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Hungry & Homeless on Nantucket
Hungry & Homeless on Nantucket by, Bruce Percelay (Nantucket Magazine) The other side of paradise. Some may joke that a bad day on Nantucket is when there is a spike in the cost of jet fuel....
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Featuring The Nepalese Relief Fund
On April 12, 2015, the Nantucket Historical Association, with a grant from The Nantucket Fund™, introduced a new series focusing on Nantucket’s diverse population. “Our Nantucket: Celebration of...
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Featuring MYNantucket
In December of 2014, the Community Foundation for Nantucket awarded grants through the Nantucket Fund™ to 27 deserving Nantucket nonprofits. Now in 2015, we are excited to feature and highlight these...
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Featuring Nantucket Community School
In December of 2014, the Community Foundation for Nantucket awarded grants through the Nantucket Fund™ to 27 deserving Nantucket nonprofits. Now in 2015, we are excited to feature and highlight these...
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Featuring Think:Kids Workshop
Larry Epstein, Ph.D, MA General Hospital’s (MGH) Think:Kids’ Director of Training and Implementation, conducted an all-day, community-wide seminar at Nantucket High School, Friday, October 9th. Dr....
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Featuring Nantucket Food Pantry
In December of 2014, the Community Foundation for Nantucket awarded grants through the Nantucket Fund™ to 27 deserving Nantucket nonprofits. Now in 2015, we are excited to feature and highlight these...
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Community Foundation Week 11/12 – 11/18
The community foundation field is one of the fastest growing philanthropic sectors in the United States today. Community foundations build and strengthen communities in a multitude of ways, including...
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2015 Community Grants Breakfast
Friday, December 4, 2015, marked the Community Foundation for Nantucket’s 6th annual Grant Recipient’s Breakfast. The Community Foundation has convened a Community Roundtable for the past two years,...
View ArticleMUSACK, Inc.
MUSACK was founded by writer-producer Donick Cary with a simple vision, raise some dough to fund musical programs for his hometown high school on Nantucket Island. Donick organized a series of music...
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Featuring One Book One Island
One Book One Island is a project to promote reading, literacy, and community on Nantucket Island. Supporters of this program (listed below) created a charitable fund with the Community Foundation,...
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Featuring Nantucket STAR’s CrossFit Program
The Nantucket Fund™ benefits all of Nantucket. It reaches out across the Island and supports those most in need. Nantucket STAR is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing activities and...
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Featuring American “POWER HOUR”
The Nantucket Boys & Girls Club strives to help our Island’s youth become proficient in basic educational disciplines, apply learning to everyday situations, and promote future career success....
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Featuring Addiction Solutions Fund & Nantucket Coloring Book
Happy Spring to you, Nantucket. The Island is gearing up for the 42nd Annual Nantucket Daffodil Festival on April 29th – May 1st. Two events coming up that weekend have special significance for us...
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Featuring The Nantucket Science Festival
The Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association and the Nantucket Community School held the Second Annual Nantucket Science Festival back in March in the Nantucket High School Cafeteria. The free, family...
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Featuring NISHA’S Lucky Whiskers & Wags Program
The Nantucket Fund™ is the Community Foundation for Nantucket’s unrestricted source for Community Grants, directing support to local nonprofits that are providing services to Nantucketers. This is the...
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Featuring The Be Well Children’s Health Fair
The Be Well Children’s Health Fair was held on March 20, 2016 at Great Harbor Yacht Club. The Fair was a direct result of a questionnaire which asked, “Has Nantucket Cottage Hospital ever considered?”...
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Featuring The Nantucket Book Foundation
Nantucket High School welcomed Morowa Yejide, author of Time of the Locust, this past April. It was an event made possible by the Nantucket Book Foundation in partnership with the Nantucket High...
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Featuring The Nantucket Coloring Book
Nantucket just got a lot more colorful this year with “A Walk Around Nantucket,” a 52-page adult coloring book, conceived by Scott Widmeyer and Alan Yount, who have been coming to Nantucket for more...
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Featuring The William H. Brown Scholarship
The William H. Brown Scholarship Fund was established in the memory of Will Brown by his family in 2012. The purpose of the Scholarship Fund is to provide two scholarships of $5000 per year for four...
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Featuring The Summer Boost Program
The Nantucket Fund™ provided a grant to the Nantucket Community School for their Summer Boost Program this year. The program prepares pre-K students for entering Nantucket’s public school system and...
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