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Monday, August 19, 2019

By Matt Stout

GLOBE STAFF

A Hebrew academy said it intended to make

its sanctuary “impenetrable by bullets.” A Jewish

day camp wanted more than a dozen blast-resis-

tant trash cans. Leaders of a South Shore syna-

gogue said that a concrete barrier on its property

could help thwart a bombing.

“Any improvised explosive device (IED) left in

a vehicle would not gain entry,” they wrote in an

application for a state grant.

As a wave of anti-Semitic incidents rises both

in Massachusetts and beyond, Jewish day

schools, community centers, and houses of wor-

ship are seeking out funding for advanced securi-

ty measures that once would have seemed un-

thinkable.

Nearly two dozen organizations have applied

for grants from a state program designed to fun-

nel money toward security upgrades at nonprof-

its. Of the 25 applications to the program last fis-

cal year, 22 came from Jewish organizations re-

questing nearly $885,000, according to a Globe

review of more than 150 pages of documents pro-

vided through a public records request.

Just three applicants — a synagogue, a Jewish

high school, and a secular hospital — won fund-

ing, totaling about $150,000. Taken together,

however, the details of the requests evoke not just

an image of a religious community roiled by

mass shootings in synagogues from California to

SECURITY GRANTS, Page A

O

n June 25, as Tami Furuta drove

along a residential street in New-

ton, a car pulled out from the

curb and smashed into the pas-

senger side of her car.

The driver who hit Furuta’s vehicle was

presumptively at fault for pulling out in

traffic, and that person’s insurer should

have covered Furuta’s medical and auto re-

pair bills.

But that insurer eventually told Furuta

there was no coverage. Why? Because at

the time of the crash, the driver was work-

ing for Amazon Flex making food deliver-

ies. And by doing so without telling her in-

surance company, she had effectively void-

ed her coverage.

So began a stressful and bewildering

two months for Furuta, with long hours on

the phone and online dealing with three

corporate titans, including Amazon, one of

the richest companies in the world.

“It’s been a miserable experience,” Fu-

THE FINE PRINT, Page D

By Katie Johnston
GLOBE STAFF
When your co-workers are scat-
tered around the world, work gets
done a little differently.
A software engineer in Waltham
stays up late into the night, churn-
ing out last-minute changes in time
for his colleague in India to review

when he wakes up.

A Boston-area marketing direc-

tor runs a highly orchestrated

weekly Skype meeting in an at-

tempt to engage employees in at

least nine countries on the call. If

somebody dials in late, the director

may make them tell a joke on the

spot.

As American companies contin-

ue expanding their international

presence, and the competition for

talent shows no sign of letting up in

the United States and around the

world, businesses are increasingly

looking to add foreign workers.

But this intercontinental

growth comes with unique chal-

lenges. More than 90 percent of

global organizations struggle to

manage their teams at least part of

the time, with time-zone and cul-

tural differences topping the list,

according to a survey of 464 com-

panies by the Society for Human

Resource Management and Global-

ization Partners, a Boston firm that

helps corporations hire workers in

other countries.

People working for companies

based overseas are less likely to feel

engaged and listened to than their

counterparts at headquarters,

which can lead to them being less

trustful of leadership, a separate

Globalization Partners survey

WORKFORCE, Page D

Jewish

groups eye

grants for

security

Schools,synagoguesseek

statefundsforupgrades

asanti-Semiticactsrise

It’s a new world as businesses go global

Addingforeignworkersusuallybrings

morethanjusttime-zonechallenges

For breaking news, updated

stories, and more, visit our website:

BostonGlobe.com

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Maybeboomer

By Deirdre Fernandes

GLOBE STAFF

Can a one-word tweak spell

the difference between a bustling

campus and shuttered class-

rooms?

An increasing number of high-

er education institutions in Mas-

sachusetts are betting that drop-

ping “college” from their name

and transforming themselves in-

to universities will be the key to

their long-term survival.

Lasell College in Newton an-

nounced last week that it had re-

ceived approval from the state to

convert to a university — a status

change aimed both at elevating

its reputation among older learn-

ers and international students

and at insulating it from the en-

rollment declines and pricing

pressures that have felled several

other small, private institutions

in New England.

Lasell joins a string of other

institutions that have ditched

LASELL, Page A

Collegesgivingittheolduniversitytry

Somesmallschoolsswitchformatsand

namesinbidtoreverseenrollmentdips

The Fine Print

SEAN P. MURPHY

A police ban and a downpour did little to dissuade hundreds of thousands of antigovernment protesters from taking to the

streets of Hong Kong Sunday. The protesters marched to the Central district after holding a rally against measures that

they fear tie the city-state closer to China. Organizers said the largely peaceful protest was the second largest since almost

daily rallies against China began at the beginning of the summer.A4.

SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF

Tami Furuta’s car was damaged by an

Amazon Flex driver, and she struggled

to make the giant retailer pay her

$500 deductible.

ANANGERUNDAMPENED

By Joshua Miller

GLOBE STAFF

EVERETT — The broad leaves

of the ficus trees that tower over

the casino lobby with its flower-

covered carousel; the yellow car-

petroses that sway in the breeze

on the harborwalk; the salt-

marsh cordgrass on the brackish

banks of the Mystic River; the

golden euonymus, inkberry, and

petunias that line the path to a

45-foot red oak tree — all this is

the charge and joy of Patrick

Chadwick.

He is Encore Boston Harbor’s

flower foreman, shrub whisperer,

tree tender-in-chief. Officially,

Chadwick is the director of horti-

culture and floral, overseeing the

$2.6 billion property’s plants, in-

side and out. His goal is lofty.

“We should have a transcen-

dental garden experience,” he

said on a sparkling summer day.

“You’re no longer in Everett,

you’re no longer in Boston. You’re

at Encore.”

If casino flowers as transfor-

mational sounds like a load of

corporate hooey — and it does —

spend an hour or two with Chad-

wick, a redwood tree of a man

with a quiet demeanor, a Mon-

tana accent, and nearly 40 em-

ployees in his department.

First, he’ll hit you with the

FLOWERS, Page A

ATEVERETTCASINO,HE’S

INCHARGEOFTHEGREEN

Encore’srichflorabloomsunderdirector’sbotanicexpertise

DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF

Patrick Chadwick oversees thousands of trees, shrubs, and

flowers at Encore: “Most of the time, my office is out here.’’

CHRIS MCGRATH/GETTY IMAGES

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