March 30, 2020 - Worcester Business Journal

Opinion

🔒A Thousand Words: COVID-19 executives

Nonprofits

🔒Q&A: The CASA Project is striving to serve 100% of Worcester County foster children

Robb Zargas has spent his entire career helping at-risk children. For the last four years, he has run The CASA Project, which works with volunteers who help children in the foster care system, and more than doubled its reach in Worcester County.

Opinion

🔒Now is the time for community

The coronavirus is affecting all of us. And in extraordinary times, extraordinary actions are required. Worcester Together was born.

Banking & Finance

Movers & Shakers for March 30, 2020

New hires and promotions at companies like AAFCPAs in Westborough, Bryley Sytems in Clinton, Concierge Physical Therapy in Sutton, Reliant Medical Group and Framingham State University.

Advice

🔒101: Dealing with downtime

Many of us have had too much lately, especially in industries like restaurants: Downtime.

Advice

🔒Businesses face these urgent coronavirus legal issues

The coronavirus pandemic is impacting businesses and public life around the world.

Advice

🔒10 Things I know about … Building an awesome culture

Here are ten tangible things you can do to help build an awesome work culture.

Advice

🔒Find kindness in the coronavirus chaos

I oftentimes talk about my struggle as an employer, and when news hit Massachusetts was in a state of emergency due to COVID-19, the feelings of pressure and stress again hit me like a ton of bricks.

Manufacturing

🔒New market-rate apartment building rising in investor-friendly Main Middle neighborhood

Daniel Stroe and his business partner, Timothy Adler, bought the building last year for $700,000 and are now deep in the process of converting it into 47 apartments, known as the Stamp Factory Lofts.

Banking & Finance

🔒New fundraising effort may fix UMass Memorial’s financials

CEO Eric Dickson said while UMass is grateful for the few million dollars in donations it garners each year, they don’t even compare to hospitals in Boston, who tend to generate tens of millions of dollars in philanthropy every year.

Banking & Finance

🔒Greater Worcester may be spared from worst of coronavirus recession

It isn’t heavily dependent on tourism or conventions, and it has relatively few hotel rooms. It isn’t home to any casinos and doesn’t host headquarters for any major airlines, energy companies, automakers or cruise lines, among others who have been hardest hit.

Government & Politics

🔒Dire predictions on hospital bed shortages force Central Mass. officials to look at alternatives

Central Massachusetts is projected to have among the biggest shortfalls in the number of available beds in the country, virtually no matter how hard the coronavirus pandemic hits.

Banking & Finance

🔒Key steps for businesses to survive the coronavirus crisis

As the COVID-19 pandemic wears on and Central Massachusetts business owners adjust to a shifting economic and regulatory environment, area experts are cautioning company heads to stay abreast of ever-changing tides – and to make sure emergency plans are in place to protect work and cash flow.

Health Care

🔒$367B federal loan program leads business relief efforts

Among the CARES Act provisions of direct payments to U.S. residents, expanding unemployment benefits and a bailout to airlines is a $367-billion small business relief effort designed to encourage companies with 500 or fewer employees to maintain their payrolls and avoid layoffs.

News

🔒At least we’re all taking this seriously

Now, our focus needs to remain on stemming the spread of disease and making sure healthcare professionals have all the resources they need to help those infected by it.

News

🔒New government loan program for small business lends a hand, promises some forgiveness

“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”

March 30, 2020Edition

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