Alison Harding, Author at InsideCharity.org

March 3, 2022

Cummings Foundation Astonishes Boston Nonprofit With Million Dollar Gift

Cummings Foundation Astonishes Boston Nonprofit With Million Dollar Gift is at it again. They just can’t stop helping charities achieve significant impact. BOSTON, Mass. (February 22, 2022) – Woburn-based Cummings Foundation has stunned the social justice champions at CommonWealth Kitchen (CWK) with a surprise pledge of as much as $2 million. Up to $1 million will be disbursed to the Dorchester nonprofit this fall as a match of all new funds it has raised by […]

April 3, 2022

Jack Connors & Robert Keefe Named Foundation Trustees

Jack Connors & Robert Keefe Named Cummings Foundation Trustees celebrates a great American Granting Organization and their newest champions. BOSTON, March 25, 2022 – Boston philanthropist and advertising mogul Jack Connors, Jr. and WilmerHale senior counsel Robert “Bob” Keefe, Esq. have been appointed to Woburn-based Cummings Foundation’s advisory board. The pair joins 11 other business leaders as community trustees for the $3 billion private foundation. Connors, a founding partner and former CEO of Hill, Holliday, Connors, […]

June 18, 2022

Cummings School of Architecture at Roger Williams University

Cummings School of Architecture at Roger Williams University celebrates a historic investment in a Rhode Island institution of higher-learning. 2022 (BOSTON, Mass.) – Woburn-based Cummings Foundation has again invested in workforce development through a new $20 million pledge to Roger Williams University. This commitment, the largest in the Rhode Island institution’s history, will support multidisciplinary programming at the newly rededicated Cummings School of Architecture. A new Cummings Institute for Real Estate is centered within Cummings […]

June 18, 2022

Agnes Binagwaho and Aisha Francis INSIDE CHARITY

Agnes Binagwaho & Aisha Francis Join Cummings Foundation

Agnes Binagwaho & Aisha Francis Join Cummings Foundation celebrates the appointment of two distinguished educators to one our nation’s leading philanthropic institutions. BOSTON – Cummings Foundation, of Woburn, has appointed the top executives of two higher education institutions to its board of trustees: Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, vice chancellor of University of Global Health Equity, and Dr. Aisha Francis, president and CEO of Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology. This pair joins 20 other trustees contributing […]