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Registration is open for the final two sessions of the Bridging Divides, Healing Communities Speaker Series. The next session, titled âHow Modern Media Can Create and Bridge Divides,â will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The guest speakers are Alec MacGillis, politics and government reporter at ProPublica, and Charles M. Sennott, founder, CEO and editor of The GroundTruth Project and Report for America. They will discuss how cable news and social media are amplifying narratives of discord as unbiased local news organizations disappear, the impact of these shifts on our discourse and institutions, and how to repair the damage. The conversation will be moderated by Fredric D. Rutberg, president and publisher of The Berkshire Eagle. ....
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.” ....
Grant Program Gives Berkshire Organizations Shot in the Arm Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation announced in a press release Monday (Jan. 25) the distribution of over $48,000 through its Bridging Divides, Healing Communities grant program, a new initiative to support community-building activities aimed at strengthening relationships and trust at the local level, especially among people who hold different points of view or come from different backgrounds. Twenty-one organizations in four counties received grants of up to $2,500 for projects that seek to bring people together for the purposes of exploring shared interests, addressing a problem through dialogue and action, or considering an issue through a range of perspectives. ....