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Nonprofits

  • Two nonprofits launch data platform detailing quality of life in Worcester County

    Eric Casey May 2, 2024

    The Greater Worcester Community Foundation and Worcester Regional Research Bureau have teamed up to launch a new platform designed to provide data regarding the quality of life in Worcester County. 

    Eric Casey May 2, 2024
  • African business expo in Worcester eyes increased attendance for second year

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo May 1, 2024

    For the second year in a row, Worcester will host the New England African Business Expo, an event aiming to provide Black and African entrepreneurs with the education and tools needed to start and maintain a successful business. 

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo May 1, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Amie Shei

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    Amie Shei’s career centers the health of the Central Massachusetts population, especially amongst those in disenfranchised communities.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Steve Kerrigan

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    Just three years after joining the health center, Kerrigan reported in his 2022 “From the Desk” letter it had provided care to a then record-breaking 31,356 patients in 85 languages, issuing 137,707 prescriptions.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Kory Eng

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    When floods devastated the city of Leominster in September, United Way of North Central joined forces with other nonprofit groups to help those displaced, raising nearly $500,000 to support 600 people with basic needs and home repairs.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Kola Akindele

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Akindele’s job is to nurture relationships with WPI funders, whether private foundations, government organizations, or corporate sponsors, to support research and operations, as well as to strengthen community connections.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • WBJ names the Power 100, the most influential Central Mass. professionals in 2024

    Brad Kane Updated: April 29, 2024

    In this first-time expansion of the previous power players list, WBJ names the professionals in Central Massachusetts who most effectively wield their power to have an outsized influence on the economy and community.

    Brad Kane Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Gloria Hall

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    Worcester’s art scene wouldn’t be what it is today, if not for the impact of Gloria Hall.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Tiffany Lillie

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Now the dust has settled and programming has resumed, Tiffany Lillie is tasked with putting the nonprofit back on solid ground, reassuring its diverse employee and client base while keeping funding levels up.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Stephen Adams

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    The Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts casts a wide net to find and fund worthy projects to improve the quality of life in North Central Massachusetts. Leading the charge is Stephen Adams, leader of the nonprofit public charity

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Lou Brady

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    After the coronavirus pandemic threw an already strained healthcare system into chaos, Lou Brady appears to have pulled FHCW out of a deep dive and turned around a once-tenuous financial position.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Julie Bowditch

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    An average of 2,000 children live in foster care across Worcester County on any given day, and Julie Bowditch leverages connections to help those kids on their path to permanent homes as executive director of CASA Project Worcester County.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Brian Gibbs

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    Gibbs joined UMass Memorial as the hospital system’s inaugural vice president and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer in 2020, selected from a nationwide search.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Debra Maddox

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Central Massachusetts born and educated, Debra Maddox has a firm hand on the pulse of the people she and her team serve at the Multicultural Wellness Center, founded in 2005.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Tim Garvin

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    The philanthropic community nonprofit with $8.5 million in annual revenue and its partners have learned to follow Tim Garvin’s lead for the good of the 30 cities and towns they serve.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Jennifer Julien Gaskin

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    As the main organizer behind the Worcester Caribbean American Carnival Association, Jennifer Julien Gaskin brings the increasingly popular festival into the mainstream.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

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Should Massachusetts do more to encourage outdoor cannabis cultivation?
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The overwhelming majority of legal Massachusetts cannabis is grown in indoor cultivation facilities, where quality and product safety is easier to control, but these facilities draw large amounts of energy, particularly for lighting and HVAC systems. The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission offers perks to outdoor growers, with expedited business license application reviews and lower fees. The CCC has talked about adding additional perks for outdoor growing, such as speciality sustainability labels for their products, but none of those proposals have garnered significant consideration. Of the 130 licensed marijuana growers, 25 grow outdoors.