The Jeffrey Coombs Memorial Foundation

The Jeff Coombs Memorial Foundation has funded and distributed more than $450,000 in grants, scholarships and special programs since 2002.

Sent South Shore families who suffered recent losses on vacations

Paid for grief counseling for children who’ve lost a parent

Funded several enrichment programs in Abington schools

Granted more than $30,000 in scholarships to many local high school graduates

Helped local families pay household bills after a sudden loss of a spouse/parent or due to serious illness in the family

Contributed to 40 junior high school students’ trip to Washington, D.C.

Sent several grieving children to a Boston Bruins game and arranged for them to meet the players

Purchased $1000 in books for the Junior Reading Room at Burton Wales Library in Abington.

Sent hundreds of care packages to service men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan

Arranged and paid for the construction of wheelchair ramps to be built on several homes with wheelchair-bound children

Helped families during the holidays who were struggling due to hardship or illness in the family

Purchased a guitar and paid for lessons for a boy who lost his father to help him process his grief through music

Purchased video camera for military family to communicate with father stationed in Iraq

Assisted many local families with funeral expenses after the death of a loved one

Host an annual holiday party for families of Massachusetts service members deployed over the holidays, and families of injured and fallen as a result of service in Iraq or Afghanistan