Autism Speaks in Dedham Awarded Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Grant

DEDHAM, MA - From the Harvard Pilgrim Care Foundation: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation has announced that Autism Speaks in Dedham was awarded $500 from the Foundation’s Community Spirit 9/11 Mini-Grant program. The funds will be used to support research and services for those with autism.

To commemorate those Harvard Pilgrim members who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, Harvard
Pilgrim and the Foundation created the Community Spirit 9/11 Mini-Grant program. This program allows
each Harvard Pilgrim employee to award a $500 grant, completely funded by the Foundation, to the local
charity of his or her choice each calendar year. Since this community grants program began in 2002,
Harvard Pilgrim employees have directed more than $5.2 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. “The Mini-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 2016, more than 96% of Harvard Pilgrim employees participated in at least one form of service or
giving through volunteering, the Mini-Grants program, or Harvard Pilgrim’s annual Employee
Fundraising Campaign.

About The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation
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 funds. 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.

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