Grant Recipients

The Harpley Foundation

A FAMILY FOUNDATION SINCE 1994

Grant Recipients

Our fiscal year closes while the promise of spring emerges.

It's spring fever.
That is what the name of it is.
And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want,
but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
~Mark Twain

Next cycle of applications are due:

October 15, 2008.

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Congratulations Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Grant Recipients:

Animals As Intermediaries
- Materials and transportation fees for educational and outreach natural therapy programs.

ARC of Eastern Middlesex
- Teen drop-in center for developmentally challenged inclusive of peer models and volunteers incorporating art & music.

Assisted Living Center
- Final HVAC upgrades for affordable public senior housing facility.

Creative Arts for Kids, Inc.
- New administration computers & summer theater camp funding

Dot Art
- Art supplies for acclaimed Dorchester youth program.

Firehouse Center For The Arts
- State-of-the-art LED lighting, scrim and cyclorama for stage productions.

Gaining Ground
- Drip irrigation systems for greenhouse.

NEW! HOBBES, Inc.
- Equipment upgrades for marine education program operating out of Salem Harbor.

McKenzie Monks Foundation
- Continued support for "Kenzie Kases"

Merrimack River Feline Rescue
- Support for veterinary services and equipment for cat care program.

Music At Eden's Edge
- Support for Senior/Family and Youth Chamber Concert Series.

Pat Brody Cat Shelter
- Feral cat spaying program and cat recovery cages.

Reading Community Singers
- Funds for music and accounting software.

Reading Memorial High School Band Parents Organization
- Winter percussion competition uniforms and props for RMHS band members.

SAFE Studio
- Continued program support for adolscents at risk art therapy program.

Theatre in the Open
- Support for summer Theater Programming in Maudsley State Park, Newburyport, MA.

Waltham Fields Community Garden
- Materials for construction of pavillion for Children's Garden program.

NEW! Winslow Farm
- Construction of barn addition for animal housing.

FY 2006-2007 Grant Recipients:

Assisted Living Center, Inc.
- HVAC improvements to eliminate space heaters and fans for residents.

Coolidge Middle School Science Olympiad
- Expenses for National Science team.

Creative Arts for Kids, Inc.
- Artroom renovations.

The Cultural Connection
- Web site and press materials support.

Gaining Ground
- Increase farmable land.

Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center
- Children's crisis therapy program.

Kelley School
- Theater field trip for students.

McKenzie Monks Foundation
- Care case for pediatric oncology patients.

Music at Eden's Edge
- Support for public ensemble performances.

New England String Ensemble
- Youth string programs pre and post concert.

New England Wildlife Center
- "Green" building renovations.

Pat Brody Shelter for Cats
- Cat spaying.

S.A.F.E. Studio, Inc.
- Art therapy for adolescents at risk.

Theatre in the Open
- Outdoor theater production at Maudsley State Park

Westford Council on Aging
- Emergency dental care for seniors.

Windrush Farm
- Horse therapy programming for disabled.