2008 Annual Report - Greater Worcester Community Foundation

Our Community 

Greater Worcester Community Foundation 

Our Commitment 

A N N U A L R E P O R T

Total Assets $91,616,745 

Contributions to new & existing funds $3,425,068 

Investment returns -29.7% 

Grants and Scholarships Awarded $5,309,129 

Number of grantee organizations 374 

Number of new funds 10 

Total named funds 431 

Contributions Received 

Approved Grants by Broad Category 

Total Awards $5,309,129 

Human Services 

$1,418,723 

Arts & Culture 

$844,776 

Health 

$344,449 

Grants & Scholarships Approved 

Environment 

$139,525 

Community 

Development & 

Religion 

$1,142,351 

Education 

(includes scholarships) 

$1,419,305 

Contributions 

Number 

Number of Gifts 1009 

Number of Donors 778 

Largest Gift $330,000 

Smallest Gift $5 

Total Gifts $3,425,068 

Total Assets 

Funds by Type (millions) 

Total market value $89.0 million 

Scholarship 

$8.4 

Agency 

$9.7 

Committee 

Advised 

$2.1 

Field of 

Interest 

$27.6 

Designated 

$10.5 

Donor Advised 

$11.5 

Discretionary 

$19.2 


By the Numbers 

as of 12/31/08

Our Commitment. Our Community. 

The donors who share their stories on the following pages remind us that personal commitment 

grounds all of our best endeavors, including philanthropy. 

Creating a fund is a purposeful act—and a powerful way to identify and support one’s causes of choice. 

With your fund, you make a mark. Not once, but over time. It will outlive you and expand the impact 

of your giving. The Foundation stewards the fund so it supports your cause forever, adapting its grants 

as necessary over time so its impact remains faithful to your original intent. 

Through your fund, you take a stand. Some donors prefer anonymity but most choose to create a fund 

as a public act. The fund communicates what you value to your loved ones and neighbors as well as to 

future generations. 

Foundation donors give out of a sense of commitment to particular people, purposes and places. 

In turn, such giving sustains and strengthens these ties—even from a great distance and across 

generations. Such giving can also help an individual or family nurture new roots and relationships. 

Whatever inspires your commitment, the Foundation can help you transform your inspiration into 

action. Each fund strengthens the resilience of our community. Together, our commitments are more 

than a match for challenging times. 

Greater Worcester Community Foundation 08 ANNUAL REPORT 1

Letter to the Community 

As public sector resources diminish, the nonprofits serving our community—including your Foundation—are busier 

than ever sustaining cherished services. 

We adapted to a lower operating budget, which is based on one percent of our endowment value. The Foundation takes a 

long view of the market and maintains a diversified portfolio overseen by disciplined, vigilant professional management. 

Although we reduced staff in 2008, we increased our grantmaking thanks to our prudent spending policy, which is based 

on averaging total investment income over five years. We under-spend in strong years and pay out more in years with lower 

earnings. While in 2007 we distributed 986 grants totaling $4.7 million, in 2008, the Foundation approved 1,024 grants 

totaling $5.3 million. 

The value of our nonprofits is clearer than ever. We know their impact and their needs close-up. This knowledge guides our 

grant making and enables us to advise nonprofits that must adapt, contract or merge to fulfill their missions. 

More people are taking action as volunteers as well as donors. In 2008, the GLBT Partnership Fund and Community 

Ministries Fund created two new grantmaking committees. As private citizens working for the public good, we are 

nurturing vital programs in education, health care, human services and the arts that improve our quality of life. This is our 

commitment—and our community. 

Peter H. Levine, MD 

Chair of the Board and President 

Ann T. Lisi 

Executive Director 

Peter Levine and Ann Lisi guide Foundation activities that support 

nonprofit organizations throughout Central Massachusetts. 

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he value of our nonprofits is clearer than ever. 

Ann Lisi and Peter Levine 

2 Greater Worcester Community Foundation 08 ANNUAL REPORT

Year in Review 

Managing Foundation Assets 

 

 

 

endowment portfolio, increasing income-producing stocks 

and bonds while reducing equity holdings to less than 40%. 

 

full-time positions, adjusting to loss of operating revenue 

due to decline in assets. 

Planned Giving 

 

 

 

to support programs in the town of Webster. 

 

Society member Helen Stinson, transferred to the Helen M. 

and Thomas B. Stinson Fund, which supports the 

Worcester Art Museum and All Saints Episcopal Church. 

Services to Donors 

 

 

 

Christine Louis, to support donors with the desire to make 

major gifts as well as donor advised giving. 

 

first-hand look at the impact of grants on enhancing local 

parks and community gardens. 

Nonprofit Support Center 

 

nonprofit leaders explored strategies to cope with the 

challenges of a turbulent, rapidly changing environment. 

Grantmaking 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

total of $125,000 to eight projects that will foster a safe and 

open community for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender 

residents of Central Massachusetts. 

 

Operating Support grant of $250,000 over five years to 

 

Retirement Community (NORC) project, to develop 

resources that enable elderly residents to “age in place.” 

 

$410,000 to expand nursing faculty in the region’s degree 

programs for nurses. 

 

fund, totaling $658,000, when the organization gained 

nonprofit status for its operation, which attracts and 

retains city commercial and industrial enterprises and jobs. 

 

increase of 25% over 2007 grants to this sector; and 

in 2008 such grants from donor advised funds more than 

doubled, awarding $191,000 to the Hanover Theatre, Old 

Sturbridge Village, the Italian American Cultural Center 

and the American Textile Museum in Lowell. 

 

the Auburn Foundation celebrated five years of 

grantmaking; and the Water and Land Stewardship Fund 

marked its tenth year. 


The Auburn Foundation 

Small grants engage neighbors in enriching their community 

Grants put promising ideas to work. Small grants 

can put many good ideas to work. That is the idea behind 

the Auburn Foundation, a field-of-interest fund created 

by Arthur and Martha Pappas to enrich life in their 

hometown. 

The couple lives in the 1905 Victorian farmhouse where 

Arthur was born, just a half-mile from Martha’s childhood 

home. Fifteen years ago, they returned to Auburn from 

Boston. A pioneer in the field of sports medicine, Arthur 

was for two decades the chief orthopedic surgeon for 

the Boston Red Sox and chair of the Department of 

Orthopedics at the University of Massachusetts Medical 

School. Martha obtained a doctorate in education and for 

20 years was a teacher in the Sudbury Public Schools. Back 

in Auburn, she joined the boards of several nonprofits, 

including Greater Worcester Community Foundation. 

Foundation’s distribution committee. “We’re very pleased 

with the way our fund works.” 

An advisory committee of Auburn residents selects grant 

recipients. “The committee represents a cross section of our 

entire community and knows its varied needs,” says Martha. 

The average size of the grants is about $2,700. Each benefits 

Auburn residents, and many inspire gifts of other kinds. 

A grant of $1,500 helped Cub Scout Pack 53 buy a used 

trailer for its Adopt a Fire Hydrant program. Visiting the 

town’s elementary schools, the 20 Cub Scouts recruited 

hundreds of students to join the program. Each participating 

family agreed to clear snow from one of the town’s 400 fire 

hydrants throughout the winter. “It was a small grant,” says 

Martha, “but it had a huge impact on our town.” “And a 

huge impact on those kids,” adds Arthur. 

In 2002, Martha and Arthur brought their idea of a fund 

for Auburn to the Foundation. “The staff helped us find 

the best way to fulfill our wishes,” says Martha, chair of the 

Promising ideas are multiplying now that Auburn has 

its own fund. “All of these small grants strengthen the 

foundation of our community,” says Arthur. 

Arthur and Martha Pappas put great ideas to work in their hometown 

through grants from the Auburn Foundation. 

A 

ll of these small grants strengthen the foundation of our community. 

Arthur Pappas 


Kirby Foundation Fund 

A father’s legacy inspires thoughtful giving 

As an investment manager in Southern California, 

 

earnings over the long run. On weekends, he scored splitsecond 

wins by racing Porsches. 

 

decision to entrust his five children as trustees of the $14 

 

 

ourselves responsible for running a foundation without 

a structure or mission. The five of us live far apart, so it 

was tough to collaborate and agree on anything. With 

consultants advising us, we worked hard to clarify priorities 

and identify roles. Hardest of all, we learned to work 

together and support each other. I don’t think we’ve ever 

been this close.” 

The independently minded siblings began their giving by 

dividing the grant money into five portions. They now do 

more giving as a group. “Last year, we all spent a morning 

volunteering at a charity of my sister’s in Denver and after 

made a large, three-year grant together,” says Lisa. “We want 

to do more than cut checks.” 

 

Greater Worcester Community Foundation. “My fund is 

a vehicle for purposeful giving here in my home town,” 

says Lisa. “The Foundation makes giving easy and the staff 

are informed advisors. They guide me in making small 

grants that matter and, as my fund grows, investing in local 

programs.” 

Lisa and her husband Peter, who own a shared office 

center in Westborough, see the family’s smart, hands-on 

approach to giving in their children Ellery, 14, and Brandon, 

12. The two raised $200 by selling refreshments during a 

Preservation Worcester tour and donated the sum to the 

organization. 

“Dad would be proud of us,” says Lisa. “We’re learning to 

work together and help make the world a better place.” 

Lisa Kirby Gibbs and her family invest energy and time as well as funds 

into their chosen causes. 

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he Foundation makes giving easy and the staff are informed advisors. 

Lisa Kirby Gibbs 


Worcester Latino Coalition Scholarship Fund 

Advancing aspiring Latinos in health care and human services 

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The first scholarship of the Worcester Latino Coalition 

Scholarship Fund went to a Cuban exile who made Dean’s 

List while working to support his family. The fund’s 2008 

scholarship recipient was his daughter, who is studying to 

become a family nurse practitioner. 

Helping such aspiring Latinos advance in health care and 

human services has been a goal of the Worcester Latino 

Coalition since its start. In the 90s, the Coalition worked 

with the Office of Community Programs at UMass Medical 

School to secure a major grant and establish the Next Step 

Initiative in Central Massachusetts. A partnership with 

four area colleges, Next Step supports higher education for 

Latino health and human service workers, who gain college 

credits for work or volunteer experience. 

Although the Coalition is no longer active, says Mónica 

Lowell, vice president of Community Relations at UMass 

Memorial Health Care, “We left our mark on the 

community.” 

earn a college degree,” says Leo Negron-Cruz, a program 

coordinator at Great Brook Valley Health Center. “But they 

need to pay tuition.” 

The group decided to create an endowed scholarship fund. 

They brought their idea to the Foundation and held two 

galas that raised thousands of dollars. “We were newcomers 

to philanthropy,” says Mónica. “The Foundation guided us 

on what it would take to establish a scholarship and made 

the process easy for us.” 

“We are grateful to the Foundation, which does all 

the work,” says Daniel de la Torre, an administrator at 

Quinsigamond Community College. “The Foundation 

reviews applications, awards grants and informs us of the 

recipients.” 

Now the group is planning a campaign to expand the fund. 

“Every year, we want to keep feeding it,” says Mónica, “so 

that it can benefit generations to come.” 

But she and other former Coalition members recognized 

that the cost of college could be daunting to low-wage health 

care workers. “Next Step helps Latino paraprofessionals 

Founders of the Worcester Latino Coalition Scholarship Fund are 

(from left) Leo Negron-Cruz, Mónica Lowell and Daniel de la Torre as 

well as (not in photo) Sara Trillo Adams, Isabel Feliciano, Nancy Jodaitis, 

Miriam Torres, RN, and Tammy Zelayas. 

We are grateful to the Foundation, which does all the work. 

Dan de la Torre 


The Argitis Family Fund 

A grateful family nurtures its hometown 

O 

moved to Sturbridge. The town has been their cherished 

home ever since. 

 

2004 and they have already awarded 38 grants—all to local 

organizations that have touched their family in some way. 

 

the board at G&F Industries, his family’s precision plastic 

molding company in Sturbridge. “Donating locally through 

the Foundation, we see how our money is put to use in our 

community.” 

Among the grantees of the donor-advised fund is Old 

Sturbridge Village, where the couple spent many hours with 

 

 

an overseer. Other grantees include their sons’ school, Saint 

 

and St. Patrick Parish; and the Mercy Centre—where a niece 

teaches students with developmental disabilities. 

“Our town has been very good to us,” says Ann Marie. In 

2001, a fire shut down the plant at G&F Industries; but with 

the help of family, friends and employees, the company 

rebuilt its facility within a year. “Our entire community 

came together to help us out,” says Ann Marie. “You don’t 

forget that.” 

 

Foundation is as direct, personal and simple as their 

approach to philanthropy. “We make decisions regarding 

our donations as a family,” says Ann Marie, “and the 

Foundation does the rest. We have confidence in the 

Foundation and its entire staff.” 

 

advisors. “It’s comforting to know that after our lifetime,” 

 

Ann Marie and John Argitis strengthen cherished local organizations 

such as Old Sturbridge Village through the Argitis Family Fund. 

Donating locally through the Foundation, we see how our money is put to use in our community. 

John Argitis 


Acorn Society Members 

John Adam Jr.* 

Anonymous (3) 

Isabel K. Arms 

Edward W. Bettke 

Mark P. Bilotta and Henry O. Ritter 

Brian L. and Betty G. Bjurling 

Maurice J. and Pamela K. Boisvert 

Cushing C. Bozenhard 

Douglas P. Butler 

Kenneth and Nancy Candito 

Jeanne Y. Curtis 

Elizabeth O. Dean 

James S. Demetry 

Francis H. Dewey III 

Henry B. and Jane K. Dewey 

Ross K. and Lisa F. Dik 

Richard and Carol Dymek 

Dina R. and Gerald (Lee) Gaudette III 

Dennis F. Gorman 

David R. and Rosalie A. Grenon 

Claire L. Halvey 

Richard E. Hedin 

Forrest A. and Shirley H. Jacobs 

Frances and M Howard Jacobson 

Patricia L. and Kenneth R. Jones 

David P. Leach and Audrey Klein-Leach 

Catherine H. and Peter H. Levine MD 

Margaret D. Lincoln 

Ann T. Lisi 

John W. Lund 

Barbara B. and Raymond E. Morin 

John M. Nelson 

Sarah D. Pettit 

Bonnie M. Prescott 

Gloria and John A. Rauth 

Susan and C. Reid Roberts MD 

Linda Carlson Romano 

Paul and Fay Rossley 

Sally S. Schenck 

Evelyn B. Silver 

David C. Steelman and 

Virginia Theo-Steelman 

Helen M. Stinson* 

Cynthia C. and Harrison G. Taylor Jr. 

Sumner B. Tilton Jr. 

Irving N. Wolfson MD 

David K. Woodbury 

Kimball R. and Elizabeth Woodbury 

New Members 

Robert S. Adler 

Dix F. and Sarah B. Davis 

Warner S. Fletcher 

Frederic H. Mulligan 

Scott and Lois Rossiter 

Alison D. and Laurence J. Specter 

*Deceased 

Bequest Giving: The Acorn Society 

A charitable gift annuity benefits donors and their cherished cause 

Sally and Ben Schenck enjoy their retirement in Seabrook Island, South Carolina. Yet 

they still have strong ties to Worcester, where they lived for 16 years and raised three children. 

One way that the Schencks sustain their ties to Worcester is through a charitable gift 

annuity. A popular form of planned giving available through the Foundation, it provides 

up to two beneficiaries with guaranteed fixed income for life as well as an upfront tax 

deduction. Upon the beneficiary’s death, the balance goes to the donor’s chosen cause. 

The Schencks will give their balance to an endowed fund at the Foundation dedicated 

to Youth Opportunities Upheld Inc. (YOU, Inc.), which provides preventive and 

rehabilitative programs to at-risk children and families. “YOU, Inc. does wonderful 

things for Worcester kids,” says Sally, formerly a program director and board chair at the 

organization. When the couple informed YOU, Inc. of their desire to make a six-figure 

planned gift, says Sally, “They sent us to the Foundation.” 

Ben and Sally find that a charitable gift annuity with the Foundation satisfies their 

financial and philanthropic goals. “We wouldn’t have been able to make a gift of this 

magnitude any other way,” says Sally. “We receive part of it back in an income stream at a 

time in our lives when we no longer have a salary coming in. 

“And doing this through the Foundation was important to us,” continues Sally. “We trust 

the Foundation, where our money is well administered and secure and grows over time 

to do even more for the community. Plus, the Foundation made it so simple: We gave our 

money and receive income from it. It couldn’t be much easier than that.” 

The Acorn Society recognizes donors who support the Foundation through bequests. 

GreaterWorcester Community Foundation 

ACORN 

SOCIETY 

We wouldn’t have been able to make a gift of this magnitude any other way. 

Sally Schenck 


Ways to Give 

 

Give Now 

With a gift of $10,000 or more, you can establish a named 

fund to create your personal legacy. You choose the type 

of fund that best meets your goals, and we do the rest— 

handling all administration and grantmaking on your 

behalf. We help you choose from a variety of fund options— 

donor advised, scholarship, designated, discretionary, and 

field of interest funds. 

Creating a fund with your community foundation is a 

permanent and powerful way of giving. Your intentions are 

honored in perpetuity. Your money enters a well-managed 

endowment that preserves capital during tough times 

and extends the longevity, value and reach of your giving. 

And because we are a public charity (and not a private 

foundation), you receive the maximum tax benefits allowed 

by law. The Foundation makes giving simple from the start 

and throughout your grantmaking experience. 

Gifts under $10,000 are a welcome contribution to any 

existing named fund, including those created by the 

Foundation such as our Fund for the Arts and Humanities, 

Founders Fund, General Scholarship Fund, GLBT 

Partnership Fund, Water and Land Stewardship Fund, and 

Youth Opportunity Fund. 

We accept a broad range of assets, including cash, publicly 

traded securities, closely held stock, real estate, life insurance, 

tangible personal property and private foundation holdings. 

Or Make a Planned Gift 

You can make a gift to the community that provides income 

and tax benefits now and after your lifetime supports your 

philanthropic goals. Ways to make a planned gift include 

 

 

 

 

 

beneficiary of IRA assets 

 

payments tax-deductible 

 

using the property throughout your lifetime 

 

annuity or charitable remainder trust 

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Contributors 

In 2008, the Foundation received $3,425,068 in gifts. 

Of this amount, $2,405,170 was added to existing 

named funds; $963,031 created 10 new named funds; 

and $56,867 comprised unrestricted gifts to the 

 

Abby Kelley Foster House Fund 

Abby’s House 

African Heritage Institute Fund 

African Heritage Institute 

Lois Anne Memorial Fund 

In memory of Vera Wadland 

Alton S. and Donna Q. Blanchard 

Joyce Bourne 

Boy Scout Troop 107 

So Cheng and Susan Chen 

Raymond W. and Debra J. Coleman 

Ann L. and William B. Dailey 

Mary M. Dennis 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Feldt 

Hiromi Foss 

Grafton Thrift Shop 

Constance M. Hopkins 

Susanne LaFlash 

Elizabeth Mack 

Joseph and Margaret A. Marzilli 

George Maurice Fund of the Fidelity 

Charitable Gift Fund 

Edward M. Morin MD 

Andrew Norman 

Marilyn J. O’Brien 

Leslie W. Paine 

Mim and Clark Phillips 

Marilyn L. Reed 

J. Paul Rivard 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Russo 

Peter J. Tai 

John and Karina Thompson and Keith 

Thompson 

Kathy Vandenengel 

Philip L. and Helen E. Wadland 

Bruce H. and Suzanne M. Young 

Virginia and Philip J. Zukatynski 

Argitis Family Fund 

John G. and Ann M. Argitis 

Helen and Chuck Arsenault Memorial 

Scholarship Fund 

In memory of Chuck Arsenault 

Anonymous 

Norman R. and Barbara P. Arsenault 

Doris L. Bennett 

Paul J. and Sally A. Bennett 

Paula M. Bennett 

Richard Bennett 

Stephen and Tina Betley 

Paul A. and Erin K. Burlingame 

Edward L. and Phyllis T. Carter 

Paula L. and Christopher W. Downer 

Paula A. and Tommy J. Gallant 

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred O’Leary 

 

M. Pearl Shea 

Smith and Brink 

Joseph and Joan Sullivan 

Rita F. and Bruce W. Swett 

R. Lenore and Edward M. Thebodo Jr. 

Fund for the Arts and Humanities 

Donald and Mary Melville 


Arthur M. Pappas and Martha R. Pappas 

Donor Advised Foundation of Greater 

Worcester Community Foundation 

In honor of Lori Harvey and Paul 

Gregoire 

Sherrill Costa 

Arthur M. and Martha R. Pappas 

Auburn Woman’s Club Fund 

Auburn Woman’s Club 

Auburn Youth and Family Services 

Endowment Fund 

Auburn Youth & Family Services 


AVID North Scholarship Fund 

Martha Abeles-Young 

Frances E. and Kenneth P. Arena 

Elizabeth Klein Baker and Joel H. Baker 

Judith F. and Joseph W. Buckley Jr. 

Louise I. and Jeffrey R. Clarke and family 

Sandra J. and Mark O. Cutler 

Barry and Joan Gerhardt 

Robert S. and Naomi L. Halpern 

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Honig 

Kathleen L. and Donald W. Kelley Jr. 

Colleen A. Kelly 

Janet Dee Mathieu 

Jean E. McNulty 

Paul D. and Judith M. Morano 

North High School 

Susan J. and Anthony J. Sanders 

Barbara S. and Stephen P. Sargent 

Steven D. and Gail G. Scherzer 

L.S. and K.S. Stambler 

Nina T. and David B. Steinberg 

Carmela and Daniel F. Szklarz 

Nathan D. and Sara G. Zaientz 

Blackstone Valley Chamber of 

Commerce Education Foundation 

Fund 

Dina R. and Gerald (Lee) Gaudette III 

Boys & Girls Club of Worcester Fund 

Boys & Girls Club of Worcester 

Robert S. and Helen A. Bowditch Fund 

In memory of Helen A. and Robert S. 

Bowditch 

Susan B. Talmadge 

Bozenhard Charitable Fund 


Carrick Foundation Scholarship 

The Carrick Foundation 

Charitable Gift Annuity Fund 

James S. Demetry 

Wynne L. Chase Fund 

Arthur E. Chase 

Choose Worcester Fund 

Berkeley Investments 

Commerce Bank & Trust Company 

Melvin S. Cutler Charitable Foundation 

Agnes E. Kull 

Telegram & Gazette 

UnumProvident Corporation 

Worcester Business Development 

Corporation 

Community Ministries Fund 

Immanuel Lutheran Church 

Worcester Area Mission Society 

Fairman C. Cowan Fund 

In memory of Fairman C. Cowan 

The Barrington Foundation, Inc. 

Barbara Bell 

George F. and Barbara C. Bernardin 

Herbert and Rosa Bromberg 

Clarence A. Burley 

Pauline E. Charbonneau 

Henry and Elaine Ciborowski 

Ronald S. Davis 

Margery M. and Richard W. Dearborn 

Henry B. Dewey 

Marjorie Deitz and family 

Barbara E. Fargo 

Patricia A. Fletcher 

Jane B. Freeman 

Allan G. Gordon 

Lois B. Green 

Nathan and Barbara E. Greenberg 

Ann T. Lisi and Joel P. Greene 

John Herron Sr. 

Robert J. Hogan 

Nason A. Hurowitz and Martha P. Grace 

Robert M. and Carolyn G. Hyde 

Vassilios Karapanos and Ingrid G. 

Farreras 

Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. Lane Jr. 

Michael and Nancy Leavitt 

John W. Lund 

Diane H. and Gary W. MacConnell 

Leonard C. and Beverly J. Meeker 

Erwin H. Miller 

Anne C. and Dennis S. Moore 

Ann C. Nelson 


Gail T. Randall 

S. Paul Reville 

Edward and Linda Robbins 

Mary Jane S. Rodman 

Saint-Gobain Corporation Foundation 

Carol L. Seager 

Lowerre and Edward Simsarian 

Robin and Lincoln Spaulding 


Leonard H. White 

The Salmon Family 

The Willows at Worcester 

Donna L. Zerwitz 

Lorraine Crepeau Fund 

The Lorraine and Chauncey Crepeau 

Trust 

Jeanne Remillard Curtis Fund 


Melvin S. Cutler Fund 


Anna S. and Warren G. Davis Fund 

Ronald S. Davis 

December 3rd Scholarship Fund 

Maureen T. Dunn 

Directors and Corporators Fund 

Lawrence J. Abramoff 

Robert C. Achorn 

Bruce Anderson 

Michael P. Angelini 

Anonymous (2) 

Rich and Wendy Ardizzone 

Dexter A. Bailey 

Bank of America Foundation 

Thomas J. Bartholomew 

John E. Bassett 

Sarah G. Berry 

Mark P. Bilotta 

Maurice J. and Pamela K. Boisvert 

George F. Booth II 

Bozenhard Charitable Fund of Greater 


Christopher W. Bramley 

Karin Branscombe 

James B. Broadhurst 

Michael D. Brockelman 

Denise H. Brookhouse 

John H. Budd 


Wanda Cantlin 

Gail E. Carberry 

Ann E. Carlson 

Debbie and Charlie Cary 

Linda A. Cavaioli 

Francesco C. Cesareo PhD 

James E. Collins 

Harriette L. Chandler 

P. Kevin Condron 

Michael J. Crawford 

Frederick G. Crocker Jr. 

Ralph D. Crowley Jr. 

Jeanne Remillard Curtis Fund of 

Greater Worcester Community 

Foundation 


Jill C. Dagilis 


Contributors 


Richard W. Dearborn 

Gene J. DeFeudis 

William P. Densmore 

Kathleen Derzius through United Way 

of Central Massachusetts 


Ross K. Dik 

David M. Dimenstein 

Brendan Donahue 

James C. and Carol B. Donnelly 

Francis X. Dufault Jr. 

Ellen S. Dunlap and Frank Armstrong 

Eppinger Family Foundation 

Susan and Walter Ettinger 


Richard J. Fates 

Norma and Saul F. Feingold Fund of 

the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund 

Susan S. and Harry L. Ferguson 

Allen W. Fletcher 

Justin L. Fletcher 

Matthew V. Fletcher 


Warner S. and Mary F. Fletcher 

David P. Forsberg 

Mark and Jan Fuller 

Helen F. Garcia 

James C. Garvey 

Gerald M. Gates 

Gerald L. Gaudette III 

Gavitt Wire & Cable Company, Inc. 

Stephen F. Gemelli 

Lawrence J. Glick 

Dorista J. Goldsberry 

Dennis F. and Frances C. Gorman 

John E. Graham 

Lois B. Green 

Martin J. Green 

Noreen M. Green MD 

Barbara E. Greenberg 


David R. Grenon 

J. Michael Grenon 

Abraham W. Haddad DMD 

Hall Club 

Joy Wetzel Hall through United Way of 

Central Massachusetts 

Ernest S. Hayeck 

John Herron Jr. 

Honee A. Hess and Philip R. 

Magnusson 

Kathryn and James Hunter 

Patricia L. Jones 

Maureen M. Kelleher 

Mrs. James B. Kenary III 

Robert M. Kennedy 

Barbara C. Kohin 

Agnes E. Kull 

Thomas P. LaVigne 

Thuha T. Le 

David P. Leach and Audrey Klein-Leach 

Jenique A. LeBlond 

Peter and Catherine Levine 

Patsy C. Lewis 

Joseph Lian Jr. 

Stephen B. Loring 

Susan M. Mailman 

Thomas D. Manning 

C. Jean McDonough 

Cynthia McMullen 

Christopher G. and Jayne N. Mehne 

Rev. Barbara W. Merritt 

Ruth and Peter Metz Family Foundation 


John O. Mirick 

Charles F. Monahan Jr. 

Janet Wilson Moore 

Maureen Moorehouse 

Laurance S. Morrison 


Laura H. Myers 

Robert Z. Nemeth 

Karen M. Nunley 

John G. O’Brien 

David R. Ojerholm 

Vincent F. O’Rourke Jr. 


Thoru Pederson 

Alan B. and Judy M. Pemstein 


Paul M. Pezzella 

Lisa A. Piehler 

Cynthia N. Pitcher 

Richard L. Pyle 

Dennis and Kelley Rice 

Wendy J. Rickles 

Scott Rossiter 

Paul and Fay Rossley Fund of Greater 


Barry S. Rotman 

Kent Russell and Aisling Gaughan 

R. Joseph Salois 

Ralph F. Sbrogna 

Roberta R. Schaefer 

Paul and Susan Schlaikjer Fund of the 

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund 


Francis P. Shea 

Jay S. Sherwin 

Philip O. Shwachman 

Marvin S. Silver 

Lowerre and Edward Simsarian 

Jeffrey Solomon 

Nanette J. St. Pierre-Locke 

Joseph N. Stolberg 

Alan M. Stoll 

William F. Sullivan 

Sheila L. and George W. Tetler III 

David N. Tinsley 

E. Paul Tinsley 

Richard P. and Margaret W. Traina 

Tuyet Tran 

Michael and Dorothy Tsotsis 

Charles R. Valade 

Wyatt R. Wade 

William D. Wallace 

Todd Wetzel through United Way of 


Harry and Lucy Whitin 

Thomas J. Wickstrom 

Marian V. Wilson 

Jack L. Wolfson 


Yesod Foundation 

Janice B. Yost 

Robert Zibinskas 

Marita Zuraitis 

Discretionary Funds 

George I. Alden Trust 

Douglas Center Cemetery 

Preservation Fund 

In memory of Wallis Darnley 

Sharon E. Hobey 

Steve Drawbridge Memorial Fund 

James N. Drawbridge Jr. 


John and Fran Duke Scholarship 

Fund 

John F. Duke Jr. 

Elizabeth and John McDonnell 

 

Barbara Fitts 

Joseph Persky Foundation 

Ann Pinkerton Charitable Trust 

In memory of Maguerite Persky 

Barbara Fitts 

Stephen G. Economos Scholar 

Athlete Fund 

Robert J. and Leslie S. Bergman 

Christina D. Economos 

Esther S. and Peter O. Harper 

Suzanne Kohin 

Dennis Must 

Jeffrey S. Edinberg Memorial 


In memory of 

Lillian Abisamra 

Venise Withstandley 

Arnold S. and Phyllis C. Edinberg 

Marjorie G. and Elmer E. 

Ellison Jr. Fund 

In memory of Elmer E. Ellison 


Dorothy T. Higano 

Whitin Memorial Community Center 

John N. Engelsted Fund 

(formerly Walker Magnetics Fund) 

In memory of Elsa and John Niels 

Engelsted 

Lois A. and Richard A. Dahlin 

Hendrik and Magda deMoor 

Robert C. McCray 

Jerry and Peter Morgan 

In memory of John Niels Engelsted 

Julia E. Cronin 

Renee DesRosiers 

Susanne and Philip Geier 

Margaret M. Groden 

Dorothy S. Horne 

Nason A. Hurowitz and Martha P. 

Grace 

Debra and John P. Krikorian 


Northern Trust Bank 

Bradford Perch 

Reeder Financial Services 

Employees of O.S. Walker 

Walker Magnetics Group 

Environment Grantmaking Fund 

Marcia Butzel Fund of Greater 


Fred and Leona Eppinger 


Doug and Sarah Booher 

Frederick and Leona Eppinger 

Mary R. Fedeli Memorial 


Edwin Fedeli Jr. 

Anita and Nathaniel A. Feingold 


Feingold Companies 

Norma and Saul F. Feingold Fund 

Saul F. Feingold 

Norma and Saul F. Feingold Joy of 

Music Fund 


Shirley Feldman Fund 

Great Brook Valley Health Center 

Ogretta V. McNeil 

In honor of Zoila Feldman 

Anonymous 

Massachusetts League of 

Community Health Centers 

Gerald A. Fogarty Memorial 

Scholarship 

Providence & Worcester Railroad Co. 

Earl P. Fontaine Memorial 


Liberty Movers 

Founders Fund 

John K. and Gabrielle Allen 

Melvin S. Cutler Charitable 


Robert E. Dik 

Timothy F. Dumphy 

Nancy J. Greene 

Perry R. and Diane J. Pero 

Avad Ramachandra 

Dennis and Kelley Rice 

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Rubin 

John F. Freeland Memorial Fund 

George E. Freeland 

Beverly A. Pinjuv 

Friends of Learning in Killingly 

Fund 

Patricia Correia Hoerter 

Barbara Crabtree Simonetta 


Contributors 

In memory of 

Dr. James F. and Anne S. Jones 

Furman K. and Mary M. Stanley 

Susan Rees Jones 

Friends of Northbridge Elders Fund 

In memory of 

Dorothy Baker 

Lois Blakely 

Winifred Couture 

Stephan DeHaan 

Alice Dionne 

Luke and Florence Driscoll 

Mary Ellen Golnik 

Gardner Hoard 

Roland Jacques 

Harriet LaFleur 

Theresa Visbeck Mekallab 

Victoria Poliquin 

Joseph H. L. Roy 

Arthur Wiersma 

Mag Winchell 

Friends of Northbridge Elders 

Friends of the Upton Town Library 

Fund 

Friends of the Upton Town Library 

Julie Chase Fuller Endowment Fund 

for Mechanics Hall 


Judge and Mrs. William Garbose 

Fund 

William J. Luby 

Derek Gaudette Memorial 


Anonymous 

Matthew Gignac Memorial 


Thomas J. and Suzanne E. Levitre 

GLBT Partnership Fund 

Cindy Aiken and Liz Hebert 

Atlas Distributing, Inc. 

Kenneth Bositis and Michael Allen 

Bowditch & Marinelli, Inc. 

Dawn and John Budd 

James T. Camp 

Ralph G. Carlson 


Funders for Lesbian & Gay Issues, Inc. 

Yvonne Goldsberry and Cherie Holmes 

David B. Houston 

Maureen M. and William D. Kelleher 

David M. Keller and Julie E. Meyers 

Sarah Kelly 

Kenneth T. Lundquist 

Minh and Robert C. Mailloux 

Kevin J. Matthews 

Jane L. Molina 


Gail M. Morgan and Bernard A. 

Lempicki 

Stephen and Cynthia Pitcher 

P.L. Rider Co., Inc. 

Mary Beth and Rob Rockwell 

Ellen and John Savickas 

Paul and Susan Schlaikjer Fund of the 

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund 


Mark Spuria and Joseph Murphy 

Judith A. Thompson 


Tuyet Tran 

John W. Trexler 

UMass Memorial Health Care 

Wyatt R. and Erika D. Wade 


Marian V. Wilson 

Robert Zeleniak 

Good Samaritan Mission Council 

Fund 

James C. and Colleen S. Abrams 

Good Samaritan Mission Council 

Robert P. Goulet Memorial 


James F. Goulet 

Paul J. Gramling Memorial 

Scholarship Fund for 

Compassionate Caregiving to 

People with Alzheimer’s 

Barbara C. Buchan 

Bonnie Gorman 


Foundation Operating Fund 

John W. Lund 

David R. and Rosalie A. Grenon Fund 

David R. and Rosalie A. Grenon 

Emil Haddad Jazz Scholarship Fund 

Friends of Emil Haddad 

Edward P. Gardella 

Moffett Family 

Sherwood Hosting, LLC 

In memory of Emil Haddad and 

Antonette Clemons 

Jones Family 

The Hedin Family Memorial 

Emergency Fund 


The Hedin Family Memorial Fund 


Hendricks House Preservation Fund 

William A. and Patricia Hendricks 

Maureen Henrickson Memorial 


Lucille Dileo 

Steven A. and Debra K. Glaza 

Lynn Granlund 

Beverly E. MacCollom 

Kathleen Marks 

Laureen M. and Carl E. Taylor Jr. 

Charles Hugo Community Service 

Award Fund 

In memory of Charles F. Hugo 

Anonymous 

Kristen Fitzpatrick 

Lisa L. Hugo 

Jennifer S. Rodman 

Edward P. and Brenda K. Weathersbee 

Michael and Michele Wronski 

Jane Fund of Central Massachusetts 

Fund 

Jane Fund of Central Massachusetts 

Debbie Anne Johnson Memorial 

Fund 

In memory of Ronald “Skip” Resseguie 

Herbert C. and Martha H. Johnson 

Gertrude Alice Johnson Fund 

Robert D. Johnson 

Stanley T. Johnson 

Keeping the Dream Alive 

Scholarship 

Harriet Miller Hight 

In memory of Harriet Miller Hight 

Anonymous 

Rich and Wendy Ardizzone 

Christian S. and Ingeborg G. 

Baehrecke 

Bowditch & Dewey, LLP 

Henry and Elaine Ciborowski 

Elizabeth O. Dean 


Dorothy A. Dimitri 


Anne T. Goff 

Edith M. Heier 

Merrill W. and Barbara S. Higgins 

Susan W. and David W. Hight 

Nason A. Hurowitz and Martha P. 

Grace 


Stephen and Valerie Loring 

Edward J. and Rita M. McCarthy 

John Medbury 

The Rev. David and Linda Miller 

Philip and Gale Morgan 


Joseph N. and Susan H. Rountree 



Nancy J. VanDyke 


William and Maureen Kelleher 

Charitable Fund 

William and Maureen Kelleher 

Charitable Trust at Citi GIFT, Inc. 

Bradford J. Kemp Fund 

Bradford J. Kemp Trust 

Leonard F. Leamy Scholarship Fund 

Anne M. Leamy Estate and Trust 

Leicester Savings Bank Fund 

Paul F. Scully 

Mark MacPherson Lightbown 

Memorial Scholarship Fund 

Marion L. Lightbown 

Lieutenant James F. “Jay” Lyons III 


 

Dorothy A. Alves 

Barnstorm Cycles 

Eileen Barrette 

Eileen Barry 

Ralph Bartley 

John P. Brissette and family 

James H. Campbell Jr. 

Lindsey R. Carlomagno 

John P. Carrigan III 

Scott Chapman 

Kathleen M. Comer 

James Comfacti Jr. 

Roger B. Conant 

Amy Cook 

Alys J. and James J. Covello Jr. 

Katherine A. Cristman 

Courtney E. Cronin 

Deborah A. Crowley 

Brieann S. Dio 

Michael A. and Karen Dodos 

Shawn Doherty 

Mark L. and Janet P. Donahue 

Henry Donoghue 

Rebecca and Kaleigh Durkan 

Roseann C. Earley 

Jason P. Erban 

Facility Management Corporation 

Fidelity Investments Volunteer Grant 

Program-Marlboro Region Fund 

Brian T. Finn 

Flagship Bank & Trust Company 

Ellen T. Fleming 

James P. and Ellen F. Foley 

Glenette Ford-Ovins 

Patricia D. and Garth Franklin 

Amanda E. Friedrich 

Friends of the Lieutenant Jay Lyons 


John A. and Alyce D. Giaquinto 

Erika Grandberg 

David and Elaine Gustafson 

Kenneth E. Hopper 

Margaret J. Hurley 

Thomas R. Jessop 

Donnal I. Johnson 

Mark Kackley 

Aaron S. Katz 

Knights of Columbus Council #88 

Melissa LaFleur 

Leitrim Pub 

James F. and Joan M. Lyons 

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Madigan 

Mass Liquors 

Re-Elect McGovern Committee 

Julie McLucas 

Michael O. and Joanne M. McNamee 

John Milley 

Mirick, O’Connell, DeMallie 

& Lougee, LLP 

Nicole M. Mondor 

Timothy P. and Tammy L. Murray 

Caitlin M. Navin 

Northworks Bar and Grille 

Daniel T. O’Connor 

Steven J. and Lora Palys 


Contributors 

Caroline and Elizabeth Pellegrini 

Christine T. Pitz 

Chrissy Remian 

Christopher M. Rich 

James Ridick 

Nancy C. Sanko 

Rickey B. and Wendy E. Schiffman 

Seven Hills Foundation 

Dennis Shea 

Ellen M. Shor 

Arthur Silverman 

Kevin D. Small 

Jay D. Stranieri 

Lisa B. Sullivan 

Sean A. Sylvester 

Bobbi-Jo Tarr 

Susan Thorbahn 

Jeffrey S. and Michelle L. Titus 

Tri-Star Sportswear 

Gina Tutela 

Wexford House 

Worcester Credit Union 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Xenos 

Sonia Werblin Masterman Fund 

Anonymous 

Winifred Meany Killay and Matthew 

Meany Memorial Fund 

In memory of Nancy Rose Waite 

Matthew J. Waite 

Middlesex Savings Charitable 

Foundation Scholarship Fund 

Middlesex Savings Charitable 


Michael Minty Memorial Scholarship 

Fund 

In memory of Philip W. Callahan 

James C. and Colleen S. Abrams 

Anonymous 

Joan Badjo and family 

Richard Ball 

Bollus Lynch 

Peter A. Boltruczyk 

Gary and Ellen Brackett 

Christina Callahan 

John R. Callahan 

Marianne M. Callahan 

Walter M. Conlin Jr. 

James Cosgrove 

William Cross 


Ida A. DiReda 

Michael J. Donahue 

Paul C. Foley and Rebecca A. 

Szyklinski 

Glenn W. and Patricia L. Goulet 

Stephanie Hasbrouck 


Dennis and Maureen Irish 

John P. Rowe Funeral Home, Inc. 

Paul A. and Beth A. Kent 

Benjamin D. Lambert 


Mark LaVigne 

Lighthouse Print Works Company 

Stephen and Valerie Loring 

Lumbard Investment Counseling 

Keith A. MacNeal 

Massachusetts Funeral Directors 

Association 

Re-Elect McGovern Committee 

Gladys M. and Lincoln R. McKie Jr. 

Dorothy B. Morse 

Thomas R. Mountain 

Anna North 

Kevin and Linda O’Sullivan 

Dianne M. and Francis J. Russell 

Silvia and Silvia Associates 

Voultsos Family 

Rodney A. and Patricia B. White 

Worcester Rugby Football Club 

Marc J. Zimmerman 

Barrett and Mahroo Morgan Donor 

Advised Fund 

Barrett Morgan 

Constantine Mina and Vasiliky 

Strates Moschos Scholarship Fund 

Michael C. Moschos 

Vasiliky Strates Moschos Memorial 

Fund 

Michael C. Moschos 

Support Center Program 

Fund 

George I. Alden Trust 

United Way of Central Massachusetts 

Ernest Osterman Family Fund 

Thomas E. Adams 

Thomas R. and Virginia M. Cope 

Susanne E. Gray and Ernest Osterman 

E. Osterman Gas Service 

Elsie Osterman 

Leah G. Osterman and David C. King 

In honor of Susanne E. Gray and 

Ernest Osterman 

Ruth Osterman 

In honor of Vincent J. Osterman 

Kieran Stone 

Arthur M. Pappas and Martha R. 

Pappas Donor Advised Foundation 


Marlene and David Persky Fund 


Sarah Daniels Pettit and William O. 

Pettit Jr. Scholarship Fund 

Sarah D. and William O. Pettit Jr. 

Paul M. Pezzella Fund 

In Memory of Patsy and Theresa 

Pezzella 


The Pyle Fund 


Rogers-Kennedy Memorial Fund 

Jeanne Remillard Curtis Fund of 



Robert W. Booth Fund 

In Memory of George F. Booth 

Park Spirit of Worcester 

Rockwell Foundation 

Paul and Fay Rossley Fund 

Mildred H. McEvoy Foundation 


Barbara Marks Rothschild Arts and 

Education Scholarship Fund 

In memory of 

Paul J. Fitzpatrick 

Lorri Manzaro 

Ruth Pulda 

Michelle “Mickey” Remby 

Claire Rothschild 

Hannah K. Thompson 

Amy Trebbin Weiss 

Burton L. Wilner 

Steven and Julia Rothschild 

Andrew Sala Memorial Scholarship 

Fund 

Walter F. and Kathleen Browne 

Walter F. and Helen A. Browne 

Christina and Michael Lochhead 

Nancy H. Sala 

In honor of Nancy Sala 

National Grid 

Charles E. Scott Community Fund 

Donna McGrath 

Herbert D. Sherwin Memorial 


College Access Foundation of 

California 

Jay S. Sherwin and Rachel Lefkowitz 

William J. Short Scholarship Fund 

Priscilla Short Kerr and Phillips H. Kerr 

Worcester Regional Chamber of 

Commerce 

Alice C.A. Sibley Fund 

Alice C.A. Sibley Trust 

Claudia Simonian Scholarship Fund 

Beverly B. Anderson 

Deborah M. and Scott P. Aubrey 

James M. Barry 

Elaine F. Bean 

Beverly A. Brown 

Clara M. Cole 

Davidian Brothers Farm 

Paul J. and Deborah A. Davis 

Michael J. and Devon M. Montelone 

Marsha R. Ovrut 

Evelyn Sawyer 

Susan L. Shooshan 

Kim M. Simonian 

Richard Simonian 

Frederick P. and Cheryl A. Woll 

In honor of Richard Simonian 

Elaine F. Bean 

Beverly A. Brown 

Ann B. Logan and Christopher C. 

Eccles 

Lindsey M. Morin 

Judith A. Rutelonis 

Mary and George Simonian Jr. 

Francis J. Trainor and Virginia M. Walsh 

Barbara A. Wrenn 

In memory of Majorie Walsh 

Ann B. Logan and Christopher C. 

Eccles 

Children of Francis and Virginia Walsh 

Spag’s Supply Fund 

Sandra E. Travinski 

Steelman Expository Writing 


David C. Steelman and Virginia Theo- 

Steelman 

Helen M. and Thomas B. Stinson 

Fund 

Helen M. Stinson Trust 

Stonewall Fund 

Anonymous 

Tahanto Regional High School 


Anonymous (3) 

Martha E. Bigelow 

Gary A. and Susan L. Boudreau 

Boylston Mass Auto Body 

Robert E. and Robin J. Brissette 

Tom and Nancy Buckingham 

Clinton Savings Charitable Foundation 

Robert W. and Edith M. Comeau 

Cary J. Corkin 

Joanne D. Cox 

Sal and Connie Della Cioppa 

Paul and Helen Dexter 

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene A. Dodd 

M. Joy Foley 

Mrs. Russell E. Fuller 

Nitin Godiwala 

Gary R. and Jacqueline A. Gothing 

Dr. and Mrs. James B. Hanshaw 

Mr. and Mrs. Dean A. Harris 

Louise Roseberry Janda 

Brian C. and Lorna J. Keane 

Mr. and Mrs. Owen Kennedy 

Carol Klein-Mack 

Margaret J. Klimaski 

Barbara H. Krackhardt 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Larson 

Luvak, Inc. 

Barry and Mary Ellen Matthew 

Robert and Madeline McTague 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Mecca 

Milano Regulatory Solutions 

Ted Minior 

Peter W. and Emilie A. Moran 

Charles and Lynda Nelson 

Mr. and Mrs. John Quinn 

Mr. and Mrs. Elias Reitzel 

Richard F. Walsh Plumbing and Heating 

David and Donni Rodman 

Roux’s Garage 

Wayne K. and Donna M. Sauer 

Larry and Diane E. Seiler 


Contributors 

Carl M. Sharpe 

Florence L. Smith 

Robert L. and Paula A. Smith 

In honor of World Travelers 

Anonymous 

In memory of Raymond DiMuzio 

Helen M. DiMuzio 

Paul E. Tarkiainen Art Award Fund 

Cindy and Albert LaBarge 

Lori and Todd LaBarge 

Theresa Patriquin 

In memory of Janet Cumming Esip 

Theresa Patriquin 

In memory of 

Fairman Cowan 

Jonathan Pride 

Louise I. and Jeffrey R. Clarke and 

family 

Temple Sinai Fund 


Temple Sinai 

Sumner B. Tilton Memorial 



Laurie C. Tinsley Scholarship Fund 

Tina M. and Francis Beaupre 

Robert E. Evans and Kathleen K. Evans 

Family Foundation 

Carmen C. Huntoon 

Guillermo and Helen Grace Katigbak 

Kristin A. Mattson 

Paul Q. and Michele Polewarczyk 

Robert P. Stalilonis and Angele M. C. 

Patenaude 

Eugene J. and Elaine I. Sweeney 

Dorothy C. Tinsley 

Laurie C. Tinsley Scholarship 


Margaret and Gordon Torgersen 

Fund 

In memory of Rev. Dr. Gordon M. 

Torgersen 

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Barry 

Gale B. and Philip G. Torgersen 

David E. and Gail M. Coe 

Kenneth Elchert 

Eugene A. Fischer 

Touchstone Community School 

Financial Aid Endowment 

Touchstone Community School 

Traina Family Youth Development 

Fund 


Tree Fund 

Temple Emanuel 

Worcester Arts and Humanities 

Educational Collaborative Fund 

In honor of Frances and M Howard 

Jacobson 

Lois B. Green 

Arnold C. and Beverly Greenberg 

Leroy Weiner Scholarship Fund 

In honor of Arnold Korval 

Betty and Ed Shuman 

Weiner Family 

In honor of 

Dr. Lee Beerman 

Elinor Kramer 

In memory of Dorothy Deluca 

Tyba Miller 

Harriet Weitzman 

Betty and Ed Shuman 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Wetzel Fund 

Joy Wetzel Hall through United Way of 


Todd H. and Charlotte A. Wetzel 

Fund 

Todd Wetzel through United Way of 


Water and Land Stewardship Fund 


Donald and Mary Melville 

Worcester Animal Rescue League 

Fund 

Robert K. Massey Jr. 

In memory of Robert K. Massey Jr. 

Andrew R. and Eleanor M. Clark 

Nancy H. Massey 

WTAG Christmas for Children Fund 

Barbara and John Ahern 

Patricia M. Albrecht 

Anonymous (3) 

Lenore C. Armstrong 

William and Valerie Barrett and family 

Carolyn M. Bellil 

Paul N. Berube 

Dorene Boudreau 

Roger Carlson and the Pappas Brothers 

John P. Carnazza 

Carpenters Local 107 

Aileen B. and Austin L. Carter Jr. 

John Conte 

Carol M. Cooney 

Diane H. Cosgrove 

Donald Courtney 

Donald and Barbara Courtney 

Judith A. Dacey 

Darcy Design Construction 

Linda E. Denault 

Judith E. and William C. Dino 

Susan J. and James G. Dobson Jr. 

Louise M. Erskine 

Shannon Finn 

Donna M. Fiore 

Frost Committee 

Danny L. Grasso 

Nancy J. Greene 

Carol T. Grigas 

Mary Haroyan 

Nancy D. Hawley 

Laureen C. and Henry J. Hayes III 

Robert J. Hennigan Jr. 

Carol A. Hough 

Knights of Columbus Council #88 

Gerard and Caroline Kopoyan 

Otto R. Lies 

Lindgren Contracting 

Robert and Teresa Lindgren 

Annette M. Mangaudis 

Patricia Martel 

Charles D. Mason 

Irene L. Mayo 

Denise A. McElhinney 

Jeff Mulford 

Marcia Norbeck 

James O’Day and Marybeth Murphy- 

O’Day 

Passey Family 

Elinor J. and Richard R. Pentland 

Committee to Re-Elect George N. 

Peterson Jr. 

Joseph M. and Gayle A. Petty 

Rene H. Picard 

Robert Pietro 

Shirley I. Prachniak 

Frank Reale 

Rennie Family 

Keith B. and Cheryl A. Richards 

Gary Rosen 

Paul and Fay Rossley Fund of Greater 


David F. and Susan M. Russell 

Maria Schupp 

Virginia M. Sheehan 

Richard P. Smith 

Committee to Elect Robert P. Spellane 

Marcelle A. Stuart 

John A. Sund 

Christine A. Sviklas 

Kathleen Toomey and family 

Gail C. and Peter A. Tosi 

Alida O. Tousignant 

Patrick and Kevin Valentine 

Marsha K. and Ronald W. Wagner 

Warners Auto Body 

Robert W. and Carolyn K. Welch 

Mr. and Mrs. John S. Wells 

Worcester Department of Public Works 

Employees 

Worcester Fire Fighters Association 

Local 1009 

Worcester Sharks Booster Club 

WTAG Listeners 

Youth for Community Improvement 

Endowment Fund 

Marcia Butzel Fund of Greater 



In honor of Ross K. Dik 

David S. and Sara Trillo Adams 


Thomas J. and Lynora S. Bartholomew 


Ellen S. Dunlap and Frank Armstrong 

Dennis F. and Frances C. Gorman 


Mary E. Kett and Alden J. Bianchi 

Peter and Catherine Levine 

Monica Escobar Lowell 




Mary C. Ritter 

Scott and Lois Rossiter 


Youth Opportunities Upheld, Inc. 

Fund 

Y.O.U., Inc. 

Every effort has been made to 

ensure the accuracy of this list. If 

we have made an error, please let 

us know. 


New Funds 

Each new fund expresses a donor’s visionary values and improves our community in unique ways 

Abby Kelley Foster House Fund 

The leaders of Abby’s House felt 

that a secure and flexible fund 

was critical to its continued 

organizational health and 

vibrancy. This agency fund 

supports Abby’s House in its 

mission to provide safe housing, 

respond to emergency needs, and educate the community 

about the impact of violence and homelessness on women. 

Boys & Girls Club of Worcester Fund 

The Boys & Girls Club of 

Worcester was organized in 1889, 

first to serve boys only, and since 

1979 including girls in its mission 

to help children and teens become 

healthy adults and responsible 

citizens through mentoring 

and positive relationships. This fund supports the annual 

operating needs of the Club. 


Steve Drawbridge is remembered 

by friends as a “consummate 

hockey coach, a physics professor 

on ice, a coach that every parent 

wanted their child to play for.” 

This memorial fund will provide 

college scholarships to graduating 

varsity ice hockey players from Wachusett Regional High. 

Good Samaritan Mission Council Fund 

Each year, residents of greater 

Worcester travel to the island 

of Hispanola with clothes and 

medical supplies to help families 

of sugar cane growers. Through 

this agency fund, the Good 

Samaritan Mission Council 

supports the Haitian Mission Baptist Church and the 

construction of Good Samaritan General Hospital in La 

Romana, Dominican Republic. 

Jane Fund of Central Massachusetts Fund 

Established with private 

donations honoring the memory 

of volunteer Judith Fleming 

Henshaw, this fund supports 

the Jane Fund of Central 

Massachusetts in its mission to 

ensure reproductive equity for all 

women regardless of their ability to pay. 

William and Maureen Kelleher Charitable Fund 

Maureen and Bill Kelleher created this donor advised fund 

as a vehicle for their giving. 

Bradford J. Kemp Fund 

Bradford Kemp was a funeral director who enjoyed a 

modest lifestyle with his beloved wife, Josephine. Their 

bequest is a personal legacy that will provide residents of 

Webster, Massachusetts, with scholarships and programs in 

education and the arts. 

Barrett and Mahroo Morgan Donor Advised Fund 

Barry and Mahroo Morgan are 

generous friends of many local 

cultural, educational, and human 

care organizations, and this donor 

advised fund is their channel for 

community giving. 

Stonewall Fund 

This donor advised fund was 

established anonymously to 

benefit a variety of educational, 

cultural, and community 

development causes. 

Traina Family Youth Development Fund 

Richard and Margaret Traina 

— known to all as Dick and 

Polly — have created this fund to 

enhance the lives of children and 

young people through programs 

that encourage leadership, inspire 

creativity, and improve health. 


Named Funds 

Since 1975, generous individuals, families and organizations have used 

the Foundation to manage their charitable giving through a named fund. 

Established with a gift of $10,000 or more, these funds produce income 

for grant making that supports organizations and purposes defined by 

the donor. 

The following list notes the year that each fund was created and its 

 

donor request. 

Discretionary, Field of Interest and Committee Advised Funds 

 

Andrew N. Ahlfors and Helmi E. Ahlfors Fund 

(2002) $200,608 

Lois Anne Memorial Fund (1993) $28,305 

Clarence S. Arms Family Fund (1986) $10,425 

Fund for the Arts and Humanities (1993) 

$244,800 

The Auburn Foundation (2002) 

Nils Bjork Memorial Fund (1992) $28,428 

Robert W. Booth Fund in Memory of George F. 

Booth (1988) $6,464,629 

Olive I. and Anthony A. Borgatti Jr. Fund 

(1987) $138,272 

Bowditch & Dewey Fund (1989) $146,737 

Robert S. and Helen A. Bowditch Fund (1990) 

$48,334 

Cancer Care and Research Fund (1991) $14,580 

John Carter “High Five” Youth Hockey Fund 

(1996) $10,404 

Central Massachusetts Health Standards Fund 

(1990) $105,091 

Children’s Christmas Fund (1991) $12,401 

Child Wellness Fund (2001) $8,032 

Elva E. and John J. Chisholm Fund (1989) 

$4,296,338 

Barbara E. and William E. Christensen Fund 

(1998) $45,237 

Community Ministries Fund (2006) $18,957 

Dr. Harold M. Constantian Fund (1997) $9,771 

Fairman C. Cowan Fund (1995) $45,295 

Lorraine Crepeau Fund (2006) $676,898 

Robert and Mary S. Cushman Fund (1978) 

$285,772 

Richard C. Daniels Fund (2001) $516,061 

Anna S. and Warren G. Davis Fund (1998) 

$11,244 

Jean B. and Gilbert S. Davis Fund (1994) 

$25,628 

Rosemary Davis Environmental Preservation 

Fund (2001) $41,534 

Sarah B. and Dix F. Davis Fund (2002) $10,361 

Eliza D. and Cora J.D. Dodge Fund (1985) 

$4,613,079 

Ruth H. and Warren A. Ellsworth Fund (1983) 

$83,665 

EMC Community Fund (2000) $30,504 

Fairlawn Foundation Fund (1991) $6,944,151 

Fallon/OrNda Community Health Fund (1996) 

$3,799,902 

Charles H. Farnum Fund (2003) $955,897 

Marion Stoddard Fletcher Fund (1992) 

$1,123,003 

Founders Fund (1983) $334,427 

Samuel Frank Charitable Fund (1993) $281,702 

Esther and Howard G. Freeman Fund (1984) 

$46,934 

Friends of Learning in Killingly Fund (1998) 

$60,479 

Garfield Berry Fund (1998) $7,658 

Ragnhild L. Gersdorf Fund (1994) $39,868 

GLBT Partnership Fund (2005) $106,641 

Haskell and Ina Gordon Fund (1980) $17,209 

Nathan and Barbara Greenberg Fund (1982) 

$122,288 

Mary B. Grogan Fund for Youth (2001) 

$45,784 

Margery M. and O. Vincent Gustafson Fund 

(1980) $57,328 

Greater Worcester Community Scholarship 

Fund: Ruth and John Adam Founders (2000) 

$2,798,542 

Greater Worcester Jaycees Fund (1997) 

$28,031 

Raymond P. Harold Discretionary Fund 

(1982) $114,648 

Francis A. and Jacquelyn H. Harrington 

Human Services Fund (1992) $1,030,903 

Rosemary Marble Harris Fund (2001) $17,417 

Orville Harrold Fund (2006) $250,615 

Bradley C. Higgins Fund (1982) $122,042 

Harriet Miller Hight Education Fund with 

the Association of Colored Peoples (1982) 

$40,829 

Robert M. and Carolyn G. Hyde Fund (1998) 

$32,861 

Jeppson Memorial Fund (1976) $984,828 

Jiji’s Fund (1999) $12,882 

Albert R. and Carolyn Jones Fund (1995) 

$147,002 

John F. and Reyna Keenan Fund (1994) 

$12,851 

Bradford J. Kemp Fund (2008) $325,872 NEW 

Marian B. Kubelus and Marian Zell Nesbit 

Memorial Fund (1984) $450,304 

Max H. Kuhner and Eloise A. Kuhner Fund 

(2005) $265,104 

Nancy and Michael Leavitt Fund (1984) 

$3,377 


Named Funds 

 

 

Leicester Savings Bank Fund (1997) $839,590 

Main South Fund (1999) $31,242 

Frances F. Mansfield Fund (1996) $19,387 

Barbara S. Massey Fund (2000) $648,713 

Micah Housing Corporation Fund (1981) 

$12,229 

James J. and Patricia A. Moynihan Fund 

(2003) $81,161 

Marc Needleman Memorial Fund (2000) 

$6,998 

Organization Assistance Fund (1996) $60,877 

Partnership Fund (1990) $166,587 

Christopher J. Paskell Memorial Fund (2004) 

$13,384 

Marlene and David Persky Fund (1997) 

$63,632 

Ann J. and Richard Prouty Fund (1988) 

$293,761 

Providence & Worcester Railroad Company 

Fund (1991) $49,391 

Renaissance Award Fund (2004) $97,542 

Melvin and Martha Rosenblatt Fund (1985) 

$48,227 

Saint Vincent Healthcare Fund (1999) 

$119,740 

Norman L. and Dorothy A. Sharfman Fund 

(2004) $1,785,018 

Sumner Lee Sharfman Fund (1984) $61,453 

Shepherd Knapp School Fund (1979) $505,636 

Alice C.A. Sibley Fund (2004) $493,708 

Evelyn and Sumner Silver Fund (2007) $6,589 

H. Arthur Smith Fund (1986) $313,974 

Spag’s Supply Fund (1986) $26,206 

Harry G. Stoddard Fund (1992) $702,789 

Estelle M. Sullivan Fund (2003) $127,344 

Gilbert H. Sundberg Fund (1987) $22,235 

D. Russell and Atsye S. Taft Fund (1992) 

$570,483 

Joseph A. Tosoni Fund (2002) $479,692 

Tree Fund (2000) $7,338 

Corinne Charron Turner Fund (1986) $15,123 

UniBank September 11th Emergency 

Personnel Education Fund (2002) $20,307 

Water and Land Stewardship Fund (2000) 

$219,010 

Curtis G. Watkins Education Fund (1995) 

$14,329 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Wetzel Fund (1983) 

$252,937 

Robert J. and Anne C. Whipple Fund (1997) 

$6,534 

Irving N. and Annabel Wolfson Fund (1998) 

$9,044 

Worcester County Deputy Sheriffs 

Association Fund (1999) $14,792 

Worcester Credit Bureau Fund (1992) 

$1,127,303 

Worcester Executives Association - Dana 

DeAngelis McDonald Fund (2000) $5,047 

Youth For Community Improvement 

Endowment Fund (2002) $11,758 

Youth Opportunity Fund (2001) $660,046 

Donor Advised Funds 

 

Argitis Family Fund (2004) $57,274 

Isabel K. Arms Fund (2005) $28,288 

Elkanah B. Atkinson Community and 

Education Fund (1986) 

Jane Bath Fund (2007) $17,768 

Olive I. and Anthony A. Borgatti Jr. Fund 

(1987) $138,357 

Bozenhard Charitable Fund (2005) $23,300 

The Douglas P. Butler Fund (1998) $11,942 

George S. and Tammy Butler Fund (2007) 

$66,244 

Marcia Butzel Fund (2001) 

William R. and Janet A. Carrick Fund (1998) 

$21,112 

Wynne L. Chase Fund (1998) $149,641 

Maureen Logan Coghlin Fund (2001) 

Herbert B. and Jayne Cohan Fund (2000) 

$16,996 

Paul E. Cohan Fund (2000) $19,716 

Hugh W. and Harriet K. Crawford Fund 

(2004) $645,287 

Elizabeth A. Culhane Memorial Fund (2000) 

$9,015 

Jeanne Remillard Curtis Fund (1999) 

Rosemary Davis Memorial Fund (2000) 

$1,985,731 

Dana L. DeAngelis-McDonald Memorial 

Fund (2002) $9,836 

Gene J. DeFeudis Fund (1991) $84,728 

Mary C. DeFeudis Fund (1991) $49,507 

Theodore and Marjorie M. Deitz Fund (1993) 

$20,977 

Martha L. and William P. Densmore Fund 

(1999) $60,608 

Henry B. and Jane K. Dewey Fund (1994) 

$82,641 

Morgan B. and Loretta R. Dewey Fund (2001) 

$8,470 

Carolyn Knight Dik Fund (1998) $14,534 

Ross and Lisa Dik Fund (1993) $10,958 

Barbara M. and Irving James Donahue Jr. 

Fund (1993) $11,524 

Lillian Knowles Eldred Fund of Pakachoag 

Church for the Support of Sacred Music 

(1999) $22,181 

Gordon Iver and Dorothy Brewer Erikson 

Fund (1996) $16,818 

Finnish American Social Club Fund (1998) 

$187,491 

Finnish Heritage Foundation Fund (1991) 

$9,995 


Named Funds 

 

A. Jane Fitzpatrick MD and Edward F. Kilroy 

MD Fund (1998) $11,565 

Phyllis and Stuart Freilich Charitable 

Foundation Fund (1999) $74,163 

Judge and Mrs. William Garbose Fund (1998) 

$31,917 

Barbara H. Gaudette Fund (2007) $22,572 

Lillian R. Goodman and Mary K. Alexander 

Fund for Nursing Education and Research 

(1999) $32,621 

Margaret A. and Ralph H. Gowetz Fund 

(1990) $29,654 

Paul J. Gramling Memorial Scholarship Fund 

for Compassionate Caregiving to People with 

Alzheimer’s (2007) $5,414 

Lois B. and Robert F. Green Fund (2001) 

$11,550 

David R. and Rosalie A. Grenon Fund (1986) 

$152,597 

Newell and Betty Hale Fund (2001) $1,334,079 

Joseph F. and Claire L. Halvey Fund (2002) 

$4,793 

Raymond P. Harold Memorial Fund (1982) 

$105,794 

Harris Family Fund (2001) $9,030 

The Hedin Family Memorial Emergency 

Fund (2007) 

Frances M. Herron Fund (1997) $65,691 

Ann D. and Louis C. Iandoli Fund (1986) 

Gertrude Alice Johnson Fund (2002) $67,561 

William and Maureen Kelleher Charitable 

Fund (2008) $24,284 NEW 

W. David and Lee Norton Kelly Family Fund 

(2002) $13,229 

Kesseli and Morse Company Fund (1998) 

$8,509 

Winifred Meany Killay and Matthew Meany 

Memorial Fund (2003) 

Kirby Foundation Fund (2007) $9,215 

Augusta H. Kressler MD Fund (2002) $13,800 

George and Anna Krikorian Family Fund 

(1994) $177,390 

Lionel M. and Cynthia E. Lamoureux Fund 

(2000) $7,668 

The LaVigne Family Fund (1992) 

Anne A. Levine Fund (1995) $11,540 

Peter H. and Catherine H. Levine Fund (2007) 

$41,273 

Celeste and Dave Lionett Donor Advised Fund 

(2004) $42,978 

Lisi-Greene Fund (2004) $8,577 

Konstantina B. Lukes Fund (1986) $1,138 

MacLean Family Fund (2004) $18,053 

Sandy C. Marks Jr. Biomedical Education Fund 

(2003) $17,180 

Marla Maykel Fund (2001) $21,127 

Charles H. McDonald Memorial Foundation 

(2005) $6,547 

C. Jean and Myles McDonough Fund (1988) 

$21,083 

Barrett and Mahroo Morgan Donor Advised 

Fund (2008) $255,751 NEW 

James J. and Patricia A. Moynihan Donor 

Advised Fund (2003) $14,192 

John M. Nelson Fund (1990) $82,325 

Ernest Osterman Family Fund (2004) 

Pakachoag Church Fund for Human 

Understanding (1999) $24,197 

Arthur M. Pappas and Martha R. Pappas 

Donor Advised Foundation (2002) 

Pelletz Family Fund (2003) $43,228 

Town of Petersham Fund (1984) $95,919 

Civil rights activist and 

poet Harriet Miller Hight 

(1913 - 2008) established 

the Harriet Miller Hight 

Education Fund in 1982 to 

encourage minority youth 

in their educational goals 

and to award an annual 

“Keeping the Dream 

Alive” scholarship to a 

Worcester student. 

The Pyle Fund (1986) $428,562 

Quota International of Worcester Fund 

(1998) $8,929 

Paul and Fay Rossley Fund (1995) $150,296 

Donna R. C. and John E. Sansoucy Fund 

(2006) $8,514 

Charles E. Scott Community Fund (1997) 

$8,467 

Seven Hills Youth Fund (1995) $7,865 

Charles E. Soule Paul Revere Insurance 

Group Centennial Fund (1995) $46,738 

Stonewall Fund (2008) NEW 

Candi Tiarks Cancer Research Fund (1996) 

$10,010 

Margaret and Gordon Torgersen Fund (2000) 

$18,051 

Traina Family Youth Development Fund 

(1999) $148,325 NEW 

Trust in Kids Fund (1987) $47,793 

Amos E. and Ann Laura Wasgatt Fund (1997) 

$25,303 

Todd H. and Charlotte A. Wetzel Fund (1992) 

$20,614 

Whittier Family Charitable Gift Fund (2007) 

$27,422 

Glenda and Arthur Wolpert Fund (1999) 

$60,664 

WTAG Christmas For Children Fund (2000) 

$53,636 

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Named Funds 

Hollis E. and Gwendolyn D. Alden Fund (1977) 

$94,094 

Clarence S. Arms Family Fund (1986) $10,356 

Elizabeth Trumbull Barton Fund (2004) 

$255,364 

Edward W. Bettke Scholarship Fund (2007) 

$6,845 

Barbara Allen Booth Fund (2001) $88,119 

Robert W. Booth Fund for the Worcester 

Historical Museum (2002) $520,521 

Bosler Humane Society Fund (1986) $37,402 

Dr. and Mrs. Edward Budnitz Fund (1995) 

$25,516 

H. Paul and Sara B. Buckingham III Fund 

(2000) $7,509 

Polly C. and Joseph R. Carter Fund (1987) 

$191,402 

John P. Castagnetti Memorial Fund (2003) 

$9,518 

Central Massachusetts Disaster Relief Residue 

Trust Fund (1980) $43,671 

Chesson Family Fund (1991) $12,616 

Charles P. Ciaffone and Rose B. Ciaffone Fund 

(2005) $21,510 

Martha A. Cowan Fund (1987) $36,633 

Hugh W. and Harriet K. Crawford Endowment 

Fund for the Pearle L. Crawford Memorial 

Library (2006) $355,131 

Ethel S. Cunningham Fund (1987) $80,671 

Henry B. and Jane K. Dewey Fund for Wellesley 

College (2007) $22,158 

Jane Kenah Dewey Abbot/Andover Fund (2007) 

$16,059 

Directors and Corporators Community Impact 

Fund (2007) $27,651 

Directors and Corporators Fund (1984) 

$639,428 

Douglas Center Cemetery Preservation Fund 

(1999) $25,660 

Marjorie G. and Elmer E. Ellison Jr. Fund 

(2001) $10,424 

Designated Funds 

 

Norma and Saul F. Feingold Joy of Music 

Fund (2006) $6,110 

Shirley Feldman Fund (2005) $35,953 

First Congregational Parish, Unitarian Fund 

(2006) $40,960 

First Unitarian Church Fund (2006) $100,453 

Patricia Fisher Fund (2006) $23,559 

Newell Hale Memorial Fund (2003) $16,024 

Ginette Harrison MD Memorial Fund (2002) 

$74,165 

Hendricks House Preservation Fund (1999) 

$101,989 

Honee A. Hess Partnership With Children 

Fund (1996) $16,960 

Robert G. and Eliza C. Hess Fund (1979) 

$73,889 

Holden Council on Aging/Senior Center 

Fund (2003) $8,789 

Jeppson Memorial Fund (1976) $1,607,917 

Marcia R. Katter Memorial Fund (2001) 

$55,134 

Lawrence M. and Augusta L. Keeler Fund 

(1997) $54,508 

Paul J. and Dorothy B. Kervick Fund (1996) 

$19,383 

Peter J. and Sophie Kosky Fund (1988) 

$37,155 

Max H. and Eloise A. Kuhner Memorial Fund 

(2005) $244,385 

John W. Lund Fund (1993) $117,614 

Frances F. Mansfield Fund (1996) $57,675 

Sonia Werblin Masterman Fund (2001) 

$11,024 

Howard J. and Dorothy R. McGuinness Fund 

(2004) $54,728 

Edward P. Miner and Dauphinais Park 


Barrett and Mahroo Morgan Fund (2007) 

$65,388 

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Vasiliky Strates Moschos Memorial Fund 

(2002) $13,558 

Rani P. and Haribabu Muddana MD Fund 

(2001) $29,196 

C. Bradford and Elizabeth C. Newell Fund 

(1999) $53,278 

Norcross Heritage Fund (2004) $9,774 

Sarah Daniels Pettit and William O. Pettit Jr. 

Fund (1996) $21,614 

Paul M. Pezzella Fund in Memory of Patsy 

and Theresa Pezzella (1999) $14,825 

Pomfret Community School Arts Fund 

(2006) $32,188 

Lillian S. Pratt Fund (2007) $12,908 

The John and Gloria Rauth Library Fund 

(2001) $20,551 

Arthur J. Remillard Jr. Fund (1993) $452,624 

Louise R. and John F. Reynders Fund (1987) 

$26,717 

Marvin Richmond Fund (1998) $39,085 

Chapin Riley Fund (2000) $1,338,332 

Katharine Higgins Riley Fund (1991) 

$199,183 

Rogers-Kennedy Memorial Fund (2003) 

$38,395 

Saul A. Seder Fund (1991) $11,893 

H. Arthur Smith Fund (1986) $302,708 

Khazma A. Soffan Memorial Fund (2000) 

$43,854 

Helen M. and Thomas B. Stinson Fund (2001) 

$242,099 

Mary Louise Wilding-White Fund (1978) 

$74,466 

Harold Davis Woodbury Fund (1987) $35,696 

Worcester Animal Rescue League Fund 

(2007) $8,218 

Worcester Art Museum Booth Family Fund 

for Education and Outreach (1999) $1,584,279 

Worcester Arts and Humanities Educational 

Collaborative Fund (2002) $10,774 

Worcester Engineering Society Fund (1989) 

$17,545 

Worcester Historical Museum Robert W. 

Booth Fund for Salisbury Mansion (1995) 

$324,500 

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Named Funds 

Agency Funds 

 

Abby Kelley Foster House Fund (2008) 

$9,954 NEW 

African Heritage Institute Fund (1997) 

$4,268 

American Red Cross of Central 

Massachusetts Fund (2000) $10,498 

Auburn Youth and Family Services 


Father Miguel Bafaro Fund (1998) $9,122 

Barre Players Endowment Fund (1997) $7,155 

Big Brothers Big Sisters Mentoring Fund 

(1999) $40,696 

Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce 

Education Foundation Fund (2005) $38,302 

Boys & Girls Club of Worcester Fund (2008) 

$7,359 NEW 

Janet Alden Carrick Memorial Fund for the 

East Douglas Evergreen Cemetery (2006) 

$8,157 

Choose Worcester Fund (2005) 

Douglas Historical Society Fund (2000) 

$34,022 

Dynamy Fund (1997) $28,127 

East Douglas Evergreen Cemetery Company 

Fund and Wallen Memorial Trust (2005) 

$209,815 

The Elm Park Center for Early Childhood 

Education Scholarship Fund (2006) $75,534 

Emmanuel Baptist Church Endowment Fund 

(1994) $21,695 

Lois S. Feldman Fund (1990) $19,519 

First Congregational Church of Douglas 

Endowment Fund (1999) 

Friendly House Fund (2000) $24,124 

Friends of Gale Free Library 110th 


Friends of Northbridge Elders Fund (1997) 

$31,343 

Friends of the Upton Town Library Fund 

(2007) $19,608 

Julie Chase Fuller Endowment Fund for 

Mechanics Hall (1989) $456,076 

Good Samaritan Mission Council Fund 

(2008) $10,698 NEW 

Foundation grantee, 

Women in Technology, 

a collaboration between 

Quinsigamond Community 

College and Worcester 

Public Schools, offers free, 

comprehensive technologybased 

education to girls, 

ages 14-18. Students learn 

electronics, environmental 

engineering and computer 

assembly through hands-on 

activities. 

Great Brook Valley Health Center Fund 

(1984) $422,964 

Greater Worcester Land Trust Fund (1988) 

$41,473 

Roberta Gunn Fund for Board Development 

(2003) $11,176 

Jane Fund of Central Massachusetts Fund 

(2008) $17,879 NEW 

Joy of Music Program Beveridge and Frances 

Webster Endowment Fund (2000) $25,928 

Lincoln Village Tenants Association Fund 

(1997) $3,396 

Master Singers of Worcester Fund (2007) 

$7,105 

Matthew 25 Fund (1997) $109,687 

Millbury Public Library Endowment Fund 

(1991) $71,673 

National Memorial Trust Fund (1990) $10,374 

Rural Cemetery Fund (2006) $1,591,980 

South Worcester Neighborhood Center 

Growth Fund (1985) $40,962 

Tatnuck Brook Watershed Fund (1996) $3,244 

Temple Sinai Fund (2007) $792,212 

Touchstone Community School Fund (2005) 

$241,151 

United Way of Central Massachusetts Fund 

(1987) $2,464,901 

Worcester Area Association for the Education 

of Young Children Fund (1998) $12,480 

Worcester County Law Library Trust Fund 

(1998) $556,880 

Worcester County Poetry Association 

Founders Fund (2002) $16,104 

Worcester County Poetry Association’s 

Worcester Review Fund (2000) $59,675 

Worcester Historical Museum Fund (2002) 

$1,284,378 

Worcester Public Library Fund (1992) 

$21,840 

Worcester Regional Research Bureau Fund 

(1989) $53,518 

Youth Opportunities Upheld, Inc. Fund 

(1987) $516,146 


Named Funds 

Scholarship Funds 

provide tuition assisistance to students 

Adolfo Arrastia Beacon of Light Scholarship 

Fund (2005) $13,965 one award - $800 

Helen and Chuck Arsenault Memorial 

Scholarship Fund (2000) $12,265 

one award - $1,000 

Auburn Woman’s Club Fund (2000) $29,355 


AVID North Scholarship (2004) $6,606 

one award - $500 

Dennis Elroy Barry Memorial Scholarship 

Fund (2005) $2,253 

Belmont Street Community School 



Loretta J. Belval Scholarship Fund (2002) 

$28,721 one award - $1,500 

Bruce S. Bennett Fund for Community 

Journalism (2006) $10,199 one award - $700 

Mary and John Buckley Memorial Education 

Fund (1998) $17,089 one award - $1,000 

The Douglas P. Butler Fund (1998) 


Carrick Foundation Scholarship (2000) 

five awards - $15,000 

Charlton Parent Teacher Organization 



Mary Connolly Memorial Scholarship Fund 

(1999) $6,820 one award - $400 

Cutler Associates, Inc. Scholarship 

(Melvin S. Cutler Fund) (1986) $15,131 

three awards - $4,500 

December 3rd Scholarship Fund (1999) 

$1,082,578 22 awards - $53,500 

Admiral and Mrs. Louis E. Denfeld 



Santo J. and Ellen M. DiDonato Memorial 


two awards - $9,500 

Steve Drawbridge Memorial Fund (2008) 

$10,163 NEW 

John and Fran Duke Scholarship Fund (2004) 

$7,327 one award - $500 

Richard and Carol Dymek Scholarship Fund 

(2006) $11,182 one award - $650 

Joseph D. Early Scholarship Fund (2006) 

$7,769 one award - $480 

East Brookfield Scholarship Fund (2004) 

$56,358 one award - $1,000 

Stephen G. Economos Scholar Athlete Fund 

(2007) $10,137 one award - $1,000 

Jeffrey S. Edinberg Memorial Scholarship 

Fund (2002) $17,500 one award - $500 

Elm Park Community School Scholarship 

Fund (1987) $39,445 five awards - $2,550 

John N. Engelsted Fund (formerly Walker 

Magnetics Scholarship Fund) (1982) $26,121 


Fred and Leona Eppinger Scholarship Fund 

(2007) $38,460 one award - $2,000 

Fairlawn Foundation Robert S. Schedin 

Scholarship for Health Studies (1991) 


Mary R. Fedeli Memorial Scholarship Fund 

(2002) $52,719 four awards - $4,000 

Anita and Nathaniel A. Feingold Scholarship 

Fund (1994) $9,897 

Norma and Saul F. Feingold Fund (1983) 

$14,901 one award - $750 

Finnish American Social Club Scholarship 

(1998) four awards - $4,000 

Gerald A. Fogarty Memorial Scholarship 

(1998) one award - $1,000 

Earl P. Fontaine Memorial Scholarship Fund 

(2003) $13,162 

Janet Fraser Scholarship Fund (1999) 

$179,770 four awards - $10,000 

John F. Freeland Memorial Fund (2005) 

$18,916 one award - $900 

Friends of Rutland Heights Hospital 

Permanent Fund Scholarship (1993) $44,659 


Judge William Garbose Memorial Fund 

(1998) four awards - $4,000 

Derek Gaudette Memorial Scholarship Fund 

(1995) $13,749 two awards - $2,000 

General Scholarship Fund (1990) $160,086 

ten awards - $8,500 

Matthew Gignac Memorial Scholarship Fund 

(1999) $8,840 four awards - $2,000 

Robert P. Goulet Memorial Scholarship Fund 

(1998) $6,531 one award - $500 

Grantee Agency Scholarship (1996) 

seven awards - $17,500 

Greg’s Grant Fund (1997) $131,581 

four awards - $6,500 

The Grynsel Educational Scholarship 

Fund and Summers Family Educational 

Scholarship 

(2006) $17,059 two awards - $1,000 

Emil Haddad Jazz Scholarship Fund (2004) 

$19,053 two awards - $930 

Joseph F. and Claire L. Halvey Scholarship 

Fund (2002) $4,640 one award - $650 

The Hedin Family Memorial Fund (2007) 

$10,274 one award - $1,000 

Maureen Henrickson Memorial Scholarship 

Fund (2004) $10,587 one award - $500 

Charles Hugo Community Service Award 

Fund (2007) $28,658 one award - $1,850 

Debbie Anne Johnson Memorial Fund (1993) 

$27,423 one award - $1,600 

Jenica L. Junnila Memorial Scholarship Fund 

(2000) $12,121 one award - $500 

Deborah A. Kaufman Scholarship Fund 

(1990) $13,745 one award - $800 

Lawrence M. and Augusta L. Keeler 



Keeping the Dream Alive Scholarship (1982) 

four awards - $5,500 

Bradford J. Kemp Fund (2008) NEW 


(2005) 

Leonard F. Leamy Scholarship Fund (2006) 

$620,120 eight awards - $21,000 

Leicester High School Football Alumni 


Leicester Samaritan Nursing Association 

Fund Scholarship (1996) $27,007 



Named Funds 

 

Leicester Savings Bank Fund Scholarship 

(1997) four awards - $4,000 

Mark MacPherson Lightbown Memorial 



Lincoln Village Scholarship Fund (2001) 

$17,884 two awards - $1,000 

Mary Falby Logan and Francis Logan Jr. 



Konstantina B. Lukes Fund (1986) 


Lunenburg Opportunity Fund (1999) 

$181,338 four awards - $10,000 

Lieutenant James “Jay” Lyons III Memorial 



Magee Family Education Fund (2003) $21,500 

Magee Family Scholarship for UMass 

Amherst (2004) $12,888 one award - $1,714 

Frances F. Mansfield Scholarship Fund (1996) 

$20,521 one award - $1,000 

Howard J. and Dorothy R. McGuiness 



Anthony E. Mickunas Memorial Scholarship 

Fund (1987) $61,641 four awards - $3,400 

Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation 

Scholarship (2005) 25 awards - $29,000 

Michael Minty Memorial Scholarship Fund 

(1988) $20,021 four awards - $966 

Constantine Mina and Vasiliky Strates 

Moschos Scholarship Fund (2005) $20,173 

Anne Carey Murphy Memorial Scholarship 

(2001) $37,451 

Nichols Academy Fels Scholarship Fund 

(2001) $71,571 three awards - $6,000 

Nichols Academy Scholarship Fund (2001) 

$47,607 one award - $4,750 

Arnold and Sylvia Nylund Scholarship Fund 

(2001) $8,214 one award - $500 




Richard W. Pierce Fund (1985) $631,973 

25 awards - $35,150 

Arthur J. Remillard Jr. Scholarship Fund 

(2001) $90,467 five awards - $7,000 

Barbara Marks Rothschild Arts & Education 



Ida and Murray Rotman Scholarship Fund 

(1985) $92,458 four awards - $2,500 

Andrew Sala Memorial Scholarship Fund 

(1998) $53,481 two awards - $3,000 

Herbert D. Sherwin Memorial Scholarship 

Fund (2004) $40,497 two awards - $1,000 

William J. Short Scholarship Fund (2002) 

$41,958 two awards - $5,000 

Alexander G. Simonatis Scholarship Fund 

(2004) $359,442 six awards - $24,000 

Claudia Simonian Scholarship Fund (2007) 

$24,089 two awards - $1,000 

John J. Simpson Jr. Memorial Fund (1993) 

$3,240 one award - $500 

Arthur J. Smith and Dorothy G. Smith 



Steelman Expository Writing Scholarship 

Fund (1999) $18,576 two awards - $1,500 

Sylvia Gafvert Stubblebine Fund (1989) 

$39,831 three awards - $2,300 

Swedish National Federation Fund (2001) 

$13,866 one award - $750 

Tahanto Regional High School Scholarship 

Fund (1997) $61,354 four awards - $4,000 

Paul E. Tarkiainen Art Award Fund (1995) 

$25,261 one award - $1,250 

Kathleen Terry Memorial Scholarship Fund 

(2005) $17,735 one award - $1,200 

Sumner B. Tilton Memorial Scholarship 

Fund (1985) $1,496,048 33 awards - $86,500 

Laurie C. Tinsley Scholarship Fund (2002) 

$123,672 35 awards - $21,000 

Tobin Family Fund (1999) $13,666 


Reginald Washburn Scholarship (1990) 


Webster Square Business Association 


Leroy Weiner Scholarship Fund (2000) 

$44,094 two awards - $2,800 

Paul J. Westberg Memorial Scholarship Fund 

(2000) $8,331 one award - $500 

Mary Olive Wood Scholarship Fund (1992) 

$826,208 15 awards - $27,000 

Worcester Latino Coalition Scholarship Fund 

(1999) $8,568 one award - $950 

Worcester Swedish Charitable Association 

(2001) $59,993 three awards - $3,100 

Worcester Woman’s Club Fund (1999) $79,798 



Grantmaking 

 

Greater Worcester Community Foundation awards 

cash grants to nonprofit organizations that serve the Central 

Massachusetts communities in the areas of arts and culture, 

community development, education, environment, health, 

and human services. 

Each year, the Foundation awards more than $2 million 

in discretionary and committee-advised grants through 

a competitive process. Ranging in size from $250 to more 

than $30,000, these grants support programs, operations, 

and organizational improvements. Our web site has details 

and application forms. 

 

board’s distribution committee awards such grants twice 

a year. Groups appointed by the donor or the Foundation 

board make committee-advised grants, which target defined 

goals. Find out about these groups and their grantmaking 

priorities on our web site. 

 

of donors or their designated advisors, who make grant 

recommendations throughout the year. 

 

endowment funds created by their boards or supporters. 

Grants may fund general operating costs, special projects, 

capital expenditures, or emergency needs. 

More than 90 named funds are designated for scholarships to 

college-bound residents of Central Massachusetts. Each year, 

the Foundation awards more than $500,000 in scholarships 

that vary from $250 to more than $6,000. Candidates 

submit just one application (available on our web site) to be 

considered for all scholarships that suit their qualifications. 

We accept applications throughout February and March. 

T 


Grants 

Some amounts withheld by donor 

request. 

A 

A.P.P.L.E. Seed, Inc. 

Jeppson Memorial Fund for Brookfield $1,500 

Abby’s House 

Isabel K. Arms Fund $829 

Wynne L. Chase Fund $8,500 

Ethel S. Cunningham Fund $4,811 

Eliza D. and Cora J. D. Dodge Fund $20,000 

C. Jean and Myles McDonough Fund $1,000 

Lillian S. Pratt Fund $451 

Access Community Action Agency 

Newell and Betty Hale Fund $1,000 

AIDS Project Worcester 

GLBT Partnership Fund $16,000 

Al-Hamra Academy 

Khazma A. Soffan Memorial Fund $2,589 

Aldersgate United Methodist Church 

Community Ministries Fund $2,200 

All Out Adventures, Inc. 

Mini-Grants Fund $2,500 

All Saints Episcopal Church 



Sarah Daniels Pettit and William O. Pettit, Jr. 

Fund $833 

Helen M. and Thomas B. Stinson Fund $260 

ALS Association 


$200 

Alzheimer’s Association, Massachusetts 

Chapter 


$200 

American Antiquarian Society 

Bozenhard Charitable Fund $400 

Henry B. and Jane K. Dewey Fund $1,500 

Gordon Iver and Dorothy Brewer Erikson Fund 

$500 

Jeppson Memorial Fund $14,158 

John M. Nelson Fund $1,000 

American Jewish Committee - West Coast 

Florida Chapter 

Paul E. Cohan Fund $100 

American Red Cross of Central 

Massachusetts 

Mary C. DeFeudis Fund $5,000 

David R. and Rosalie A. Grenon Fund $1,250 

Peter H. and Catherine H. Levine Fund $1,500 

The American Society for the Prevention 

of Cruelty to Animals 


$100 

American Textile History Museum 

Hugh W. and Harriet K. Crawford Fund 

$50,000 

Animal Shelter, Inc. 

Rosemary Davis Memorial Fund $2,500 

Anna Maria College 

Maureen Logan Coghlin Fund 

Anonymous Grantees (2) 

Organization Assistance Fund $26,000 

Apple Tree Arts 


Memorial Fund $5,000 

Arboretum Community Garden 


Arc of Quinebaug Valley 

Newell and Betty Hale Fund $200 

ArtsWorcester 

Jeanne Remillard Curtis Fund $300 

Discretionary Funds $12,000 

Ashburnham Westminster Youth Hockey 

John Carter “High Five” Youth Hockey Fund 

$485 

Asolo Repertory Theatre 


Associated Grant Makers 


Athol Area YMCA 

Winifred Meany Killay and Matthew Meany 


Youth for Community Improvement Fund 

$1,500 

Auburn Christian Fellowship 

Paul and Fay Rossley Fund $250 

Auburn Community Assistance Fund 

The Hedin Family Memorial Emergency Fund 

$100 

Auburn Youth & Family Services 

The Auburn Foundation $4,650 


Audio Journal 


Leicester Savings Bank Fund $1,000 

Worcester Credit Bureau Fund $14,000 

B 

Baby’s Breath 

Gertrude Alice Johnson Fund $300 

Bancroft School 




Barton Center for Diabetes Education 

David R. and Rosalie A. Grenon Fund $500 


Becker College 


Education Fund 

Theodore and Marjorie M. Deitz Fund $500 

Fairlawn Foundation Fund $10,000 

George and Anna Krikorian Family Fund 

$15,000 

The Pyle Fund $9,000 

Best Buddies Massachusetts 


$8,000 

Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Cape Cod 

and the Islands 

The LaVigne Family Fund 

Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Central Mass/ 

Metrowest 

Morgan B. and Loretta R. Dewey Fund $100 


Blackstone Valley Boys & Girls Club 


Memorial Fund and Discretionary Funds 

$5,000 

Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce 

Education Foundation 


Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library 

Raymond P. Harold Memorial Fund $1,000 

Boothbay Railway Village 

Paul and Fay Rossley Fund $1,000 

Boothbay Region Land Trust 

Raymond P. Harold Memorial Fund $596 

Boothbay Region YMCA 


Bosler Humane Society 

Bosler Humane Society Fund $2,231 


Boston Athenaeum 




Grants 

Boston Lyric Opera/Opera New England 


Boston Poultry Exposition 

John P. Castagnetti Memorial Fund $567 

Bottom Line 

Curtis G. Watkins Education Fund and 


Boys & Girls Club of Webster-Dudley 

Greater Worcester Jaycees Fund and 


Boys & Girls Club of Worcester 


Robert G. and Eliza C. Hess Fund $1,101 

Harriet Miller Hight Education Fund with the 

Association of Colored Peoples and 


Peter J. and Sophie Kosky Fund $738 

Sonia Werblin Masterman Fund $1,760 

Marla Maykel Fund $2,500 


Margaret and Gordon Torgersen Fund $800 

Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota County 


Bridge of Central Massachusetts 



Brookfield Cemetery Commission 


The Brookfield Fund 

Jeppson Memorial Fund for Brookfield $794 

Brookfield Unitarian Universalist Church 

Chesson Family Fund $752 

C 

Calliope Productions, Inc. 

Jeanne Remillard Curtis Fund $300 

The CASA Project 

Child Wellness Fund and Discretionary Funds 

$15,000 

Central Massachusetts Area Health 

Education Center 

Jiji’s Fund and Discretionary Funds $17,000 

Central Massachusetts Housing 

Alliance, Inc. 


Centro Las Americas 


Children’s Friend 

Fallon/OrNda Community Health Fund 

$30,000 


Human Services Fund $15,000 

Paul J. and Dorothy B. Kervick Fund $578 



Louise R. and John F. Reynders Fund $480 

Choose Worcester, Inc. 

Choose Worcester Fund $658,000 

Christ Church 


Christ Episcopal Church 

Newell Hale Memorial Fund $1,007 

Citizen Schools 

Fairman C. Cowan Fund and Discretionary 

Funds $10,000 

City of Worcester Health and Human Services 

Olive I. and Anthony A. Borgatti Jr. Fund, Saint 

Vincent Healthcare Fund and Discretionary 

Funds $21,077 

Clark University 


Greater Worcester Community Scholarship 

Fund: Ruth and John Adam Founders 

$140,000 

John W. Lund Fund $6,862 


Cleghorn Neighborhood Center 



$2,750 

Clinton Council on Aging 


Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens 

Raymond P. Harold Memorial Fund $500 

College of the Atlantic 


$500 

Common Ground Land Trust, Inc. 

Water and Land Stewardship Fund and Robert 

M. and Carolyn G. Hyde Fund $2,926 

Leicester Savings Bank Fund $500 

Community Builders, Inc. 


Community Foundation of the Tri-County 

Area 


Community Harvest Project 


Community Healthlink, Inc. 



$20,000 

Frances F. Mansfield Fund $1,147 


Concordia Lutheran Church 


Whittier Family Charitable Gift Fund $11,000 

Connecticut Audubon Society at Pomfret 


Connecticut Farmland Trust, Inc. 


Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Inc. 


Pearle Crawford Memorial Library 

Hugh W. and Harriet K. Crawford Endowment 

Fund for the Pearle L. Crawford Memorial 

Library $20,553 

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation 


Cystic Fibrosis Research, Inc. 


D 

Dana Hall School 

Hollis E. and Gwendolyn D. Alden Fund $935 

Day Kimball Hospital 


Department of Children and Families Kids 

Fund, Inc. 

WTAG Christmas for Children Fund $30,000 

Diocese of Worcester 


Paul J. and Dorothy B. Kervick Fund $578 


Dismas House of Central Massachusetts 



$18,795 

Doctor Franklin Perkins School 

Francis A. and Jacquelyn H. Harrington Human 

Services Fund $5,000 

Douglas Historical Society 

Douglas Historical Society Fund $50,000 

Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary 


Dudley Conservation Land Trust 

Hugh W. and Harriet K. Crawford Fund $5,000 


Grants 

Dynamy, Inc. 

Traina Family Youth Development Fund $1,500 

Youth Opportunity Fund $10,000 

E 



Fund $25,000 

Easter Seals of Massachusetts 



EcoTarium 





Anna S. and Warren G. Davis Fund and 




Elder Services of Worcester Area, Inc. 


H. Arthur Smith Designated Fund $3,609 

Harold Davis Woodbury Fund $1,064 

Elm Park Center for Early Childhood 

Education 

The Elm Park Center for Early Childhood 

Education Scholarship Fund $5,040 


F 

Family Health Center 


Lisi-Greene Fund $500 


Family Services of Central Massachusetts 



Finnish American Reporter 

Finnish American Social Club Fund $2,669 

First Baptist Church of Worcester 

Trust in Kids Fund $500 

First Church of Christ Unitarian 





Endowment Fund $15,300 

First Congregational Church of Shrewsbury 



First Congregational Church, UCC 


First Night Worcester 

Olive I. and Anthony A. Borgatti Jr. Donor 

Advised Fund $500 


First Unitarian Church 


First Unitarian Church Fund $1,655 

Barrett and Mahroo Morgan Fund $2,283 


Fitchburg State College 


Florida Repertory Company, Inc. 


$100 

Frenchman’s Creek Charities Foundation, 

Inc. 

Herbert B. and Jayne Cohan Fund $1,000 

Friendly House, Inc. 


Education Fund and Eliza D. and Cora J. D. 

Dodge Fund $20,000 

Friends of Gale Free Library 

Friends of Gale Free Library 110th Endowment 

Fund $24,972 

Friends of Institute Park, Inc. 

Water and Land Stewardship Fund and 

Clarence S. Arms Family Fund for the 

Environment $2,000 


Friends of Northbridge Elders 

Friends of Northbridge Elders Fund $10,000 

Friends of Sutton Elders 


Friends of the Leicester Public Library 


G 

Gale Free Library 


$1,574 

Gardner Visiting Nurse Association, Inc. 


$30,000 

Genesis Club, Inc. 

Central Massachusetts Health Standards Fund 

and Discretionary Funds $15,000 


$22,605 

Girls Scouts of Central and Western 

Massachusetts 



$100 

Girls Incorporated of Worcester 



Goodspeed Musicals 


Goodyear Early Childhood Center 

Friends of Learning in Killingly Fund $433 

Grafton/Wachusett Lakers Youth Hockey 

Christopher J. Paskell Memorial Fund $600 

Grand Banks Schooner Museum Trust 


Great Brook Valley Health Center 

Sarah B. and Dix F. Davis Fund and Eliza D. 

and Cora J. D. Dodge Fund $26,000 

Alice C.A. Sibley Fund $14,114 

Greater Gardner Community Development 

Corporation 


Greater Worcester Land Trust 


The Pyle Fund $250 

H 

Habitat for Humanity of Northeast 

Connecticut 


Harvard University Medical School 

Lawrence M. and Augusta L. Keeler Fund $433 

Harvest Fair Committee 


Henry Lee Willis Community Center 


The Heritage Foundation 


John Woodman Higgins Armory Museum 







Mary Louise Wilding-White Fund $4,434 

Higher Education Resource Center 




Grants 

Hillside School 


Historic Deerfield, Inc. 



Historic New England 




Hobart College 


Holy Name Central Catholic Junior/Senior 

High School 



HOPE Coalition 


$20,000 

Horizons for Homeless Children 


House of Peace and Education 



Hyde School 


Ross and Lisa Dik Fund $300 

I 

Immaculate Conception Church 

Jeanne Remillard Curtis Fund $1,500 

Immigration History Research Center 

Finnish American Social Club Fund $2,669 

Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater 

Worcester 



$300 

Inwood House 


Italian American Cultural Center 

Gene J. DeFeudis Fund $10,000 

Paul M. Pezzella Fund in Memory of Patsy and 

Theresa Pezzella $724 

J 

Jewish Family Service of Worcester 




Human Services Fund $15,000 

Jewish Federation of Central Massachusetts 

Samuel Frank Charitable Fund $1,675 

Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County 

Herbert B. and Jayne Cohan Fund $3,300 

Jewish Healthcare Center 


Pelletz Family Fund $1,750 

Johns Hopkins University 

Trust in Kids Fund $1,000 

Joshua Hyde Public Library 

Charles P. Ciaffone and Rose B. Ciaffone Fund 

$1,388 

Joy of Music Program, Inc. 


Joy of Music Program Beveridge and Frances 

Webster Endowment Fund $1,547 


$100 


Shepherd Knapp School Fund $9,000 


Judicial Watch, Inc. 


Junior Achievement of Central Massachusetts 

Robert S. and Helen A. Bowditch Fund and 


K 

Killingly Central School 


Killingly High School 


Killingly Intermediate School 


Killingly Memorial School 


L 

Lahey Clinic 


Latino Education Institute 


Lee Memorial Health System Foundation, 

Inc. 


$100 

Leicester Council on Aging 


Leicester Middle School Council 


Leicester Middle School Sports Boosters 


Leicester Mothers Club 


Leicester Police Department 


Leicester Red Hat Sophisticates 


Leicester Summer Concert Series Committee 


Let’s Get Ready 


Listening: The Barre Integrated Health 

Center 


Literacy Project, Inc. 


Literacy Volunteers of Greater Worcester 


The Loxahatchee Club Scholarship 



Luther Burbank Middle School 


Lutheran Social Services of New England 




M 

Main South Community Development 

Corporation 



Main South Trash Action 


Maine Sea Coast Missionary Society 


$500 

Marie Anne Center 


Massachusetts Academy of Mathematics and 

Science 

Wynne L. Chase Fund $10,000 

Massachusetts Audubon Society 



$2,000 




Grants 

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and 

Health Science 


Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary 


$500 

Massachusetts General Hospital 



$500 


Massachusetts Historical Society 

Elkanah B. Atkinson Community and Education 

Fund 

Massachusetts Nonprofit Network 


Massachusetts Senior Action Council 


Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra 


Massachusetts Veterans, Inc. 


$100 

The Master Singers of Worcester 


Matthew 25, Inc. 

Matthew 25 - Robert K. Daw Fund $20,000 

Matthew 25 - The Fr. Joseph LaBran SJ House 

Fund $30,450 

Howard J. and Dorothy R. McGuiness Fund 

$1,055 

Youth Opportunity Fund and Discretionary 

Funds $5,000 

Matthew Kelly Foundation 


McAuley Nazareth Home for Boys 

Gertrude Alice Johnson Fund $500 

Medical Missions for Children, Inc. 


Mendon Fire Department 

UniBank September 11th Emergency Personnel 

Education Fund $1,400 

Mercy Centre 

Argitis Family Fund $500 

Merrick Public Library 


Middlesex School 


Millbury High School 

Mary B. Grogan Fund for Youth $900 

Millbury Historical Society 

Mary B. Grogan Fund for Youth $800 

Millbury Public Library 

Mary B. Grogan Fund for Youth $1,000 

Millers River Watershed Council 



Rosemary Davis Environmental Preservation 

Fund $3,000 

Mohegan Council Boy Scout Troop 127 


Mohegan Council Boy Scouts of America 




$10,000 

Montachusett Interfaith Hospitality Network 


Mount Wachusett Community College 


Mt. Desert Island Hospital 


$500 

Music Worcester, Inc. 




MY TURN, Inc. 

Joseph A. Tosoni Fund $12,000 

N 

Named Beneficiaries of Trust for Injured 

Survivors of Tornado of June 1953 

Central Massachusetts Disaster Relief Residue 

Trust Fund $10,703 

National Memorial Trust 

National Memorial Trust Fund $300 

Nativity School of Worcester 



$2,617 

NEADS/Dogs for Deaf and Disabled 

Americans 



$1,000 


Katharine Higgins Riley Fund $8,322 

NeighborWorks HomeOwnership Center of 

Worcester 


New England Historic Genealogical Society 


$500 

New England Homes for the Deaf, Inc. 


Nichols College 


North Brookfield Youth Center 



North Cottage Program, Inc. 


North Quabbin Citizen Advocacy 


Northbridge Centre Congregational Church 


Notre Dame Academy 


O 

Oak Hill Community Development 

Corporation 


Old Sturbridge Village 

Argitis Family Fund $10,000 



Our Lady of the Cape Parish 


P 

Pakachoag Community Music School 

Shepherd Knapp School Fund $8,000 

PAL of Cape Cod 


Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 


Performing Arts of Northeast Connecticut 



Performing Arts School of Worcester/ 

Worcester Youth Orchestras 


Pernet Family Health Service 

Children’s Christmas Fund $750 


Gertrude Alice Johnson Fund $1,000 


Grants 

Phillips Academy – Andover 

Jane Kenah Dewey Abbot/Andover Fund $1,124 

Pleasant Street Neighborhood Network 

Center 



Pomfret School 


Pregnant and Parenting Teen Program 


$25,000 

Preservation Worcester 


Kirby Foundation Fund $200 


Princeton Land Trust 


Problem Pregnancy of Worcester, Inc. 


Q 

Quinebaug Valley Community College 



Quinebaug-Shetucket Heritage Corridor, Inc. 


Rosemary Marble Harris Fund $2,500 


Quinsigamond Community College 

Carmen Tobin Nursing Scholarship Fund 

$3,000 

Quinsigamond Community College 




R 

Rachel’s Table 

Partnership Fund $8,000 


$4,000 

Rainbow Child Development Center 

Gertrude Alice Johnson Fund $1,000 

Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust 


Rangeley Region Health Center, Inc. 


Reach Out and Read, Inc. 

Kirby Foundation Fund $200 

Rectory School, Inc. 


Redfeather Theatre Company at Holy Cross 

Fund for the Arts and Humanities and 


Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center 


Regional Environmental Council 


Water and Land Stewardship Fund $2,500 

Renaissance Award 

Renaissance Award Fund $5,989 

Rural Cemetery and Crematory 

Elizabeth Trumbull Barton Fund $14,526 

S 

St. Andrew Lutheran School 

Edward W. Bettke Scholarship Fund $237 

St. Andrews Hospital 


St. Anne and St. Patrick Parish 


St. Anne’s Human Services 

Gene J. DeFeudis Fund $1,000 

Saint John’s High School 


St. Joseph and St. Pius X Parishes 


St. Joseph’s Church 

Traina Family Youth Development Fund $500 

St. Joseph’s Indian School 

Patricia Fisher Fund $1,609 

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 

Anonymous Fund $750 

St. Peter Catholic Church 


St. Peter’s Church 


Traina Family Youth Development Fund $500 

St. Saviour’s Episcopal Church 


$2,500 

Salem Community Corporation 


Salisbury Singers, Inc. 


Salvation Army 


Samuel Frank Charitable Fund $1,675 


$200 


Samaritans, Inc. 


Sarasota Orchestra 


Save The Children 


Seven Hills Foundation 



Shrewsbury Education Foundation, Inc. 



Shrewsbury Public Library 


Advised Fund $2,500 

Bozenhard Charitable Fund $2,500 

Shrewsbury Youth and Family Services 




South High Community School 



South Middlesex Opportunity Council 



$200 

South Worcester Neighborhood Improvement 

Corporation 

South Worcester Neighborhood Center Growth 

Fund $2,168 

Southbridge Interfaith Hospitality Network 


Southeast Asian Coalition of Central 

Massachusetts 


Youth for Community Improvement Fund $2,750 

Southern Worcester County Rehabilitation 

Center, Inc. 


Spanish American Center, Inc. 

Joseph A. Tosoni Fund $15,000 

Spectrum Health Systems 

Fallon/OrNda Community Health Fund $24,600 

StART on the Street Festival 

Fund for the Arts and Humanities $5,000 

Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Vermont-New 

Hampshire Affiliate 

Candi Tiarks Cancer Research Fund $1,000 


Grants 

T 

Temple Emanuel 



Tenacity, Inc. 


Thayer Memorial Library 


Thompson Ecumenical Empowerment Group, 

Inc. 


The 300 Committee 


Town of Brookfield 


Town of Petersham 

Town of Petersham Fund $18,000 

Tri-Valley, Inc. 


Trinity Chapel 

Anonymous Fund $1,500 

Trinity Lutheran Church 


Trust for Public Land, New England Regional 

Office 


Trustees of Reservations 



Twin Cities Community Development 

Corporation 


Twin City Youth Hockey Association 

Christopher J. Paskell Memorial Fund $188 

U 

US English Foundation 


US Olympic Committee 


$200 

UMass Memorial Foundation 

Hollis E. and Gwendolyn D. Alden Fund $1,871 


Peter J. and Sophie Kosky Fund $1,476 


$1,574 

Lillian S. Pratt Fund $452 



Harold Davis Woodbury Fund $1,064 



United Services, Inc. 


United States Fund for UNICEF 


$100 

United Way of Central Massachusetts 




$2,000 



Peter H. and Catherine H. Levine Fund $8,000 

Arthur J. Remillard Jr. Fund $27,262 


United Way of Central Massachusetts Fund 

$154,483 

University of Maine 


$500 

University of Massachusetts Graduate School 

of Nursing 




$1,000 

University of Massachusetts Medical School 

Sandy C. Marks Jr. Biomedical Education Fund 

$500 

Uxbridge Youth Center 


V 

VNA Care Network and Hospice 


VSA arts of Massachusetts 


Walther Lutheran High School 

Edward W. Bettke Scholarship Fund $237 

W 

WCUW, Inc. 


Wellesley College 


Fund 

Henry B. and Jane K. Dewey Fund for Wellesley 

College $1,551 

West Boylston Schools Trust 


WGBH Educational Foundation 



George Marston Whitin Memorial Community 

Center 

Marjorie G. and Elmer E. Ellison Jr. Fund $1,135 



Whitinsville Social Library 


The John and Gloria Rauth Library Fund $1,219 

WICN Public Radio 


Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of 

Massachusetts 


Winchendon Youth Hockey 

John Carter “High Five” Youth Hockey Fund $150 

Windham County 4-H Foundation, Inc. 


Woodstock Academy 


Worcester Academy 

George S. and Tammy Butler Fund $1,000 





Chapin Riley Fund $12,906 


Worcester Animal Rescue League 


Worcester Animal Rescue League Fund $478 

Worcester Art Museum 


Fund 

Olive I. and Anthony A. Borgatti Jr. Donor Advised 

Fund $500 


H. Paul and Sara B. Buckingham III Fund $219 

Martha A. Cowan Fund $1,864 

Theodore and Marjorie M. Deitz Fund $1,000 



Honee A. Hess Partnership with Children Fund 

$917 


Barrett and Mahroo Morgan Fund $2,282 



Marvin Richmond Fund $2,275 

Chapin Riley Fund $12,906 

Helen M. and Thomas B. Stinson Fund $260 

Worcester Art Museum Booth Family Fund for 

Education and Outreach $100,943 


Grants 

Worcester Center for Crafts 



Worcester Center for the Performing Arts 


Fund 


George S. and Tammy Butler Fund $2,000 


Worcester Chamber Music Society 



Worcester Common Ground 


Worcester Community Action Council, Inc. 


Corinne Charron Turner Fund and 


Worcester Community Cable Access TV13 


Worcester Community Housing Resources 

Micah Housing Corporation Fund and 



Worcester County Food Bank 

Isabel K. Arms Fund $1,000 

Howard J. and Dorothy R. McGuiness Fund 

$1,055 

Worcester County Horticultural Society/ 

Tower Hill Botanic Garden 


Fund 


H. Paul and Sara B. Buckingham III Fund $219 


Peter H. and Catherine H. Levine Fund $500 



Fund $415 

Worcester County Mechanics Association/ 

Mechanics Hall 


Julie Chase Fuller Endowment Fund for 

Mechanics Hall $27,000 


Worcester County Poetry Association 

Worcester County Poetry Association Founders 

Fund $672 

Worcester County Poetry Association’s 

Worcester Review Fund $3,326 

Worcester Cultural Coalition 


Worcester East Side Community Development 

Corporation 

Youth for Community Improvement Fund $2,175 

Worcester Educational Development 



Worcester Fellowship 


Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research 



Theodore and Marjorie M. Deitz Fund $1,000 


Worcester Fresh Air Fund, Inc. 


Worcester Historical Museum 


Fund 

Barbara Allen Booth Fund $6,100 

Robert W. Booth Fund for the Worcester 

Historical Museum $28,806 

Worcester Historical Museum Fund $90,000 

Worcester Historical Museum Robert W. Booth 

Fund for Salisbury Mansion $20,917 

Worcester Nursing Pipeline Consortium 


Worcester Polytechnic Institute 


Worcester Public Library/Talking Books 

Program 

Clarence S. Arms Family Fund $618 

Worcester Public Library Foundation 


Providence & Worcester Railroad Company 

Fund and Discretionary Funds $5,330 

Worcester Public Schools 

Marcia R. Katter Memorial Fund $3,273 

Worcester Regional Research Bureau 


Worcester Regional Research Bureau Fund 

$3,039 

Worcester Regional Science & Engineering Fair 

Worcester Engineering Society Fund $250 

Worcester Roots Project, Inc. 

Water and Land Stewardship Fund and Evelyn 

and Sumner Silver Fund $4,926 


Worcester State Foundation 






$1,000 

Charles E. Soule Paul Revere Insurance Group 

Centennial Fund $2,700 

Worcester Technical High School 

Saul A. Seder Fund $709 

Worcester Youth Center 



Wyndham Land Trust, Inc. 


Y 

Y.O.U., Inc. 



$10,000 





YMCA of Central Massachusetts 



Ross and Lisa Dik Fund $300 


$20,000 


$100 

James J. and Patricia A. Moynihan Donor 


James J. and Patricia A. Moynihan Fund and 


Sumner Lee Sharfman Fund and Discretionary 

Funds $12,500 

Trust in Kids Fund $500 

YMCA of Greater Hartford 


Young Woman of Consequence Award 

Konstantina B. Lukes Fund $500 

YouthNet 

Andrew N. Ahlfors and Helmi E. Ahlfors Fund 

and Discretionary Funds $12,000 

YWCA of Central Massachusetts 


YWCA/Daybreak Resources for Women & 

Children 




Carolyn Knight Dik Fund $950 


Committees 

APPOINTED COMMITTEES 

GRANTMAKING COMMITTEES 

Audit Committee 

Robert S. Bachelder 

David M. Brunelle 

Ross K. Dik 

Gerald L. Gaudette III, chair 


Timothy P. Wickstrom 

Auditor: Stowe & Degon 

Distribution Committee 

Sara Trillo Adams 

Brian M. Chandley 

Patty Clarkson 


Linda C. Looft 

Michael A. Nigro 

Martha R. Pappas, chair 

Governance Committee 

Pamela K. Boisvert 

Ellen S. Dunlap 


Peter H. Levine MD 



R. Joseph Salois, chair 

Investment Committee 

Thomas J. Bartholomew, chair 

William R. Carrick 


Dix F. Davis 

Ross K. Dik 


Abraham W. Haddad DMD 


Jeffrey R. Croteau, Prime Buchholz & 

Associates 

 

Committee 




Timothy J. Garvin 



Stephen M. Pitcher 

Kent dur Russell 

Richard P. Traina 

Carlton A. Watson 


Rev. Richard Anger 

Patricia Bukoski 

Charles O'Connor 

Arthur M. Pappas, co-chair 

Martha R. Pappas, co-chair 

Susan Pappas 

Thomas Turco 

Community Ministries Fund 

Rev. Robert S. Bachelder 

Louis G. Bond 

Rev. Laura Goodwin 

Robert Hallock 

Rev. Avis Hoyt-O'Connor 

Sandra Longvall-Johnson 

Susan Swanberg 

 

Fairlawn Foundation Trustees 

Mary Aleksiewicz 

Robert A. Anderson 

Margareta G. Berg 

Karl N. Bjork, chair 

John A. Duggan MD 

N. Lynn Eckhert MD 

Shelley S. Hall 

Robert G. Lian 

Fallon/OrNda Community Health 

Fund 


Karen Canas 

Dix F. Davis 

Harry L. Ferguson, chair 


Gary Segal 

Kelsa Zereski 

Friends of Learning in Killingly 

(FOLK) Fund 

Janice Ahola-Sidaway, chair 

Walter Anderson lll 

Christopher M. Burke 

Susan Rees Jones 

Ralph E. LaChance 

Paul D. Lefrancois 

Richard N. Rust 

Timothy J. Schmidt 

Barbara Crabtree Simonetta 

Gary L. Sposato 

Paul R. Theroux 

Cathy E. Wade 

GLBT Partnership Fund 

Cynthia L. Aiken 

Ross K. Dik 

Emily R. Ferrara, co-chair 

Rodney M. Glasgow Jr., co-chair 

Judith Kirk 



Mary B. Grogan Fund for Youth 

Peter F. Keenan Jr. 

Elaine Loehmann 

Mary Lou Mulhane 

Jeppson Memorial Fund 

 

James W. Allen, chair 

Amy Law 

Christine McManus 

Peter S. O'Connell 

Brian Rossetti 

Leicester Savings Bank Fund 

Marjorie A. Cooper 

Steven P. Corley 

Paul A. Fontaine, chair 

Karl E. Gumpright 

Cindy R. Lapointe 

Robert R. Leroux 

James O'Donnell 

Paul R. Rossley 

Water and Land Stewardship Fund 

Henry W. Beth 

Laura Bronwell 



Wyatt R. Wade, chair 

Donna Williams 

Youth for Community Improvement 

Lakita Allen 

Damian Almazraawi 

Elizabeth Bachelder 

Angela Ho 

Tyler Holman 

Shadia Lahlou 

Kelly Le 

Joshua Martin 

Michael Mielniczek 

Mary Mooshian 

Richelle Moulin 

Alejandro Olivencia 

Amanda Pashko 

Gabriela Sanchez 

Veronica Sanchez 

Fidji Simeon 

Chi Tan 

Kenny Vo 

Rubby Wuabu 

The Renaissance Award was celebrated by recipients 

Dominick Marcigliano (2007), Moe Boisvert (2008) and 

Patsy Lewis (2005). Linda Cavaioli (2006) is not pictured. 


Corporators 

Lawrence J. Abramoff 

Robert C. Achorn 

Sara Trillo Adams 


Bruce C. Anderson 

James A. Andreoli 

John T. Andreoli 

Michael P. Angelini 

Robert V. Antonucci 

Robert S. Bachelder 


Thomas J. Bartholomew 

John E. Bassett 

Bruce S. Bennett 

Dennis D. Berkey 

Sarah G. Berry 

Henry W. Beth 


Maurice J. Boisvert 


James Bonds Sr. 

George F. Booth II 

Sarah Ann Bowditch 


Christopher W. Bramley 

Karin Branscombe 

Michael D. Brockelman 

Denise H. Brookhouse 

David M. Brunelle 

John H. Budd 


Gail E. Carberry 

Jennifer Davis Carey 


William R. Carrick 

Deborah D. Cary 

Linda A. Cavaioli 

Francesco C. Cesareo 

Harriette L. Chandler 

Brian M. Chandley 

Harold R. Chesson Jr. 

Joy C. Child 

Elaine M. Ciborowski 

Barbara Clifford 

J. Christopher Collins 


P. Kevin Condron 

Charles P. Conroy 

Anthony M. Consigli 

Martha Allis Cowan 

Kenneth C. Crater 

Michael J. Crawford 

Frederick G. Crocker Jr. 

Ralph D. Crowley Jr. 

Katie Curtin-Mestre 


Iliana D’Limas 

Jill C. Dagilis 

Dix F. Davis 

Laurel A. Davis 

Daniel de la Torre Jr. 


Gene J. DeFeudis 

James F. Delehaunty 

William P. Densmore 


Morgan B. Dewey 

Ross K. Dik 

David M. Dimenstein 


James C. Donnelly Jr. 

Dorothy A. Dudley 

Francis X. Dufault Jr. MD 


David M. Dunn 

N. Lynn Eckhert MD 

Frederick H. Eppinger Jr. 

Stephen J. Erickson 

Walter H. Ettinger Jr. MD 


Nabil M. Farooq 

Richard J. Fates 


Zoila Torres Feldman 

Peter S. Fellenz 

Scott T. Fenton 

Harry L. Ferguson 

Emily R. Ferrara 

Deborah Mathews Finch 


Mary F. Fletcher 


Terence R. Flotte MD 

Jack L. Foley 

David P. Forsberg 

Howard G. Freeman 

Phyllis R. Freilich 

Mark W. Fuller 

Helen F. Garcia 



Bruce Gaultney 

Stephen F. Gemelli 

Lisa Kirby Gibbs 

Rodney M. Glasgow Jr. 

Lawrence J. Glick 



John E. Graham 

Lois B. Green 

Martin J. Green 

Barbara E. Greenberg 

David N. Grenier 

David R. Grenon 

J. Michael Grenon 

 

Abraham W. Haddad 

Gloria Hall 

James H. Harrington 

Ernest S. Hayeck 

John Herron Jr. 

Honee A. Hess 

John E. Hodgson 

Kathryn Zingg Hunter 

Dennis L. Irish 

M Howard Jacobson 

Robert E. Jennings 


David A. Jordan 

Maureen M. Kelleher 

Alison C. Kenary 

Richard B. Kennedy 

Robert M. Kennedy 

Mary E. Kett 

Dr. Jean A. King 

Audrey Klein-Leach 

Barbara C. Kohin 

Joyce R. Kressler 

Agnes E. Kull 

Frances E. Langille 

Thomas P. LaVigne 

Thuha T. Le 

Jenique A. LeBlond 



Robert J. Lewis 

Joseph Lian Jr. 

Robert G. Lian 

Stephen B. Loring 

Monica Escobar Lowell 

Rosemary Luddy 

John W. Lund 

Stacey D. Luster 

Susan M. Mailman 

Thomas D. Manning 

Donata J. Martin 

Pamela A. Massad 

Tod Masterman 

C. Jean McDonough 

Michael C. McFarland 

Cynthia M. McMullen 

Christopher G. Mehne 

Donald R. Melville 

Mary H. Melville 

Barbara W. Merritt 


John O. Mirick 

Ann K. Molloy 

Charles F. Monahan Jr. 


Maureen Moorehouse 

Barrett Morgan 

Gail M. Morgan 

Laurance S. Morrison 

James J. Moynihan 

Moira Moynihan-Manoog 


Timothy P. Murray 

Laura H. Myers 

Robert Z. Nemeth 

John G. O’Brien 

Andrew B. O’Donnell 

Vincent F. O’Rourke Jr. 

Kevin O’Sullivan 

David R. Ojerholm 

Vincent J. Osterman 

Martha R. Pappas 

Thoru Pederson 

Judith M. Pemstein 

R. Norman Peters 



Lisa A. Piehler 

Cynthia N. Pitcher 

John W. Polanowicz 

 


Raymond Quinlan 

Candace A. Race 

Hilda Ramirez 

Scott R. Reisinger 

Arthur J. Remillard Jr. 

Wendy J. Rickles 


Maria L. Rosado 

Melvin M. Rosenblatt 



Barry S. Rotman 

Brenda K. Safford 

Nancy H. Sala 

R. Joseph Salois 

Anthony J. Salvidio II 

Ediberto Santiago 

Ralph F. Sbrogna 

Roberta R. Schaefer 

Paul F. Schlaikjer 

Paul F. Scully 


J. Robert Seder 

Francis P. Shea 

Jay S. Sherwin 

John F. Shoro 

Philip O. Shwachman 

Shirley S. Siff 

Jonathan R. Sigel 

Marvin S. Silver 

Edward D. Simsarian 

Michael D. Sleeper 

William B. Smith 

John E. Smithhisler 

Jeffrey S. Solomon 

John J. Spillane 

Nanette J. St. Pierre-Locke 

Peter R. Stanton 

Joseph N. Stolberg 

Alan M. Stoll 

William F. Sullivan 

Polly A. Tatum 

J. Stephen Teasdale 

George W. Tetler III 

Robert L. Thomas 


David N. Tinsley 

E. Paul Tinsley 

Debra M. Townsley 

Margaret W. Traina 

Richard P. Traina 

Tuyet Tran 

Michael P. Tsotsis 

Charles R. Valade 

Carmen D. Vazquez 

Wyatt R. Wade 



Janice I. Weekes 

James A. Welu 

Meridith D. Wesby 

Todd H. Wetzel 

Harry T. Whitin 

Thomas J. Wickstrom 

Timothy P. Wickstrom 

Jack L. Wolfson 


Janice B. Yost 

Robert Zibinskas 

Marita Zuraitis 

As of 12/31/08 

Jeanne Curtis and Ann Lisi chat at the 

Winter Repast, a Foundation donor event 

held at Tower Hill in February 2008. 


Financials 

Statements of Financial Position 

 

ASSETS 

2008 

2007 

Cash 

Accounts receivable 

Prepaid expenses 

Pledges receivable 

Investments 

Split interest agreements: 

Net investments in pooled income fund 

Net interest in charitable remainder trust 

Net interest in charitable gift annuity 

Cash value of life insurance 

Property held for investment 

Notes receivable 

Property and equipment, net 

$ 

300,522 

132 

36,327 

11,735 

89,030,230 

1,378,303 

86,383 

103,036 

4,308 

565,000 

16,188 

84,581 

$ 

459,922 

1,150 

22,876 

385,421 

130,652,447 

1,645,562 

125,988 

496,784 

3,892 

565,000 

19,577 

76,341 

Total assets 

$ 

91,616,745 

$ 

134,454,960 

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS 

Distributions payable 

Accounts payable 

Accrued expenses 

Funds held as agency endowments 

$ 

938,700 

13,124 

45,499 

7,426,860 

$ 

1,405,329 

35,185 

31,743 

10,103,463 

Total liabilities 

8,424,183 

11,575,720 

Net assets: 

Unrestricted 

Temporarily restricted 

Permanently restricted 

895,303 

5,635,580 

76,661,679 

1,257,102 

45,639,777 

75,982,361 

Total net assets 

83,192,562 

122,879,240 

Total liabilities and net assets 

$ 

91,616,745 

$ 134,454,960 

Audits of Greater Worcester Community Foundation’s 

 

 

A complete copy of the audited financial statements may be 

obtained by calling the Foundation at 508.755.0980. 

The Foundation retains the services of independent investment 

consultants to provide support to the investment committee and 

monitor the performance of its investment managers. 


Financials 

Statements of Activities 

 

2008 

2007 

Revenue, gains, and 

other support: 

Unrestricted 

Temporarily 

Restricted 

Permanently 

Restricted 

Total 

Unrestricted 

Temporarily 

Restricted 

Permanently 

Restricted 

Total 

Total net investment return 

$ (204,761) $ (38,196,002) 

$ - $ (38,400,763) 

$ 54,407 

$10,806,484 

$ - 

$ 10,860,891 

Less: Investment return for 

agency endowments 

- 

3,276,084 

- 

3,276,084 

- 

(840,645) 

- 

(840,645) 

Net investment return 

(204,761 ) 

(34,919,918) 

- 

(35,124,679) 

54,407 

9,965,839 

- 

10,020,246 

Total gifts and donations 

64,435 

1,761,372 

1,501,495 

3,327,302 

97,797 

2,406,957 

3,172,815 

5,677,569 

Less: Gifts and donations 

for agency endowments 

- 

(856,918) 

(121,867) 

(978,785) 

- 

(466,683) 

(62,399) 

(529,082) 

Gifts and donations 

64,435 

904,454 

1,379,628 

2,348,517 

97,797 

1,940,274 

3,110,416 

5,148,487 

Change in split interest 

agreements 

Other support 

Satisfaction of purpose 

restrictions 

- 

45,578 

6,036,897 

- 

48,164 

(6,036,897) 

(700,310 ) 

- 

- 

(700,310) 

93,742 

- 

- 

77,481 

5,625,972 

- 

- 

(5,625,972) 

3,768 

- 

- 

3,768 

77,481 

- 

Total 

5,942,149 

(40,004,197) 

679,318 

(33,382,730) 

5,855,657 

6,280,141 

3,114,184 

15,249,982 

Expenses: 

Total Distributions 

5,309,129 

- 

- 

5,309,129 

4,666,672 

- 

- 

4,666,672 

Less: Distributions for 

agency endowments 

(331,288) 

- 

- 

(331,288) 

(207,509) 

- 

- 

(207,509) 

Distributions 

4,977,841 

- 

- 

4,977,841 

4,459,163 

- 

- 

4,459,163 

Other 

Administrative 

19,696 

1,306,411 

- 

- 

- 

- 

19,696 

1,306,411 

27,065 

1,109,415 

- 

- 

- 

- 

27,065 

1,109,415 

Total 

6,303,948 

- 

- 

6,303,948 

5,595,643 

- 

- 

5,595,643 

Change in net assets 

(361,799) 

(40,004,197) 

679,318 

(39,686,678) 

260,014 

6,280,141 

3,114,184 

9,654,339 

Net assets, beginning of year 

1,257,102 

45,639,777 

75,982,361 

122,879,240 

997,088 

39,359,636 

72,868,177 

113,224,901 

Net assets, end of year 

$ 895,303 

$5,635,580 

$76,661,679 

$83,192,562 

$1,257,102 

$45,639,777 

$75,982,361 

$122,879,240 


Board of Directors and Staff 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

Peter H. Levine MD, President 

President Emeritus 


R. Joseph Salois, Vice President 

President 


Thomas J. Bartholomew, Treasurer 

President 

Bartholomew & Company Inc. 

Ellen S. Dunlap, Clerk 

President 

American Antiquarian Society 

Warner S. Fletcher, Officer at-Large 

Director 

Fletcher, Tilton & Whipple, PC 

Mary C. Ritter, Officer at-Large 

Vice President, Strategy & Planning 

Fallon Community Health Plan 


Managing Partner 

Seder & Chandler 


Vice President for Advancement & Alumni Relations 

Worcester Polytechnic Institute 


Vice President 

Colleges of Worcester Consortium 

Dix F. Davis 

Vice President (retired) 

Allmerica Financial Corporation 


President 

American Stop Loss 


President 

Gaudette Insurance, Inc. 

Rodney M. Glasgow Jr. 

Director of Diversity & Community Relations 

Worcester Academy 


Director 

Fletcher, Tilton & Whipple, PC 

Mary E. Kett 

Senior Vice President 

Smith Barney 

Mónica Escobar Lowell 

Vice President Community Relations 



President 

Cutler Associates, Inc. 

Martha R. Pappas 

Educator (retired) 


Chairman 

Lampin Corporation 


Vice President (retired) 

Allmerica Insurance 



Henry Lee Willis Community Center 

Long-time corporator 

Polly Cowan and her late 

husband Fairman C. Cowan 

(1915 - 2008) each have a 

named fund. The Martha 

A. Cowan Fund provides 

unrestricted support to the 

Worcester Art Museum. 

The Fairman C. Cowan 

Fund, honoring him as a 

recipient of the 1995 Isaiah 

Thomas Award, assists 

disadvantaged youth. 

STAFF 

Ann T. Lisi 


atlisi@greaterworcester.org 

Linda D. Chadwick 

Director of Marketing 

lchadwick@greaterworcester.org 

Pamela B. Kane 

Program Officer 

pkane@greaterworcester.org 

Pamela Keogh, CPA 

Director of Finance & Administration 

pkeogh@greaterworcester.org 

Christine R. Louis 

Director of Donor Relations 

clouis@greaterworcester.org 


Special Projects Officer 

grandall@greaterworcester.org 

Joanne M. Reegan 

Finance Assistant 

jreegan@greaterworcester.org 

Melissa M. Shea 

Program Associate 

mshea@greaterworcester.org 

Diane Simonelli 

Accounting Manager 

dsimonelli@greaterworcester.org 

Lois A. Smith 

Senior Program Officer 

lsmith@greaterworcester.org 

Kelly A. Stimson 

Donor Services Manager 

kstimson@greaterworcester.org 

Jasmine Vasquez-Okutoro 

Administrative Assistant 

jvokutoro@greaterworcester.org 


Index 

By the Numbers 

Our Commitment. Our Community 

Letter to the Community 

Year in Review 

Donor Profiles 

Acorn Society 

Ways to Give 

Contributors 

New Funds 

Named Funds 

Grantmaking 

Committees 

Corporators 

Financials 

Board of Directors and Staff 

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Production Credits 

Writer: Susan Saccoccia 

Editor: Linda Chadwick 

Graphics: Atomic Design, Rob Zeleniak and Ingrid Mach 

Printer: AM Lithography Corporation 

Photography: Dan Vaillancourt unless otherwise indicated: 

P1 (center), P2 (right): Pamela Kane 

P1 (right), P3 (right), P9 (left), P33, inside back cover (left, center): Kelly Stimson 

P5 (left, right), P6 (left, right): Dreamstime.com 

P7 (left, right): Courtesy of Old Sturbridge Village 

P8 (center): Tumbleston Photograpy, Charleston, SC; (right): Courtesy of YOU, Inc. 

P9 (center): Rob Zeleniak 

P15: New Fund photos provided by fund donors 

P20: Courtesy of QCC Women in Technology (WiT) program 

The Foundation makes giving easy and nimble and the staff are informed advisors. 

A N N U A L R E P O R T 

Ann Lisi and Peter Levine

Nonprofit Org. 

U.S. Postage 

PAID 

Worcester, MA 

Permit No. 703 

Our Community 

Our Commitment 

Our Mission 

To enhance our community, now and in the future, through philanthropic leadership 

Our Values 

We appreciate and trust the people of our community to work together to solve 

problems, build prosperity, and bring vitality to the lives of others. 

Our community is a unified body of individuals from a rich array of backgrounds 

who contribute in unique ways. 

We are a professional, compassionate steward of our donors’ gifts, which have been 

permanently entrusted to us for the purpose of improving lives and conditions. 


370 Main Street . Suite 650 . Worcester . Massachusetts 01608.1738 

508.755.0980 

www.greaterworcester.org 

Confirmed in Compliance with National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations

2008 Annual Report - Greater Worcester Community Foundation

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