Commissioner Steve Rideout
swrideout@aol.com
May 9, 2020
Dear Readers:
Please find below and attached some wonderful information from the John and Janice Wyatt Foundation and its Executive Director Matt Peterson about its outreach here in Dorchester County and Cambridge.
Steve
Subject: News update from the John & Janice Wyatt Foundation
Friends and colleagues,
I hope this email finds you all well during these challenging times. To perhaps brighten the day heading into the weekend, I wanted to share some of the latest news on the John & Janice Wyatt Foundation.
For those whom I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting, John and Jan hired me in December 2019 to run their family foundation. Since then, we have been making substantial progress in shaping our long-term strategies focusing on early childhood education and after-school/summer programming as initial ways to help level the playing field for disadvantaged youth in our community. As a result of COVID-19, we did make the decision to pivot to short-term response interventions which we expect will evolve back into a longer-term recovery effort that stays true to our original strategy.
Our initial COVID efforts are outlined in a press release that we sent to the media yesterday in the hopes of getting broader coverage next week. I wanted to share this with you first. Attached is a more substantive version of the release so that we can provide as much information to you as we can. In addition, please do take a look at our website at www.j2wfoundation.org. We have begun to post this work on our Current Programs and Program Design pages.
This is just the beginning. We look forward to evolving and growing within the county and acting as a resource, a convener, and a support mechanism to further the great work that currently exists as assets within the community. We also look forward to a future normalcy where we can meet in person and work together for the common goal of improving the lives of all of our children.
Moving forward, I’d love to continue sharing our work with you and hope to connect sometime soon. Have a great weekend!
Respectfully,
Matt
Matthew T. Peterson, M.A.
Executive Director
John & Janice Wyatt Foundation
mpeterson@j2wfoundation.org
Please visit our website at https://www.j2wfoundation.org