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GLCAC Receives Grant from Eastern Bank
The Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation is supporting local organizations focused on helping the community during the pandemic.
The Greater Lawrence Community Action Council, Inc. has received a $25,000 grant from Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation for COVID-19 relief efforts.
The grant is part of a commitment from the Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation to provide financial support to local organizations focused on helping the community during the pandemic.
“On behalf of our Board of Directors, staff, volunteers and clients, thank you to Eastern Bank for continuing to partner with GLCAC, Inc. to support our community,’’ said GLCAC Executive Director Evelyn Friedman. “From our Heroes in Action Galas over the past four years, during the gas disaster in 2018-2019, and now, during the Covid-19 pandemic, when so many are in need, Eastern Bank continues to step up.’’
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During the early days and weeks of the pandemic, Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation began to lend its support as quickly as possible, and it has steadily increased throughout 2020 the amount of unsolicited grants to nonprofit organizations. In total, $11 million in COVID-19 relief grants has been provided to hundreds of local and regional organizations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island in 2020.
The most recent funding supports organizations focused on housing stability, homelessness, food security, and essential services and utilities for low- and moderate-income individuals and families.
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“Housing, homelessness and food insecurity have long been challenges in our local communities that are being made worse by the double impact of the pandemic and approaching winter season,” said Nancy Huntington Stager, President and CEO of Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation. “Thank you to the organizations and people bravely working on the front lines to support our neighbors in need providing vital assistance during these times. The need for corporate philanthropic support of our nonprofit partners is as great now as it was at the beginning of the pandemic, and we invite those who can to join us in giving their support.”
GLCAC is a multi-faceted social services agency that assists more than 32,000 individuals through a range of programs including early childhood education, fuel assistance, WIC nutrition assistance, immigration services, lead poisoning prevention, child abuse prevention, English-language lessons, and consumer protection.
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