Dwalin DeBoer, Mack program manager, completes Kids’ Fun Run at Race for the Cure with son, Callum. Photo courtesy of Colin Moore.
Mack’s philosophy reflects a deep commitment to the communities in which it operates. Examples include:
- Employment support for Crystal House, a social and vocational center in Gardner, Mass., and member of the Massachusetts Clubhouse Coalition.
- Improvement of the Town Hall property in Cavendish, Vt., to include a town playground and park, including a gazebo-style roof, picnic tables and sandboxes.
- Donation of a 92-acre parcel of land appraised at $100,000 to the Arlington Area Childcare organization for a new early care and education center for Arlington youth, ages eight weeks to 12 years.
- Space renovation for Arlington’s day care center, including the installation of a firewall and firesafe doors, new windows and a playground.
- Ongoing sponsorship of the Battenkill Duck Derby, the day care center’s annual fundraiser.
- Improvements to the Cavendish Little League Field, including a new backstop, sod, bases, a scoreboard, and materials and labor to install fencing, build bleachers and paint.
- Contribution to Arlington Memorial High School, which resulted in a new technology center with 25 new computers.
- Seed money to build a teen center – Burdette Commons – in Arlington.
- Donation to Southwestern Vermont Medical Center for major renovations to the area’s only hospital.
- Ongoing sponsorship of runners and walkers in the annual Komen New Hampshire-Vermont Race for the Cure.
- Major contribution to the Mack Performing Arts Center, Arlington Memorial High School, which includes a 140-seat theatre, stage, theatre lighting, stage curtains, dance studio, canopy, outdoor courtyard, and space for music classes, oratory presentations and literary activities.
- State-of-the-art flooring and acoustical ceiling tiles for Fisher Elementary School’s renovation of its multi-purpose room.
- Sponsorship of other Arlington Memorial High School programs, including regular visits by nationally acclaimed poets, faculty attendance at the annual Dodge Poetry Festival, Wall Street Journal subscriptions for Economics class, job shadowing opportunities, AAU Girls’ Basketball sponsorship, two AAU BB trips to ESPN & Disney, 2007 Soccer Classic, and Youth Soccer Trip to England.
