August 6, 2007
Accolades
Of note:
During July, employee benefits provider Unum donated more than $4,000 to local causes. It gave $2,500 to Quinsigamond Community College Foundation to support the Women in Technology program and Summer Technology Academy, $1,000 to Jeremiah’s Inn to support their emergency food pantry, $625 to Girls Inc. for the Camp Kinneywood Scholarship Fund and $500 to the Center for Women & Enterprise.
The Citizens Bank Foundation has contributed nearly $4.5 million to more than 380 Massachusetts nonprofits during the first six months of 2007. Among the organizations it has donated to are the Martin Luther King Jr. Business Empowerment Fund in Worcester, Mass Mentoring Partnership, Project Bread and the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans.
Framingham Co-operative Bank has awarded more than $46,000 to support charitable groups. It presented $10,000 to the Salvation Army’s Daily Bread Program, $10,000 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of MetroWest, $8,000 to the “Campaign for the Common” initiative of the Framingham Historical Society, $7,500 to the Danforth Museum of Art, $5,000 to the Future Skills Institute of the Metro South West Regional Employment Board, $2,500 to BayPath Elder Services and $2,628 to the Ashland Education Foundation.
During July, employee benefits provider Unum donated more than $4,000 to local causes. It gave $2,500 to Quinsigamond Community College Foundation to support the Women in Technology program and Summer Technology Academy, $1,000 to Jeremiah’s Inn to support their emergency food pantry, $625 to Girls Inc. for the Camp Kinneywood Scholarship Fund and $500 to the Center for Women & Enterprise.
The Citizens Bank Foundation has contributed nearly $4.5 million to more than 380 Massachusetts nonprofits during the first six months of 2007. Among the organizations it has donated to are the Martin Luther King Jr. Business Empowerment Fund in Worcester, Mass Mentoring Partnership, Project Bread and the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans.
Framingham Co-operative Bank has awarded more than $46,000 to support charitable groups. It presented $10,000 to the Salvation Army’s Daily Bread Program, $10,000 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of MetroWest, $8,000 to the “Campaign for the Common” initiative of the Framingham Historical Society, $7,500 to the Danforth Museum of Art, $5,000 to the Future Skills Institute of the Metro South West Regional Employment Board, $2,500 to BayPath Elder Services and $2,628 to the Ashland Education Foundation.
Sandra Katz of Roz Real Estate recently received the Worcester Regional Association of Realtors∈ Natalie A. Quinlan Distinguished Service Award. The award recognizes the individual who has made the greatest overall contribution to the association and the community at large over an extended period of time. Katz is director of the regional association and of the Massachusetts Association of Realtors. She also serves on a Worcester City scholarship committee and is the treasurer of her synagogue, Beth Israel in Worcester.
Elizabeth and Brian Bradley, and Elizabeth∈s mother, Maria Klimkiewicz, won a landscape design and installation package valued at $10,000 in a drawing celebrating Weston Nurseries∈ 85 years in business. In the photo, Weston landscape designer Pattie Featherston (left) stands with the family at the Bradley∈s Hopkinton home where they plan to create a new garden.
Hometown Bank has made what it calls the largest gift in its history to help build a new home for the Boys and Girls Club of Webster-Dudley. The bank recently donated $50,000 for the new facility, which the club expects to complete in November. The 23,500-square-foot facility will feature a college-size gymnasium, a technology center, game room and arts and crafts center. Pictured are, from left to right, Boys & Girls Club Executive Director Tony Poti, President John Lefebvre and Assistant Treasurer Patrick Lefebvre and Hometown Bank President and CEO Matthew Sosik and Community Reinvestment Director Don Claprood.
Members of the Hudson∈s Girl Scout Cadet Troop #2734 stand beside a breast cancer-awareness quilt that they recently donated to the Marlborough Hospital Women∈s Health Center. The girls also volunteered at the Making Strides for Breast Cancer Walk in Boston, toured the WHC and learned about the reading of mammograms as part of their ∈In the Pink∈ Interest Project. Shown are Alley LaVoie, Lisa Edwards, Christy McGraw, Karen Leon, Shannon Hogan and Kathleen Giemza (left to right standing) and Kathryn Volk and Caitlin Carroll (front). Missing from the photo is Allison Showstead.
J&G Foods of Sutton recently submitted the winning bid for Marybel, a life-size cow sculpture that is part of the Swiss Consulate∈s human rights exhibit that was displayed at Logan Airport this summer. ∈We all have a responsibility to do something positive,∈ said J&G President Joe Piperato.
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