ABOUT THE CARLISLE FOUNDATION

The CARLISLE Foundation was incorporated in 1991. It is a private, operating foundation which attempts to promote creative problem solving and interventions through effective grant making. The CARLISLE Foundation evolved from CARLISLE Services, Inc., a grant making company which began in 1988, and acted as an intermediary between private donors and the human service community. Representing one donor family, CARLISLE Services solicited and reviewed innovative proposals and presented them to the donors for their philanthropic consideration. Those same donors elected to establish the CARLISLE Foundation as a more efficient and effective vehicle for continuing their philanthropic endeavors and as a statement of their continuing commitment. Since inception, the combined grants of CARLISLE Services, Inc. and The CARLISLE Foundation have exceeded $25 million.

PREVIOUS CATEGORIES OF FUNDING PROVIDED BY THE CARLISLE FOUNDATION

The CARLISLE Foundation operated three distinct categories of funding: ANNUAL GRANTS, DONOR ADVISED GRANTS and MISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS . Annual Grants made up the majority of CARLISLE funding. It was not unusual for 20-30 Annual Grants to be made each year. They formed the core of a traditional grantmaking program and were very focused in terms of expectations and duration. Funding for these grants were available to programs operating only within the six New England States. Donor Advised grants are initiated by the Foundation's Trustees. They differed from Annual Grants in that there were very few Donor Advised in operation at any given time, they are usually much larger in scope and duration. Each year there were also a series of smaller, donor initiated Miscellaneous Contributions.

OPERATING FOUNDATION

As a private operating foundation, CARLISLE has, on occasion during its history, undertaken operational responsibility for programs while on other occasions it has directly supported its own staff and/or consultants in providing direct program services.  We have, for example, been actively involved in the development and implementation of various aspects relating to the Boston University Residential Charter School which operated in western Massachusetts for several years prior to it’s demise in 1999.  We have been involved in a number of projects related to program development and financial development for Brewster Academy in Wolfboro, NH and for similar projects at the Breakwater School in Portland, ME.

Perhaps our most notable foray into program operations is the seven-year project known as our Marlborough (MA) Initiative.  Following on this very successful model, the CARLISLE Foundation launched a similar program with a new community.  Beginning in 2002, the CARLISLE Foundation initiated a new community partnership.  We selected Framingham, MA as the focus of our new multi-year community commitment.  Framingham, an urban/suburban community located in central Massachusetts, is nearly twice the size of Marlborough and represents new challenges for the foundation to demonstrate its community partnership model. 

Richard A. Goldblatt, Executive Director (l), Grant M. Wilson, Secratery/Treasurer and Helene T. Wilson, President.

TRUSTEES

Helene T. Wilson, President

Grant M. Wilson, Sec. & Treas.

Kirsten Wilson

George B. Foote, Jr.

Edward S. Heald

ADMINISTRATION

Richard A. Goldblatt, Executive Director

RICHARD A. GOLDBLATT

Richard Goldblatt has a BS in Psychology from the University of Bridgeport and an MSW from the University of Connecticut. [Note: This is the very same school that produced the 2004 Men's and Women's NCAA basketball champions.] He spent over twenty years in a variety of clinical and administrative settings dealing with children, adolescents and families in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. From 1984 through 1988 he was the Executive Director of Concord Family Service in Concord, MA.

Richard Goldblatt addresses the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Crossroads Community Foundation in Maynard, MA.

In 1988, together with a local philanthropic family, he was involved in the establishment of Carlisle Services, Inc, now known as The CARLISLE Foundation. Mr. Goldblatt has served as the CEO since it's inception. In addition, Mr. Goldblatt is a founder and Trustee (1993-2003) of the Crossroads Community Foundation and served for many years as co-chair of the Distribution Committee. In addition he has been a member of the Board of Directors of a number of organizations including Associated Grant Makers, Health & Addictions Resources and the Framingham United Soccer Club. Currently he serves as Vice Chair of Jewish Family Services of Naples, FL. Mr. Goldblatt is also the principal of RAG Consulting, a resource that provides a wide range of services to grant makers, grant seekers as well as philanthropic individuals and families.

Mr. Goldblatt and his wife Donna, a retired Marlborough (MA) schoolteacher, are formerly of Framingham, MA, and now reside in Wakefield, RI,. Their three children include a daughter Lori, a 1995 graduate of Johnson & Wales University, and sons Jeffrey and Gregory, 1999 and 2001 graduates of Emory University, respectively.

In addition to giving away money, Mr. Goldblatt passionately follows the Red Sox and Patriots, enjoys golf, reading and relaxing on the beaches in Narragansett, RI and Naples, FL.