Left to right: (L to R): Greater Boston Food Bank representative Alisha Collins, Local 4 Business Manager Bill McLaughlin, Local 4 Apprentice Nicole Shepard, Local 4 retiree Ed Harrington. Photo courtesy of Operating Engineers Local 4.

Dedham Savings Bank

The Dedham Savings Community Foundation has donated $5,000 to the New England Center for Arts and Technology. The grant money was used for retention of staff.

The bank also donated $5,000 to the Walpole High School Baseball Boosters. The grant money was used to fund the building of dugouts at Eldrarcher Field for the high school team.

Florence Bank

Florence Bank has pledged $7,500 to the Harmony House of Chicopee to help fund a renovation and expansion that will allow the nonprofit to improve services and care for more terminally ill individuals who live alone or lack a capable caregiver.

Jack Conway & Co.

The Family Pantry of Cape Cod received boxes overflowing with diapers, baby food and clothing gathered by Norwell-based Jack Conway & Co.’s Harwich office during their fourth annual charity drive to benefit children in need.

MutualOne Bank

Framingham-based MutualOne Bank donated $10,000 to Framingham’s Saint Bridget School. The funds will be used to bring the kitchen up to standards necessary to run a hot lunch program and meet the requirements to become a qualified provider of a free and reduced-price lunch program under Title I.

Operating Engineers Local 4

International Union of Operating Engineers Local 4 donated $8,000 to the Greater Boston Food Bank. The donation, which was raised during the union’s Christmas Body Meeting and matched by the local, will provide 23,000 meals to Massachusetts families. The Medway-based local is a building trade union representing more than 5,000 heavy equipment operators, apprentices, mechanics, surveyors, equipment house employees and wastewater technicians throughout Eastern Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine.

Rollstone Bank & Trust

As part of its annual holiday charitable drive, where customers can make a charitable donation in exchange for calendars and gift envelopes, Fitchburg-based Rollstone Bank & Trust also matched all of the customers’ donations, thereby doubling the amount of aid. Local food pantries were the chosen cause, with three area organizations sharing $5,325.

Community Good Works

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