Save The Harbor’s Better Beaches program granted over $315,000 to community and youth serving organizations for the 2024 Better Beaches Program Partnership with the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
Lynn/Nahant organizations received $28,000 in grants:
Love Your Magic, Inc. Be Well Retreat on the Beach $2,500.00
E. F. Gilmore DAV Chapter 64 Veteran’s Beach Party $2,000.00
Lynn Music Foundation Lynn Music Festival $5,000.00
North Shore Juneteenth Association Inc. Diversity Matters Festival $6,500.00
Raw Art Works VanGo! to the Beach $2,000.00
Friends of Lynn & Nahant Beach Red Rock Park Summer Concerts & Movie
Night $3,000.00
Annette Sykes Plein Air Painting At Red Rock Park $2,500.00
Trinidad Martinez Coloring Sand Mandalas at the Beach – Building Community $1,500.00
313WON Productions African Arabian Nights 3 $3,000.00
The focus of the program is to fund free events and connect people to Boston Harbor’s beaches, with a particular focus on breaking down barriers for people of color, people who don’t speak English as a first language, and people with disabilities.
Funds for the program come from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and from Save the Harbor’s annual JetBlue Shamrock Splash fundraiser.
“We are very proud to partner with DCR once again to share these spectacular urban natural resources with everyone,” said Chris Mancini, executive director of Save
The Harbor. “We are so grateful to the Healey/Driscoll administration, the Metropolitan Beaches Commission, JetBlue and all of our corporate partners for continuing to support this essential program, which will activate our beaches all summer long.”
The 83 groups receiving grants this year are based in all the metropolitan beachfront and waterfront communities, as well as a dozen surrounding cities and towns. The grantees will bring free programming all summer long to 13 beaches in Nahant, Lynn, Revere, Winthrop, East Boston, South Boston, Dorchester, Quincy and Hull.