Dear ECCF Friend, Happy New Year! I hope your 2024 is off to a peaceful and healthy start. As I look back on 2023, the last 12 months have been filled both with challenges and achievements, much like every other year that’s come before. But 2023 was also very...
By Michelle Xiarhos Curran ECCF Communications Writer The latest round of partnership grants awarded by Essex County Community Foundation is supporting organizations advancing digital equity and bridging the digital divide. More than $300,000 has been granted to five...
By Stratton Lloyd and Lisa Payne Simon In this piece for the GIA Reader, the only national publication dedicated to the field of arts funding, ECCF’s Executive Vice President and COO Stratton Lloyd and Lisa Payne Simon, partner at The Philanthropic Initiative, discuss...
By Michelle Xiarhos Curran Bouncing forward, not back, was the mantra for the day, as Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF) gathered nearly 100 business, government, nonprofit and philanthropic leaders for a Think Lab that asked participants to envision a climate...
Haverhill resident Jenny Arndt to lead critical efforts to strengthen the creative sector One month into her role as the new Merrimack Valley Arts & Culture Specialist, Haverhill resident and artist Jenny Arndt has already immersed herself in learning about the...
Lawrence, MA – Eleven artists, municipal leaders and creative business owners graduated Oct. 26 from Essex County Community Foundation’s Creative County ChangeMakers program. The eight-month leadership support program – which includes facilitated and project-based...
The Board of Trustees at Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF) announced today that President and CEO Beth Francis has decided to step down from her role at the foundation effective June 30, 2024. After eight years at ECCF, and six years leading and transforming...
ECCF gathers nonprofit leaders to talk about the realities, the needs and how coming together is the answer By Michelle Xiarhos Curran ECCF COMMUNICATIONS WRITER On a recent Tuesday, Dr. Geralde Gabeau, in her capacity as founder and executive director of the...
By Michelle Xiarhos Curran ECCF Communications Writer It’s the last day of the Summer Cultural Dance Camp at Utopia Dance Company in Lawrence, and students are learning Bomba, a style of dance that originated in Puerto Rico. “There’s no right or wrong in Bomba,”...
By Michelle Xiarhos Curran ECCF Communications Writer This fall, new data on the challenges and opportunities surrounding the technology workforce on the North Shore of Massachusetts will be released by the UMass Donahue Institute. The study, largely funded by the...
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