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Friday, April 10, 2009
Tech Citizenship
Local techs lending a hand
By Mass High Tech staff
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Takeda brings two LSO players to Dana-Farber
Japanese drug maker Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., the parent company of Cambridge-based Millennium: the Takeda Oncology Co., is sponsoring the eighth season of the Takeda Global Concert Series, which brings the London Symphony Orchestra to cities around the world.
As part of the series, the orchestra participates in Musicians on Call, a program where two to four musicians from the orchestra perform at community centers, hospitals and schools in each city it visits, bringing music to more than 35,000 people each year. They seek to bring music to people, such as the elderly and hospital patients, who are unable to get to the concert hall.
“We like to think that music can lighten and enrich their day,” said Kathryn McDowell, managing director of the orchestra.
On March 26, two musicians from the LSO performed for patients and staff at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Robert Turner played the viola and Hilary Jones played the cello.
Intel awards Computer Clubhouse scholarships
The Intel Computer Clubhouse Network at the Museum of Science has awarded 26 Computer Clubhouse youth with Clubhouse-to-College Scholarships. One of the recipients is Shavoryia McElroy, 17, a Blue Hill Boys & Girls Club member in Dorchester, who has been active in the Computer Clubhouse for nearly 10 years.
With funding from the Intel Foundation, C2C Scholarships are intended to provide the resources to selected Computer Clubhouse members or alumni to support their transition to post high school education. The Intel Foundation has committed $600,000 to the C2C Scholarship program over the next five years, which allows the Computer Clubhouse Network to provide greater financial support and expand the number of scholarships to members and alumni who are pursuing secondary education.
BHCC brings home $7.5K Hughes Foundation grant
The John E. and Jeanne T. Hughes Charitable Foundation awarded Bunker Hill Community College a $7,500 grant to provide financial support for the second year of the Community Center for Entrepreneurship. The college launched the center a year ago with a $5,000 grant from a Hughes partner, the Coleman Foundation.
Over the past year, the center has hosted meetings with local business leaders to respond to the community’s training needs, organized a series of events built around the theme of developing entrepreneurship skills and founded the Entrepreneurship Consortium with Boston University, Babson College, Harvard University, Simmons College, Northeastern University and MIT. The aim of all of these activities is to help students and local business owners develop entrepreneurship skills. The CCE has also received funds from The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006.
Fresenius donates $30K to Naugatuck
Fresenius Medical Care North America, a Waltham-based dialysis network operator, has donated $30,000 to Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury, Conn., to help equip its new nursing simulation lab with state-of-the-art training tools.
The lab is equipped with high-tech tools to help students prepare for real patient-care scenarios in clinical settings and test their analytical and decision-making skills. The life-like Laerdal SimMan mannequins react to external stimuli, similar to a real patient, and students will use them to test their decision-making skills in different patient-care scenarios. The mannequins react to treatments such as CPR, defibrillation, tracheal intubation, ventilation and a variety of other interventions.
Staples Foundation gives area nonprofits $480K
The Staples Foundation for Learning Inc., a private foundation created by Staples Inc., has donated more than $480,000 to 21 Boston-area nonprofit organizations.
In addition to awarding grants to nonprofits that focus on providing educational and job skills programs to at-risk youth, Staples funds local philanthropic events that raise awareness of their work in the community. Staples donated $220,000 to support events for 12 Boston-based organizations, including the Boston Public Library and the United Way of Boston and Merrimack Valley, among others.
Staples Foundation for Learning also awarded nine grants totaling $262,000 to nonprofit organizations throughout Massachusetts in support of local youth. These organizations provide programs focused on educational development, job skills and diversity, and include the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, Horizons for Homeless Children, Massachusetts General Hospital and Tenacity, among others.
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