December 2020
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Philanthropy
City Realty Group Donates Laptops
Turner Construction Holds Donation Drive Revere, MA – The Turner Construction Company Boston team has established a unique way to support local, former servicemen and women and their families by holding an annual macaroni and cheese, “Mac Attack,” donation drive. The 2020 drive was the third successful event, with collection locations across nine project and office sites in addition to a new option this year for virtual giving. Turner’s employee led resource group, the Military Veterans Network, has worked with staff to collect over 1,500 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. Since its inception in 2017, the drive has expanded 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
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this positivity to Turner peers and the greater community. “As the office of Veterans’ Services, helping change lives is what we strive for daily,” said Marc Silvestri, director of Veteran Services for the city of Revere. “In doing so we are not only strengthening our veterans and family members, we are strengthening our community as a whole. This being our goal, it can’t be done alone… It has been an honor a company the size of Turner Construction still has the respect to honor the smaller veteran organizations such as the city of Revere.” Since its inception, Turner’s Mac Attack drives have provided thousands of boxes of macaroni and cheese to local veterans and their families.
Pictured outside the Eliot School with students are (l-r) Sal LaMattina, City Realty managing partner; Stephen Whalen, Eliot School principal; Traci Walker Griffith; and City Realty VP of operations, Jimmy Caruso.
Boston – City Kids, a youth education nonprofit founded by City Realty Group managing partners Fred Starikov and Stephen Whalen, donated 10 new Chromebook laptop computers to students at the Eliot K-8 Innovation School, the oldest continuously-operating public school in Boston. City Kids and City Realty Group were joined by former District 1 city councilor, Sal LaMattina, to personally deliver the Chromebooks to Eliot School principal, Traci Walker Griffith, and students who need them for at-home learning. This timely donation comes when Boston Public Schools has paused reopening plans after the city’s COVID-19 positive test increased. This means there is
more at-home learning and more urgency to help students-in-need to ensure they have the proper resources to participate in school from home. To date, the City Kids program has donated more than 2,000 laptops to local schools and educational programs. City Kids is a nonprofit program whose goal is to spark intellectual curiosity in the children of Boston by providing them with unique experiences and powerful educational resources. The program provides summer camp scholarships, art programs, free yoga classes, playground clean-ups, backpack giveaways, community meals and even surfing trips to New England beaches.
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