The Filene Foundation is a private family foundation that makes grants to tax-exempt organizations and institutions that provide services to individuals and localities. Innovators in Boston's early philanthropic community, Lincoln and Therese Filene's interests spanned many areas of concern. Today, the tradition of family philanthropy spans six generations of dedicated grantmaking.
The Civic Education Committee considers grants to organizations that reinforce the values and responsibilities, as well as the privileges and opportunities, of American citizenship for natural-born and immigrant populations. The Committee focuses on programs to encourage, engage, and inform citizens including programs that educate others e.g.
The Civic Education Committee considers grants to organizations that reinforce the values and responsibilities, as well as the privileges and opportunities, of American citizenship for natural-born and immigrant populations. The Committee focuses on programs to encourage, engage, and inform citizens including programs that educate others e.g.
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In 1901, when their father died, Lincoln and his brother Edward inherited his piece-goods and women' s clothing store that they had been managing for a decade. Together with Louis Kirstein, who joined them in 1911, they built William Filene's Sons Company into a large department store with a number of branches in other New England locations.
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