The National Catholic Education Association presents Peter with the Mother Seton Award for his exemplary support and service of Catholic education.

Carolyn receives the St. Julie Billiart Award from the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur for her outstanding leadership in the true spirit of Saint Julie.

The Lynch Foundation is the first foundation to support Artists For Humanity, which begins with 6 students in founder Susan Rodgerson’s South End studio. After close to three decades, AFH is serving over 500 youth in their 51,500 square-foot EpiCenter and is the largest teen employer in the city of Boston.

The entire Lynch Family travels to Russia on an Americares aid delivery trip providing life saving medicines and medical aid to those in desperate need.

Peter travels to India during a due diligence visit as Renew International continues to expand across the world, spending 10 days visiting with the local community leaders and parishes to determine the potential impact of Renew International’s programming.

The Lynch Foundation offers early support for City Year to launch the first site in Boston and begin investing in the power of young people in service. Over the next three decades, they expand to 29 cities. City Year now has more than 32,000 alumni.

After receiving an unsolicited request from the college senior Wendy Kopp, Carolyn was so impressed and curious that the Lynch Foundation made a modest investment in the initial creation of TFA.

One of the Foundation’s first gifts was seed funding to support the creation of MENTOR, which has remained partners for almost three decades and has increased the number of at-risk youth in structured mentoring relationships from 300,000 to 4.5 million.

Carolyn and Peter partner with Boston University, Salem Hospital, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, and the Archdiocese of Boston to create the Lynch Foundation as a supported organization charitable foundation. Organizations then appoint Ernest Wiggins, Ralph Sweetland, Nancy Coolidge, and Thomas Leahy as founding independent Board Members.

After more than two decades of marriage, three children, extraordinary hard work and blessings; Carolyn and Peter create The Lynch Foundation with a $2M gift with the hopes to provide people with life changing opportunities through supporting innovative non profit organizations.