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Mary Russo has been named president and CEO of the Mental Health Association of Rochester/Monroe County. Russo, who recently served as the nonprofit’s interim president and CEO, previously was chief financial officer at the Louis S. Wolk Jewish Community Center ...

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The George Eastman Museum has received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support its Preserving and Improving Access to the Boyer Collection project. The NEH grant, from its Division of Preservation and Access, Humanities Collections ...

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The Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester has selected a longtime member to serve a two-year term as president. Julie Nusbaum, a freelance writer, was inaugural chairwoman of the federation’s Levine Center to End Hate, and previously chaired the Community Relations ...

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The Early Head Start program at Community Action of Orleans and Genesee Inc. has been awarded nearly $800,000 in federal funding. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funding will be used to support childcare services for low-income families ...

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More than 300 people visited General Motors Co.’s Rochester Operations on Saturday for a unique event that helped raise funds for Veterans Outreach Center of Rochester. GM Rochester Operations hosted its first car show that featured 65 classic and vintage ...

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The Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative has chosen a nonprofit leader to co-chair its steering committee. Jerome Underwood, who serves as president and CEO of Action for a Better Community Inc., will share steering committee duties with Nazareth College of Rochester President ...

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Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo announced yesterday that the Seneca Park Zoo’s new snow leopard cub has been named Silver in honor of the Silver family. The Silvers have operated the Rochester Red Wings for over 60 years. Morrie Silver ...

Flower City Habitat for Humanity has completed two zombie house renovations as part of its Vacant and Abandoned Homes pilot program with the city of Rochester. The goal of the initiative is to eliminate the growing abandoned home issue, which ...

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A $50,000 grant from the Golisano Foundation will help launch the new Amina Grace speech and language program at GiGi’s Playhouse Rochester. “We are extremely excited to give our participants the opportunity to succeed even more with the help of ...

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A multigenerational farm on Brace Road in the Ontario County town of Canandaigua is more economically secure now that the Brocklebank family has agreed to provide a conservation easement to the state. The easement provides Scott and Travis Brocklebank, the ...

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Robert Duffy and Bryan O’Malley will be honored when the Center for Disability Rights (CDR) hosts its annual gala fundraiser on Thursday night. Duffy, president and CEO of the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce, and O’Malley, executive director of the Consumer ...

Tamara MacDuff, owner of NOW Digital Marketing, has been named president of the Rochester Professional Consultants Network. Enhancing the connection between the RPCN and the community will be a goal for MacDuff. “Everyone communicates, few connect,” MacDuff said in a ...

Julie St. Germaine, president and co-owner of Image360 Rochester, has begun her one-year term as president of Rochester Rotary. A Rotarian since 2008, St. Germaine has filled a number of leadership roles, including a spot on the club’s board of ...

Volunteers of America Upstate New York has selected former Holy Sepulchre Cemetery CEO Lynn Sullivan as its new president and CEO. Sullivan will begin her tenure with the nonprofit Aug. 12. “Lynn is an amazingly talented person. We feel very ...

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While fun and games are very much a part of the American Council of the Blind’s annual convention that’s taking place in Rochester this week — from a ride down the Erie Canal on the Colonial Belle to a tour of ...