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Massachusetts Responds to Katrina
The
Clowes Fund made a grant of $10,000 to the American Red Cross
for immediate relief efforts. Emergency grants approved between
annual board meetings are restricted to $10,000 or less. The Clowes
Fund will continue to monitor the situation and will consider additional
funding to meet recovery and rebuilding efforts.
The President of Draper
Laboratory announced to employees that contributions they make
through Sept. 15 to The American Red Cross or to America's Second
Harvest will be matched dollar for dollar. This matching gifts fundraiser
for the Katrina Relief Effort yielded total contribution of $131,700.
(The American Red Cross will receive $78,018 and America's Second
Harvest will receive $53,682.)
Massachusetts Bar
Foundation Contributes to Hurricane Katrina Relief Effort
On behalf of the MBF Fellows, the Foundation recently awarded a
grant of $10,000 to the National Legal Aid and Defender Association’s
Helping Hands: the Equal Justice Colleagues’ Support Fund.
The fund was established to provide financial assistance to legal
aid staff and public defender officers who have suffered direct
and significant personal loss as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
Made on behalf of the MBF Fellows, this gift will be used to assist
staff of civil legal aid agencies in the affected areas.
“In the wake of such a catastrophic disaster, the MBF Trustees
felt strongly that the Foundation could play a role in aiding the
long-term redevelopment efforts in those areas affected by Hurricane
Katrina,” said MBF President Francis A. Ford. “NLADA’s
Helping Hands Fund is an excellent opportunity for us to provide
direct assistance to those individuals working hard every day to
ensure equal access to justice. In this time of crisis, our assistance
will be critical to the daunting task of re-establishing civil legal
assistance resources for the thousands of low-income residents in
the region most impacted by the storm.”
The MBF is proud to join its colleagues in the legal community who
have generously supported NLADA’s Helping Hands Fund and the
many other relief efforts nationwide. For more information about
this fund, please visit: www.nlada.org.
Middlesex
Savings Bank has designated $100,000 for Katrina-related relief
and recovery efforts. $25,000 will be awarded to Habitat for Humanity,
and an additional $75,000 has been put aside for distribution over
the next 12 months for shelter and other related needs. Visit the
Bank's website for more information about this grant.
The
Millipore Foundation has made a contribution of $100,000 to
the American Red Cross for the Katrina Hurricane Relief Fund. They
are also matching all Millipore employee contributions 1:1 through
the Foundation's Matching Gift Program.
The
New York Times Company Foundation, parent of the Boston
Globe Foundation, has established a special Hurricane Katrina
category for its Matching Gifts program. Contributions for relief
by any employee, retiree, officer or director of the Company to
any of three principal relief agencies - the American Red Cross,
the Salvation Army and the United Way of America - will be eligible
for Foundation payments of $1.50 for each $1 contributed.
They have selected these three organizations in order to act as
quickly as possible and because of their record of effectiveness
in past disasters. This special category of matching grants applies
to gifts made starting August 29, 2005 through the end of the year.
Please note, the normal Matching Gifts program continues in place,
for contributions to educational, cultural, environmental and journalistic
organizations. Total matches remain limited to $3,000 in contributions
per employee each year.
The
State Street Corporation will make a $200,000 donation to the
American Red Cross for Katrina relief, and will also establish a
special $100,000 fund for employee matching gifts for this disaster.
More than 10,000 Verizon
employee volunteers answered calls at the Sept. 9 national telethon,
which raised more than $30 million. One of the call centers was
in Andover, Massachusetts, and fully staffed by employees from the
area. Employee and Verizon Foundation contributions totaled more
than $8 million through the foundation's special relief fund to
aid Katrina victims. Provision of Verizon Wireless cell phones and
20,000 prepaid calling cards were sent to hurricane victims. Verizon
Wireless customers were able to use text messaging to make donations
to the American Red Cross. Verizon deployed pay phone trailers and
phone banks for use by evacuees across 4 states and cell phone equipment
on wheels (COWS) in Mississippi to boost cellular phone signals
in areas near Kessler Air Force Base near Biloxi. When evacuees
were sent to Otis Air Base in Massachusetts, Verizon worked with
the state to mobilize the base with pay phones and cell phones.
Additionally, Verizon donated 20 laptops to the Red Cross in Fort
Worth, Texas, and 45 laptops to the Red Cross of Dallas.
We will continue to update this list as we receive new information.
If you have a resource you would like us to add, or story you would
like to share about a local response by one of our members or partners,
please contact Miki Akimoto at makimoto@agmconnect.org.
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