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2010
Fidelity’s Lynch Gives $20 Million to Boston College to Train Principals
CHESTNUT HILL, MA - June 20, 2010 - Peter S. Lynch, the vice chairman of Fidelity Management & Research, and his wife, Carolyn, are donating $20 million to form a center at Boston College to mentor new principals in the Boston area.
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$20 Million Gift from Carolyn and Peter Lynch Launches Leadership Academy at BC’s Lynch School
CHESTNUT HILL, MA - June 20, 2010 - A new educational leadership academy - the first in the nation to jointly train and support new principals from Catholic, public and charter schools - will be funded at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education by a $20 million gift from Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch, long-time supporters of educational initiatives and benefactors to Boston College and Boston’s inner-city Catholic schools.
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Urban schools are focus of BC gift - Lynches give $20m to train principals
CHESTNUT HILL, MA - June 20, 2010 - Boston College will launch an innovative training program for school principals in January to improve urban education and prepare more low-income students for college, with a $20 million donation from Fidelity vice chairman Peter Lynch and his wife, Carolyn.
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Robert Kraft chairs successful 20th Annual Inner-City Scholarship Fund Dinner in honor of Peter S. Lynch, over $2.6 Million raised to support needy students.
BOSTON, MA - April 10, 2010 - Robert Kraft, Owner of the New England Patriots and Chair of 20th Annual Inner-City Scholarship Fund Gala, announced that a record $2.6 Million dollars was raised through the event. Mr. Kraft made the announcement during the event which was held April 10th at the Boston Public Library.
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2009
The Lynch Foundation Young Athletes™ Program
The Lynch Foundation’s three year grant established the Young Athletes™ program in 2 cities serving 460 children and their families. Slideshow >
Profiles in Giving: The Lynch Foundation
BOSTON - June 15, 2009 - Carolyn and Peter Lynch sent a two-page handwritten letter to Special Olympics Founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who was in poor health. They said, in part: "A resource that was being wasted, and in many cases restrained and denigrated, has been allowed to prosper; and the benefit will grow and grow in the future because of what you have put in motion." Read more >
Red Sox Scholars Ceremony
FENWAY PARK - BOSTON - June 8, 2009 - The Lynch Foundation joined the 2009 class of Red Sox Scholars in a pregame ceremony at Fenway Park. Watch Video >
Marblehead’s Peter Lynch and friends go Back to Class.
MARBLEHEAD - May 29, 2009 - The Catholic Schools Foundation hosted its annual Back to Class Bus Tour on Wednesday, May 20, visiting one of the 89 schools supported by its signature program, the Inner-City Scholarship Fund. Read more >
Ken Burns to Deliver Keynote at BC Commencement: Acclaimed filmmaker will address the Class of 2009.
CHESTNUT HILL, MA - May 18, 2009 - Filmmaker Ken Burns, whose distinctive and acclaimed documentaries have brought to life the Civil War, baseball, jazz and other facets of American history, will address the Class of 2009 at the 133rd Boston College Commencement Exercises on May 18. Some 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students will receive diplomas from Boston College at ceremonies that day. Read more >
Chamber to honor Peter Lynch, Linda Whitlock, Gloria Larson at Centennial Celebration.
April 30, 2009 - On May 19 the Greater Boston Chamber will host our Centennial Celebration - our 100th Annual Meeting and Dinner. Every year since 1983, the Chamber has had the privilege of inducting some of Greater Boston's most accomplished leaders into the Academy of Distinguished Bostonians. At our Centennial Celebration on May 19, 2009, we will add two more members to this remarkable group. Read more >
2008
Children’s Friend and Family Services THIRD CENTURY CAPITAL CAMPAIGN has reached the million dollar mark thanks to a generous grant from North Shore friends Peter and Carolyn Lynch.
Spring 2008 - The grant arrived on the heels of the agency’s Opening Celebration which unveiled its new facility on 110 Boston Street in Salem. The $1.3 million dollar campaign will help fund construction of the new facility, the headquarters of the organization that helps over 5,000 children and families in Essex County annually. Download PDF >
2007
Chain Link to Come Tumbling Down at North Point Park
By Peter DeMarco, Globe Correspondent, The Boston Globe - November 4, 2007 - For nearly two years North Point Park has stood as a mouth-watering mirage, a $31 million oasis of fields, bike trails, and kayak canals on the Cambridge side of the Charles River that, for some strange reason, remained closed to the public, barricaded by ugly, high construction fencing and hand-painted keep-out signs. Read more >
Posse Boston Thanks The Lynch Foundation
By Rassan Salandy, The Posse Newsletter - Fall, 2007 - With the generous support of its donors, Posse Boston continues to grow and thrive while its Scholars excel, persist, and graduate from Posse's elite partner colleges at a phenomenal rate of over 90 percent. Read more >
Lynches’ Gift Boosts Skate Park Fund Raising
The Back Bay Sun - October 26, 2007 - Carolyn and Peter Lynch recently announced a challenge grant of $500,000 from the Lynch Foundation to the Charles River Conservancy for the skate park under the Leonard Zakim Bridge in East Cambridge. "Having seen what sports did for our girls ... we see the Charles River Skate Park as something that helps all children," said Carolyn Lynch.
The grant requires a match of $100,000 and will bring the total amount of money raised to just over $2 million, significantly closer to the project's $2.3 million fundraising goal. The Lynches were honored at an October 18 lunch for their generosity.
Lynch Foundation to Endow Nursing PhD Scholarships at UMass Boston
By Ed Hayward of The University Reporter - April, 2007 - The College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Boston has received a $500,000 grant from The Lynch Foundation to fund fellowships for students in the university’s fast-track nursing PhD program, which is designed to build a diverse pool of Ph.D.-prepared nurses focused on cancer nursing care, health disparities and health policy research, the university has announced. The grant is one of the largest awarded by the 19-year-old charitable foundation started by vice chairman of Fidelity Management & Research Co. Peter Lynch and his wife, Carolyn. Download PDF >
Skatepark Funding Keep Rollin in
By Donna Goodison of The Boston Herald - March 24, 2007 - Supporters of the $2.3 million Charles River Skatepark have raised more than half of the cost of the project, which tourism officials say could be a regional magnet and attract marquee sporting events such as the X Games. "There are areas that are for less experienced skateboarders, but this is a skate park where even the most experienced skateboarder or BMXer will find a challenge," said Renata von Tscharner, president of the Charles River Conservancy. "There’s nothing else that size or nothing else of that quality in New England." Download PDF >
Carolyn and Peter Lynch Support the Charles River Skatepark
The Charles River Conservancy - March 23, 2007 - On Friday, March 23rd, 2007 between 4:30PM and 5:30PM, Peter and Carolyn Lynch will visit the site of the future Skatepark under the ramps of the Zakim Bridge in Cambridge. They will speak to the benefits the skatepark will bring to the city and the region for athletes, observers, visitors, and businesses. Their foundation, the Peter and Carolyn Lynch Foundation, has donated $100,000 to the skatepark. Read more >
Peter Lynch’s Wife Flips for Skateboarding, and Boston Benefits
By Kathleen M. Howley - January 18, 2007 - Carolyn Lynch, wife of Fidelity Investments' former star manager Peter Lynch, became a fan of skateboarding four years ago when she stopped at a playground and asked a group of teenagers to show her how to "ollie". Read more >
