Lowell’s Receives a Grant from Cummings Foundation's $30 Million Grant Program.
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AMESBURY, MA—Lowell's Boat Shop will strengthen and expand their successful STEAM-related programs for youth after receiving a $75,000 grant from the Cummings Foundation's $30 Million Grant Program.
"The Cummings Foundation has been a huge supporter for decades, fueling hundreds of excellent organizations in Massachusetts, and we are thrilled that our missions and programs are worthy of their recognition," says Graham McKay, Executive Director at Lowell's. "We are excited for their partnership and hope that this begins a long relationship."
The working museum and National Historic Landmark, perched on the Merrimack River on Main Street in Amesbury, is entering their third century of boatbuilding and houses a museum of maritime artifacts, but also vigorously pursues their mission to "perpetuate the art and craft of wooden boat building."
Lowell’s offers apprenticeships, woodworking classes, and on-the-water programs such as Math on the River, another grant-funded program which just wrapped up its 2024 series of sessions with 70 high school junior and senior college prep and honors math students. This summer kids will learn about invasive species on the Merrimack River, they’ll build pond yachts that sail, and they’ll navigate in rowboats to places from Amesbury to Joppa Flats. The organization looks forward to using the Cummings Foundation Grant for expanding these already successful programs to serve more participants.
Lowell's Boat Shop is one of 150 local nonprofits that will share in $30 million through Cummings Foundation’s major annual grants program. They were selected from a total of 715 applicants during a competitive review process. It will receive $75,000 over three years.
About Cummings Foundation
Woburn-based Cummings Foundation, Inc. was established in 1986 by Joyce and Bill Cummings of Winchester, MA and has grown to be one of the largest private foundations in New England. The Foundation directly operates its own charitable subsidiaries, including New Horizons retirement communities, in Marlborough and Woburn, and Cummings Health Sciences, LLC. Additional information is available at www.CummingsFoundation.org.
