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Lloyd Center Awarded $2,500 Grant from the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts

The Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts has awarded the Lloyd Center for the Environment a grant of $2500. This grant, given through the Community Foundation’s Rainy Day Fund, has been given to the Lloyd Center to purchase picnic tables and benches. The new benches and picnic tables will provide seating for the Center’s many visitors including the large classes of elementary students, and their chaperones, who regularly come to the premises on nature fieldtrips. In addition, strategically placed benches along the trails and at scenic overlooks will significantly increase visitor enjoyment. The fund’s generous donors are certainly making a difference.

Based in New Bedford, MA, the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts was launched in 1995 by a group of dedicated volunteers who wanted to create a new avenue for encouraging philanthropy in Southeastern Massachusetts. The Community Foundation's mission is to improve and protect the quality of life in our region by promoting collaboration and understanding among all members of the community; providing a flexible permanent vehicle for donors with diverse interests; protecting the community’s endowment through prudent investment and effective stewardship; expanding the community’s endowment through appropriate solicitation; and ascertaining community needs and opportunities and acting as an informed grantmaker.