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Tornado ReliefNEWS
Jan. 20, 2012: Springfield Partners is offering free tornado tax return filing services to Hampden County tornado victims declaring property losses on their income taxes.
Experiences tax preparers will offer this free service to homeowners and renters. For more information or to learn more before scheduling an appointment, please click here.
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Rebuilding Assistance
Rebuilding assistance is available for energy-efficient improvements to homes damaged by the tornado.
ReBuild Western Massachusetts is a state Dept. of Energy Resources program offering rebates, grants and 0% interest loans to helping people rebuild after the tornado in energy efficient ways.
For more information or to talk to a case manager, call 877-524-1325. Visit their website for more information.
The Center for Ecological Technology (CET) has information about energy-efficient rebuilding incentives; visit their website for more information.
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Springfield Partners and Our Relief Efforts
|  | | | A tornado food distribution at Springfield Partners in June 2011. |
Springfield Partners has established a fund for tornado relief. Our intent is to give financial assistance for home repairs to homeowners in affected neighborhoods.
Thank you to all who have donated to this fund!
To contribute, please send a check to Springfield Partners, 721 State St., 2nd Floor, Springfield, MA 01109 attn: Tornado Relief Fund. For more information, contact Mary at 263-6500 ext. 6546.
Springfield Partners appreciates all of the donations from generous people who have dropped off water, food and personal care items. Thank you!
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Letter from the Executive Director
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Dear Friends,
Before the June 1 tornado ripped through Springfield and Western Massachusetts, demolishing homes and trees with the ease of a kitten batting at a string, Springfield Partners staff and board members were working on long-term strategic planning.
In the process, a community member drew the analogy of Springfield Partners as a point guard: the player making sure the basketball gets to the right player at the right time.
Days later, Springfield Partners was one of many point guards in the city, working furiously to aid tornado victims. Our longstanding relationships with Springfield non-profits and businesses meant we could quickly team up with many people for the benefit of all.
Within 24 hours, we were rearranging classrooms to make room for 50 Square One daycare pupils at our New Beginnings Childcare Center.
Within 48 hours, the Food Bank's truck was in our parking lot, supplying food and water to affected residents. Three days later, the truck was back for another distribution.
The donations poured in: toiletries, diapers, clothes, pallets of water, non-perishable food. Some came from large corporations, like Coca-Cola. But many donations were from people like Sharon, who drove up from Enfield, Conn. to donate bottled water and spent the afternoon here, passing out water and food - because she simply had to lend a hand.
Everyone at Springfield Partners feels just like Sharon: We must help our neighbors and friends impacted by this disaster.
We must play point guard with more guts and more heart than ever before.
Please join the offense. Springfield needs as many players on this team as possible.
Springfield Partners has established a fund to help tornado victims. We will also continue to accept donations of personal care items, non-perishable food, and bottled water, for distribution to residents in need.
To make a donation of items or cash, please call 413-263-6500.
Sincerely,
Paul F. Bailey, Executive Director
p.s. We sincerely appreciate your donations, and remain in awe of the community's response.
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Partners in Action
Springfield Partners is working with many agencies to help provide tornado relief. The generosity of people and organizations is remarkable, and greatly appreciated.
Our partners & donors include:
Red Cross of Pioneer Valley
Food Bank of Western Massachusetts
Spfld. Dept. of Health & Human Services
United Way of Pioneer Valley
Cottage Hill Church
Northampton Survival Center
Small Smiles Dental Clinic
Partners for a Healthier Community's Oral Health program
Baystate Medical Center's HealthNet
American Friends Service Committee
Springfield Forward
Catholic Charities
HAP Housing
Center for Human Development
Coca-Cola
Springfield Housing Authority
YMCA of Greater Springfield
MLK Charter School
Greater Springfield Council of Churches
Gardner Memorial Church
Mass Mutual
Concerned Citizens of Mason Square
Stop & Shop
ARISE for Social Justice
Men of Color Health Awareness(MOCHA)
Baystate Medical Center's Mason Square Neighborhood Health Center
Dunbar Community Center
Mason Square Health Task Force
St. Andrew's Church, Longmeadow
Sheila Potter Trust
Springfield Family Support Program
Lincoln Technical Institute, Somerville
Community Action Agency of Somerville & Dennis Fischman
Pamala Frye
City of Springfield, Office of Housing
34 Mulberry St. Real Estate Partnership
Paul Teehan Insulation
Tim Olevsky
Maureen O'Neill Mulcahy
Mason Square Library, Springfield
Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School
Council of Churches
Fatmata Williams and her fellow employees at the CT Dept. of Social Services
David Bradley, National Community Action Foundation
Judith Feinstein & Marco Dermith
Members of the Classical Condo Association
Robert "Cee" Jackson and the Masonic Lodge #30
Michelle Muscillo & parents, teachers and students of the Developmental Early Intervention Program at Webb Elementary School in Wethersfield, CT
Michael Charland
Community Action!
Community Action Programs Inter City (CAPIC)
People Acting in Community Endeavors (PACE)
Preferred Mutual Insurance Company
BMC HealthNet
Plastipak Packaging
Francis and Pamela Dean, in honor of Bill Pepin's 60th Birthday
Patrice Woeppel
Mestek, Inc.
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