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    Friends of Middleborough Cemeteries Inc.
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    Friends of Middleborough Cemeteries Inc.

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    501(c)(3) organization
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    PO BOX 72
    Middleboro MA 02346-0072

    Middleboro MA | IRS ruling year: 2012 | EIN: 45-2515489  
    An EIN is a unique nine-digit number that identifies a business for tax purposes.
    An EIN is a unique nine-digit number that identifies a business for tax purposes.
     
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    Rating Report

    Leadership & Adaptability
    Score

    90

    This beacon provides an assessment of the organization's leadership capacity, strategic thinking and planning, and ability to innovate or respond to changes in constituent demand/need or other relevant social and economic conditions to achieve the organization's mission.
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    Strategy

    30 out of 40 points

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    Mission Statement
     
    The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization's mission.
    Vision Statement
     
    The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization’s vision.
    Preserving and sharing the information found on Cemetery Gravestones that may otherwise be lost to f
    Strategy Goals
     
    The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking and goal setting through sharing their most important strategic goals.
    Goal One: Preserving the Gravestone Inscriptions before they are no longer legible.
    Goal Two: Maintain Valor by ensuring the proper placement of Medallions at the Gravesites of our Veterans. Photograph, Clean, and Repair Veterans' monuments. Participate in Parades that honor Veterans' Service.
    Goal Three: Build a Database of all persons interred in the Town of Middleboro that will be accessible to the general public.

    Leadership

    30 out of 30 points

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    Investment in Leadership Development
     
    The nonprofit provides evidence of investment in leadership development.
    The Preservation Team Leader (documenting and cleaning gravestones) teaches all volunteers interested in assisting with this process the proper way to document and then the proper way to actually clean the stone so the stone is not damaged. The proper cleaning solution and tools are supplied along with a written document describing the proper methods for both functions.
    External Focus on Mobilizing Mission
     
    The nonprofit provides evidence of leadership through focusing externally and mobilizing resources for the mission.
    The Friends of Middleborough Cemeteries has a website, and a Facebook page. We are publishing a Newsletter that is sent both electronically and hard paper copies for those that do not have computers. The electronic copies are sent to local and surrounding towns churches, town offices, local organizations, the Chamber of Commerce and a list of people that expressed an interest in following our work. Paper copies are distributed at strategic locations around town such as the Town Clerks Office, Public Library and other high traffic area businesses

    Adaptability

    30 out of 30 points

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    Investment in Leadership Development
    30 out of 30 points
     
    The nonprofit has an opportunity to tell the story of how the organization adapted to tremendous external changes in the last year.
    Covid-19 definitely had an impact on the work the Friends of Middleborough Cemeteries does. We turned our focus from the work that is done outside in the cemeteries to organizing the data already obtained from previous years and putting that information into Notebooks with the information backed up electronically, The Veterans Team field research requires working in pairs and due to the social distancing we were unable to do any of this research. The gravestone information is checked against a previous list supplied to the organization in 1982 for accuracy. If a gravestone shows some indication that the person interred may have served in our armed forces, they are added to the list to be verified through genealogical records and the local veteran's service office. Since field research could not be done, we turned our focus to the research on the genealogy sites verifying the data already obtained during the cemetery field research prior to Covid-19.
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