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The Marthas Vineyard Times Fishermen’s Preservation, ambassador partnership get grants Martha’s Vineyard Foundation awards $25,000 and $13,367 to benefit programs. The Martha’s Vineyard Community Foundation, formerly known as the Permanent Endowment for Martha’s Vineyard, has awarded $25,000 to the Martha’s Vineyard Fishermen’s Preservation Trust to re-establish a commercially viable wholesale fish market in Menemsha, according to a press release.  �...

The Marthas Vineyard Times Harbor Homes takes lead in addressing homelessness County contracts with nonprofit to provide shelter and other support services. The Old Whaling Church in Edgartown is just one initiative being operated by Harbor Homes — the Island’s central resource for homelessness prevention. — Ralph Stewart Harbor Homes of Martha’s Vineyard is officially taking the helm for homelessness prevention and remediation on-Island after becoming the umbrella organizat...

Leah Palmer, the Martha’s Vineyard public schools English Language Learning coordinator, has spent the past decade building cross-cultural channels of communication on the Island. But when the pandemic hit back in March, schools, town halls, libraries, shelters, transportation services and almost every other public institution on the Vineyard had to close its doors within the span of days. Those bridges, built over the course of a decade, quickly began to crumble. “I was at home, just besid...

The Marthas Vineyard Times New name for community mission The Permanent Endowment will now be known as Marthas Vineyard Community Foundation. A new name results in a changed logo. The Permanent Endowment of Martha’s Vineyard has changed its name to Martha’s Vineyard Community Foundation, a moniker that better reflects its mission of providing funds to assist Island nonprofits and responding to community needs, officials from the organization said in a conference call Monday. The...