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Massachusetts community foundations get $5M in state COVID relief grants
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
The Baker administration Friday allocated an additional $5 million to charitable community foundations across the state to provide immediate relief from economic hardships for families and individuals due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the last year the state has allocated a total of $15 million through the Community Foundations Grant Program for COVID-19 Relief.
Katie Allan Zobel, president and CEO of the Community Foundations of Western Massachusetts, said the $423,035 allocated to her organization Friday brings the agency’s total to more than $1.2 million since the first of the year.
“This is the first time that community foundations have received money from the state like this,” Zobel said. “That speaks to the urgent nature of the need. We have the resources to get the money to people with the greatest need.”
For John G. Gallup, a better Western Massachusetts was always the goal (Editorial)
Updated Mar 07, 2021;
Posted Mar 07, 2021
David Starr, the late publisher of The Republican, who died in 2019, and John Gallup, who passed away Tuesday, March 2 were among the charter trustees of the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts.
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Merriam-Webster defines a philanthropist as “one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare.”
John G. Gallup, who died this week at the age of 93, was actively involved in bettering life in Western Massachusetts right up until his final days. It was a path he had followed for many decades in ways which still reverberate all across our region.
Community Foundation of Western Mass awards $859K in COVID-relief funds to groups helping immigrants masslive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from masslive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Immigrant mask makers provide pandemic PPE
The im2: Immigrant Mask Makers of Western Massachusetts team. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
An assortment of masks made by the im2: Immigrant Mask Makers of Western Massachusetts team. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
A seamstress with im2: Immigrant Mask Makers of Western Massachusetts works at a sewing machine. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Published: 3/1/2021 3:43:37 PM
NORTHAMPTON When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the U.S. last March, lockdowns left many without jobs, while public safety measures created a scramble for face masks to protect against virus transmission.
A Northampton-based group, im2: Immigrant Mask Makers of Western Massachusetts, soon went to work creating masks and jobs during the crisis. Today, the team, consisting of 16 immigrant women and co-founders Amy Ben-Ezra and Allie Aguirre, have sewn and coordinated the creation of hundreds of masks.