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6 NOVEMBER 10, 2021
FEATURE
A Changing Dynamic
COVID Has Given New Definition to Corporate Stewardship
broadened, and there has some been pivoting, out of both necessity and a desire to serve
in different ways. The panelists are: Paul Scully, president and CEO of Country Bank; Theresa Jasmin, chief financial officer at Big
Y Foods; Amy Scribner, partnership director
at East School-to-Career Inc., a nonprofit that provides internships, or work-based learning opportunities and other career-education initiatives, for students; Jack Verducci, vice president of Corporate Partnership for the Worcester Red Sox; Dexter Johnson, president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Springfield; and Michelle D’Amour, executive director of Ronald McDonald House. Scully may have
set the tone for the discission when he said, “I think the pandemic has been exhausting and aging, but it’s also been reflective, and
I think it’s prompting people to be reflective about how to live your life and how to make a difference.”
BTy George O’Brien
he COVID-19 pandemic has changed the business landscape in countless ways — from where and how employees work to how people
communicate. It has also prompted businesses large and small to stop, think about that phrase ‘corporate stewardship’ and what it means to them, and perhaps re-evaluate this all-important concept. We put together a panel of local business and nonprofit managers
to discuss the broad topic of corporate stewardship and how COVID may have provided new definition — in every aspect of that phrase — to this issue. For businesses, the pandemic has provided an opportunity to revisit the matter of community involvement and often find new and different ways to give back.
For nonprofits, missions have been
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