Beverly Nonprofits Share $29K In Cummings Community Giving Grants

BEVERLY, MA — Sixteeen Beverly nonprofits are sharing in $29,000 in gifts from the Cummings Properties’ Cummings Community Giving program.

The Woburn-based commercial real estate firm awarded $563,000 gifts to 351 nonprofits statewide.

Beverly Bootstraps was selected to receive the maximum award of $5,000. Build Health International, Ellis Square Friends, Express Yourself, Harborlight Community Partners, YMCA of the North Shore and Beverly Public Schools received between $2,000 and $4,000.

Beverly Fire Department, Beverly Historical Society, Beverly Preschool at McKeown, Beverly Recreation Department, Cabot Performing Arts Center, North Shore Education Consortium, Peter Frates Family Foundation, and Riley Rocks Memorial Foundation each received $1,000.\

Cummings employees are asked to choose a nonprofit for a $1,000 donation with a maximum of five donations per organization.

Cummings associate account manager Helen Jeffers designated her $1,000 to Beverly's Express Yourself, a nonprofit dedicated to providing art immersion therapy for at-risk youth.

"I’ve seen some incredible success stories at Express Yourself," Jeffers, who worked at the nonprofit before her role at Cummings, said. "I've watched kids go into Express Yourself with a lot of challenges and come out these amazingly talented people who go on to achieve their dreams. When I had the chance to support a nonprofit, there wasn’t a question in my mind where it would go."