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NORTHAMPTON — A new partnership involving Cooley Dickinson Clinic, a member of Mass Common Brigham, and The Foods Bank of Western Massachusetts will profit individuals who knowledge foodstuff insecurity. The Meals Lender will acquire $500,000 from Mass Normal Brigham about four several years to start the partnership, which is envisioned to start this spring.
People screened for food stuff insecurity, as perfectly as other social determinants of well being, together with housing and transportation, will be referred to the new system, if insufficient access to foodstuff surfaces as a have to have.
Considering that 2018, The Food items Bank has collaborated with local wellbeing treatment providers to tackle meals insecurity by means of The Food items Bank’s Food stuff Insecurity Screening and Referral Initiative (FISRI).
With the funding from Mass Typical Brigham, The Foods Lender will be equipped to extend the screening and referral application to additional clients who are foods insecure and hire a committed foodstuff aid referral coordinator. The coordinator will be in a position to serve 200 clients each year for a whole of 800 individuals in excess of the four-yr partnership.
EASTHAMPTON — bankESB has promoted Tracey K. Howell to branch officer and Alicia Austin to assistant branch supervisor of its State Street, Belchertown, workplace.
Howell joined bankESB in 2007 as a aspect-time teller and given that then has been promoted to senior teller, assistant branch manager, and now branch officer. She has far more than 25 yrs of banking expertise, possessing beforehand served as assistant branch supervisor of Charter One particular Bank. She studied internet marketing, economics, accounting, and administration at the American Institute of Banking and volunteers at the Lathrop Residence in Northampton. Howell and her family members stay in Belchertown.
Austin joined bankESB in 2018 as a teller and was most not too long ago a teller supervisor in advance of being named assistant department supervisor. She attended the two UMass Amherst’s Stockbridge College of Agriculture as perfectly as Holyoke Local community Higher education. Austin and her family stay in Belchertown.
Management Pioneer
Valley’s leader
to move down
SPRINGFIELD — Lora Wondolowski, the founding govt director of Management Pioneer Valley (LPV), and the organization’s leader considering that 2011, will go away her article on April 1.
Wondolowski’s leadership has been integral to all facets of LPV’s functions with notable successes like the growth of the main LEAP software, Leaders on Board initiative, making strategic partnerships, and increasing and stabilizing functions and organizational procedures. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the initially graduating course.
On Wondolowski’s departure, the board strategies to appoint an interim government director until eventually getting a permanent executive director.
Leadership Pioneer Valley’s mission is to is to determine, build, and link assorted leaders to bolster the Pioneer Valley.
HOLYOKE — Evelyn Rivera-Riffenburg of Holyoke is the new executive director of human assets at Holyoke Neighborhood Higher education.
Rivera-Riffenburg has labored in human methods for extra than 25 several years. She started out her profession as a staff assistant and has most a short while ago labored as director of human assets for Chicopee Community Faculties. Her prior employment highlighted positions in human assets for the city of Amherst, Medtronic (previously Covidien), Hot Mama’s Foods, C & S Wholesale Grocers, and Coca-Cola. She is also an adjunct professor at Bay Route College and Western New England College.
She commenced her place at HCC in January.
Rivera-Riffenburg started her undergraduate education and learning at HCC prior to transferring to Baker College, where she graduated with her bachelor’s diploma in human resource’s administration. She retains master’s degrees in communications and info administration from Bay Route College and in organizational leadership from Southern New Hampshire University.
SPRINGFIELD — Tricia Canavan has been named CEO of Tech Foundry, effective March 21. She will do well Bruce Dixon, who has resigned to pursue new possibilities.
The Tech Foundry is a nonprofit whose mission it is to help the region’s increasing will need for a competent technologies workforce and elevate underrepresented groups into sustainable careers in information and facts technology.
Established in 2014, the Tech Foundry has made available internships, networking possibilities and instruction to traditionally low-revenue, underserved populations, making ready graduates for entry-degree IT get the job done in the Pioneer Valley. These plans are offered cost-free of demand to individuals by way of donations from location firms and members of the community local community.
With a track record in nonprofit and company management, workforce enhancement and adult instruction, Canavan currently serves as government vice president of company relations and advocacy for Masis Staffing Solutions. Beforehand, she served as CEO of United Personnel, which was obtained by Masis in Might of 2021.
Canavan is chair of the Financial Improvement Council of Western MA, co-chair of Springfield Organization Leaders for Training and also serves on the boards of the Associated Industries of MA, MassHire Hampden County and the Springfield Community Discussion board.
