BACK BAY — 500 guests attended the 140th annual Awards Ceremony and Ball, which was held on Thursday, May 23, 2019 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in the Back Bay. The evening’s emcee was WCVB NewsCenter 5 anchor Maria Stephanos, who helped Boston Fire Commissioner Joe Finn keep things moving during the awards presentations. The honorees included Channel 25 reporter Blair Miller, who has been covering the issue of firefighters diagnosed with cancer while on…

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BOSTON — More than 400 guests attended the Greater Boston Food Bank’s FreshFest, which raised $1.2 million for the nonprofit. That amount is equal to 3.7 million meals for those who face chronic hunger in Eastern Massachusetts. The GBFB, the largest hunger-relief organization in New England, held this annual signature fundraising event on May 16, 2019 in its 117,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center on South Bay Street in Boston that was transformed for the evening’s…

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COPLEY SQUARE — 400 guests attended The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s 2019 “Man & Woman of the Year,” which was held at the Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel on Friday, May 17, 2019. Through the event and the efforts of individuals more than $480,000 was raised for research and patient support. This year’s Woman and Man of the Year are Lauren Jones of Dorchester and Dean Stamoulis of Shrewsbury, whose campaigns raised nearly $100,000. The man…

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BOSTON — More than 400 guests attended the Children’s Action Corps’ “Embracing the Legacy’’ event at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum on May 10, 2019. Robert F. Kennedy children’s Action Corps is a national leader in developing and implementing child welfare, social service, and juvenile justice programs. Congressman Joe Kennedy III, who serves as a board member and was a co-chair of the event, was on hand to recognize this year’s honorees. Former WCVB-TV…

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BOSTON — More than 350 guests celebrated on May 10, 2019 at The McCourt Foundation’s annual gala at the Boston Harbor Hotel, which raised more than $200,000. At the event, the Braintree-based foundation announced that the McCourt family was converting the for-profit business overseeing the Los Angeles Marathon into a nonprofit organization that will raise money to expand its charitable efforts, which today center on neurological research. The money will be distributed via the Foundation.…

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