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SUMMARY:Celebrate Giving 2025
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Giving 2025:\nFocus On Social Entrepreneurship\nFeaturing a Conversation with Rajia Abdelaziz\nCEO & Co-founder of invisaWear\nRajia Abdelaziz started one of the fastest-growing companies in America when she was just 21 years old. Today\, she is an award-winning entrepreneur revolutionizing the personal safety industry. \nRajia is the Founder & CEO of invisaWear\, a company that creates safety devices disguised as jewelry and accessories. With just two clicks\, users can instantly alert friends\, family\, and-optionally-police. \nHer work has earned national acclaim. She’s been featured on the cover of Forbes 30 Under 30 in the Social Impact category\, named one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Massachusetts by the Boston Globe\, and recognized on both the Inc. Female Founders 250 list and Inc Fastest Growing Companies list. \nRajia raised $3 million to develop invisaWear’s technology\, scaled the company to over $20 million in sales\, and secured powerhouse partnerships with ADT and TELUS Communications\, two of the most respected names in the security industry. \nWith over 3 million social media followers\, Rajia isn’t just building a company — she’s building a global movement to make safety accessible to all. \nIn 2023\, she launched Smart Alert Holdings\, a company focused on acquiring businesses that share the same mission of creating a safer world. Their first acquisition was Flare Safety\, invisaWear’s only competitor. \nHer companies have been featured on Good Morning America\, ABC News\, CBS\, WBZ\, TODAY\, and more. They’ve also earned prestigious accolades\, including TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions\, Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award\, and the New England Innovation Award. \nAs a minority female CEO\, Rajia is passionate about breaking barriers for women and underrepresented groups in tech. Her journey of overcoming obstacles fuels her mission to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs — proving that no matter your background or the doubts you face\, success is possible. Rajia remains deeply committed to mentorship through UMass Lowell’s Entrepreneurship Program\, helping others turn bold ideas into reality. \n______________________________________________________________ \nAlso\, featuring: \n\n2025 Business Philanthropy Partner Award: Votze Butler Associates Inc.\nThe Business Philanthropy Partner Award recognizes a business that has demonstrated exceptional commitment to improving the community through philanthropic partnerships and civic engagement.\n\n\n2025 Steven Joncas Community Connector Award: Brian Chapman\nNamed in honor of Steven Joncas\, this award celebrates an individual who has made significant contributions to connecting and strengthening community networks throughout the Greater Lowell area.\n2025 Bankers’ Volunteer Award for Lifetime Achievement: Vannak Theng-Rush\nThis prestigious lifetime achievement award honors an individual who has demonstrated sustained volunteer leadership and commitment to community service over many years.\n2025 GLCF Newell Flather Legacy Fund Grant Award: Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA)\nThe Newell Flather Legacy Fund was established by the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation in 2022 at GLCF to support nonprofit projects focused on the arts\, immigrant\, and refugee communities\, and/or advancing equity and inclusion in the city of Lowell.\n\n______________________________________________________________ \nTo sponsor: click here\nTo purchase tickets: here
URL:https://www.glcfoundation.org/event/celebrate-giving-2025/
LOCATION:UTEC\, 35 Warren St.\, Lowell\, MA\, 01852\, United States
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SUMMARY:Celebrate Giving 2024
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n2024 Celebrate Giving\nAging Well and Creating a Legacy\nA conversation with Katharine Esty\, PhD – Best selling author and Expert on Aging Well & Finding Purpose\nJoin the Greater Lowell Community Foundation as we focus on Aging Well and Creating a Legacy at this year’s Celebrate Giving event. \nOCTOBER 23\nRECEPTION: 5-6 P.M. | EVENT: 6 P.M.\nUTEC\, 35 WARREN ST.\, LOWELL \nAlso\, featuring:\n• 2024 Business Philanthropy Partner Award\n• 2024 Steven Joncas Community Connector Award (Nominations Open)\n• 2024 Bankers’ Volunteer Award for Lifetime Achievement (Nominations Open)\n• 2024 GLCF Newell Flather Legacy Fund Grant Award \nBonus\nFirst 100 registrants receive a signed copy of Katharine Esty\, PhD’s latest book: Eightysomethings – A Practical Guide to Letting Go\, Aging Well\, and Finding Unexpected Happiness \n  \n  \nSponsorship opportunities are available. \n  \nAbout the speaker \n\nKatharine Esty\, PhD\, is a social psychologist\, a psychotherapist\, and an activist for aging well. For more than twenty years\, she was a managing partner at Ibis Consulting Group\, a strategic planning and diversity firm. Her clients were Fortune 500 companies\, universities\, and UN agencies. As a therapist for thirty years\, she has counseled hundreds of clients\, helping them deal effectively with change in their lives.Her latest self-help book is EIGHTYSOMETHINGS\, A Practical Guide to Letting Go\, Aging Well\, and Finding Unexpected Happiness. She also co-authored Workplace Diversity: A Manager’s Guide to Solving Problems and Turning Diversity into a Competitive Advantage\, 1995\, Adams Media\, a self-help book that has been widely acclaimed. Her other published nonfiction books are The Gypsies: Wanderers in Time\, 1969\, Meredith Press and Twenty-Seven Dollars and a Dream – How Muhammad Yunus Changed the World and What It Cost Him\, 2013\, Emerson Books. \n\n\nThe mother of four sons\, she is focused on creating a new understanding of possibilities for living well as you age. Dr. Esty\, eighty-eight\, lives in a retirement community outside of Boston. \n\nREGISTER
URL:https://www.glcfoundation.org/event/celebrate-giving-2024/
LOCATION:UTEC\, 35 Warren St.\, Lowell\, MA\, 01852\, United States
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SUMMARY:Celebrate Giving 2023: Creating an Inclusive  Cultural Economy
DESCRIPTION:Join the Greater Lowell Community Foundation as we focus on Creating an Inclusive Cultural Economy at this year’s Celebrate Giving event. This event will highlight our related work in the community\, including Mosaic Lowell\, a fiscally sponsored program of GLCF and other creative partners. \nKEYNOTE\n \nMichael J. Bobbitt\, Executive Director\, Mass Cultural Council \nMichael J. Bobbitt is a theater director\, choreographer\, and playwright who has dedicated his professional career to arts leadership. He joined Mass Cultural Council as Executive Director in February 2021\, and is the highest-ranking cultural official in Massachusetts state government. Upon joining the Agency\, he was invited to serve on the Board of Directors for the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies’ (NASAA). As Executive Director Michael has led Mass Cultural Council through the development of its first-ever Racial Equity Plan; worked with staff\, Council Members\, and cultural sector advocates to secure and distribute a historic $60.1M in state pandemic relief funding; and overseen the drafting and adoption of the Agency’s FY24-FY26 strategic plan. \nHe previously served as Artistic Director of the New Repertory Theatre in Watertown\, MA; immediately prior he held the same position at the Adventure Theatre-MTC in Maryland for twelve years. While in Maryland Michael led the organization to be a respected regional theatre training company\, and a nationally influential professional Theatre for Young Audiences. \nMichael gained experience in arts management by training at Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management\, The National Arts Strategies Chief Executive Program\, and Cornell University’s Diversity and Inclusion Certification Program. In July 2022 he completed the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has served as an Associate Professor of Theatre at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Howard University and volunteered on numerous nonprofit boards in Maryland and Massachusetts. In February 2023 Michael received the prestigious Kennedy Center Gold Medallion in recognition of his commitment to the arts and educational theatre and was appointed by Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey to serve on her Advisory Council on Black Empowerment. In April 2023 he was recognized by Get Konnected! as one of Boston’s Most Influential Men of Color and invested into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre – one of the highest honors bestowed on American theater professionals. He is also the recipient of MassOpera’s Action Bearing Award and was recognized by Speak Out for his efforts to build a more inclusive cultural sector. \nMichael has directed/choreographed at Arena Stage\, Ford’s Theatre\, The Shakespeare Theatre Company\, Olney Theatre Center\, Studio Theatre\, Woolly Mammoth Theatre\, Center Stage\, Roundhouse Theatre\, The Kennedy Center\, and the Washington National Opera. His national and international credits include the NY Musical Theatre Festival\, Mel Tillis 2001\, La Jolla Playhouse\, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte\, Jefferson Performing Arts Center\, and the Olympics. As a writer his work was chosen for the NYC International Fringe Festival and The New York and Musical Theatre Festival. He has plays published by Concord Theatricals/Rodgers and Hammerstein Theatricals\, and Plays for Young Audiences. Michael has received the Excel Leadership Award (Center for Nonprofit Advancement)\, the Emerging Leader Award (County Executive’s Excellence in the Arts and Humanities)\, and Person of the Year Award (Maryland Theatre Guide). \nPhoto: Johnny/BTS Design Studio. \n  \nAlso\, featuring:\n• 2023 Business Philanthropy Partner Award\n• 2023 Steven Joncas Community Connector Award (Nominations accepted until noon on Oct. 4)\n• 2023 Bankers’ Volunteer Award for Lifetime Achievement (Nominations accepted until noon on Oct. 4) \nCost: $100\nSponsorship opportunities are available. \nREGISTER \nPDF of event flyer
URL:https://www.glcfoundation.org/event/celebrate-giving-2023-creating-an-inclusive-cultural-economy/
LOCATION:UTEC\, 35 Warren St.\, Lowell\, MA\, 01852\, United States
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SUMMARY:Navigating Your Organization’s Road to Diversity\, Equity\, Inclusion\, and Belonging: a panel discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join the Greater Lowell Community Foundation for a panel discussion on Navigating Your Organization’s Road to Diversity\, Equity\, Inclusion\, and Belonging. \nThe Greater Lowell Community Foundation launched dedicated Racial Equity and Inclusion funding in 2020 for community nonprofits. There are many approaches to raising diversity\, equity\, inclusion\, and belonging within your organization and this event will feature a panel of nonprofit leaders who received funding. They will share their initiatives and insights from their work.  \nThere will be a Q+A to help you frame the questions you need to answer within your organization to find the best pathway toward equity. \nModerator: \n• Sheila Och\, Chief Engagement and Equity Officer\, Lowell Community Health Center \nPanelists: \n• Yun-Ju Choi\, Executive Director\, Coalition for a Better Acre \n• Amanda Kuffoh\, Sr. Director of Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion and Professional Development\, UTEC \n• JuanCarlos Rivera\, Director of Operations\, Boys and Girls Club of Greater Lowell  \n• Jessica Wilson\, Executive Director\, Mill City Grows \n• Isa Woldeguiorguis\, Executive Director\, The Center for Hope and Healing \n  \nSCHEDULE: \n8:30 – 9 a.m. Networking Breakfast \n9 – 10 a.m. Panel Discussion \n10 – 10:30 a.m. Q+A \nThis event is free and open to the leadership of our Greater Lowell nonprofit partners. \nSeating is limited and registration is required. (Max. of 2 individuals per organization) \nThis event will be in-person and will not be recorded. \nRegister: LINK \nEvent Flyer (PDF) \n 
URL:https://www.glcfoundation.org/event/navigating-your-organizations-road-to-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-belonging-a-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:UTEC\, 35 Warren St.\, Lowell\, MA\, 01852\, United States
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SUMMARY:2022 Celebrate Giving
DESCRIPTION:Join the Greater Lowell Community Foundation as we focus on the Power of Philanthropy at this year’s Celebrate Giving event. Highlighting their philanthropic support\, panelists will engage in conversation about: creating change in the community\, the transformational effect of giving time\, talent and treasure\, as well as the future of philanthropy. \nPOWER OF PHILANTHROPY Panelists:\n\nMs. Nancy Huntington Stager\, President & Chief Executive Officer\, Eastern Bank Foundation\nMs. Sophy Theam\, trustee of the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation and the Diversity & Inclusion and Leadership Program Specialist at Enterprise Bank\nMr. John Flanagan\, Senior Director\, Westford Corporate Citizenship for Red Hat\nMs. Siddhi Shah Cheong\, Head of Strategy Development\, MilliporeSigma and representing the Shruti N. Shah Memorial Scholarship Fund\n\nAlso\, featuring:\n\nGLCF 2022 Business Philanthropy Partner Award\n2022 GLCF Steven Joncas Community Connector Award\nInaugural GLCF Newell Flather Legacy Fund Grant Award\n\nDownload the Flyer Here
URL:https://www.glcfoundation.org/event/2022-celebrate-giving/
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