Friday, August 8, 2008

Tech Citizenship

Millennium employees take a day to help out around Hub

Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. held its 10th annual Community Service Day late in June. The Cambridge-based unit of Takeda celebrated by volunteering at 10 sites around Boston and Cambridge. Community Service Day is the flagship event for “Millennium Makes a Difference,” the company’s grass-roots organization for contributing time and talent to charitable organizations and community events. More than 300 employees, family members and friends participate each year, according to Millennium. The 10 sites throughout Boston and Cambridge were: Cambridge Community Center, Cambridge YMCA, Charles River Conservatory, Cradles to Crayons, Community Servings, Emerald Necklace, Greater Boston Food Bank, Hale House, Heading Home/Shelter Inc. and the Margaret Fuller House.

Intel Mass. anniversary gift: 1M volunteer hours

To commemorate a pair of Intel anniversaries, Intel Massachusetts, which is celebrating its 10-year anniversary in Hudson, and its parent company, Intel Corp., are giving back 1 million hours of volunteer support. Also, employees who volunteer at nonprofit organizations will earn a matching grant for that organization from the Intel Foundation. Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) itself is celebrating 40 years as a company.

Intel has invested more than $2 billion in transforming the Hudson semiconductor fabrication facility into a high-volume manufacturing site. The facility, which is the same site where Digital Equipment Corp. made its Alpha processor, came with Intel’s 1997 purchase for $700 million of DEC’s chip-manufacturing business.

Bank funds cyber cafe at UMass Dartmouth

Rockland Trust donated $50,000 to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to help create the Rockland Trust Cyber Cafe in the Claire T. Carney Library. The project is slated to begin in Fall 2010.

UMass Dartmouth chancellor Jean MacCormack said the donation will help the school transform the library, which she called “the intellectual heart of the university,” into a hub of knowledge creation, dissemination and interaction.

Jenzabar to award grants to seven student leaders

The Jenzabar Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Boston-based Jenzabar Inc., is sponsoring its 2008 Student Leadership Awards, recognizing seven student groups and their respective leaders who have exemplified a commitment to making a difference in the world through community service.

The foundation will award seven grants of $5,000 to each winning activity. Submissions must be received by Sept. 12 and the winners will be announced at the end of October.

The award categories include: local and community support to assist individuals or groups that are under-served by existing community resources, international humanitarian efforts, campus ministry programs that reach outside campus boundaries, education outreach to groups or individuals not enrolled in the institution, health care provisioning or awareness; environmental protection, natural resource management, alternative energy promotion or climate/habitat awareness; and issue advocacy targeted to local, state or federal government.

Info security group raises funds for fire victim relief

The National Information Security Group has raised more than $20,000 in cash and donations this year through its 10-week security certification training program and through its fundraiser to provide relief following a fire in an apartment building in Framingham. Since 2004, NAISG has raised more than $43,000 and has donated funds to the Boston Children’s Hospital Trust, the Caitlin Raymond International Registry and the Permananda Orphanage Centre.

SeaView goes golfing for the Jimmy Fund

Sea View Technologies Inc. and TradeWinds Mechanical Services LLC, both Exeter, N.H.-based companies, are teaming up to host their fourth-annual golf tournament to benefit the Jimmy Fund on Monday, Sept. 29 at the Atkinson Resort and Country Club in Atkinson, N.H. 

Registration is under way. Participation in the tourney costs $170 per player and the fee includes a round of golf, box lunch, dinner and an invitation to the awards ceremony. For more information, visit www.seaviewtechgolfclassic.com. To be a sponsor, visit the website, then e-mail June Pinkham at jpinkham@seaviewtech.com or call 603-436-3733.