Community Foundation Accounting Clerk, Nhamaa Cortes interviews Community Foundation President, Dr. Melanie Edwards-Tavares. In this excerpt, she discusses what drew her to this role and the impact of place-based philanthropy....
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 — 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...
The Community Foundation recently awarded 71 local students with college scholarships totaling more than $668,000. This year, the Foundation received over 1,600 applications from throughout the South Coast, making it the most competitive year for scholarships the...
