On June 15, 2010, more than $527,000 was awarded to 40 human service agencies, programs and public schools
at the Concord Town House. This money was raised during the Annual Campaign beginning in October 2009 with the generosity of more than 2000 donors. In addition, these Community Chest sponsors helped provide critical funding: Concord Hillside Medical Associates, SolidWorks, Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation and Middlesex Bank,
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if you didn't donate to the Community Chest, a neighbor would come knocking at your door. For 10 days during October citizens fanned out across town in search of funds to service those in need. It took such a spirited sense of community to create the Concord Community Chest in 1947.
Winthrop Lee, one of the four founding members, recalls it was Morgan Smith who had the idea to break away from the regional Red Feather Campaign, the predecessor to the United Way. Red Feather balked at Concord's forming its own group, but the local leaders could not be dissuaded. Past Board president Mary Johnson, whose husband was a founder, said accountability was a key reason for the change. 'When you gave locally you knew where your money was going,' she says. In the end, Red Feather became one of the seven agencies funded by the Concord Community Chest that first year. Lee says Emerson Hospital was the primary beneficiary, receiving 88 percent of the funds. Learn More»
Minuteman Senior Services
Marian is 75 years old. Her severe arthritis and loss of vision have prevented her from grocery shopping, bathing, dressing and preparing her meals. Still, she desperately wanted to "age in place" in the home where she has lived for forty years. Her children, concerned about her safety, were urging her to go into a nursing home. Read More»
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