Diversity & Inclusion

For the 2024 Outstanding Women in Business awards, WBJ received 51 nominations for 41 nominees.

Up to $25 million in grants are available to cannabis business owners who come from communities harmed by enforcement of past marijuana laws.

Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester has received a slice of $2.6 million in state funding to train formerly incarcerated individuals returning to the workforce for jobs in the culinary, construction, manufacturing, hospitality, and healthcare industries.

Social equity cannabis companies say more support needed.

The WPI hotel-to-housing controversy sparked a secondary conversation about the organization which initially led the charge by sending WPI a fiery public letter.

The City of Worcester’s chief diversity officer position has been vacant for nearly two and a half years, a timeframe longer than any individual has held the role since its creation in 2016.

As the U.S. faces an ongoing behavioral health provider shortage, one Worcester program is working to boost BIPOC representation in the mental health field.

CVS Pharmacy has begun offering same-day birth control consultation and prescriptions in Massachusetts, as part of an effort to provide lower-cost, easier-to-access reproductive health services.

Three Worcester County nonprofits have been awarded a combined $1.49 million in capital funding to refurbish their early education and out-of-school time program facilities predominantly serving low-income families. 

Worcester-based Safe Exit Initiative, a survivor-led nonprofit working to end the sex trade by  providing support and safe exit options, has re-opened Harbor, its community resource center and day shelter.