The Westfield Foundation favors grants for programs or projects, which focus primarily on the community of Westfield or groups serving the Westfield community and this quarter's recipients include: Emmanuel Cancer Foundation, Furniture Assist, Family Promise, Streetlight Mission, Planned Parenthood, Literacy Volunteers, Cerebral Palsy League and Sage Eldercare.
Also, the foundation announces the new executive board for 2012-13: Bill Foley, president; Rick Coltrera, vice-president; Alice Fertig, treasurer; and Donnell Carr, secretary.
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Social enterprise, HandiConnect, wins the Audacious-Business Idea competition’s Doing Good category. The company is spearheaded by University of Otago entrepreneurship master’s student Nguyen Cam Van.