The Light Foundation funded the development/purchase of a 3-D electrocardiogram that has been and will be used to help save the lives of babies born with heart conditions.  This equipment allows the doctor's at Boston Children's Hospital conduct and prepare for life-saving surgeries by being able to fully detail the heart conditions prior to birth.  Providing this high-tech life-saving equipment and services costs hundreds of thousands of dollars...but the life of a child is priceless.

The Light Foundation has a committment to higher education. Each year the Light Foundation helps kick-start the post-secondary educational careers of several young people within Ohio, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

APPLICATION SUBMISSION IS CLOSED.

DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY OF EACH CALENDAR YEAR.

The Light's, The Music and the great football! Visiting a Patriot Home Game is an awesome experience for any football fan, but even bigger for the youth we take from Boston, Cincinnati, Dayton, Greenville and the Northern Cheyenne Nation in Montana! Youth are selected based upon grades and community service to travel to a Patriots Home Game. They experience the pre-game warm up from the field, watch the game then eat dinner in the tunnel with the players, friends and family. The youth are treated to a week-long experience with Matt and his family. They enjoy the sites and spend time discussing goals, life skills and values. To provide this life-changing experience costs tens of thousands of dollars each year to provide for youth who otherwise may never be able to leave their own communities, much less their city and/or state.

The Light Foundation has supported hundreds of causes over the years. Through grants, appearances and support, the Light Foundation has helped other non-profit organizations reach thousands of youth across the country.

In 2005-2006, twenty severely at-risk youth were selected from Cincinnati, Ohio for a test project introducing Financial Literacy Training as an initiative to combat gang involvement and drug dealing involvement in youth.  For twenty weeks, these youth participated in an intensive weekly program that focused on financial literacy, money management, asset building and business skills.  Due to the overwhelming results of this 20-week program, the course will be offered again as an official class during the 2006-2007 school year for 20 new at-risk youth. 

These services are provided to at-risk youth that would cost $100,000 per year to operate.