VSA Massachusetts (VSA MA) is grateful to the City of Boston for the grant award of $2,500 through the Charlestown Community Impact Fund. Grant funds will be used toward providing band instruction to students with autism participating in VSA MA’s COOL (Creative Outlook On Learning) Schools program at Charlestown High School.

Seven Hills Rhode Island (SHRI) would like to thank Navigant Credit Union for their generous grant award of $2,500. SHRI will use these funds to teach healthy growing and gardening workshops for participants attending the Day Habilitation program at the Woonsocket, RI location.

During this past summer and fall, multiple youth from Stetson School had the opportunity to participate in the Massachusetts chapter of the Chill Foundation program. The program works with juvenile justice programs and schools, as well as social service, foster care, and mental health agencies to provide experiential learning through snowboard, skateboard, surfboard, and stand-up paddleboard sports.

The National Grid Foundation has awarded Seven Hills ASPiRE! $25,000 towards the Workforce Readiness and Employment program. These much-appreciated funds will be used to support a new community-based workforce readiness and job-training site, Seven Hills Café, located in the former Stearns Tavern that was relocated to Coes Reservoir and park. Stearns Tavern will be the fourth café that is operated by Seven Hills and participants of our Workforce Readiness and Employment program.

VSA Massachusetts, an affiliate of Seven Hills Foundation, would like to thank the J. Irving and Jane L. England Charitable Trust for their generous grant award of $7,500 to support the Open Door Gallery at the Worcester Art Museum. The Open Door Gallery at the Worcester Art Museum, ODG@WAM, provides permanent studio and gallery space for artists with disabilities to create and exhibit artwork within a world-class art museum. Cultivating the common ground between the three organizations, ODG@WAM provides opportunities for...