The Verizon Foundation recently gave Girls Inc. of Worcester a $10,000 grant to provide services to survivors of domestic violence. The award was one of 15 such grants given to organizations across Massachusetts totaling $165,000. Pictured, in front, from left to right: Janis Broderick, Elizabeth Freeman House; Mary Gianakis, Voices Against Violence; Mary Lauby, Jane Doe Inc.; Diane Patrick, first lady of Massachusetts; Donna Cupelo, Verizon New England region president; David Kuppenheimer, Emerge; Ruth Zakarin, Katie Brown Educational Program; Meg Stone, Impact. In back, fromˆ left to right: Nathalie Favre-Gilly, Casa Myrna Vazquez; Suzanne DuBus, Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center;ˆ Sarah Dudzic, New England Learning Center for Women in Transition; LaWanza Lett-Brewington, Safe Passage; Candace Waldron, Healing Abuse Working for Change; Deb Hopkins, Girls Inc. of Worcester; Sue Chandler, DOVE Inc.; Linda Chin, Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence.