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Featuring the 2016 Nantucket Scholarship Recipients
The Community Foundation for Nantucket was proud to award $54,000 in scholarship funds to Nantucket students this year. Congratulations to all graduating Nantucket seniors. We here at the Community...
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Featuring Swim Across America – Nantucket
The 5th Annual Swim Across America – Nantucket Island Open Water Swim takes place this weekend on Saturday August 27, 2016 at Jetties beach to raise money for on-island cancer treatment and patient...
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Featuring the NHA’S Mexico Celebration
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) was pleased to bring back the popular cultural series and host the fourth installment of Our Nantucket, a community diversity series at the Whaling Museum, on...
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Helping with HOUSING!
The Community Foundation for Nantucket has always had a mission – to strengthen Nantucket now and for future generations through informed philanthropy and community leadership. In pursuit of this...
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2016 Community Grants Breakfast
One week ago today, on Friday, December 2, we celebrated our favorite day of the year – The Annual Community Grant Recipient Breakfast at The Nantucket Hotel. This year the event was sponsored by BNY...
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Christmas & Community
It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year! Happy Holidays from the Community Foundation for Nantucket. Looking for some last minute gift ideas that also benefit your Nantucket Community? Nantucket is a...
View ArticleBulgarian Education Center
Bulgarian Education Center is established in 2015 as an independent non-profit organization to provide locally classes to children with interests in learning Bulgarian language, culture, traditions,...
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Tell The Story
Our Mission from the very beginning has been to strengthen Nantucket now and for future generations through informed philanthropy and community leadership. Our goal for this year is to “Tell The...
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One Book One Island 2017
One Book One Island is a collaborative project of community partners and sponsors on Nantucket which seeks to promote reading, literacy and community by encouraging the entire population of Nantucket...
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Featuring the Nantucket Science Festival
The Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association and the Nantucket Community School hosted the Third Annual Nantucket Science Festival on March 18, 2017 at the Cyrus Pierce Middle School. The event was made...
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Featuring the Nantucket Book Foundation
Early in April, PEN/Faulkner Award winner and critically acclaimed author Benjamin Alire Sáenz visited our island as part of the Nantucket Book Foundation’s work with Nantucket students and the...
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Featuring the NHA’S Jamaica Night
April 2, 2017 marked the fifth installment of the popular “Our Nantucket” series brought to us by The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) and made possible in part with a grant from the Nantucket...
View ArticleHarvey Foundation, Inc.
Our mission is to empower the pathfinders of education, athletics and community service here on Nantucket.
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Featuring the 11th Annual Grant Recipient Breakfast
On July 11th, at the Nantucket Hotel, we held our annual Nantucket Fund™ Grant Recipient Breakfast. The event was sponsored by BNY Mellon Wealth Management. This year, we had the pleasure of awarding...
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Featuring The Food Pantry’s Fresh Produce Program
This year the Nantucket Fund™ grant dollars supported the Fresh Produce Program through the Nantucket Food Pantry. The program offers free access to fresh produce from local Nantucket farms to our...
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Featuring the Adaptive Water Sports Program with Community Sailing &...
The Nantucket Fund™ awarded a grant in 2016 to Nantucket Community Sailing and Nantucket S.T.A.R. (Sports & Therapeutic Accessible Recreation) for therapeutic watersports lessons in a...
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Featuring 2017 Nantucket Scholarships
As we send our students back to school, we wanted to acknowledge our scholarship recipients. This year, the Community Foundation for Nantucket was proud to award 45,500 in scholarship funds to 20 local...
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Featuring Matching Grant for Nantucket Food, Fuel, and Rental Assistance
Earlier this year, the Nantucket Interfaith Council, with funding from a Community Foundation ReMain Nantucket Grant, initiated a capacity building exercise. The goals of the exercise were to build the...
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Featuring the AAN’S “Healing through the Creative Process”
For the past three years, the Nantucket Fund has awarded grants to the Artists Association of Nantucket, for a program called “Healing through the Creative Process”. The classes offered through this...
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It’s Community Foundation Week 2017
This week is national Community Foundation Week. Our work succeeds because people like you believe in building a strategic legacy that will impact future generations. The Community Foundation for...
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