Two Arlington nonprofit organizations were awarded a total of $750 from the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation.
Receiving the funds are the Arlington Libraries Foundation ($500) and the Philharmonic Society of Arlington ($250).
To commemorate those Harvard Pilgrim members who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001, Harvard Pilgrim and the foundation created the Community Spirit 9/11 Mini-Grant program. This allows each Harvard Pilgrim and NTT Data employee to award a $250 to $500 grant, completely funded by the foundation, to the local charity of his or her choice each calendar year.
Since these community grants began in 2002, Harvard Pilgrim employees have directed more than $5.7 million to thousands of organizations throughout Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
“We are so fortunate to have generous and dedicated employees who enrich our company and the communities in which we all live and work,” said Karen Voci, president of the Harvard Pilgrim Foundation, in a June 25 news release. “The grant program is a wonderful way to support our employees as philanthropists and to help them make an impact in their own cities and towns.”
In 2017, more than 95 percent of Harvard Pilgrim employees participated in at least one form of service or giving through volunteering, the grants program or Harvard Pilgrim’s annual employee fund-raising campaign.
Last November, three nonprofit organizations in Arlington were awarded $1,500 in such grants. They were:
— The Children’s Room, Center for Grieving Children and Teenagers, $500;
— Sunshine Nursery School, $500; and
— Town of Arlington Recreation Department, $500.
Created in 1980, the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation supports Harvard Pilgrim’s mission to improve the quality and value of health care for the people and communities we serve by providing the tools, training and leadership to help build healthy communities throughout New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine and Connecticut. Since its inception, the foundation has distributed more than $140 million. In 2016, the Harvard Pilgrim Foundation awarded more than $2.4 million in grants to nearly 900 nonprofit organizations within the four states.
For more information, please visit www.harvardpilgrim.org/foundation.
This news announcement was published Monday, June 25, 2018.
