Pennies for Poverty:
Two Cents For Change
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News:
Commission on Diversity and Tolerance Grant Awarded to Pennies:
Pennies for Poverty: 2 Cents 4 Change was awarded a grant from the Commission on Diversity and Tolerance for increasing awareness of Poverty. The Commission on Diversity and Tolerance awards grants to those individuals or groups which helps "our mutual mission of promoting inclusion, tolerance and diversity, and ending discrimination and acts of hate in our community."
New Board Members:
Robin L. Parsons is a Vice President in the Global Business Reporting division of a major worldwide financial institution. Her experience in the community has included past member and treasurer of the General Federation of Women's Clubs- Junior Women's Club of Taunton and Raynham and volunteer with the American Cancer Society's "Look Good, Feel Better" program. She recently moved to Newburyport and we look forward the contribution her past experiences will bring to our organization.
Robin Graves brings to the Pennies for Poverty organization her vast experience as a battered women's crisis counselor, a public speaker, a mentor to inner city kids in Boston, and active in after school city programs for children at risk. She worked for several years at the Epiphany School in Dorchester. She has worked in Bosnia and Croatia with refugee children. Ms Graves lives by the motto "Be the change you want to see in the world" and "to those to whom much has been given, much is expected".
2 CENT GRANTS AVAILABLE:
Pennies has 2 Cent Grants available for new ideas to lift people out of poverty in Newburyport or to fund under-funded programs. Individuals, organizations or nonprofits may apply. The 2 Cent Grant applications are available on our website here. Grants are available up to: $2,500.
Upcoming Events:
More information about these events can be found on the Together page.
STAR 240 AND HALEY'S WEDNESDAY NIGHT PENNIES FUNDRAISER EVENT:
- WHAT: Haley's Ride In
- FOR: Pennies for Poverty: 2 Cents 4 Change, Inc.
- WHEN: Wednesday Nights 6:30 - 8:30 PM, June 2 - September 1
- WHERE: Haley's Ice Cream
- HOSTED BY: Star 240
July 21: This should be a very fun night at Haley's. The Mass Motorcyclelists' Survivors' Fund will be here and so will Bob Walton and his Drag Car "Silent Tiger".
THANK YOU STAR 240 AND HALEY'S ICE CREAM! Click here for pictures, by STAR240RC!
If you haven't been here yet this season... stop by and say hi. Weekly activities include raffles, door prizes, photos and more!
ALL proceeds go to Pennies for Poverty, 2 Cents for Change for the 2 Cent Grant Fund.
Don't forget to check out this month's raffle items here, including paintings by Newburyport native Ralph Ayers and a 2004 Red Sox World Series Celebration photopgrah!