Diversity & Inclusion

ONE Worcester, a nonprofit offering free consulting and coaching services to fellow Worcester-area nonprofits, is closing as the organization has decided to shift to a legacy fund model.

Students at five Central Massachusetts colleges and universities now have access to $25 million to support their behavioral health educations as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enters into the second year of its Behavioral Health Workforce Scholarship Program.

The launch of The Reframe Institute was announced Sunday by Jessica Pepple.

A Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal member, today she owns Studio 1:1 in Maine, creating maps that highlight Indigenous land: telling stories of travel, collaboration, erased narratives, and stewardship.

Across Central Massachusetts, demand has risen for legal representation in asylum and removal proceedings, putting strain on the region’s limited resource pool of attorneys who are themselves facing burnout as they attempt to keep pace with Trump’s rotating door of policy changes.

In Worcester County, those aged 65 or older remain the smallest unhoused age group, but it’s fastest growing, rising 29% since 2018, according to the Worcester nonprofit Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance.

The BOB awards recognize the best business-to-business companies in Central Massachusetts: those dedicated to excellence and delivering exceptional products.

In response to growing demand, Worcester-based Community Legal Aid has moved its Fitchburg office to a new location and will soon add an additional attorney specializing in immigration.

Throughout Central Mass., healthcare organizations, nonprofit leaders, and practitioners are working to combat a startling and unsettling rise in medical misinformation and disinformation.

Central Massachusetts institutions like Webster Five and St. Mary’s are working to open up the financial system by educating entrepreneurs of color.