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Giving Back to the Community

The Makepeace Neighborhood Fund was established in 2004 as a way for the A.D. Makepeace Company to provide significant support to community groups providing services the company finds important.  In the past three years, the company has awarded some $580,000 in grants.

Application packages for grants from the Makepeace Neighborhood Fund are now available.

Grants are available on a competitive basis to non-profit organizations and governmental agencies which provide services to residents of Wareham, Plymouth, Carver, Middleborough and Rochester.  Grants are limited to $5,000 to $10,000 and must be in one of the following disciplines:  education, health care, community housing, historic preservation, or environmental protection.

Applications are closed for 2008. Click here for an application packet. Grants are not available to individuals.

2007 Grant List

Applicant Proposal Name Grant
Boys & Girls Club of Wareham Snack Bar/Kitchen Upgrade $8,000.00
Buttonwood Park Zoological Society School in the Zoo Environmental Education Program $5,000.00
Buzzards Bay Area Habitat for Humanity West Wareham Build $5,000.00
Carver Public Schools Reading Rocks Summer Program $9,352.00
Carver Public Schools Library Laptops $5,000.00
Church of the Good Shepherd Good Shepherd Food Pantry $4,500.00
Community Nurse & Hospice Care, Inc. Additional care not covered by insurance $8,000.00
Evergreen House Replacing Heating Systems & Tile Floor $7,000.00
Girl Scout Troop 174 – Wareham, MA Safety Town $3,000.00
Gleason Family YMCA Youth and Government Program $4,210.00
Junior Achievement of Southern Mass Seeds of Success: Growing Hope in W & R Classrooms $5,000.00
Manomet Center for Conseration Sciences Migratory Bird Environmental Education Programs $8,000.00
Marion Institute, Inc. Seed to Table Program $5,000.00
Massachusetts Archaeological Society Native American Educational Outreach Project $4,000.00
Old Colony YMCA Strong Kids Campaign $3,500.00
Pilgrim Society/Pilgrim Hall Museum Campaign for Pilgrim Hall Museum $5,000.00
Plimoth Plantation Foundation for Kids $6,000.00
Plymouth Guild Inc. for the Arts Russell Library Cultural Arts Center $5,000.00
Plymouth Public Schools Music Immersion Program $7,000.00
Rochester Memorial School Shake, Rattle and Roll $8,000.00
Science Department, Wareham HS SmartBoards for Science $9,248.00
South Shore Community Action Council, Inc. Greater Plymouth Food Resources Group $5,000.00
Southcoast Hospitals Group Jump Into Diabetes Control $5,460.00
Wareham Area Committee for the Homeless Baby Point Program $4,000.00
Wareham Early Childhood Education Early Care and Education Subsidies $5,000.00
Wareham Gateman Baseball,  Inc. Reading Program $4,056.00
Total: $148,326.00

Grant Applications & Information…

  • Grant Application
    953kb Word file

Applications are closed for 2008. Please check back in January, 2009 for information about 2009 applications, and check here in May for information about this year’s grant recipients.

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