Advancing Healthcare, Elevating Lives Campaign

Our Message

MassBay Community College prepares tomorrow’s nurses, radiological technicians, surgical technicians, emergency medical technicians, early childhood educators, and social workers through high-quality education and valuable clinical training at local hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, and numerous other institutions. Through its new Center in Framingham, the College will give traditional and adult students opportunities to enter careers that advance their own lives and improve the lives of others.

Dr. David Podell, President of MassBay, and Mike McAuliffe, President and CEO of Middlesex Savings Bank, presenting a donation of 100,000 dollars. Thank you. The creation of MassBay’s new training and education facility in Framingham will enable the College to serve more students than ever before. For decades to come, the lives of toddlers, seniors, individuals dealing with illness, disability, and issues such as addiction, will be transformed by the skill and dedication of MassBay’s highly-trained health and human services graduates who have benefitted from the Center’s programs.

The Opportunity

The Center is the first-ever permanent building constructed specifically for MassBay over its 60-year history. The Greater Boston Regional Workforce Planning Group, convened by the Governor’s Skills Cabinet in 2017, identified health care as the largest employment sector in the region. With a growing population of people 55 years of age and older, the existing gap between supply and demand for health care professionals is expected to reach critical levels in the coming decade. Recognizing the need for a sophisticated health and human services training hub in MetroWest, the Commonwealth invested $57 million in this project, with substantial effort put forward by Massachusetts’ top elected leadership.

“MassBay is a community college… we are publicly funded, but not 100%… so we rely very much on donors… on the generosity of individuals, foundations, companies, banks, and organizations to help us fulfill this dream.”
—  MassBay President David Podell, Ph.D.

The Challenge

At the same time, the MassBay Foundation committed to its first-ever capital campaign. Funding will support construction, as well as the furniture, fixtures, and equipment necessary to provide tomorrow’s professionals with a 21st century facility that befits a 21st century education.

The College and Foundation have raised $4.6 million (92%) toward the $5 million goal. The College recently received fortuitous news. Each of two matching opportunities — one state and one federal — will provide MassBay $1 (up to $333,333) for every $2 it raises (up to $666,666). A deadline of June 30, 2023 is on the horizon.

Will you help MassBay transform the lives of students, families, and whole communities by making a gift to MassBay’s campaign?

Campaign Steering Committee

David Bennett, Senior Vice President, Middlesex Savings Bank

Dr. Jean Dyer, Interim Director of Nursing at MassBay

Kip Hollister, Founder and CEO, The Hollister Group, Boston

Sandy Lish, Principal/Co-Founder, The Castle Group, Boston; Trustee, MassBay Community College

Richard L. Schmalensee, Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management

Robert A. Sherman (Honorary member), Senior Counsel, Greenberg Traurig; Former United States Ambassador to Portugal, Obama Administration

Lawrence H. Summers, Ph.D. (Honorary Member), Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University; Secretary of the Treasury, Clinton Administration; Director, National Economic Council, Obama Administration

Framingham Center Advisory Committee

Carolyn Branach, Principal, Framingham High School

Greg Bunn, Executive Director, MassHire Metro South/West Workforce Board

Martin Cohen, President and Chief Executive Officer, MetroWest Health Foundation

Lino Covarrubias, Chief Executive Officer, Jewish Family Services

Dr. Lynne Davis, Dean of Health Sciences, MassBay Community College

Michelle Drolet, Founder & CEO, Towerwall, Inc. (past member of MassBay Community College Foundation)

Susan Gentili, Chief Executive Director, South Middlesex Opportunity Council

Jay Kim, Executive Director, Foundation for MetroWest

Helen LeMoine, Executive Director, Leadership MetroWest

Rev. Dr. J. Anthony Lloyd, Greater Framingham Community Church

Susan Maggioni, Ph.D., Dean of Business and Professional Studies, MassBay Community College

Bill Raynor, retired Director of Athletics and Special Assistant to the President, MassBay Community College

Rebecca Sendak, Ph.D., Head of R&D North America hub, Sanofi Genzyme

Ways to Give

Donating to MassBay Community College is an investment in the future. Every gift impacts the lives of students and their families, leading to transformational change.

Once you have decided that you would like to support MassBay’s campaign, there are many ways in which you can choose to make a gift.  Most donors find that they can increase the size of their gift if they can make payments over a period of time. Donors are encouraged to make pledges over a 36-month period (four tax years), allowing tax deductions for each year in which payments are made.

For more information, please contact Liz Borg, Campaign Director

MassBayElevatingLives@massbay.edu

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Donor-Advised Funds

Matching Gift Prrograms

Gifts of Appreciated Securities

Planned Gifts

Gifts Of Real Estate, Life Insurance, and Other Personal Property

In-Kind Gifts

Donor Recognition

Named Giving Opportunities