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"Berkshire COVID-19 Fund HELP-A-THON" to raise awareness and funding for the COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund for Berkshire County. May 28, 2020.
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Tune in TONIGHT
and Help Raise Money for the
BERKSHIRE COVID-19 FUND
Pittsfield Community Television (PCTV) and WTBR-FM, Pittsfield Community Radio, have teamed up with Berkshire United Way, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Northern Berkshire United Way, and Williamstown Community Chest to present a Berkshire COVID-19 Fund HELPATHON to raise awareness and funding for the COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund for Berkshire County.
The HELPATHON will air:
Tonight May 28, from 5-7 PM
with an encore performance
Sunday, May 31, from 6-8 PM.
To date, over $1.4 million from the fund has been distributed to more than 70 nonprofit agencies in the areas of food insecurity, emergency child care, housing, and the homeless, and healthcare and mental health services. The fund has responded to immediate needs for the most vulnerable populations in Berkshire County. There are still ongoing needs in the community that this fund will continue to respond to.
Who will you see?
More than 30 artists connected to Berkshire County are joining forces to raise awareness about the COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund for Berkshire County: including legendary drummer Kenny Aronoff (pictured) and local musicians, Randy Cormier, Matt Cusson, Jonathan Denmark, Jeff Hunt, Steve Sears, Bobby Sweet and Jack Waldheim; actors Karen Allen, Michael Gill and Jayne Atkinson, comedian Kevin Bartini; local award-winning children’s book author Ty Allan Jackson; and more.
Elected officials with messages of support: U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, former Massachusetts Lt. Governor Jane Swift, state Sen. Adam Hinds, state Representatives Tricia Farley-Bouvier and John Barrett, Berkshire County District Attorney Andrea Harrington, and Pittsfield Mayor Linda Tyer.
Plus: Stories from some of the fund’s grantees and local interfaith clergy offering prayers for those lost, struggling, and serving our communities.
Where can you watch it?
Television
Channel 1301, Pittsfield Community Television's Access Pittsfield
Channel 1301, Community Television for Southern Berkshires (CTSB) in Lee, Lenox, Stockbridge, Great Barrington, and Sheffield
Channel 1301, Dalton Community TV
Channel 1301, Northern Berkshire Community Television Corp. (NBCTC) in North Adams, Adams, Cheshire, and Clarksburg
Channel 1302 or 1303, WilliNet, Williamstown Community TV
Channel 191, Lanesborough Community Access
Radio
WTBR-FM 89.7 Pittsfield Community Radio
WMNB-LP 107.1 FM, North Adams
Online
CTSB http://www.ctsbtv.org, Channel 1301 live stream
PCTV Facebook page
Berkshire United Way Facebook page
PCTV Select, available on Roku and Apple TV devices and at www.pittsfieldtv.org
