please support our SPONSORS:
benefiting local Nantucket charities
The Festival is a not-for-profit event that will benefit the following Nantucket charities:
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Nantucket Arts Council
www.nantucketartscouncil.org
The arts are indispensible for a healthy, vital community. The Nantucket
Arts Council promotes and supports the arts on Nantucket year-round through
concerts, festivals, special events, grants to other non-profit organizations,
and scholarships to students dedicated to pursuing artistic careers. -
A Safe Place, Inc.
www.asafeplacenantucket.org/
A Safe Place, Inc. is a private, non-profit agency that has been serving
Nantucket for over 20 years. Our Mission is to work to eliminate domestic
violence and sexual assault, and to empower every woman man and child in the
Nantucket community to live a life free from violence. A Safe Place provides
community-based services and education to survivors of domestic violence and
sexual assault through a 24-hour Hotline, advocacy, individual supportive
counseling, group counseling, emergency safe homes, youth prevention education,
school counseling, supervised family visitation and other services. Our services
are free, confidential, and often in collaboration with other agencies and
programs in the community. -
The New School
www.nantucketnewschool.org
Nantucket New School is a co-educational day school serving students in
pre-school through grade eight. Within a warm and nurturing school community, our
program encourages academic excellence, respects the pace of childhood, and
seeks to instill in our students curiosity, creativity, and a lifelong love
of learning. In creating strong partnerships between school and family, we
foster kindness, self-confidence, self-knowledge, and social responsibility.
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Nantucket Children's Classic
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Using funds raised at the Classic, the Nantucket Golf Club Foundation has been able to continue its mission of enriching the lives of Nantucket children through three very successful programs: Our Grant Program distributed funds to more than forty island-based non-profit organizations for the positive development of children through mentoring, education, athletics, or the arts. The Nantucket Scholar Program selected two more Nantucket Scholars in May: Anna Burnham (DePaul University) and Samantha Pillion (Wellesley College), who each received a four-year, full-tuition scholarship... -
Community Foundation for Nantucket
www.cfnan.com
The Community Foundation for Nantucket is a permanent philanthropic resource, created to enhance quality of life for everyone on Nantucket, and dedicated to building community. The Foundation helps people and institutions identify philanthropic needs, opportunities and goals, and promotes cost-effective and beneficial charitable giving, grant making, and collaborating.