Page 4 THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, May 29, 2020 Immigrant Learning Center awarded $100K Cummings Grant T he Immigrant Learning Center (ILC) is one of 130 Massachusetts nonprofits to receive grants of $100,000 to $500,000, each through Cummings Foundation’s $20 Million Grant Program. The Malden-based organization was chosen from a total of 738 applicants during a competitive review process. The Cummings Grant will allow ILC to continue its mission of giving immigrants a voice through online instruction and during the transition back to in-person classes as well as strengthening its eff orts to educate Americans on the contributions of immigrants. For 28 years, ILC has served Malden and surrounding communities. The free English classes and related services the CenThe Immigrant Learning Center Founder and CEO Diane Portnoy (center) surrounded by students. 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Through this placebased initiative, Cummings Foundation aims to give back in the area where it owns commercial buildings, all of which are managed, at no cost to the Foundation, by its affi liate, Cummings Properties. Founded in 1970 by Bill Cummings, the Woburn-based commercial real estate fi rm leases and manages 10 million square feet of debt-free space, the majority of which exclusively benefi ts the Foundation. The Cummings Foundation has now awarded more than $280 million to Greater Boston nonprofi ts. “We have been impressed, but not surprised, by the myriad ways in which these 130 grant winners are serving their communities, despite the challenges presented by COVID-19,” said Cummings Foundation Executive Director Joel Swets. “Their ability to adapt and work with their constituents in new and meaningful ways has an enormous impact in the communities where our colleagues and leasing clients live and work.” Social distancing requirements will prevent Foundation and grant winner representatives from convening for a reception at TradeCenter 128 in Woburn, as planned, to celebrate the $20 million infusion into Greater Boston’s nonprofit sector. Instead, Cummings Foundation expects hundreds of individuals to gather virtually for a modifi ed celebration in mid-June. The Cummings $20 Million Grant Program resulted from a merger of the Foundation’s two fl agship grant programs, $100K for 100 and Sustaining Grants. The Foundation and its volunteers fi rst identifi ed 130 organizations to receive grants of at least $100,000 each. Among the winners are fi rst-time recipients as well as nonprofi t entities that have previously received Cummings Foundation grants. A limited number of this latter group of repeat recipients will be invited to make in-person presentations in the fall, when public-health-related circumstances allow, proposing that their grants be elevated to long-term awards. Thirty such requests will be granted in the form of 10-year awards ranging from $200,000 to $500,000 each. This year’s diverse group of grant recipients represents a wide variety of causes, including homelessness prevention, aff ordable housing, education, violence prevention and food insecurity. The nonprofi t entities are spread across 40 diff erent cities and towns, and most will receive their grants over two to fi ve years. The complete list of 130 grant winners is available at www.CummingsFoundation.org. More information about Cummings Foundation is detailed in Bill Cummings’ self-written business book, “Starting Small and Making It Big: Hands-On Lessons in Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy.” The brand-new, and signifi - cantly updated, sixth edition is available on Amazon or at cummings.com/book.
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