Maureen Heaton Foundation

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Throughout her life, each & every day, Maureen was a bright light to everyone.

Her leadership, kindness, acceptance, generosity, confidence, hard work, grace, joy & so many more qualities, even despite the many challenges she faced, will live on here.

10/29/2026

📚✨🤓 Our school partnership with Haverhill Book Buddies is off to a colorful start! One of our students loves to draw and the first request was for non-fiction books. We understood the assignment! Can’t wait to see our student responses. Last year we joined this terrific organization at Haverhill Public Schools (MA) to help students learn and practice the skills of reading and letter writing through being anonymous pen pals. We love having this relationship be part of our mission 💛. Thank you to all who make this possible. 🎨✂️ ✏️

08/31/2026

🎒✨✏️📒 Our annual backpack drive with The Salvation Army East LA was a beautiful success. Together we helped fill 125 backpacks with school supplies for 60 families. We always love partnering with our friends Walmart and seeing the confidence these cool 😎 new items bring to the students. Everyone was so grateful (including us!). Thank you to our supporters for helping us make this possible once again in Maureen’s old neighborhood. We wish everyone a fantastic school year. 💓

07/15/2026

Today is Glioblastoma (GBM) Awareness Day, a day now recognized by Congress to shine a light on the most aggressive and devastating form of brain cancer.
Our beautiful Maureen lived just 20 months with this terrible disease, there was no explanation why and no treatment options available after the first six months of illness. The slides we share today, courtesy of National Brain Tumor Society, illustrate the terminal prognosis. We raise awareness with all patients and caregivers today as there not only remains no cure, but also still no advancements made (in decades) to prolong life.

Not a moment goes by that we don’t think of Maureen’s battle with GBM, or wish this disease had a different ending for those who hear the unimaginable words in their hospital room.

Our Foundation continues to support research, advocacy, and hope. Today every donation made with ours to NBTS will be matched, doubling the impact.

Thank you for helping us keep Maureen’s legacy alive and for standing with everyone affected by glioblastoma. We love you, Maureen and we miss you more than words could ever say.

06/08/2026

Congrats are in order for our 2026 scholarship award winner, Pentucket Regional High School senior AMELIA CROWE! Amelia is an incredible person, beaming kindness from the inside out. She’s a tremendous leader as a 3 sport Captain, a caring mentor and a co-creator of Pentucket’s women’s flag football team (in the championship starting tonight, btw!). Her application package blew us away, especially her heartfelt essay and the awesome recommendation letters she attached (including one from the New England Patriots!). Amelia was nominated by the Patriots as the 2025 Maxwell Player of the Year based on her academics, leadership & community service. One of her teachers said she is such a superstar on the field/court 🏈🏀, but her real superpower is kindness. Thank you, Amelia for putting so much care into your application and spreading love everywhere you go. We cannot wait to see what you do next!

As always, many thanks to all who donate to make this scholarship possible 💚🎓📚

05/28/2026

We recently helped out the Friends Of Pentucket SEPAC ! They were collecting sensory items from their Amazon wishlist to keep students feeling good when they are overwhelmed. Together we helped fill backpacks with these supportive supplies. Thank you to our donors for helping make these impactful partnerships possible!

05/02/2026

We ‘Go Gray In May’ to honor all those enduring brain tumors. Whether it’s glioblastoma or another form, we are here to support and raise awareness. Brain tumors do not discriminate and often come without any warning. There is a major lack of treatment options for children and adults with brain tumors. We cheer on all those participating with at Head 2 The Hill in D.C. this coming week. Whether you’re a caregiver or patient, there is no better place to ask for funding and change than with our state legislators. We have hope that one day no person will ever receive this terrible diagnosis again. We love you, Maureen. 🩶🩶🩶

04/24/2026

Happy Friday 💫 Did you know in the 2025-26 school year we became a part of the Haverhill Book Buddies program?! 📚✏️📓🎒💌
The initiative is facilitated by a group of wonderful teachers who set up anonymous ‘adoption’ of students who’ve expressed they want to read more! It also incorporates core writing skills as writing/mailing letters back & forth is our only form of communication (only 1st names are used). Pictured here is the drop-off we just did for one awesome 1st grader. Her last letter noted she’d love Elephant & Piggie books and a new journal to write stories in over the summer. We love being a pen pal and, most of all, being able to purchase these supplies to help students be the best they can both in and out of the classroom. Thank you to our supporters, always.

04/13/2026

Here’s something to put a little pep in your step this Monday morning ☀️🥰🫶🏽💓…
Thank you to all who donated in loving memory of Maureen’s angelversary on 3/23/26. Because of you, we were able to answer calls for necessary items from several local organizations. First, pictured are the beautiful coloring & activity books and crayons donated for children at both St. Ann’s School & Home in Methuen, MA and Boston Children’s Hospital. We also restocked empty shelves with maternity pants of all colors and sizes to Pregnancy Care Center Northeast ! Although this was bittersweet, we are honored to continue our mission. Again, thank you to all who helped make this possible and keep Maureen’s legacy alive.

Address

PO Box 563
West Newbury, MA
01985

Website

http://www.maureenheatonfoundation.org/

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