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Outstanding Women in Business: Correia is taking her family business to new heights
Updated: September 30, 2024Correia represents the third-generation of trade show professionals in her family, taking over the CEO role from her father, Paul Hanlon, in July.
Updated: September 30, 2024
Outstanding Women in Business: Curtis has transformed the engineering industry
Updated: September 30, 2024When Lee Curtis started working to enhance the culture, vision, and mission at engineering consulting firm BSC Group, Inc., she didn’t anticipate it would result in her becoming the first female president of the company, and the youngest.
Updated: September 30, 2024
Outstanding Women in Business: Beaupre has become an authority on leadership
Updated: September 30, 2024Witnessing the excitement and passion of her students has yet to grow old for Jean Beaupre, who is starting her 14th year at Nichols College.
Updated: September 30, 2024
Outstanding Women in Business: Wambui is building a more equitable construction industry
Updated: September 30, 2024"Liz has already played an important role ... She is going to continue to have an impact for years to come.”
Updated: September 30, 2024
Q&A: Harrington's journey took her from Manhattan to Harvard to Bowditch
Updated: September 30, 2024Harrington joined Bowditch in 2022 after starting off her legal career in the public sector.
Updated: September 30, 2024
Outstanding Women in Business: A consultant and a comedian, Gray makes businesses better
Updated: September 30, 2024For the past 15 years, Gray has worked frequently with the life sciences industry, getting a front-row seat to life-altering drugs. Outside of work, Gray is a standup comedian.
Updated: September 30, 2024
Outstanding Women in Business: McGovern has grown a $1.5B bank
Updated: September 30, 2024In August, Mary McGovern became the first woman to lead Country Bank in its 174-year history
Updated: September 30, 2024
This year's judges for the Outstanding Women in Business awards
Updated: September 30, 2024For the 2024 Outstanding Women in Business awards, WBJ received 51 nominations for 41 nominees.
Updated: September 30, 2024
Mass. launches $25M fund looking to boost social equity cannabis companies
September 25, 2024Up to $25 million in grants are available to cannabis business owners who come from communities harmed by enforcement of past marijuana laws.
September 25, 2024
QCC granted funding bump for third year of workforce training for formerly incarcerated individuals
September 16, 2024Quinsigamond 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
September 16, 2024
Inclusive development: The dustup over WPI’s hotel plans sparked a debate over who sits at Worcester’s tables of power
Updated: September 16, 2024The WPI hotel-to-housing controversy sparked a secondary conversation about the organization which initially led the charge by sending WPI a fiery public letter.
Updated: September 16, 2024
Bridging the gap: Joint Open Sky-Seven Hills program is boosting BIPOC representation in the mental health field
Updated: September 16, 2024As the U.S. faces an ongoing behavioral health provider shortage, one Worcester program is working to boost BIPOC representation in the mental health field.
Updated: September 16, 2024
Waiting for a lifeline: Social equity cannabis businesses navigate the increasingly difficult industry as they await grants from a $27M fund
Updated: September 16, 2024Social equity cannabis companies say more support needed.
Updated: September 16, 2024
The search for sustainable change: Worcester is close to filling its long-vacant DEI role, which was restructured in hopes of creating stability
Updated: September 16, 2024The 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.
Updated: September 16, 2024
CVS offering birth control at Mass. pharmacies to help combat contraceptive deserts
September 13, 2024CVS 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.
September 13, 2024
Central Mass. nonprofits receive cut of $8.5M in capital funding for early education facilities
August 30, 2024Three 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.
August 30, 2024
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