MetroWest Business Digest for Feb. 10, 2018 Posted Feb 10, 2018 at 3:01 AM
MutualOne Charitable Foundation announces award The MutualOne Charitable Foundation has awarded $5,000 to Junior Achievement of Northern New England to support financial literacy, business education and workforce readiness programs for students at Bennett-Hemenway, Memorial and Brown elementary schools in Natick. Announcement of the award was made by Foundation Chairman Robert P. Lamprey. Trained Junior Achievement volunteers from the local business community lead classroom sessions in the life skills education program. All programs are provided at no cost to schools and after school youth organizations. The volunteers include MutualOne Bank’s Bill Eastty, vice president, residential lending. The $5,000 grant to Junior Achievement was among awards totaling $121,000 in the MutualOne Charitable Foundation’s most recent round of funding. A Day with Your Dog slated for June 3 A Day with Your Dog to Benefit the MVMA Charities will take place June 3 at MetroWest YMCA Outdoor Facility, 45 East St., Hopkinton. This event will be a healthy day with dogs featuring a unique, dog-friendly trail walk/run and a health and fitness fair to promote people and their pets “staying healthy together.” The event will also include a Health and Fitness Fair featuring vendors from the human and animal fields. Festivities will be family and pet friendly and will draw from communities across Massachusetts. Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team to run in Boston Marathon On April 16, Framingham residents are running to conquer cancer as members of the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team in the 122nd Boston Marathon. Residents include Angela Miller, Dennis Moran, George Sakellaris and Bristol Whitcher. Along with more than 500 Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge teammates from across the United States and around the world, they will run Massachusetts’ historic marathon route from Hopkinton to Boston to raise $5.5 million for cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. This year marks the 29th annual running of the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge. One hundred percent of the money raised by the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team goes to Dana-Farber’s Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research that supports promising science research in its earliest stages. The Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge has raised more than $85 million for the Barr Program to date. Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge runners include cancer survivors and patients, family and friends of those who have been affected by cancer. Each team member must fulfill a basic fundraising commitment: invitational runners, runners who receive their entry from Dana-Farber, have a fundraising commitment of $5,000. Own entry runners, runners who have joined the DFMC after obtaining their own race entry, have a fundraising commitment of $4,000. A cornerstone of the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge is its Patient Partner Program. Each year, approximately 50 current and former pediatric cancer patients of Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic are paired with DFMC runners as “Patient Partners.” For the young patients, their partnerships with the runners provide a unique and friendly focus outside their illnesses. Another two dozen Partner Program families are paired with runners through the “In-Memory Program” in remembrance of their children’s brave struggle with the disease. For information: 617-632-1970;
[email protected]. Third Friday Eye Opener slated for Feb. 16 The Third Friday Eye Opener will take place from 8-9 a.m. Feb. 16 at the Chamber Office, 11 Florence St., Marlborough. Existing, new and prospective members come together to learn about the many benefits of chamber membership. Participants can expand their business contacts and practice some basic networking skills. Event is free to current, past members and prospective members.
