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Michael Bobbitt, Dar Williams Headline Essex County Arts & Culture Summit
ECCF celebrates five years of Creative County at The Cabot on Sept. 30 Beverly, MA --- Hundreds of artists and community leaders will converge upon The Cabot on Sept. 30 to celebrate five years of the Creative County Initiative, Essex County Community Foundation’s...
Three Community Leaders join the ECCF Board of Trustees
Danvers, MA -- Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF), an organization serving the 34 cities and towns of Essex County, is pleased to announce that Lane A. Glenn of Amesbury, Patricia Fae Ho of Beverly, and Dean J. Marsh of Middleton have recently been elected to...
While the impacts of COVID linger, summer programs come up with new ways to engage Greater Lawrence youth
ECCF’s Greater Lawrence Summer Fund supports 45 nonprofit organizations By Michelle Xiarhos Curran, ECCF Communications Writer More than two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers of summer programming focused on Greater Lawrence youth continue to...
Column: To become more effective, philanthropy must go deeper
COLUMN IN THE SALEM NEWSBy Stacey Landry and Michelle Xiarhos Curran SEE ORIGINAL COLUMN IN THE SALEM NEWS HERE. The need for innovative, effective philanthropy that forges deep connections between people and causes has never been greater. Nor has the time been more...
Keeping Watch – And Time – Over the City of Lawrence
After a nearly year-long restoration, the Ayer Mill Clock will tick once again By Michelle Xiarhos Curran On a recent summer day, a swift, refreshing breeze blows through the bell room of the Ayer Mill Clock Tower in Lawrence. From here, the entire city – its...
Reimagining the North Shore Technology Workforce
Think Lab brings together 50+ cross-sector leaders to discuss possibilities for the North Shore’s technology workforce In Massachusetts, 100,000 people are employed by the life sciences sector, an area that has exploded over the last decade. “Massachusetts is the best...
Celebrate Juneteenth in Essex County
Juneteenth – which was declared a federal holiday for the first time last year – commemorates the date June 19, 1865, when enslaved Black people of Galveston, Texas, finally learned of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln more than two...
Essex County Community Foundation awarded $350,000 Cummings grant
Support will be used to advance digital equity in Essex County Danvers, MA – Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF) is one of 140 local nonprofits to receive grants of $100,000 to $500,000 each through Cummings Foundation’s $25 Million Grant Program. ECCF, an...
ECCF, Tech Goes Home, The Philanthropic Initiative Talk Digital Equity at National Conference
Chicago – On May 17, Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF) and its partners, Tech Goes Home and The Philanthropic Initiative (TPI), spoke to a national audience about regional systems efforts to close the digital divide. The trio was selected to speak at the 2022...
At ECCF’s 2022 Celebration, community celebrates giving in all its forms
Salem’s Steve and Darcy Immerman, Lynn’s Doneeca Thurston and MakeIt Haverhill all honored Every day, people make intentional choices to give to the causes they care about. Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF) believes that those gifts come in many forms. You...
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