BIDMC Joins Effort to Make Boston Shine
Nine institutions in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area (LMA) and the Medical Academic and Scientific Community Organization (MASCO) participated in Mayor Menino’s annual Boston Shines city-wide cleanup day on April 26.
Date: 1/1/0001
BIDMC Contact: Jerry Berger
Phone: 617-667-7308
Email: jberger@bidmc.harvard.edu
BOSTON -- Nine institutions in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area (LMA) and the Medical Academic and Scientific Community Organization (MASCO) participated in Mayor Menino’s annual Boston Shines city-wide cleanup day on April 26.
Over $3,000 in supplies, in-kind services and refreshments for volunteers was donated by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Joslin Diabetes Center, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Simmons College, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and MASCO.
The financial contributions by the LMA institutions helped support businesses in Mission Hill, in addition to benefiting the city-wide cleanup effort. Supplies and refreshments were purchased from Mission Hill businesses such as Fuentes Market, JP Licks, and Penguin Pizza. Harvard School of Public Health and Wentworth Institute of Technology institutions provided volunteers for the clean-up effort and and Brigham and Women’s Hospital provided trash removal. MASCO delivered supplies to volunteer groups in the Fenway and Mission Hill neighborhoods as part of the effort to clean up the community. LMA institutions also made a donation to Mission Hill Main Streets to support an ongoing, monthly clean-up effort in the neighborhood that will build upon the Boston Shines effort.
The annual cleanup day, an initiative of Mayor Menino for the City of Boston, is a collaboration of city and public agencies, private organizations, universities, local residents and civic groups.” This was a wonderful opportunity for institutions in the LMA to partner with adjoining neighborhoods, local businesses, and the City of Boston to enhance the community,” says Marilyn Swartz-Lloyd, President and CEO of MASCO.
MASCO (Medical Academic and Scientific Community Organization, Inc.) is a charitable corporation established in 1972 by its member institutions to plan, develop, and enhance the Longwood Medical and Academic Area for the benefit of the general public and its members, and to create and implement programs that assist the institutions and individuals in the LMA.
