PROVIDENCE – Corvias Foundation, an East Greenwich-based private charitable foundation dedicated to increasing opportunities for military families, was honored on the field at Fenway Park in Boston last week for its longtime support of the Red Sox Foundation, the baseball club’s charity organization.
Corvias said it has provided more than $250,000 over 10 years to the Red Sox Foundation cause of assisting New England children, veterans, families and communities in need.
Also recognized at the game were the 13 student recipients of the Corvias Foundation college scholarship and several college graduates who had received the scholarship.
The students were brought onto the field in recognition of their status as military dependents, as well as for their achievement of receiving the scholarship. The recipients and family members, as well as alumni of the scholarship program and Corvias board members, spent the following Saturday volunteering with the Red Sox Foundation and the wives of Red Sox players at the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless facility.
“It has been a privilege to work with such an amazing organization,” said John G. Picerne, founder of Corvias Foundation. “Like us, they understand the importance of supporting military families in ways that go beyond the dollar and utilizing their platform to bring awareness to the cause. We could not be happier to mark a decade of Corvias Foundation’s support of the Red Sox Foundation.”
Corvias first became involved with the Red Sox when the Red Sox Foundation was planning the first Run to Home Base, an event that raises money to help veterans, service members and their families through world-class clinical care, wellness, education and research.
“We were thrilled to start working with the Red Sox Foundation to help support their cause,” said Maria Montalvo, Corvias executive director. “In addition to our financial support, Corvias Foundation created an annual ‘shadow run’ with military members serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, allowing them to run across home base while serving their countries so far away. We have partnered with the Red Sox Foundation to send care packages abroad, as well. We look forward to continuing our support of such a great and like-minded organization.”