Philanthropy

Turner Holds Annual Donation Drive

Revere, MA – The Turner Construction Company Boston team recently held its “Mac Attack” donation drive. The 2021 drive was the team’s fourth annual event, with collection locations established using new Community Care Cupboards located at project and office sites, in addition to a virtual giving option.

Turner’s Community Care Cupboards, currently stationed at four of Turner’s active project sites across Boston and Cambridge, serve as hubs for team members to give back to the community throughout the year. Employees and workers on site have the opportunity to support the community through donating essentials and by nominating organizations to be recipients of future drives.

Turner’s employee-led resource group, the Military Veterans Network, has worked with staff to collect over 2,836 boxes of macaroni and cheese to donate to the Revere Veteran’s Service Office, an organization that services over 400 families throughout the city of Revere. An additional 175 food and personal care items were donated through a virtual donation drive.

The food donation drive began in 2017 when Turner began coordinating with the Revere Veteran’s Services office. Since its inception, Turner’s Mac Attack Drives have provided thousands of boxes of macaroni and cheese to local veterans and their families.

“Being the daughter of a veteran, I have long understood and appreciated

A Turner employee delivers a truck full of donated boxes of mac and cheese. Photo courtesy of Turner Construction Company

their service and sacrifice to our country and living in Revere I get to see firsthand all of the wonderful things that the Veterans Services Office does to care for these men and women in our community,” said Amanda DiLando, Turner employee and resident of Revere. “As this drive keeps growing each year, it continues to validate the impact this gesture of our gratitude makes for those who have given so much to all of us.”

The drive expanded even further with help from Turner Boston’s Military Veterans Network, an employee resource group with the mission to ensure a positive working environment for veterans and position them for success in their careers. The employee resource group creates outlets to help foster relationships and trust among Turner veterans, similar to the camaraderie established when serving in the armed forces, with the goal of echoing this positivity to Turner peers and the greater community.

“Since 2017, Turner Construction has been a dedicated partner who believes in our mission supporting the needs of Revere vets and their families,” said Marc Silvestri, director of veteran services for the City of Revere. “Turner has been raising the bar every year; they have gone above and beyond. This year they partnered with Boss Steel, and together they donated thousands of boxes of mac and cheese to our local veterans and their families. It’s partnerships like this that help our office thrive and allow us to take veteran services to the next level.”

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IBEW Local 103 Donates Toys to Local Families

Boston – The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 103 were joined in December by Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch, Somerville Mayorelect Katjana Ballantyne and Boston elected officials to pack up thousands of toys for donation to local families for the holidays.

Donations were distributed to multiple organizations across cities, including the South Boston Neighborhood House, the Salvation Army in Quincy, the Somerville Housing Authority, and the Wonderfund, an organization serving children statewide in collaboration with the Department of Children and Families.

This year marks the eighth consecutive year IBEW Local 103 has run a toy collection. “For many of us, this is the best time of year, but we know that for a lot of families, the holidays can be challenging in various ways,” said IBEW Local 103 business manager/financial secretary, Lou Antonellis. “IBEW Local 103 cares deeply about our community, and this is just one small way we can show our neighbors that we’re here for them and we’re thinking about them.”

IBEW Local 103 sent out the call for donations via social media, email, quarterly newsletter and more. The union also purchased new toys for the charity drive. The toys were collected at the IBEW Local 103 Union Hall in Dorchester.

IBEW Local 103 also collected new hats, gloves and scarves to support local, low-income families and women’s shelters this winter. Donations were distributed to multiple organizations across Boston and beyond, including Project Hope, Beyond the Yellow Tape, Salvation Army, Saint Peter Parish, Brookview House and Eliot Church, among others.

Quincy Mayor Koch (center) joins IBEW Local 103 for a holiday toy drive event.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (center right) joins IBEW Local 103 for a toy drive event. IBEW Local 103 members load up toy donations for distribution.

IINE Receives Donation

Woburn, MA – Cummings Foundation recently donated $200,000 to the Afghan Evacuee Support Initiative of the nonprofit International Institute of New England (IINE), led by president and CEO, Jeffrey Thielman.

Jeffrey Thielman and Joyce Vyriotes

Cummings Foundation is the philanthropic affiliate of Cummings Properties, which manages 11 million sq. ft. of commercial space in suburban Boston. “Cummings Foundation does not often make such substantial gifts outside of our annual $25 Million Grant Program, but we found this need both compelling and urgent,” said Executive Director Joyce Vyriotes.

IINE is already providing ongoing case management to approximately 350 Afghans whom it has welcomed since the end of the war in Afghanistan, in August 2021. In the coming weeks, it expects to support an additional 300 Afghans who are being resettled in Massachusetts.

“I am overwhelmed and so thankful for this generosity,” said Thielman. “The people we are serving have come to the United States for a new beginning. Although they have suffered enormous trauma, they are resilient, and this support will help them start over and launch their futures.”

Among the evacuees are interpreters, drivers, soldiers, and others who supported the U.S. military, as well as aid

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Thielman discusses the work IINE does for Afghan refugees. workers and people who worked for the U.S. government and non-governmental organizations.

“We’re so grateful for the many services IINE provides to help these Afghan allies rebuild their lives in a new home,” said Vyriotes. “Its employment training, in particular, will be incredibly beneficial, not only for the evacuees but also local businesses. With so many companies really struggling to hire staff right now, the timing of the arrival of these new neighbors could be ideal.”

Employment training is one of the many services offered by IINE. The Boston-based nonprofit also supports evacuees through direct financial aid, temporary and permanent housing, medical care, cultural orientation, public school enrollment, and English language and literacy classes.