Community Good Works
Eastern Bank employees volunteered to stack shelves, pack grocery bags and unload a 13,650-pound shipment of produce at Catholic Charities South’s Brockton food pantry. See who else gave back.
Community Good Works
Boston-based Eastern Bank said its foundation has made a $10 million, three-year commitment to its new “Career-Focused English Proficiency Initiative.” See who else gave back.
Community Good Works
Beverly residential brokerage J Barrett & Company announced its agents raised $6,000 to give to a local cancer support group that it matched dollar-for-dollar. See who else gave back.
Community Good Works
Fitchburg’s Rollstone Bank gave $10,000 to Ginny’s Helping Hand to help fund food, clothing and other daily basics for people in need in Leominster. See who else gave back.
Community Good Works
The Cummings Foundation, the philanthropic arm of suburban Boston CRE giant Cummings Properties, gave $2 million to Regis College to help train more nurses and establish a healthcare clinic in Woburn. See who else gave back.
Rent Acceleration Clauses Alive and Well After SJC Decision
The Supreme Judicial Court has upheld the validity of rent acceleration clauses in commercial leases in a recent case.
Community Good Works
Cummings funded a “a new social and economic justice” initiative for “underrepresented entrepreneurs.” See who else gave back.
Hot Property: Tufts University Joyce Cummings Center
The Joyce Cummings Center at Tufts University received national recognition by a building trades group for efficiency in a design-build project.
Community Good Works
Quincy-based South Shore Bank Father Bill’s & MainSpring has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation in support of the non-profit’s innovative Yawkey Housing Resource Center in Quincy.
Community Good Works
As part of the festivities for the opening of Harvard University Employees Credit Union’s new location in the Longwood Medical Area, the credit union presented Boston Children’s Hospital with a $10,000 donation.
Real Estate Power Couple Makes Big Gift to Boston Tech College
The commercial real estate power couple behind Cummings Properties has made a $12.5 million donation to a Boston technical college focused on first-generation college students and students of color.
Community Good Works
From a surprise $200,000 gift to help Afghan refugees to smaller donations to help their neighbors get through the winter, local commercial real estate firms, banks and credit unions gave back in many ways in recent weeks.
Community Good Works
From a $20 million gift to the donation of 25 employees’ time, CRE firms, banks and credit unions gave back in big ways recently.
Personnel File
From new VPs to fresh project managers, see who’s been hired, promoted and honored: it’s the latest edition of Banker & Tradesman’s Personnel File.
