To support the COVE program which helps young victims of family violence overcome abuse and develop positive responses to trauma |
$3,000 |
| Lawrence Family Development & Education Fund, Inc. |
To help immigrants residing in the City of Lawrence acquire the english language skills they need to become productive members of our society and the knowledge necessary to pass the United States Citizenship Interview and Examination |
$4,000 |
| Lawrence Literacy Works |
To build the capacity in the community to provide financial literacy programming by offering 'train-the-trainer' sessions for workshop facilitators from both the banking world and not-for-profit organizations |
$3,000 |
| Merrimack Valley YMCA - Lawrence Branch |
To support the Resource Educational Center, a multi-service collaboration that maximizes local resources to provide low-income individuals intervention services and life skills training |
$1,000 |
| North Shore Youth Symphony Orchestra, Inc |
To provide children from Lawrence with string instrument instruction in after-school and Saturday group classes |
$2,000 |
| Northeast Independent Living |
To assist youth with disabilities to locate jobs, enjoy access to the arts and learn to lead healthy lifestyles |
$3,000 |
| Rebuilding Together with Christmas in April |
To support the 2007 'Rebuilding Together Day', which provides housing rehabilitation services to people with low-income |
$4,000 |
| Trauma Intervention Program of Merrimack Valley |
To support the Spanish translation of Nat's Story, part of a coloring book series used by emergency reponders to help children cope with traumatic events |
$3,000 |
