Maureen Heaton Foundation

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.

03/23/2026

Seven years without Maureen. 💔💖

She had a way of making people feel understood and less alone - the way she showed up, surprised you, made you feel seen, the way she somehow brought light even on the hardest days. Her smile and laugh lit up every room.

That same spirit is what drives this foundation every single day. Over the past few years we’ve met such wonderful people and because of your support, we are able to touch lives all over the country. Any donations received today will directly fund our outreach this spring. In addition to our scholarship at Pentucket Regional High School, we’re announcing more partnerships later this week. (We accept PayPal via our website, snail mail & Zelle).

We love you Maureen and we miss you every single day (every minute of the day). Thank you all for helping us . Listen to your music loudly & dance today. ✨🤍🪽

www.maureenheatonfoundation.org

03/10/2026

📚📝💚🤍✨ Pentucket Regional Seniors: We are one month away from the Maureen Heaton Foundation memorial scholarship deadline! You can find our application within the student services portal. We can’t wait to hear from you!

Pictured is Maureen doing her best Pomp & Circumstance walk in 1994 on the football field behind PHS. With her signature smile and personality, Maureen was elected Class President, where she united the entire student body and made community service paramount - always keeping a humble persona about it all. With our scholarship process, we look for a student embodying similar characteristics. (This is one of the ways we landed on the hashtag). We want to hear how your kindness and leadership are making a difference!

02/18/2026

Helping babies is a part of our mission! So happy to partner with The Wish Project 💓🫶🏼🍼👶🏻🤰🏽

We felt the love when the Maureen Heaton Foundation donated five brand new baby swings to The Wish Project! Thank you to this generous organization.

02/04/2026

💌 Our 2025 wrap up cards have been mailed to our donors and we couldn’t be more grateful for your love and support of our mission. THANK YOU to all who helped keep Maureen’s legacy alive last year. Here is a copy of the cards that went out 🤗. We are forever grateful that you chose to support us and most of all, honor our beautiful Maureen. We expanded our impact yet again and ‘Spread Smiles Across The Miles’ because of you.
Stay tuned for more new partnerships in 2026 💓✨🪽🛍️

01/29/2026

🌟Thank You🌟 For the past couple of months, together we ‘Spread Smiles Across The Miles,’ from California to Boston (and many places in between 🙂). Our 2025 Holiday Initiative is officially complete and we are incredibly grateful to our supporters. If you donated to our organization on Maureen’s birthday 11•18•25, you were a part of this great effort! Whether it was adopting children to fulfill their wish lists, to gifting brand new baby swings, to reuniting ill service members with their families on a free flight, to helping put delicious Thanksgiving food on the table and much more…we loved shopping, wrapping & gifting, but most of all we loved connecting with all those we met who needed an extra helping hand. So many people are in need and we are honored to help their holidays shine brighter, in our small way. Together we accomplished so much in memory of our beautiful Maureen and her favorite time of year 💓🦃🎄🕯️