SPUR was one of 150 local nonprofits awarded a grant through the Cummings Foundation’s $30 million major annual grants program.
Serving the North Shore for 10 years, SPUR was selected from 715 applicants to receive $75,000 over three years.
SPUR is a nonprofit that provides accessible opportunities to meet the tangible needs of the community, including volunteering at food banks, making holiday bags for children, volunteering at community gardens, and picking up leftover food from local establishments so it does not go to waste, Director of Communications Kim Nothnagel said.
The organization also engages more than 750 young people each year through a K-12 service-learning enrichment program that empowers the youngest members of our community to make a tangible difference, according to press release from SPUR.
“The Cummings Foundation grant is an investment in SPUR’s work building a stronger, more resilient community for everyone,” SPUR Executive Director Lynne Krasker-Schultz said.
“This support for SPUR’s work will enable us to grow both programmatically and geographically, reaching new communities and new individuals who wish to make a meaningful difference in their local community,” she said.
The $30 million grant program primarily supports Massachusetts nonprofits based in and serving Middlesex, Essex, and Suffolk counties, plus six communities in Norfolk County: Brookline, Dedham, Milton, Needham, Quincy, and Wellesley.
Nothnagel said this grant provides the opportunity to “continue expanding our work both growing the programs that we have become known for as well as expanding into new areas, whether that means geographically or programmatically. It’s an opportunity for us to make a positive impact in new ways every single day.”
The grant is “particularly meaningful coming this year because we are celebrating our 10-year anniversary,” Nothnagel said. “It’s a decade of making a difference together and an opportunity for us to look ahead to what we’ll do in the decades to come.”
“Greater Boston is fortunate to have a robust, dedicated, and highly capable nonprofit sector that supports and enhances the community in myriad ways,” Cummings Foundation Executive Director and Trustee Joyce Vyriotes said. “The entire Cummings organization is thankful for their daily work to help all our neighbors thrive.”
Learn more at https://www.spurnorthshore.org