Community Endowment of Lexington

● Voices on the Green
A program of First Parish Church in Lexington “Continuing the Revolution in Story and Song: Voices on the Green Celebrates Lexington 250” – two unique community building events and 2 story-telling workshops

● Lexington Symphony
“Phoenix Project: Side-by-side music performance for amateur adult musicians with Lexington Symphony”

● Lexington Semiquincentennial Commission (Lex 250)
“Riding Through History” – speaker events about the Battle of Lexington as well as the opportunity to meet the artists who painted the life-sized horse statues around the town

● Town of Lexington Sustainability
Pilot Reusable Foodware for Harrington Elementary School

● Cotting School
Launch of Cotting Transition Institute (CTI) Program Development for career development and life skills for adults ages 22 and older (beyond the legal age for special education)

● Friends of Lexington Bikeways
2025 Bikeway Block Party – community building event

● Munroe Center for the Arts (MCA)
MCA Sensory Garden – outdoor musical instruments for the public

● New Legacy Cultural Center — Lexington
“Illuminating Lexington: Lantern Festival 2026”

● Special Needs Arts Programs, Inc
“Art Expansion Project” will provide Paint Nights and drop-in art programs for neurodivergent adults

● Youth STEAM Initiative
“Illuminate Heritage: Lightscapes of Lexington” – high school students, led by Lexington resident and professor whose expertise includes AI, will use technology to showcase local history

• Association of Black Citizens of Lexington
  This project will commemorate the lives of 8 Black people who fought, were inspired to enlist, & were eyewitnesses to the first armed conflict of the American Revolution.
• Lexington Housing Assistance Board
  Funds to help LEXHAB transition from quasi-municipal organization to an independent nonprofit corporation to increase affordable housing production and efficiency.
• Lexington Symphony
  Help fund an ensemble concert comprising of 30 musicians and conductor as part of the larger Chinese American Association of Lexington’s 2025 Lunar New Year festivities.
• LexRAP
  Subsidize the costs of summer camps and enrichment experiences for the migrant children who are currently housed in Lexington. This will allow the children to interact with other children of the community, practice English, and allow parents to seek or maintain employment.
• Lexington Historical Society
  The exhibition will illustrate the lives of those who played important roles in the Revolution, but whose stories have historically been untold.
• Lexington Lyceum Advocates
  Support the Stone Building’s renovation, interpret history, and promote civic discourse.
• Voices on the Green, A Program of First Parish Church in Lexington
  Support to produce and publicize 4 public performances at First Parish Church on Lexington’s Green. Each of those performances will be open freely to the public and will be linked thematically and publicly to the other historical celebrations at the core of the 250th.
• Youth Counseling Connection
  Help Youth Advisory Board in increasing awareness of YCC programs, supporting parents, and developing new ways to better the mental wellness of youth in the community.
• Special Needs Assistance Program, Inc.
  Funds to help hire an assistant music director, allowing for fourteen additional singers with disabilities in Sing Along Chorus.
• William Diamond Junior Fife and Drum Corps
  Funds used to purchase 60 Hunting Frocks modeled after the Army uniform George Washington adopted during the Revolutionary War Era.

• Association of Black Citizens of Lexington
  Funding for a concert series showcasing accomplished black talents of today, supporting Lexington students and residents interested in learning and performing chorale, jazz and classical music.
• Lexington Pops Chorus
  Support for a winter concert for this non-audition chorus of 40 plus residents. The organization aims to diversify and rebuild its membership and expand its audience to pre-pandemic amounts.
• New Legacy Cultural Center – Lexington
  Support for the purchase of classical Chinese musical instruments to enhance the inclusivity and diversity of music education options for music students in Lexington. This initiative aims to remove financial barriers to learning about and appreciating the rich cultural heritage of China through music.
• William Diamond Junior Fife & Drum Corps, Inc.
  The replacement of thirteen travel cases for the Corps’ drums and the purchase of seven new fifes to supply new members joining in 2023.
• Waypoint Adventure
  Funds for outreach to expand the number of Lexington residents participating in Waypoint Adventure Club activities, which are targeted for people with and without disabilities
• Munroe Center for the Arts
  Community Printmaking Pilot program
• Lexington Community Farm
  Partial funding to buy a 4-season geodesic dome structure with capacity for up to 60 people. Introduction of a year-round, weather-protective and efficient gathering space with this capacity will transform the breadth and reach of education programming at the Farm.
• Verge Inclusive Athletics
  Capacity building to recover from the impact of Covid-19, to sustain, and to grow their Lexington program. This grant helps to bring additional coaches and program staff to serve more youth in Lexington.
• Quabbin Mediation
  A program to translate the Training Active Bystanders “TAB” course to Mandarin, addressing harm against Asians, making Lexington a safer town. Four Lexington TAB Instructors will teach Mandarin/English TAB to 80 Lexington residents; 20 of them will learn to be TAB Trainers, ensuring program sustainability.
• Town of Lexington Office of Sustainability
  Lexington HeatSmart is a town-wide initiative to empower residents to adopt clean heating and cooling technologies with confidence. It connects residents with a trained Energy Advisor who helps them navigate the process of transitioning to heat pumps and other clean heating and cooling technologies. These funds enable the town to extend this program for another year.
• Supportive Living
  Funding for a healthcare consultant who will help create skilled Physical and Occupational “Neuro-Specific Therapy Programs (with Medicare/MassHealth reimbursement) for short-term rehab services, while expanding Neuro-Fit programs for long-term care, thus providing full continuum care.

• English at Large
  This grant will help underwrite free, high-quality instructional programs for Lexington residents seeking English-language learning.
• In Control Family Foundation
  The foundation will initiate programs at Lexington High School and Diamond Middle School to improve communication and understanding around pickup and drop-off procedures for parents, school buses, staff, and students in order to minimize misunderstanding and unsafe practices.
• Lexington Historical Society
  CEL will help fund an upgrade of the interpretive elements of Buckman Tavern to allow for all different types of learners to experience one of the Society’s most visited historic sites.
• Lexington Housing Assistance Board
  With CEL’s support, LexHAB will launch the LexAppreciation Project, which aims to connect new and current LexHAB tenants more strongly with the community by offering them curated Lexington themed kits, filled with items from local Lexington small businesses and artisans as well as town resources.
• Lexington Monuments & Memorials Committee
  Executed by a team of LHS students with guidance from Professor Wei Ding and her colleagues at UMass Boston, this project will identify and locate lost and forgotten monuments and memorials and to store this information in a comprehensive database, maintained by the Town of Lexington, for access by residents and visitors.
• Lexington Recreation & Community Programs
  This effort will be planned by Lexington’s Youth Advisory Board, with oversight by Tom Romano, Youth & Family Program Coordinator at Town of Lexington, and will be focused on designing and implementing activities to provide a safe outlet for teens with or without disabilities to gather, socialize, and make new friends.
• LexSeeHer
  LexSeeHer will use CEL’s grant funding for the recreation of The Spinning Tableau, a 1769 protest whereby 45 women used spinning wheels to speak up against taxation.
• Northeastern University
  This project, completed in partnership with Supportive Living’s Douglas House and Youville, will develop and test the feasibility and impact of a pilot cognitive exercise group program on the well-being of residents with acquired brain injuries at Lexington’s Douglas House, looking at cognitive declines and psychological challenges caused by COVID-19 isolation.
• The Lexington Observer
  CEL’s grant support will fund the creation of Minuteman, an online resource focused on Lexington’s financial data, with an eye toward enhancing transparency by enabling residents to view town spending and revenue allocation over the years.

• BINA Farm Center
  Participants will learn how to prep a garden, plant, harvest and then sell items which will support learning stronger communication skills and supports our vocational training aspect of BINA.
• Lexington 2020 Vision Committee
  Lexington 20/20 Vision Committee conducts a town-wide survey every five years to determine resident consensus and a vision for the future of the town on topics including the environment, education, diversity, and more. This grant will support the design and disbursement of a flyer to all Lexington households to increase participation and diversity of response in the online survey.
• Lexington Historical Society
  Lexington Historical Society is passionate about preserving Lexington’s history and sharing it with the public. This grant will support the Society’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1971 protest of the Vietnam War on the Battlegreen organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, including a lecture with an author and panel discussion.
• Lexington Zero Waste Collaborative
  Lexington Zero Waste Collaborate is dedicated to raising awareness about the impacts of our consumption choices on the well-being of the Earth and all life on it. This grant will help launch two pilot initiatives: 1) a community-shared composting drop-off program hosted at two sites in town, tentatively to be called “Lexington Shared Organics Recovery Together” (LexSORT); and 2) a partnership with local restaurants to establish a Reusable Takeout program modeled after Grainmaker’s returnable deposit system.
• LexHAB
  The role of LexHAB is to expand the Town’s inventory of affordable housing for rental to families of low and moderate income. This grant will support a marketing strategy campaign which will have multiple goals: to raise awareness of the need for affordable housing; to promote LexHAB’s status as a quality provider of affordable housing; to promote donating to LexHAB to increase capacity of affordable housing.
• LexPride
  LexPride’s mission is to develop community and advance full equality for LGBTQIA+ people and their families and allies in Lexington. This grant will fund two projects. The Rainbow Artists programs give an affirming space to LGBTQ+ youth and allies to support identity development and mental health. Rainbow Artists is a new program for youth ages 8-11 and 12-15 to engage in creative expression in a community of peers. The grant will also help fund varied Social Justice events to foster awareness, understanding, and inclusivity in Lexington. These impactful public programs are intersectional, giving them broad appeal.
• LYFS (now YCC)
  Youth Counseling Connection (formerly LYFS) provides free and accessible support to youth and families to improve emotional wellness. This grant will support YCC’s continued work with a fundraising and marketing specialist who will work on building recognition and raising community awareness, as well as developing a more intricate and sustainable fundraising model for YCC to utilize moving forward.
• The Nature Connection
  The mission of The Nature Connection is to improve the wellbeing of individuals and communities through the therapeutic use of nature. The grant will fund therapeutic nature programs for children and adults in Lexington who are experiencing increased anxiety, spending more time alone indoors, living with a disability, and/or facing health challenges. Support from CEL will help cover a year’s worth of programming costs for new program partners in Lexington such as the Cary Memorial Library, Cooperative for Human Services, Pehlman Academy, and other potential sites.
• Notelove Boston
  NoteLove is a student-led nonprofit that provides free, accessible music education to everyone, with a focus on underserved students. This grant will help develop more resources for instructors, students, and parents to better support and supplement online lessons, and it will help fund their website and paid advertisements on various social media platforms to help promote their services.
• Shadaj
  Shadaj’s mission is to cultivate, nurture and promote Indian Classical Music in its most authentic form through intimate concerts, music appreciation sessions, as a platform for cultural integration and community outreach. This grant wil help fund technical equipment to support a fully virtual live streaming community outreach event involving world class musicians and musicologists who will participate in concerts and lecture demonstrations that will be free to Lexington residents.
• SNAP
  Special Needs Arts Programs, Inc. provides people with disabilities opportunities that celebrate each person’s unique abilities while cultivating creative expression, building peer relationships, and fostering self-esteem through life-enhancing activities in the arts. This grant will help support a Chorus Camp in July 2021. Chorus Camp is a four to five week intensive program which offers students greater autonomy, leadership and opportunities for solo singing.
• Vinci Robotics Academy
  Vinci Robotics Academy provides students with a robotics and STEAM education environment to grow and refine students’ problem solving skills, team collaboration, and innovation spirits through a series of hands-on, interdisciplinary, and project-based programs. This grant will fund a collaboration of Autism Spectrum Disorder specialists from Nashoba Learning Group and MGH to structure a real-life project-based STEAM curriculum that can enrich students’ talent, build their confidence, and hopefully extend to more special needs schools. ASD is a rapid growing neurodevelopment disorder. Some ASD youth have special talent in robotics and CS, but their social deficit & behavioral issues impact their route to success.
• William Diamond Jr
  The William Diamond Corps promotes the study and history of fife and drum music. This grant will be used to develop the Corps’s online presence, including investing in an entirely new website with a “public” side focused on recruiting new members, marketing the Corps’ performance capabilities, and supporting fundraising efforts, and a “private” side to support members through organized “meet-ups” for mentoring, practice, and collaboration independent of our face-to-face rehearsals.

• Chinese American Association of Lexington
  The Chinese American Association of Lexington serves Chinese American interests in important town-wide activities and provides opportunities for members to engage with the Lexington community through volunteerism, networking, and social events. This grant will support a photo exhibition at Cary Memorial Library that reflects Asian citizens’ community activities to promote a culture of respect in the Lexington community regardless of ethnicity.
• Food Link, Inc.
  Food Link rescues fresh food, alleviates hunger, and contributes to environmental sustainability. This grant will support resources, including staff and volunteer time, necessary to help alleviate hunger in Lexington through expanded food collection and distribution.
• Lexington Historical Society
  Lexington Historical Society is passionate about preserving Lexington’s history and sharing it with the public. This grant will support the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II; the commemoration, offered in partnership with 10 local organizations, will consist of living history programs, lectures, displays, and a WWII plaque, installed at Cary Hall.
• Lexington Housing Assistance Board (LexHAB)
  LexHAB is committed to implementing alternatives for the provision of affordable housing in Lexington and to providing such housing to persons of low, moderate, and middle income. This grant will fund the LEXscape beautification project, which includes the purchase and installation of three sheds used to store equipment, facilitating tenants’ ability to maintain a tidy exterior and enhancing the surrounding neighborhood.
• Lexington Youth and Family Services (LYFS)
  LYFS is dedicated to strengthening the safety net so that Lexington youth are healthier, more resilient, and feel better supported in their daily lives. This grant will support the provision of free, short-term therapeutic services to youth ages 6 to 22 and to families who cannot otherwise access mental health supports.
• Special Needs Arts Programs, Inc.
  Special Needs Arts Programs, Inc. provides people with disabilities opportunities that celebrate each person’s unique abilities while cultivating creative expression, building peer relationships, and fostering self-esteem through life-enhancing activities in the arts. The grant will support an art exhibit series, comprised of nine Special Artists art exhibits.
• William Diamond Junior Fife & Drum Corps, Inc.
  The William Diamond Junior Fife & Drum Corps perpetuates our nation’s historical music and promotes fellowship among musicians. This grant will fund the refurbishment and rebranding of 13 original drums, allowing drums to be used an additional 15 to 20 years and promoting the organization’s ties to the town of Lexington.

• Food Link, Inc.
  Food Link rescues fresh food, alleviates hunger, and contributes to environmental sustainability.

  This grant will expand food deliveries to Lexington, increasing the number of agencies served in Lexington from three to five, as well as increase the amount of food provided to current agencies.

• Lexington Arts and Crafts Society
  Lexington Arts and Crafts Society encourages and inspires artisans at all stages of their creative journeys and promotes art in the community by providing studio space, gallery shows, classes and workshops.

  This grant will support the Artisan’s Market, an annual two-day event in July.

• Lexington Community Farm Coalition
  Lexington Community Farm Coalition (LexFarm) connects the community to locally grown, organic food and sustainable farming practices while preserving historic farmland. LexFarm makes the landscape of a working farm accessible to community members of all ages and abilities through educational programs, community events, and volunteer opportunities, as well as its farmstand and CSA program.

  This grant will support the hiring of an education consultant to develop a road map for a comprehensive, sustainable education program. The consultant will work with LexFarm leadership to assess the current program and develop expanded farm and environmental education.

• Lexington Tourism Committee
  The Lexington Tourism Committee promotes Lexington tourism as part of the economic development strategy to maximize revenues from Lexington’s visitors-based economy.

  This grant will support the restoration of the diorama of the Battle of Lexington, which will be featured in the new Visitors Center and help visitors understand Lexington’s historic role in American history. The diorama will both be restored and made wheelchair accessible.

• LexRaP
  LexRAP supports and assists refugees and asylum seekers integrate into American society. This assistance includes a support network for housing, food, clothing, transportation, health care, education (especially English), employment, legal aid, and socialization.

  This grant will support Hand in Hand Cafe, which provides local refugee women the opportunity to cook dinners for paying guests and has the goals of building community and understanding, as well as providing the women a chance to learn job skills related to the food industry.

• Munroe Center for the Arts
  Munroe Center for the Arts furthers the cultural and artistic education of the residents in the community.

  This grant will support board members with instruction and training led by professionals, helping the MCA Board understand its roles and responsibilities and providing them with the necessary infrastructure and tools to undertake its work in support of the Center’s mission.

• Nashoba Learning Group
  Nashoba Learning Group enables children and adults with autism to function with the greatest possible productivity and independence in the community, home, and workplace throughout their lives.

  This grant will support the Vocational Program, which strives to place students with autism in meaningful work opportunities, as it seeks to expand its reach of volunteer services to include Lexington.

• Neighbor Brigade
  Neighbor Brigade establishes community-specific networks of volunteers that can be mobilized to help residents facing sudden crisis manage day-to-day tasks such as meal preparation, rides, and basic household chores.

  This grant will support a collaboration with Japanese Support Group of Lexington that would allow Japanese Lexington residents to participate in and contribute to volunteer activities with fellow Lexington residents in a meaningful and impactful way.

• Shadaj, Inc.
  Shadaj, Inc. cultivates, nurtures, and promotes Indian Classical Music in its most authentic form through intimate concerts, music appreciation sessions, and lecture demonstrations as a platform for cultural integration and community outreach.

  This grant will support the East Meets West annual community outreach event, which facilitates cultural and musical exchange by inviting people from diverse cultural backgrounds to participate in a series of lecture-demonstrations and a concert.

• Special Needs Arts Programs, Inc.
  Special Needs Arts Programs, Inc. provides people with disabilities opportunities that celebrate each person’s unique abilities while cultivating creative expression, building peer relationships, and fostering self-esteem through life-enhancing activities in the arts.

  This grant will support marketing efforts and the purchase of equipment (amplifiers, keyboard, and more) for SNAP’s musical performances.

• Friends of Lexington Bikeways
  The Friends of Lexington Bikeways promotes and supports biking and the shared use of bicycle routes in and around Lexington, MA.

  This grant will support a tri-town community celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Minuteman Commuter Bikeway that will feature events in Lexington, Arlington and Bedford, and along the bikeway.

• Lexington Chamber Music Center
  Lexington Chamber Music Center promotes the study of classical chamber music to help students become more accomplished musicians and find fulfillment in their musical lives.

  This grant will support The Front Porch Project, aimed to explore intentionally slowing down and creating purposeful, organic community concerts on neighborhood front porches.

• Lexington Historical Society
  Lexington Historical Society is passionate about preserving Lexington’s history and sharing it with the public.

  This grant will support a season-long celebration commemorating the centennial anniversary of the ending of WWI. The celebration will include lectures, exhibits, programs, and a panel discussion.

• Special Needs Arts Programs, Inc. (SNAP)
  Special Needs Arts Programs, Inc. provides people with disabilities opportunities that celebrate each person’s unique abilities while cultivating creative expression, building peer relationships, and fostering self-esteem through life-enhancing activities in the arts.

  This grant is enabling SNAP to launch a pilot ceramics program for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

• Town of Lexington
  The Town of Lexington is celebrated as the site of the first shots of the American Revolutionary War, and is now a vibrant community that is home to more than 31,000 individuals.

  This grant will support the purchase tablets that are outfitted with a translation application to improve communication between town staff and Lexington residents and visitors whose first language is not English.

• William Diamond Junior Fife & Drum Corps, Inc.
  The William Diamond Junior Fife & Drum Corps is designed to promote the study of both music and history among young people, particularly the traditions of fife and drum music.

  As part of the Corp’s first capital campaign, this grant will support the purchase of five new authentic-quality fifes and three hand-sewn uniforms, benefiting multiple generations of Lexington’s youth.

• Friends of Minute Man National Park
  The Friends of Minute Man National Park is an independent nonprofit organization supporting the Park’s mission through advocacy, education, fundraising, and volunteerism.

  This grant will support the construction of the Parker’s Revenge Battle Site Trail Loop Project, a 1500-foot educational trail loop that will protect the area’s archaeological and ecological sensitivity.

• Lexington Recreation and Community Programs Department
  The Lexington Recreation and Community Programs Department strives to provide affordable, quality programs meeting the needs of the community. The Department promotes participation by all Lexington residents in safe, accessible, and well-maintained facilities.

  This grant will support two CPR/First Aid/AED certification courses for Lexington residents, including one train-the-trainer course. This program will ultimately provide a safer community environment.

• Lexington Youth and Family Services (LYFS)
  LYFS’ mission is to promote healthy social and emotional development among Lexington youth and families by providing advocacy, prevention, and intervention services to keep youth safe.

  This grant will help implement “Balancing on the Hyphen”, a six-part multicultural community education initiative designed to address generational and cultural divide issues. This program will be done in concert with The Korean Organization of Lexington (KoLex) and a Multicultural Sponsoring Board.

• Munroe Center for the Arts (MCA)
  The mission of the MCA is to further the cultural and artistic education of the residents of Lexington.

  This grant will support the MCA’s The Refugee Diaspora project, an artistic collaboration intended to educate Lexington residents about the refugee experience. Through the arts and this program, the MCA hopes to promote local engagement.

• Neighbor Brigade
  Neighbor Brigade establishes community-specific networks of volunteers that can be mobilized to help residents facing sudden crisis manage day-to-day tasks such as meal preparation, rides, and basic household chores.

  This grant will support volunteer growth and diversification in Neighbor Brigade’s Lexington chapter. By increasing volunteer engagement and diversity of volunteers in the areas of age, gender and ethnicity, the organization will better meet the needs of Lexington’s growing and diverse population, including all residents whom are facing temporary crises.

• Supportive Living, Inc (SLI)
  The mission of SLI is to raise the quality of life for survivors of brain injury. To achieve this mission, SLI develops appropriate and affordable supportive housing; provides life-long physical, cognitive and social fitness through wellness programs; and fosters research aimed at improving the lives of people with brain injury.

  This grant will support the SLI Total Health Summer Camp in bringing together disabled and nondisabled Lexington residents in wellness programs.

• The Children’s Room
  The Children’s Room creates safe, supportive communities so that no child, teen, or family has to grieve alone.

  This grant will support the operations of a school-based peer support group for grieving teens on site at Lexington High School.

• Lexington Community Farm Coalition (LexFarm)
  Lexington Community Farm is a working farm that connects the community to local food and sustainable practices while preserving historic farmland. Using sustainable land management techniques that protect the farm’s open space on town-owned conservation land, LexFarm grows and distributes vegetables through community-supported agriculture (CSA) and at its farm stand. Residents of all ages and abilities are invited to engage with the farm and the environment through hands-on education programs and volunteer opportunities. In addition, LexFarm accepts SNAP/EBT at the farm stand and donates approximately 10% of produce grown to families in need.

  This grant will enable LexFarm to move to the next level in its organizational growth, providing consulting services for board development, an analytics dashboard and a business plan for long-term planning across the different program areas.

• Lex Eat Together
  Lex Eat Together recognizes that hunger and social isolation exist within Lexington and the surrounding communities. Their purpose is to offer a welcoming environment without question for anyone who comes to a weekly dinner. By providing a free, nutritious meal on a weekly basis to all who attend, in a manner and setting that recognizes and honors the dignity of every individual, Lex Eat Together can address the hunger in our midst and provide an equally important component of community: reducing isolation.

  This grant will help Lex Eat Together pilot a transportation program for greater and broader access to their weekly dinners by those who do not have access to needed transportation.

• Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition (LexGWAC)
  LexGWAC’s mission is to education and raise awareness of climate change and its impacts. They promote actions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and safeguard the health of the planet for future generations. They accomplish their mission through a speaker series, a movie series and by working with Lexington town government to pass warrant articles to help Lexington address climate change.

  This grant will enable LexGWAC to run a large scale “Sustainability Fair” coordinating initiatives by and for Lexington town government, businesses and residents and highlighting health, energy, resilience, and sustainability in the face of climate change.

• Lexington Office of Public Health
  Under the direction of the Lexington Board of Health, the mission of the Lexington Office of Public Health is to prevent disease and promote wellness in order to protect and improve the health and quality of life of its residents, visitors and workfoce.

  This grant will enable the Lexington Health Department to do a quantitative tick survey in order to assess the risks to our community and provide an educational public health program for residents about tick-borne diseases.

• Communities for Restorative Justice
  Communities for Restorative Justice is a community-police partnership program. Their mission is to provide communities with a complement to the traditional judicial system, wherein: (1) victims of crime can interact in a safe environment with those who have harmed them in a safe environment; (2) offenders can better understand the impact of their actions; and (3) the community connections are strengthened.

  This grant is enabling C4RJ staff to train additional Lexington police officers, raise community awareness of restorative justice and its benefits, and recruit and train local volunteers–resulting in a stronger, healthier community.

• Domestic Violence Services Network (DVSN)
  Domestic Violence Services Network provides direct and ancillary support services to domestic violence victims across MetroWest. . FACT #1: 1 in 3 women will experience domestic violence or sexual assault in her lifetime. FACT #2: 1 in 5 high school students reports being physically and/or sexually abused by a dating partner.

  This grant is allowing the organizations, in partnership with the Lexington Police Department, to provide four Realistic Escape Strategies and Instinct-based Self-defense Training courses as Lexington High School.

• Lexington Symphony Orchestra
  Lexington Symphony is a professional orchestra of musicians who share a passion for classical music, a commitment to community engagement, and a dedication to exacting standards of performance, offering six concerts a year. The Symphony also reaches thousands of area youth through the Orchestrating Kids Through Classics program.

  This grant is providing funding for the MovieMusic program, including a day of artistic family activities and an evening full-length concert featuring classic movie music.

• Lexington Tourism Committee- Antony Park
  Antony Park commemorates the relationship with Lexington’s sister city, Antony, France. The park’s design is based on historical French formal gardens and will be located in the seldom-used area of Tower Park. This outdoor space will be preserved and beautified for a place to revitalize, enjoy community events and performances or simply meet for a picnic or bagged lunch.

  This grant will assist LTC in completing the park’s construction, primarily the beautiful and anchoring stonework.

• Special Needs Arts Programs, Inc. (SNAP)
  For over 30 years, SNAP has worked to enhance the lives of individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities through direct involvement in the arts, resulting in a connected and warm community of artists, staff and volunteers.

  This grant is enabling the expansion of the SNAP program and providing resources to enroll more students who are on the waiting list.

• Advocates, Inc.
  Advocates’ mission is to help people achieve their hopes and dreams within the fabric of their communities. Advocates offers human services and health care alternatives including residential supports for adults with disabilities, family supports, outpatient mental health and addiction services, psychiatric emergency services, and community justice services. The organization’s primary role in Lexington is focused on programming for adult survivors of brain injury. Advocates and Supported Living, Inc. are partners in providing appropriate housing and care for residents of Lexington’s Douglas House, adults with brain injuries.

  This grant will allow Advocates to purchase an adaptive bicycle to be housed at Douglas House, for ongoing use with the goal of improving physical fitness and promoting wellness among adults with brain injury.

• English At Large
  English At Large provides individual and small group instruction through a volunteer network to adult immigrants and other newcomers who want to acquire English language sills as they adapt to life in the United States. In Lexington, EAL offers a One-on-One Tutoring program that provides individualized English instruction from volunteer tutors in addition to Conversation Groups, small groups led by volunteers that give intermediate to advanced English speakers the opportunity to practice their skills. The One-On-One program provides the personalized attention necessary to understand and capitalize on each learner’s strengths as a foundation for addressing their individual needs. Conversation Groups provide the critical opportunity for more advanced students to practice spontaneous, spoken English in a small, supportive group setting.

  This grant will support the expansion of the organization’s programs in Lexington. In FY2013, there were 35 Lexington learners waitlisted for the Conversation Groups.

• Lexington Friends of the Arts’ Munroe Saturday Nights
  Munroe Saturday Nights is Lexington’s only free performing and visual arts series. These monthly programs are open to the public for only a voluntary donation, and support and cultivate area artists. This season’s performances have included evenings of Chinese Music and Drama and dance fusion merging tap and traditional Indian dance.

  This grant will support a presentation of a program highlighting the problem and risks of relationship violence as it impacts teens and young adults, and the increased accessibility of programming to reach underserved populations in Lexington.

• Lexington Youth and Family Services
  Lexington Youth and Family Services (LYFS) promotes healthy social and emotional development among Lexington youth and families by providing advocacy, prevention and intervention services to keep youth safe and enhance family functioning. LYFS provides barrier-free counseling to adolescents who might not otherwise access mental health support for depression, suicidal thoughts, and self-destructive behavior. This year LYFS expanded its suicide prevention services through its Lexington Asian Mental Health Initiative, a community education project that has resulted in student and parent surveys on stress and a community forum entitled “Balancing Stress and Success: An Asian American Perspective.”

  This grant will be used for board training and strategic planning.