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- EIN 20-1909556
- info@mslfund.org
- (866) 856-5533
- 225 Cedar Hill Street Suite 200 Marlborough MA MA 01752 USA
- www.mslfund.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Education, Libraries, Philanthropy, Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations, Scholarships, Scholarships & Student Financial Aid
Mission: The massachusetts soldiers legacy fund(mslf) has been established to provide educational assistance grants to the children of massachusetts servicemembers who have died in the war against terrorism while deployed on operations enduring and iraqi freedom and massachusetts employees of the cia who have died in such conflicts. Also included are children of parents who die in other, future theaters of operation. The mslf is specifically designed to grant funds for current and future educational assistance for children whose parent's home of record at the department of defense(dod) was massachusetts. Over the next 20+ years, the mslf is committed to dispersing educational assistance grants to to the children of massachusetts based servicemembers. Since the commencement of these operations in early 2002, there have been over 100 deaths of servicemembers whose home of record at the dod was massachusetts. Of these casualties, 47 were parents; leaving 77 children without a mother or father. The
Programs: The fund's purpose is to provide educational assistance grants to the children of massachusetts servicemembers who were killed while deployed on operations enduring and iraqi freedom and massachusetts employees of the cia. Also included are children of parents who die in other, future theaters of operation. To date,there have been 80 children who have lost a parent whose home of record was massachusetts. These children are eligible to receive educational grants from the mslf. Currently, these children's ages range from newborn to college senior. The mslf distributes grants to eligible children for pre and post secondary education. During 2014, fourty two eligible children received educational assistance grants; the mslf distributed a total of 221,548 grants for the benefit of these children.
the fund's purpose is to provide educational assistance