Living laboratory will address global issues in student collaboration between Worcester and Africa
WORCESTER Despite the city’s flower beds being entombed in a frozen crust, the Indian Lake Community Association is looking forward to start phase one of its “Community Teaching Garden Literacy Project.”
The association was planning to complete phase one Saturday, Feb. 13, but Mother Nature had other plans. They are now shooting for March 13, the one year anniversary of the Commonwealth-wide shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The site of the garden will be on West Boylston Drive on the parcel of land that was part of the West Boylston Drive Barrier Wall replacement project, Carl Gomes, president of the Indian Lake Community Association Inc., said.
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WORCESTER Ten community-based organizations in Berkshire, Middlesex and Worcester counties will benefit from $100,000 in grants made by Fallon Health to help with COVID-19 recovery.
The grants support agencies that assist populations that are particularly vulnerable to food insecurity as a result of the pandemic or that provide services to seniors to help them overcome or mitigate social isolation.
The following organizations have received funding: Community Harvest Project’s Healthy Hunger Relief to Minimize COVID-19 Community Impact in Grafton, Pernet Family Health Services’ Meeting the Most Basic Needs of Worcester’s At-Risk Families program in Worcester, Regional Environmental Council’s Growing Community Food Security through Worcester Urban Farming in Worcester, Spanish American Center’s Reaching Out to Elders in the Age of COVID program in Leominster, Genesis Club House, Inc’s Mental Health Support for Seniors in Worcester, United Way of Tri-
Six Worcester agencies have won a share of more than $3 million in funding from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation to improve healthcare services.
The grants, which the Boston insurer s philanthropic arm announced Thursday, include $200,000 for UMass Memorial Health Care s Community Healthlink to improve access to behavioral health urgent care and $45,000 each to the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center and the Family Health Center of Worcester for helping eligible consumers obtain health insurance coverage.
In other funding, the Community Builders, a nonprofit with local offices in Boston, received $75,000 for helping address what s known as social determinants of health: challenges that can include poverty and a lack of access to education, child care or transportation. Three other agencies the Family Health Center of Worcester, the Regional Environmental Council and the YWCA Central Massachusetts each obtained between $12,500 and $15,096 for special
Polar Park to house urban garden for locally sourced produce
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Sponsorship logos alongside the stadium are almost as big a part of watching professional baseball as hot dogs and singing “Sweet Caroline.” Whether you’re watching from the stands or on TV, the brightly colored logos of the companies partnering with the team will pop up in the corner of your eye.
Polar Park, future home of the Worcester Red Sox (WooSox) will be no different, but Harvard Pilgrim wanted something “more than just a field facing sign,” said Jack Verducci, WooSox VP of Sales.
Accordingly, this past September, Harvard Pilgrim partnered with WooSox to become the team s official Health and Wellness partner. Verducci said that they were among the first companies to reach out to WooSox after the Polar Park project was announced in 2018.
Fallon Health awards $100,000 in grants to address food insecurity, help seniors in Worcester, Berkshire and Middlesex counties
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
Fallon Health has announced that it is awarding $100,000 worth of grants to organizations in Worcester, Berkshire and Middlesex counties to fund programs that help vulnerable populations.
The dollars are going to 10 community-based organizations, according to Fallon, and will be used to help fund programs that support areas or populations that are particularly vulnerable to food insecurity as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic or that provide services to seniors that overcome or mitigate social isolation.
“This year we received applications from a very competitive pool of 80 organizations, highlighting how the current health care crisis has exacerbated existing social and economic inequities while presenting new challenges,” said Richard Burke, the president and CEO of Fallon Health. “Through these grants in addition to the hu