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Recipients of PPE to date are:
Agawam Dept. of Public Health
Boys and Girls Club of Chicopee
Chicopee Food Force
Granville Fire Department
Granville Police Department
Granville Public Library
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Lovin' Spoonfuls
Ludlow Senior Center
Ministry En Motion
One Holyoke CDC
Southwick Senior Center
Quarry Hill Community School in Monson
Tolland Fire Department
Westfield Senior Center
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Our distributions include various sizes of hand sanitizer bottles, hand sanitizing stations, disposable masks, gloves, face masks, face shields, cleaning wipes, and countertop sneeze guards. Donations also included hula hoops and pool noodles to help young children learn about social distancing.
“Keeping our municipal governments and community essential services such as food pantries safely open for business is our top priority, and we thank our community’s generous contributors for our ability to help keep essential workers in Hampden County, Granby, and South Hadley safe,” said Paul Mina, President & CEO, United Way of Pioneer Valley.
In addition to the community investments from our COVID-19 fund, we also provided a variety of direct services, including:
Thrive – free, confidential, one-on-one financial coaching, now with a toll-free hotline: 833.308.4748
Mass2-1-1 – the Commonwealth’s official COVID-19 response hotline
Call2Talk – Mass2-1-1’s mental health and emotional support hotline
Project Toybox – thousands of toys for children now learning from home
Thousands of both frozen and shelf-stable meals to area food pantries and the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts
More information about our COVID-19 response efforts be found at uwpv.org/covid19, and donations can be made at uwpv.org/covid19-donate.