Three Watertown Nonprofits Receive $1,500 In Grants

WATERTOWN, MA — Three Watertown non-profit organizations were awarded a total of $1,500 from the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation’s Community Spirit 9/11 Mini-Grant program. The employee-directed Mini-Grant program has awarded $6.5 million to non-profits in New England since 2002.

The organizations receiving funds are:

• Alzheimer Association ($500)
• Armenian Library and Museum of America ($500)
• Families First Parenting Program, Inc. ($500)

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.

“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.”