SHEEHAN FAMILY FOUNDATION Five Year Report 2003 to 2007

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1 SHEEHAN FAMILY FOUNDATION Five Year Report 2003 to 2007 The mission of the Sheehan Family Foundation is to protect the environment and to enhance the quality of education, with a focus on projects in eastern Massachusetts

2 CONTENTS Executive Directors Message... 1 Education... 2 Environment... 5 International Projects Special Foundation Programs Promoting Philanthropy Special Recognition Fifteen Year Grant History Five Year Grant History Grantee Contact Information Foundation Contact Information... 18

3 EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS MESSAGE Dear Family and Friends, In 2007, the Sheehan Family Foundation celebrated fifteen years of philanthropy. The Foundation remains strategically focused on its core mission of supporting education and the environment in Southeastern Massachusetts. We completed seven years of education programming through Get on BASE, enriching the lives of thousands of children and their families in the City of Brockton. For the environment, we continue to focus on protecting land, rivers, and oceans in Southeastern Massachusetts. In addition, we expanded our reach with new projects in Brooklyn, New York, and Haiti. Through our myriad projects, we continue to build new partnerships and sustain others. We leverage our grants when possible, and support grantees with strategic advice as well as funding. Our grantees distinguish themselves with their dedication and commitment to their missions and goals, and we partner to help them seek out the most effective avenues for achieving those goals. The Foundation s future goals include taking a leadership role in bringing new funders to Brockton and the region in order to grow and sustain youth development programs. We will continue to support the Community Foundation of Greater Plymouth County, which we helped establish, as a vehicle for philanthropy throughout the region. On a program level, we will continue our strategic approach to environmental protection and education. Finally, we are pleased to announce the launch of our website. We hope you enjoy reading this report of our activities for the past five years, and the fifteen year grant summary. At the end of this report you will find contact information for the projects and programs we support so that you may gather information and get involved should you choose to do so. With appreciation, Margaret Sheehan Executive Director 1

4 EDUCATION Education projects are focused in the City of Brockton, Massachusetts, with some grants made in other areas of eastern Massachusetts, as well as Missouri and Brooklyn, NY. CITY OF BROCKTON, MA We continued Get on BASE (Building After School Excellence), a project we established in Get on BASE takes a three-pronged approach to providing underprivileged youth with safe and enriching outof-school programs: direct tuition assistance for low and moderate income families; innovative staff and teacher professional development; and linking local programs to state-wide after-school advocacy efforts. Get on BASE works closely with the Brockton Public Schools, the Mayor s After School Task Force, Brockton s Promise, and others. Since 2000, over 230 children have received direct tuition assistance, and thousands more benefited from quality improvements in out-of-school time programs. Photo courtesy of Boys and Girls Club of Cape Cod As an adjunct to Get on BASE, several community programs received funding. Families First received $20,000 for workshops to strengthen families and those working with youth. The Old Colony YMCA received an emergency grant of $17,600 to keep the city pool open in the summer of 2006, Brockton Trails was funded with $35,000 through the Brockton Educational Foundation for outdoor education and career exploration, and $1,320 was provided to Brockton Community Cable for an innovative summer program for youth. In addition, Massasoit Community College Foundation received $26,000 to provide credit-bearing coursework to program staff and Home Health and Child Care received $5,000 to advance a model playground project. In Plymouth, Massachusetts we followed up on our leadership role in the 2002 capital campaign for the Boys and Girls Club of Plymouth by providing 2

5 EDUCATION $122,500 for programs. The new Club is thriving, with full enrollment for tutoring, mentoring, summer camps, and similar programs. The study of astronomy at the Plymouth Intermediate School was supported with a grant of $20,000 to the STEP Foundation for a robotic telescope, following years of noteworthy programming by dedicated educators using the existing planetarium. CAPE COD, SOUTH SHORE AND NORTH SHORE, MA The Plymouth Home for Little Wanderers/Baird Center, a school for troubled adolescent boys, received at $50,000 grant to replace aging cabins with comfortable residences. The Holmes Field Legal Fund received $5,000 to defend the Holmes Reservation against encroachment. The Reservation is a treasured piece of open space on Route 3A in North Plymouth. In addition to its stunning views of Plymouth Bay, the Field s historic value stems from its use as a Muster Ground prior to the Revolutionary war, when the town s civilian militia gathered there to practice shooting muskets and marching in formation. The Plymouth Cordage Historical Society received $3,130 toward purchase and preservation of historic engines that served the area. In Kingston, Sacred Heart Elementary School s Early Childhood Center received a grant of $25,000. The South Shore YMCA received $10,000 to cover fees and services for homeless families. On Cape Cod, the Boys and Girls Club of Cape Cod was awarded $64,000 for after school educational programming, and a $2,500 grant was made to the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School for the Cape and Islands Youth Council on Sustainability. Environmental education grants were made to several regional organizations. The South Shore Natural Science Center received $45,730 for a program that brings public school students on interpretive trail walks at Willow Brook Farm, a conservation area Photo courtesy of Boys and Girls Club of Cape Cod 3

6 EDUCATION established with support from the Foundation. The New England Wildlife Center received $90,000 for Clear as Mud, a hands-on program that brings school children outdoors and to the nature lab, and $100,000 toward the capital campaign for its new wild animal hospital and education center, a green building, in Weymouth. Finally, global environmental issues were brought to local schools through the Earthwatch Institute expeditions. We funded scholarships for teachers from Southeastern Massachusetts towns including Plymouth, Hingham, Brockton, Carver, Randolph, Hanover, and South Yarmouth. The teachers went on expeditions and brought back experiences and lessons in climate change, rainforests, dolphins, butterflies and more, often directly to their classrooms via the web, from locales including Brazil, Mexico, Kenya, Iceland, Argentina, Viet Nam, and Alaska. In response to a local need on the South Shore, we funded Road to Responsibility with $10,000 to support work, residential and recreation programs for adults with disabilities. The South Shore Women s Center received a grant of $2,500. In the North Shore/Cape Ann area, Wellspring House received $45,000, for a program to strengthen families of middle-school age children. In Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Nativity Preparatory School, a tuition free school for economically disadvantaged middle school boys from the inner city, received scholarship funds of $25,000. BEYOND MASSACHUSETTS Beyond Massachusetts, Boys Hope Girls Hope based in Missouri received $550,000, to provide children in need with homes, opportunities, and education. In Brooklyn, New York, three organizations providing innovative programs for at risk girls received grants. Photo courtesy of Boys and Girls Club of Cape Cod We granted $75,000 to Youth Empowerment Mission, $60,000 to Youth at Risk and $50,000 and Summer Search. 4

7 ENVIRONMENT We continue to focus on protecting land, rivers, and oceans with grants to purchase open space and for capacity building to bring together top talent and resources. Protecting our natural resources against ever-mounting threats due to the rapid pace of development in Southeastern Massachusetts requires increasingly complex strategies. Simply buying conservation land is no longer feasible due to astronomical land prices. Our rivers and coastal waters suffer mounting assaults from every direction, including water pollution from nitrogen emitted from the exhaust tailpipes of our cars that has a documented negative impact on our coastal waterways an impact unheard of 15 years ago. We continuously reexamine and revise our strategies to maximize the impact of our grants. Over the past five years, our 26 environmental grants were each linked directly to our strategies and leveraged about $10 million in public and private funds. Photo courtesy of Al Lima COLLABORATION AND ADVOCACY Our most effective strategy is supporting collaboration among environmental groups. We led the formation of two collaborations in Southeastern Massachusetts: the Taunton River Campaign and the Watershed Action Alliance of Southeastern Massachusetts. By bringing the non-profit environmental community together in a way that enables each group to share its expertise in a shared mission, the effectiveness of the group is magnified, and the collaborative as an entity itself has impacts a single group could not. The result is natural resource protection on a scale that cannot be achieved by direct funding of land purchases or river cleanups. The Taunton River Campaign stems from our 2002 Southeastern Massachusetts Land and Water Initiative. The Taunton River, one of the healthiest and most diverse river systems on the North Atlantic Coast, is 5

8 ENVIRONMENT Photo courtesy of Susan Speers home to globally endangered species, and has archeological and cultural significance. The Taunton River Campaign received $192,000 in operating funds to coordinate activity of its ten member groups, to provide technical assistance to members or projects, and to make mini-grants for local citizen involvement. Some members of the 2002 Initiative received continued funding, and new partners were added. Over five years, the Wildlands Trust of Southeastern Massachusetts received $110,000 to lead the conservation component of the Campaign. In 2006, Mass Audubon received a two-year grant of $160,000 for a full-time Taunton River Advocate. Save the Bay/Narragansett received funding totaling $75,000 for the five-year period and was instrumental on several advocacy efforts. The Taunton River Watershed Alliance received operating funds of $215,000, a commitment made after careful strategizing to ensure that this grassroots group will play a larger role in leveraging local support for the River into the future. The Jones River Watershed Association, whose water resources are diverted to the Taunton River watershed for municipal water supply purposes, received $60,000 over three years to participate in the Campaign. Manomet Center for Conservation Science received $3,000 to provide mapping data that identify critical ecosystems for protection. The Nature Conservancy Plymouth Pinelands Program received $200,000 and expanded its reach to include the Taunton River, one of the Conservancy s global freshwater priority ecosystems. The Taunton River Campaign also includes the Environmental League of Massachusetts which received $30,000 to represent the region in statewide advocacy efforts. The Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District received $75,000 to provide municipalities with 6

9 ENVIRONMENT planning assistance to protect natural resources. The Trust for Public Lands received $81,000 to support passage and implementation of the Community Preservation Act in Southeastern Massachusetts, a program that makes state and local funds available for open space protection. Trustees of Reservations received over $37,000 in grants and pledges to support its participation in the Campaign and to build its land protection staff capacity in the region. CLF Ventures, a project of the Conservation Law Foundation, received a grant of $15,000 to assess coalition building opportunities in the Taunton River watershed. Results of the Taunton River Campaign collaboration include nomination of the Taunton River for federal designation as a Wild and Scenic River, making river restoration and related projects eligible for federal funding, an allocation of $1M by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to restore and protect the Taunton River, and partnerships aimed at dam removals to allow fish passage on the River. The Campaign s land protection committee has identified the most ecologically significant open space in the region and is working with landowners, municipalities, state government, and private funders to protect key parcels of land. Finally, the Taunton River Watershed Alliance, the Jones River Watershed Association, and Save the Bay formed a unique alliance in response to threats to the Taunton River ecosystem posed by the state s first desalinization plant. Through effective advocacy and use of scientific data, the plant owners agreed to modify construction and fund river protection. We formed a second coalition, the Watershed Action Alliance of Southeastern Massachusetts, based on the South Shore. The Alliance received $69,800 in operating funds and has effectively advocated on numerous development proposals and produced an informational kiosk about fish passage that has been used at dozens of locations and events. A partner in the Alliance, the North and South Rivers Watershed Association received $40,000 to join with the Wildlands Trust to protect important watershed lands. Photo courtesy of Cheryl Rose 7

10 ENVIRONMENT Coastal estuary and river protection was also accomplished through Jones River Watershed Association Kingston, which received operating funds of $150,000 for river stewardship and fish run restoration on the Jones River, the largest river emptying into Cape Cod Bay. JRWA leveraged at least $1.5M in state, federal and private funding. The group s local advocacy resulted in the purchase and restoration of the Jones River Landing, the oldest continuously operated boatyard in the U.S., the protection of riparian lands, and municipal sewer upgrades to improve water quality in Kingston Bay. We increased our support for ocean protection. The Provincetown Center for Photo courtesy of Al Lima Coastal Studies (PCCS) received $60,000 over two years. (For many years, our family business supported the Right Whale conservation work of Stormy Mayo, founder of PCCS.) The PCCS State of the Bay 2007 report captures the essence of work needed in Cape Cod Bay, the southernmost portion of the Gulf of Maine, and highlights the importance of watchdog efforts by local groups such as the Jones River Watershed Association in restoring and protecting coastal waters. On Cape Cod s south coast, the Coalition for Buzzards Bay (CBB) received $45,000 to advocate for solutions to improve the Bay s ecology. CBB s State of the Bay 2006 report reveals a decline in the health of the Bay s ecosystem as shown by important indicators, such as nitrogen pollution, eelgrass beds, river herring and bay scallops, with the Bay functioning at less than half its ecological capacity. The Plymouth Marine Mammal program received $300. To publicize the message about the loss of open space to development, the Woods Hole Research Center received $25,000 to produce an educational poster showing land use changes in Southeastern Massachusetts from and forecast two possible growth scenarios for the year The Land Trust Alliance received $5,970 to provide tuition assistance for citizens and staff from grassroots groups in the region to attend the annual 8

11 ENVIRONMENT national Land Trust Rally held in Southeastern Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition and Sudbury Valley Trustees received $5,000 to convene organizations focused on protecting significant statewide ecosystems. On the North Shore of Massachusetts, the Essex County Community Foundation received $60,000 for the Essex County Forum, an educational initiative promoting good land use and smart growth practices among town officials and developers. LAND PROTECTION In addition to supporting the ongoing work of the Taunton River Campaign land protection committee (see above), we made land conservation grants totaling $989,000, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, Wildlands Trust of Southeastern Massachusetts, Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts, Barnstable Land Trust, Yarmouth Land Trust, Wareham Land Trust, and Jones River Watershed Association. We estimate 2,434 acres were protected. We continued our longstanding commitment to the Plymouth Pinelands and Coastal Plain Ponds with a variety of measures, including $15,000 toward the purchase of 58 acres of cranberry bog to add to the Eel River Preserve, and $17,000 toward 13 acres added to the Domero Cortelli Preserve. In addition, in 2001 we made a grant of $417,000 to TNC to preacquire land in Plymouth s Massasoit National Wildlife Refuge for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. When the government funds were released, TNC transferred the land to Fish and Wildlife and used the proceeds to purchase 23 acres of ecologically significant shoreline and bog around Hoyt Pond, in Plymouth. In Duxbury, we made a grant of $100,000 for the O Neil Farm in Duxbury (a $4.3 million project to protect 114 acres of a working farm). In November, 2007, The Nature Conservancy used $400,000 of a prior pledge to help purchase 450 acres of the Park Property in Middleboro, where Black Brook runs through forests and fields before reaching the Assawompset Ponds, a source of drinking water for thousands of people in the Taunton River Watershed. Over the past five years, the Jones River Watershed Association has been instrumental in protecting 1,700 acres in Kingston, Duxbury and Halifax, including Mulliken s Landing, Pine Brook, and Burrage Pond Wildlife Conservation Area. 9

12 The Wareham Land Trust received $25,000 to advocate for alternatives to the Makepeace development that threatened a pinelands and coastal plain pond ecosystem integral in Wareham. The Cape Cod Compact of Conservation Trusts received $30,000 to protect Bone Hill Farm in Barnstable, and the Yarmouth Conservation Trust received $10,000 to preserve the Dennis Pond conservation area. Photo courtesy of Al Lima In 2007, the Foundation made a special gift of $50,000 to honor the outgoing executive director of the Wildlands Trust of Southeastern Massachusetts, designating the funds for land stewardship and landowner technical assistance. INTERNATIONAL PRO ECTS In 2005, interest among family members led to multi-year funding for organizations providing aid and development assistance in Haiti. Since then, grants of almost $325,000 have been made to the American Friends Service Committee, The Salvation Army, World Neighbors, Grassroots International, and The Lambi Fund of Haiti. The funds are aimed at providing both direct aid and building citizens capacity to sustain economic development and community health. Our funding supported reforestation, primary healthcare, animal husbandry and agriculture. SPECIAL FOUNDATION PROGRAMS The Foundation maintains two funds accessible to family members. Through the annual Family Initiative, which aims to engage the next generation in philanthropy, family members may direct both Matching and Special Project grants to projects of interest. In the past five years, family members have designated available funds to 53 organizations in the U.S. and Africa. 10

13 PROMOTING PHILANTHROPY Promoting philanthropy is part of our responsibility as a Foundation. In doing so, we leverage our funding by convening like minded individuals and organizations. Since our inception, we have promoted philanthropy in Southeastern Massachusetts by regularly convening groups of other prospective funders to introduce them to the many ideas and projects in our region. We also took a leadership role in launching the Community Foundation of Greater Plymouth County. We co-hosted regular information sharing meetings on environmental and educational issues over the past five years. In 2004, we hosted the Southeastern Massachusetts Environmental Collaborative conference at Bridgewater State College, and in 2007, supported the annual statewide Community Preservation Coalition conference, also at BSC. Currently, we are also playing a key role in bringing Boston based funders to Brockton, to build their understanding of promising practices and outstanding needs in the field of youth development. The Community Foundation of Greater Plymouth County (CFGPC) now has a staff person, board of directors, and is aiming to establish an endowment. The CFGPC can receive donations from private individuals and foundations and in turn make grants of that money either to specific projects as directed by the donor, or to projects the staff choose. This Community Foundation also enables our region to compete and obtain funding from government and foundation sources outside the region. SPECIAL RECOGNITION We are pleased to report that Foundation Executive Director Meg Sheehan received the 2007 LeBarron Briggs Conservation Award from the Wildlands Trust of Southeastern Massachusetts for her outstanding conservation leadership. In October 2004, Jerry Sheehan and Elizabeth Sheehan accepted an award from the Mayor s After School Task Force at a Breakfast of Champions in recognition of the Foundtion s support for city-wide projects. In 2005, the family was recognized by the Road to Responsibility Man of the Year award. 11

14 FIFTEEN YEAR HISTORY 1992 THROUGH 2007 Other Initiatives International Education Environment Environment... $ 5,088,361 Education... $ 4,583,750 International... $ 324,796 Other Initiatives... $ 268,747 Total Grants Made $ 10,265,654 12

15 FIVE YEAR HISTORY 2003 THROUGH 2007 Grants $ 5,311,928 Administration $ 205,616 Education $ 2,499,961 Boys and Girls Club of Cape Cod... $ 64,000 Boys and Girls Club of Plymouth... $ 122,500 Boys Hope Girls Hope... $ 575,000 Brockton Community Cable... $ 1,320 Brockton Educational Foundation... $ 35,000 Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School... $ 2,500 Families First... $ 20,000 Get on BASE/PUCC/BAMSI... $ 1,255,411 Home for Little Wanderers Baird Center... $ 50,000 Home Health and Child Care Services, Inc.... $ 5,000 Massasoit Community College Foundation... $ 26,000 Nativity Preparatory School... $ 25,000 Old Colony YMCA... $ 17,600 Plymouth Cordage Historical Society... $ 3,130 Road to Responsibility... $ 10,000 Sacred Heart Early Childhood Center... $ 25,000 South Shore Women s Center...$ 2,500 South Shore YMCA...$ 10,000 STEP Foundation... $ 20,000 Summer Search...$ 50,000 Wellspring House... $ 45,000 Youth at Risk... $ 60,000 Youth Empowerment Mission... $ 75,000 13

16 FIVE YEAR HISTORY 2003 THROUGH 2007 Environment $ 2,290,620 CLF Ventures... $ 15,000 Coalition for Buzzards Bay... $ 45,000 Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts... $ 30,000 Earthwatch Institute... $ 76,500 Environmental League of Massachusetts... $ 35,000 Essex County Community Foundation... $ 60,000 Holmes Field Legal Fund... $ 5,000 Jones River Watershed Association... $ 185,000 Land Trust Alliance... $ 5,970 Manomet Center for Conservation Science... $ 3,000 Mass Audubon... $ 163,000 Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition/SVT... $ 5,000 New England Wildlife Center... $ 190,000 North and South Rivers Watershed Association... $ 142,600 Plymouth Marine Mammal... $ 300 Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies... $ 60,000 Save the Bay/Narragansett... $ 125,000 SE Regional Planning & Econ. Dev. District... $ 75,000 South Shore Natural Science Center... $ 45,730 Taunton River Watershed Alliance... $ 467,000 The Trust for Public Land... $ 81,000 The Trustees of the Reservations... $ 37,270 The Nature Conservancy...($600K+ from prior pledge)... $ 10,000 Wareham Land Trust...$ 25,000 Wildlands Trust of Southeastern Massachusetts... $ 377,250 Woods Hole Research Center... $ 25,000 Yarmouth Conservation Trust... $ 10,000 International $ 324,796 American Friends Service Committee... $ 45,000 Grassroots International... $ 78,424 Lambi Fund of Haiti... $ 97,372 Salvation Army... $ 44,000 World Neighbors... $ 60,000 Special Projects $ 94,551 Matching Funds $ 24,500 Promoting Philanthropy $ 77,500 14

17 GRANTEE CONTACT INFORMATION Education Boys and Girls Club of Cape Cod P.O. Box 895 Mashpee, MA (508) Boys and Girls Club of Plymouth 9 Resnick Road Plymouth, MA (508) Boys Hope Girls Hope Bridgeton Square Drive Bridgeton, MO (877) 878-HOPE Brockton Educational Foundation 43 Crescent St. Brockton, MA page.cfm?p=41 Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School 225 Rte 6A Orleans, MA (508) Families First Parenting Programs, Inc. 99 Bishop Richard Allen Drive Cambridge, MA (617) Get on BASE 130 Liberty St. #8 Brockton, MA (508) Home for Little Wanderers Baird Center 900 Ship Pond Road Plymouth, MA (508) Home Health and Child Care Services, Inc. 15 Jonathan Drive, Unit 5 PO Box 640, Brockton MA (508) Massasoit Community College Foundation Massasoit Community College One Massasoit Blvd Brockton, MA Nativity Preparatory School 39 Lamartine Street Jamaica Plain, MA (857) Old Colony YMCA 320 Main Street Brockton, MA (508) Plymouth Cordage Historical Society (508) Road to Responsibility 1831 Ocean Street Marshfield, MA (781) Sacred Heart Early Childhood Center 251 Bishops Highway Kingston, MA (781) South Shore Women s Center P.O. Box 6237 North Plymouth, MA (508) South Shore YMCA 75 Mill St. Hanover, MA (781) STEP Foundation P.O. Box 1516 Plymouth, MA (508) Summer Search New York City 90 Broad Street, Suite 202 New York, NY (212) Wellspring House 302 Essex Avenue Gloucester, MA (978) Youth at Risk 111 John St. Suite 750 New York, NY Youth Empowerment Mission 54 MacDonough St., 3rd Floor Brooklyn, NY (718)

18 Environment GRANTEE CONTACT INFORMATION CLF Ventures 62 Summer Street Boston, MA (617) Coalition for Buzzards Bay 620 Belleville Ave New Bedford, MA (508) Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts 3239 Main Street P.O. Box 443 Barnstable, MA (508) Earthwatch Institute 3 Clock Tower Place, Suite 100 Box 75 Maynard, MA (800) Environmental League of Massachusetts 14 Beacon Street, Suite 714 Boston, MA (617) Essex County Forum P. O. Box 369 Salem, MA (978) Jones River Watershed Association PO Box 73 Kingston, MA (781) ww.jonesriver.org Land Trust Alliance 1660 L St. NW, Suite 1100 Washington, DC (202) Manomet Center for Conservation Science 81 Stage Road P.O. Box 1770 Manomet, MA (508) Mass Audubon 208 South Great Rd. Lincoln, MA (781) Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition/SVT 18 Wolbach Road Sudbury, MA (978) New England Wildlife Center 500 Columbian Street South Weymouth, MA (781) North and South Rivers Watershed Association PO Box 43 Norwell MA (781) Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies 115 Bradford Street Provincetown, MA (508) Save the Bay 100 Save The Bay Dr. Providence, RI (401) SE Regional Planning & Econ. Dev. District 88 Broadway Taunton, MA (508) South Shore Natural Science Center P.O. Box Jacobs Lane Norwell, MA (781) Taunton River Watershed Alliance P.O. Box 1116 Taunton MA (508) The Trust for Public Land 33 Union St., 4th Floor Boston, MA (617)

19 GRANTEE CONTACT INFORMATION Environment (continued) The Trustees of the Reservations 572 Essex Street Beverly, MA (978) The Nature Conservancy 205 Portland Street, Suite 400 Boston, Massachusetts (617) Wareham Land Trust P.O. Box 718 Wareham, MA (508) Wildlands Trust of Southeastern Massachusetts P.O. Box 2282 Duxbury, MA (781) Woods Hole Research Center 149 Woods Hole Road Falmouth, MA (508) Yarmouth Conservation Trust P.O. Box 376 Yarmouth Port, MA (508) International American Friends Service Committee 1501 Cherry Street Philadelphia, PA Phone: (215) Grassroots International 179 Boylston St. Jamaica Plain, MA (617) Lambi Fund of Haiti PO Box Washington, DC (202) Salvation Army 615 Slaters Lane P.O. Box 269 Alexandria, VA World Neighbors 4127 NW 122nd Street Oklahoma City, OK (800) Promoting Philanthropy Community Fdn of Greater Plymouth County 928 West Chestnut Street Brockton, MA (508)

20 FOUNDATION CONTACT INFORMATION Photo courtesy of Al Lima Meg Sheehan, Executive Director, (781) Laura Gang, Program Director, (617) The Sheehan Family Foundation is endowed by L. Knife and Son, Inc., of Kingston MA wholesale distributor of Anheuser-Busch and craft beers since Affiliates are located in Danvers, Massachusetts; Westmoreland, Liverpool, and Brooklyn, New York; and New Berlin, Wisconsin. 18