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ECCF Announces Next Cohort of Creative County ChangeMakers
Danvers, MA --- Essex County Community Foundation is excited to announce the second cohort of creative leaders who will participate in the foundation’s Creative County ChangeMakers program, set to begin March 28. Twelve artists, nonprofit and municipal heads will...
New placemaking project helps grow food and community
Creative County supports agriCulture, a new gathering spot in Gloucester By Michelle Xiarhos Curran Nonprofit Backyard Growers built the community garden at Willowood, a Gloucester Housing Authority development, in 2017, and they have managed it ever since. In the...
Supporting Ukraine
Dear Friends, As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, we at ECCF are saddened by the deepening humanitarian crisis that is unfolding as a result. We have heard from many donors and friends who are looking for ways to support the Ukrainian people – men, women,...
More Than Just a Loan
COLUMN IN THE SALEM NEWSBy Beth Francis and Stratton Lloyd SEE ORIGINAL COLUMN IN THE SALEM NEWS Leveraging local partnerships, MCCI helps creates real community change When the pandemic forced in-store sales to drop at Care Beauty Supply – located in The Point...
Thanks to a new state partnership, ECCF will invest $3.1 million in food security
Among the many facets of life that COVID-19 has impacted, food security remains at the top of the list in Essex County. Today, Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF) is pleased to announce a new grant program for qualified nonprofit organizations working to support...
Column: Arts equity and opportunity the focus of latest work by Creative County
COLUMN IN THE SALEM NEWSBy Karen Ristuben SEE ORIGINAL COLUMN IN THE SALEM NEWS HERE. Artists will always make art. They will forever paint, play music, dance, create stories and bring those stories to life on stage. But now more than ever before, artists and arts and...
Registration opens Feb. 1 for the 2022 Institute for Trustees
Registration opens Feb. 1 for the 2022 Institute for Trustees Expanded partnership; keynote Dr. Kenann McKenzie highlight this annual event Danvers, MA --- Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF), an organization that inspires philanthropy that strengthens the...
Equipment and internet access are key, but training ties it all together
By Michelle Xiarhos Curran ECCF Communications Writer Having a computer and access to the internet is critical to functioning in the everyday world, especially now that so much of what we do happens online. But those things only represent half of the equation. “If you...
Digital equity begins – but doesn’t end – with a reliable device
By Michelle Xiarhos Curran ECCF Communications Writer Melissa Marrama, an insurance executive and avid volunteer from Andover, is known for making good things happen when there is a need anywhere in the community. When she heard about Jeffrey Williams – an Amesbury...
Like electricity and clean water, access to the Internet is a basic need
By Michelle Xiarhos Curran ECCF Communications Writer The Point – a densely populated, culturally diverse neighborhood in north Salem with a large immigrant population – is home to a strong and tight-knit community of residents, students and businesses. It’s also a...
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