Summer Camp Receives Grant

Merrimack College has been awarded a $4,000 grant from the Greater Lawrence Summer Fund of the Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF) for the College’s Academic Basketball Awareness (ABA) Camp, a joint venture with the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence.

For over 25 years, Merrimack College’s Academic Basketball Awareness Camp has served 150 boys ages 10-18, all members of Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence, an organization that has effectively promoted youth development in the Merrimack Valley for over a century. Under the direction of Merrimack’s Men’s Basketball Coach Bert Hammel, the program strives to develop each boy’s awareness of his potential as a person, as a student, and finally, as an athlete. Since its inception, nearly 2000 boys and girls have attended ABA Camp. For more information on Merrimack College, visit www.merrimack.edu. For more information about the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence visit www.lawrencebgc.com.

About ECCF
Since 1990 the Greater Lawrence Summer Fund (GLSF) has provided a collaborative process for donors seeking to support enriching summer opportunities for inner-city youth and agencies in need of funds for their programs. Originally administered by the Stevens Foundation, the ECCF became the GLSF's administrator in 2001. The Fund supports high quality innovative programs which keep young people active and engaged during the summer.

ECCF was established in January of 1999 to increase local philanthropy and provide support to non-profit organizations located in and serving Essex County. The Foundation offers all the philanthropic, grantmaking, financial, and tax expertise needed to engage in effective, inspired charitable giving. ECCF stewards 80 charitable funds held in over $10 million in assets, and since its inception has awarded over $7 million in grants to local organizations. The Foundation’s mission is to “to help you help your community”. To learn more about The Essex County Community Foundation, please visit www.eccf.org.

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