Newton Community Service Center/SOAR 55, Carroll Center for the Blind and Atrius Health Foundation were among 46 organizations awarded grants from Tufts.
The following is a press release issued by Tufts Health Plan: The Tufts Health Plan Foundation announced today that it has awarded more than $1.7 million in grants to 46 Massachusetts and Rhode Island based organizations in its first cycle of funding for 2012. Three Newton and West Newton organizations are among recipients. Atrius Health Foundation of Newton receives $57,301 to provide “Stepping On” fall prevention classes to eight different sites. Participants will learn about fall risk, home and community safety, safe footwear, nutrition, bone health, coping after a fall, strength and balance exercises, and medication review. The Carroll Center for the Blind of Newton receives $50,000 for Project Safe Home. This program enables …
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Carroll Center for the Blind
770 Centre St, Newton, MA
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Newton Community Service Center
492 Waltham St, Newton, MA
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The Whole Foods Market in Newtonville welcomed Braille labels to its produce section on Friday.
When Joshua Goldenberg couldn't find the batteries he wanted at the grocery store, he had a simple answer. The clever, visually-impaired youngster looked up at his mom and asked why the store couldn't just add Braille to the product shelves. "I went online and started [Google searching] how blind people grocery shop," said Christie Goldenberg, Joshua's mother. "Of all the things I had thought of having a child that never dawned on me once. Here I am ready to send him off to college and everything else, but I never thought of the simple things." Joshua and his family made a trip to the Newtonville Whole Foods on Friday to help launch the Braille Independence Initiative at the store. The Newtonville market is the first store on the East …
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Whole Foods Market
647 Washington St, Newton, MA
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