Of Interest
 

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Good Grief Speaks with CNN about 9/11 and Parenting While Grieving

A new "Center of Our Own!"  Click HERE for more information.

New York Life employees volunteer an evening to support Good Grief during their annual month of service. Thanks, New York Life!

Good Grief trained two new facilitator classes during the summer of 2011. 

12th Facilitator Training Class: August, 2011

 

                                                 June, 2011

 

Grief and the Children of 9/11

 Good Grief Receives Gift in Memory of Summit Teen 

Joe Primo elected to NAGC Board of Trustees

Good Grief Receives Funding for a Center of its Own

At a May 12th Town Hall Meeting the Good Grief Board of Trustees announced a new center initiative to raise $3 million dollars in 3 years to fund a Center of Our Own. 

First Gift Received towards new center

The Thomas Glasser Foundation of Westfield, New Jersey, a philanthropic organization set up in memory of Thomas Glasser who was a victim of the 9/11 attack, made the first gift towards the center of $50,000 to match the boards challenge.  

In June at our 5th Annual Good Mourning Breakfast (see below) a gift of $100,000 from the Brian Paul McKelvey Memorial Fund was announced.  The Teen Room at the new center will be named in memory of Brian McKelvey, who died in 1990.  The McKelvey Fund which had already committed to $10,000 per year through 2010, donated an additional $25,000 matching gift to enable another family to name a room at the new center.  Over the years the Brian Paul McKelvey Fund's total contributions to Good Grief has exceeded $175,000. 

 The McKelvey Family Making a Difference

 at the Brian P. McKelvey Teen Center Dedication