We are especially delighted to highlight AbleVision, an innovative, award-winning video program written and produced entirely by individuals with physical and mental disabilities.
A program of Great Bay grantee Triangle, Inc. (Malden, Massachusetts), AbleVision was created in 2003 in partnership with Malden Access Television. AbleVision’s main purpose is to act as a voice for the disabled [...]
Bytes: Great Bay Grantees in the News
22 Aug
Posted by Travis as Bytes, Grantees, Grantees in the News
Week of Aug. 18th through Aug. 22nd
Employees from Amica Mutual Insurance Company raised $10,000 at a fundraiser for Amos House.
The Building Materials Resource Center recently honored its two biggest donors.
Here’s an article on Chris Krauss, who has been hired to manage the Center for Maine Craft. And here’s an article about the rest area [...]
Ted Regan: Re-’Kindling’ the Social Entrepreneurial Fire
13 Aug
Posted by Travis as Bytes, Grantee Network, Grantees, Grantees in the News, Organizations, Social Entrepreneurs: In Their Own Words, Uncategorized
Ted Regan has been a familiar face at the Great Bay Foundation since 2002, when we first funded Rippleffect, the youth development organization he co-founded that offers “learning adventures in living classrooms” to disadvantaged youth. Among Ted’s many accomplishments during his nine year tenure at Rippleffect was leading the successful effort to buy and [...]
The Great Bay Foundation’s newest grantee is the Smokey House Center, an organization that for the past 34 years has taught middle and high school students real world skills in the areas of science, math, ecology, communications, reading, writing, problem solving, critical thinking, responsibility, and teamwork. On 4,500 acres of land used for farming, [...]
Great Bay recently selected its 55th grantee organization, ReCycle North, located in Burlington, Vermont. The organization is only the second the Foundation has funded in Vermont since it expanded its grantmaking to the state in 2007. (The first was Vermont Works for Women, which received Great Bay planning grant funds last fall. Note [...]
A recent article by Linda Baker in Fast Company magazine illustrates how emerging “green-collar jobs” can be used to achieve social change. “I’m Bad! I’m Slick” (May 2008) focuses on the work of Van Jones, a social entrepreneur in Oakland, California who has been leading an effort to create our country’s first green-collar jobs [...]
Still More Great Bay Videos!
10 Jun
Posted by Elizabeth as Grantee Network, Grantees, Great Bay Videos, Social Entrepreneurs: In Their Own Words
Four more new videos are up and live on our website. You can view them along with our others via Great Bay’s You Tube Channel, or you can go directly to grantees’ Chris and Jodi Martin (ITE - Information Technology Exchange); Melvin Murrel (New Hampshire Aquaculture Association); and/or friends of the foundation, Alta Fleming (Sovereign [...]
More Videos!
06 Jun
Posted by Elizabeth as Grantee Network, Grantees, Great Bay Videos, Social Entrepreneurs: In Their Own Words
Three new videos are up and live on our website. You can view them along with our others via Great Bay’s You Tube Channel, or you can go directly to Mike Rodrigues (Triangle); Eileen Hayes (Amos House); and Harold Siefken (Group Home Foundation) on our website.
Great Bay on You Tube
02 Jun
Posted by Travis as Grantees, Great Bay Videos, Social Entrepreneurs: In Their Own Words
In our ongoing efforts to keep apace in the multimedia world arena, Great Bay has now launched its own You Tube channel. Click here to visit the page, browse our videos, and subscribe. More home grown videos featuring enterprising social entrepreneurs and their innovative projects, as well as other notable leaders in the [...]
Great Bay’s Social Entrepreneurs: In Their Own Words
31 May
Posted by Elizabeth as Grantees, Great Bay Videos, Social Entrepreneurs: In Their Own Words
Great Bay is delighted to announce its new video series, “Social Entrepreneurs: In Their Own Words.” Tune in to see enterprising social entrepreneurs discuss their innovative initiatives. We currently have these six stars on their respective Funded Projects’ pages - Maureen Beauregard (FIT), Tiff Bluemle (Vermont Works for Women), Cathy Duffy (Girls Inc. of NH), [...]
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