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    E. M. Duggan: Giving Back to Their Community

    Dec. 3, 2021
    In ways large and small, the family-owned, full-service contractor has been a force for positive change in their community.

    CANTON, MA — In 1891, E.M. Duggan started out as a mom-and-pop shop, which now operates out of three massive buildings in Canton, and another in Boston. E.M. Duggan has both a 24-hour service group and a special projects division in downtown Boston. All of these teams allow the company to provide full service to the life cycle of a developer’s building. Today, E.M. Duggan fluctuates between 450-600 employees in any given year.

    CONTRACTOR Magazine's 2019 Contractor of the Year engages in a lot of different philanthropic work, much of it inspired by their employees.

    Jackets for a Cause

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    E. M. Duggan and the Charles D. Sheehy company came together to donate Jackets for a Cause.
    E. M. Duggan and the Charles D. Sheehy company came together to donate Jackets for a Cause.

    On a cold October day E.M. Duggan’s Domenic Casamassima was on a job site and noticed children outside without coats. It bothered him so much that he decided to take action and create a coat drive campaign. His young daughter got involved, and created the logo. Within a day of spreading the word at E.M. Duggan coats poured in. E. M. Duggan's long-time partners, the Charles D. Sheehy company, saw the campaign on social media and they very generously drooped off boxes and boxes of coats.

    Golfing for Good

    This year E. M. Duggan was glad to get back on the links and participate in Suffolk Construction's Giving Circle. The Giving Circle's mission is:

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    Candid shots from the charitable golf tourney.
    Candid shots from the charitable golf tourney.
    To put people first when they need it more than ever. Funded and driven by Suffolk and FUSE employees, as well as our dedicated clients and trade partners, Giving Circle is our way of financially supporting members of the Suffolk community during times of personal hardship.

    The Giving Circle has distributed more than $600,000 in it's most recent year of operation, helping hundreds of families a year with medical bills and more.

    Thanksgiving & Christmas Spirit

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    The Pasquale family with some of their holiday donations.
    The Pasquale family with some of their holiday donations.
    Eight, nineteen-pound turkeys, fifty pounds of potatoes, fifty pounds of squash, ten pounds of corn, two large pans of stuffing, and dessert to top it off—that is the Thanksgiving Day feast Sharyn and Rico Pasquale prepare year after year for families staying at the Conway House in Middleboro and a congregate shelter in Brockton.

    The mother and son, both work at E.M. Duggan and year after year embrace giving back to the community. Throughout the year E.M. Duggan donates to numerous foundations and especially organizations their employees are passionate about.  Come Christmas, In addition to a home cooked meal and home-made cookie basket,  the Pasquales will also purchase gifts for families in need.

    “As a company we feel very blessed to have had so many successes and we feel it is our responsibility to give back, especially in the communities in which we work and live,” says Len Monfredo, executive vice president, E.M. Duggan. “We encourage our employees to let us know about causes they are a part of so that we can help contribute to what they feel strongly about. We firmly believe in spreading good fortune to others because that makes for a better world for everyone.”

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