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Speaker 1: A partnership that spans two decades between the Greater Boston

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Speaker 1: Food Bank and Taketa has led to this moment.

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Speaker 2: A four million dollars gift from Takta.

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Speaker 1: This is the largest ever donation the Food Bank has

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Speaker 1: ever received. CEO Catherine Demotto the.

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Speaker 3: Values of Taketa aligned with the values of the Greater

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Speaker 3: Boston Food Bank at this time, at this moment, and

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Speaker 3: that's what makes the gift so powerful.

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Speaker 1: Rana Pacheco is US president of Taketa, a biopharmaceutical company

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Speaker 1: with a global hub in Cambridge.

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Speaker 4: This is a great partnership, again, over two decades long,

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Speaker 4: and we're just excited to partner even more.

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Speaker 1: With the grants, the Food Bank launched the Taketa Center

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Speaker 1: for Community Health and Nutrition, with goals including expanding access

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Speaker 1: to nutritious foods and researching strategies to drive hunger relief

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Speaker 1: in southe James Rojas WBZ, Boston Snooze Radio