Can you share a little about your background? My family was immigrants from the Acores. I came here when I was two years old. My father started his own business in Fall River, which was Portugalia Imports. I always worked in the family business. I also had a genuine...
NEW BEDFORD, MA – The SouthCoast Community Foundation announced today that the SouthCoast Wind Fund, which is administered by the Community Foundation, will open its first round of grantmaking on September 5th and intends to distribute $500,000 to local nonprofits by...
NEW BEDFORD, MA — Today, the SouthCoast Community Foundation Board of Directors announced the appointment of Dr. Melanie Edwards-Tavares as the organization’s next President and CEO. She comes to the organization from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, which...
Tell me about your work at Round the Bend Farm. I’m the executive chef at the farm. Our three tenets are around modeling nature, valuing diversity and redefining wealth. We look to nature as our guide in terms of the crops that are planted and the food that we serve....
On Tuesday, June 13th, the SouthCoast Community Foundation held its 28th Annual Meeting at the UMass Dartmouth Charlton College of Business. With a full-capacity audience that included many community leaders and philanthropists, the Foundation elected four new Board...
Thank you to all our 2022 supporters! Your investment in our communities is making a difference on the South Coast! $100,000+ Anonymous (1) BankFive Barr Foundation Jeanne and John Fabian Jr. Irwin M. and Joan Klein Jacobs Klarman Family Foundation Massachusetts...