December 2025: Our Clients Making Recent Headlines

Girl Scout cookies arrive early in Eastern Mass. Here's how you can get them now.

Cookie Season is back! In Eastern Massachusetts, Girl Scout Cookie Season kicked off on December 3 and runs through March 6, 2026. In Central and Western Massachusetts, the season runs from January 16 through March 15, 2026.

Pan-Mass Challenge Names Belle Nace as Fundraising Coordinator

The Pan-Mass Challenge has appointed longtime participant and volunteer Belle Nace as its new Fundraising Coordinator, where she will support year-round fundraising, donor engagement, and rider and event initiatives. Nace previously served as a fundraising intern with the PMC and brings firsthand experience with the organization’s mission, along with a background in marketing and a deep personal connection to its cancer research and patient care efforts at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Coverage appeared in State House News Service, MassNonprofit News, and Daily Times Chronicle.

Healey-Driscoll Administration Honors Local Girl Scouts, Volunteers With Service Awards

Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll celebrated 32 volunteers of the Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts at a ceremony in Worcester.

Local company aims to make robotics more approachable as a career choice and tool

Piaggio Fast Forward (PFF) is a Boston-based robotics company founded in 2015 by the Piaggio Group. To celebrate their 10th anniversary, they invited students from Dorchester’s Holland High School of Technology and young staff from the nonprofit bookstore More Than Words for an open house event on December 12th. PFF employees showcased their cargo-carrying robots and demonstrated what a career in STEM might look like. Bay State Banner’s story shined a light on PFF’s investment in fostering innovative young minds, and as a valuable community partner.