With two decades of experience of investing in leaders of education, The Trustees made the significant investment to create the Lynch Leadership Academy. A practical and tactical leadership training program for aspiring and sitting school leaders serving the highest needs communities in Massachusetts. LLA is the only leadership training program in the country working across …
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Inner-City Scholarship Fund of CSF
The Peter Lynch Scholar program was established in 2010 to honor the 20th anniversary of Peter’s involvement with the Catholic Schools Foundation and Inner-City Scholarship Fund. A minimum of one and a maximum of five students are designated as Peter Lynch Scholars at each elementary school in the Archdiocese of Boston annually. Additionally, each year, …
Decade 2
$43,749,270.52 was invested 513 organizations. The average gift size was $85,281.23
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Peter is inducted into the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s Academy of Distinguished Bostonians.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
A true visionary committed to create the most unique museum experience in Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner organized concerts, lectures, exhibits and encouraged the celebration of art, music and horticulture. An expansion provided an opportunity to celebrate the mutual admiration with an outdoor courtyard housing The Lynch Family Garden.
New Trustee
The Board welcomes a new Trustee, Rick Spillane, making him the first new Trustee in more than a decade. Spillane, a former professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Babson College, also brings extensive experience in the financial services industry.
Tom Leahy Passes Away
Founding Board Member Tom Leahy passes away.
Teach for America
Close to two decades after the initial investment in TFA, new political leadership created the opportunity to support TFA’s long awaited expansion to Boston. In partnership with two other funders, the trustees made a critical investment to support the creation of TFA MA.
Posse Foundation
Identifying a unique opportunity to use the power of leadership, The Lynch Foundation announces a challenge grant to The Posse Foundation to create an endowment fund at an annual dinner with more than 1,000 attendees. The success of the campaign triggered additional gifts to establish a $20 million endowment for Posse to replicate their model …
Boston Schoolyard Initiative
The Lynch Foundation supports the Boston Schoolyard Initiative, a public-private partnership between foundations and the Boston school system. BSI renovates all of the 88 Boston Public Schools playgrounds in every neighborhood in the city, reclaiming over 130 acres of open space that covers every neighborhood in the City of Boston.