WOBURN, MA -- Cummings Foundation and New Horizons at Choate retirement community have announced the 16th Annual McKeown Scholars Program in honor of James L. McKeown, late trustee of New Horizons and president of Cummings Properties.  Born and raised in Woburn, McKeown was actively involved in the local community until his death in 1996 at the age of 41.

According to Dennis Clarke, president and CEO of Cummings Properties, “In the past 15 years, the McKeown Scholars Program has awarded more than $500,000 in scholarships to outstanding Woburn graduates alone, and nearly $2 million combined in all participating communities.”... (More)

BOSTON, MA -- In promising to donate most of their considerable fortune to charity, Bill and Joyce Cummings say they are trying to set an example for the country’s wealthiest 1 percent. The Winchester couple, having made hundreds of millions in commercial real estate in Eastern... (More)

MEDFORD, MA -- Cummings Foundation, Inc. (CFI) announced this week that Tufts University president Anthony P. Monaco has joined its board of trustees. Founded in 1986, CFI is a private operating foundation funded primarily by Joyce and Bill Cummings, of Winchester. (More)

Bill Cummings: finding a new mission in life
Northwest Life Magazine - Winter, 2011

WINCHESTER, MA -- When Bill and Joyce Cummings go out for a drive from their Winchester home, reminders of Bill's career regularly appear: the corporate headquarters of Cummings Properties and Cummings Foundation in Woburn, the Cummings Center in Beverly, and its latest addition, TradeCenter 128 and its landmark Beacon Grille at the intersection of Route 128 and Interstate 93.

Bill Cummings, 73, is "semi-retired," having stopped taking a salary in 2007 from Cummings Properties, the company he founded in 1970, after he... (More)

Holocaust survivor's message: never forget
Winchester Star- 10/28/2010

WINCHESTER, MA -- One of the worst moments of Eliezer Ayalon’s life came when the German guard, with one swift swoop, smacked away his one worldly possession — a small, porcelain cup. It happened at his first of five concentration camps, Blyzin, in the spring of 1943. (More)

Winchester resident to donate $1 million to Holocaust education program
Winchester Star - 10/16/2010

WINCHESTER, MA -- According to his wife Joyce, Winchester resident and successful real estate businessman Bill Cummings likes to try things he’s never done before. In the world of philanthropy, there isn’t much left.

Cummings, a proud Tufts University... (More)

Tufts donor offers $1 million for Shoah program
The Jewish Advocate - 10/15/2010

A year ago, Bill Cummings and his wife, Joyce, visited Yad Vashem, and listened to a lecturer tell their Tufts University group how he survived five concentration camps in Poland and Austria.

"There wasn't a person in that group of 40 who didn't have a handkerchief out, including the... (More)

Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University: Using animal models in life science development
Central Massachusetts Life Science Industry Success - 11/2009

Just east of Worcester sits another connector in the string of life sciences enterprises in the state. The 702,000 square-foot Grafton Science Park, located on the south side of Route 30 on the campus of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, occupies approximately 100 acres and represents an ambitious initiative to stimulate economic development in Central Massachusetts.

Through a collaborative research program, veterinarians and scientists from the school assist companies in biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device industries as they take products from concepts to market. (More)

Becoming Cummings
Worcester Telegram & Gazette - 5/6/2005

Tufts University officially changed the name of its veterinary school yesterday to honor two of its benefactors, William S. and Joyce M. Cummings, and their foundation, the Cummings Foundation, Inc.

A celebration was held to mark changing the name of the Route 30 campus from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine to the Cummings... (More)

Tufts University changes name of veterinary school
Tufts University News - 5/6/2005

Tufts University celebrated the generosity of Cummings Foundation, Inc., and its chief benefactors William S. and Joyce M. Cummings, yesterday by changing the name of its veterinary school to Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. (More)

Landmark philanthropy - Cummings Foundation gift heralds a new future for veterinary school
Magazine of the Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine - Winter, 2004

Cummings Foundation, Inc., has committed to investing $50 million in Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine over the next 15 years -- the largest gift in the history of the university. It also ranks among the largest gifts ever to a Massachusetts college or university. (More)

Annual report of Cummings Foundation
2004

Cummings Foundation commits to Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine
9/9/2004

On September 9, 2004, an historic affiliation was announced between the School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University and Cummings Foundation, Inc. Pictured are (from l to r) Tufts Veterinary School Dean Philip Kosch, Cummings Foundation, Inc. president Bill Cummings and Tufts University president Lawrence S. Bacow. (More)

Foundation is new owner of Cummings Park, Woburn

Woburn, MA - Cummings Park and West Cummings Park, the large Woburn office and research complex, has a new owner according to Dennis Clarke, president of Cummings Properties, LLC. Clarke said that Bill Cummings and his family this week gifted the entire 59-acre, office and research complex to Cummings Foundation, Inc. as part of a large-scale charitable donation of most of the family's real estate assets. (More)

$1 Million grant to YMCA

In September 2003, YMCA of the North Shore began construction of a brand new combination teen-recreation and child-care center, located adjacent to its Sterling Center campus on Essex Street in Beverly, MA. A $1 million grant from the Foundation enabled the "Y" to stop leasing space for those programs at Cummings Center and at another location on Tozier Road in Beverly. (More)

Beverly Colleges

Cummings Foundation, Inc. recently made grants to two Beverly, Massachusetts colleges … Endicott College and North Shore Community College. (More)

James L. McKeown Interchange on I-93

The new Interstate 93 highway interchange in North Woburn was named in honor of Cummings Foundation’s late managing trustee, and Cummings Properties’ late president, James L. McKeown. Massachusetts Senate President Thomas Birmingham announced the naming of the interchange during a Woburn Business... (More)

Former Foundation land is well-used in Beverly

Beverly's James L. McKeown Elementary School was built on 6.5 acres of land, formerly a part of Cummings Center. Ironically, it was Mr. McKeown himself who met with city officials on the site to confirm a gift of the land to the city, just three days before his sudden death on November 13, 1996. (More)

Tufts University

The Foundation’s educational grants at the college level have mostly centered on Tufts University, from which Bill Cummings graduated and where he later served 10 years as a charter trustee. CPF provided $1.5 million, endowing the Cummings Family Chair in Entrepreneurship and Business Economics. Professor George Norman is the first holder of the chair. (More)

Music School going strong

Winchester Community Music School is moving toward 10 years in its grand home at 407 Highland Avenue, Winchester. Once the estate home of actor/comedian Frank Fontaine, the now fully restored and enlarged Tudor building sits on three acres, just up the hill from the former Mystic... (More)

Supportive Living, Inc.

Supportive Living, Inc. calls its residents "survivors." They have endured a life-changing event and are ready to rebuild their lives. (More)