MFGM Local News and Events
MetLife Financial Group of Massachusetts will be sponsoring and riding in theThe Best Buddies Challenge. Best Buddies is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
Founded in 1989 by Anthony Kennedy Shriver, Best Buddies is a vibrant, international organization that has grown from one original chapter to almost 1,500 middle school, high school, and college chapters worldwide. Best Buddies programs engage participants in each of the 50 United States, and in 50 countries around the world. Best Buddies’ seven formal programs – Best Buddies Middle Schools, High Schools, Colleges, Citizens, e-Buddies, Jobs and Ambassadors – positively impact nearly 700,000 individuals with and without disabilities worldwide.
Best Buddies volunteers annually contribute, at no cost to their communities, support services that equate to morethan $164 million USD. As a result of their involvement with Best Buddies, people with IDD secure rewarding jobs, live on their own, become inspirational leaders, and make lifelong friendships. Although Best Buddies has advanced tremendously in its short existence, many areas of the country and many regions of the world still lack programs to help people with IDD become part of mainstream society. With that in mind, Best Buddies is systematically implementing its 2020 Initiative, which will witness the organization’s continued significant growth, both domestically and overseas.
To learn more about Best Buddies International, visit www.bestbuddies.org. TAKE THE CHALLENGE. CHANGE A LIFE.
You can make a difference! Support Best Buddies and help create one-to-one
friendships between volunteers and people with intellectual disabilities.
Sign up today and join our event Chair, Tom Brady, for the thirteenth Annual
Buddies Challenge: Hyannis Port presented by Country Kitchen on Saturday,
June 2, 2012 from Boston to Hyannis Port, MA.
Select from a 100, 50, or 20-mile bike ride through the New England countryside,
or a 3K walk or 5K runled by Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis. Following your challenge,
pick up your event gift bag, relax with a professional massage, and refuel at a lobster
bake while enjoying a private concert on the beach!
If you are interested in joining team MetLife or donating contact
Peter Bacchiocchi at 508-614-4400!
MetLife Financial Group of Massachusetts hosted the first annual "Niall D. Murphy Softball Tournament" As an Agency we raised over $2000 for Juvenile Diabetes! 
MetLife Financial Group of Massachusetts was a proud sponsor of “Women to Watch 2011”
On March 25th, 2011- Mass High Tech held it’s seventh annual Women to Watch program honoring a record 22 New England-based women
this year who are leading the way in entrepreneurship, technical innovation and lifelong learning.
Jeanine Beratta of sponsor MetLife, left, talks with Michele Baillie of North Shore Patents PC
MetLife Financial Group of Massachusetts would like to Congratulate all of the winners of the 2010 Boston Bike Town Event! MetLife Financial Group of Massachusetts recently took part in Bicycling’s BikeTown USA, presented by MetLife, where 31 of Jamis Commuter 1 bikes were distributed to selected participants in Boston. In eight US cities, people will get the chance to find out how a new bike can change their life, their families – even their communities. BikeTown USA has given away more than 2,300 bikes in towns all over the country in the past  
MetLife Financial Group of Massachusetts has been selected as one of 2010 Best Places to Work by the Boston Business Journal!  
Alan Temkin, Dipak Shah, John Shen, and Sandy Kalkunte from MetLife Financial Group of Massachusetts attended the 2010 South Asian Spelling Bee sponsored by MetLife. The South Asian Spelling Bee is a platform that will give all South Asian students the opportunity to test their skills within their core peer group. In the 78th Nationals Scripps Spelling Bee, over 11% participants were South Asian and over the years many South Asian students have been champions. It is the effort of the South Asian Spelling Bee contest to encourage and promote South Asian talent across the US and to bring this aspect of a South Asian student’s life into the foreground by broadcasting this contest on National Television. For more information visit there website at http://www.southasianspellingbee.com/ They distributed snoopies & t-shirts to the kids. Alan also presented a College Funding seminar to the parents. 
MetLife Financial Group of Massachsuetts has had the great opportunity to present a $50,000 MLF grant to two YMCA locations in East Boston! A grant was made through the 2009 MetLife Foundation (MLF) Out-of-School Time Initiative, which supported innovative after-school programs for middle school youth. Grants totalling $300,000 were awarded to seven youth-serving organizations in Boston, Chicago, Dallas and New York City. The YMCA of Greater Boston, founded in 1851, was the country's first YMCA. Today, the Y provides diverse programs and services for more than 100,000 youth and adults annually. The organization serves more youth than any other nonprofit in Boston, providing an array of recreation, leadership development, skill building and healthy lifestyle programs. It also is the largest provider of after-school programs and child care in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, offers the state's largest summer youth employment program and leverages resources to provide over $10.3 million in critical services at no cost to low-income participants. A partnership with Northeastern University, the program focuses on engaging youth in physical activity each day, providing a healthy snack and good nutrition, limiting screen time both at the Y and at home and helping families adopt healthy lifestyles. MetLife Financial Group of Massachusetts has had the great opportunity to present this check to two YMCA locations in East Boston. We were happy to send one of our local Representatives George Apraku to deliver the checks. Below are two photo's from the day: 
Through the MetLife Foundation Out-of-School Time Initiative, the Y received a $50,000 MLF grant to pilot iPLAY, a healthy lifestyle program, for middle school aged youth who attend Y programs in Chinatown and East Boston.
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