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SBA honors five Central Mass. businesses of the year
April 12, 2022The honors include Family Owned Business of the Year, Minority Owned Business of the Year, Women Owned Business of the Year, Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and Small Manufacturer of the Year.
April 12, 2022
UMass Memorial Health’s first-ever equity report shows 'harsh realities'
April 11, 2022UMass Memorial Health published its first-ever health equity report about its efforts to address racial disparities in health care in Central Massachusetts, largely through its COVID-19 response over the last two years.
April 11, 2022
Mass. Senate bill seeks to diversify cannabis industry
April 8, 2022Wide-ranging marijuana legislation that targets some of the most persistent issues that activists, regulators, businesses and municipalities have said are holding Massachusetts back from realizing the full potential of the 2016 legalization law
April 8, 2022
Manufacturing awards: Bristol Myers Squibb is building a workforce for cutting-edge drugmaking
Updated: April 4, 2022Bristol Myers Squibb is growing. It’s in the process of expanding its Devens facility to handle new, cutting-edge manufacturing, including personalized cell therapy for patients with cancer.
Updated: April 4, 2022
Unheard: Even as they gain more access to inner circles of power, women of color still feel like outsiders
Updated: April 4, 2022Latin and Black American women can have access to the inner circles – that’s diversity – but once inside, they face unique challenges, aggressions, and are often isolated from conversations. That shows lack of inclusion.
Updated: April 4, 2022
Manufacturing awards: Waters Corp. mentors students from diverse backgrounds
Updated: April 4, 2022Waters has longstanding partnerships with organizations including Junior Achievement and the Ron Burton Training Village in Hubbardston to encourage young people to consider jobs in technology and manufacturing.
Updated: April 4, 2022
Chief diversity officers are fighting against burnout with resources, direct leadership access, and moral support
Updated: April 4, 2022Diversity, equity, and inclusion leaders have some of the highest turnover rates among executives. The cause is manifold, but it often has to do with the organization a CDO is serving.
Updated: April 4, 2022
Q&A: Kennedy center launches trans health practice
Updated: April 4, 2022Steve Kerrigan, president & CEO, talks about Kennedy Community Health Center's expansion into Milford, his cooperative relationship with other nonprofit leaders, and the start of a new trans healthcare practice.
Updated: April 4, 2022
Worcester’s chief diversity officer was the lowest-paid chief among City cabinet members
March 28, 2022Worcester’s chief diversity officer role was the lowest-paid chief position in the City cabinet in 2020, making a salary roughly $74,000 lower than the average c-suite city employee, according to 2020 data on Worcester’s website.
March 28, 2022
Post-moratorium evictions hit communities of color the hardest, report finds
March 23, 2022In the first year after elected officials allowed a statewide moratorium on evictions to lapse, tenants in neighborhoods where a majority of residents are nonwhite were nearly twice as likely to face eviction than renters in mostly white areas,
March 23, 2022
Former Worcester chief diversity officer hired at Mount Wachusett Community College
March 21, 2022Stephanie Williams, who is resigning as Worcester’s chief diversity officer, has been hired by Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner to be the school’s first-ever chief diversity executive.
March 21, 2022
Worcester considering investigation of chief diversity officer position after 3rd resignation
March 16, 2022At Tuesday night’s Worcester City Council meeting, City Manager Edward Augustus said he was open to hiring an independent investigator to help understand the cause of high turnover within the chief diversity officer role in Worcester.
March 16, 2022
Clark VP appointed to Mass. Black Advisory Commission
March 15, 2022Joseph Corazzini, vice president for government and community affairs at Clark University, has been appointed to serve on Massachusetts’ Black Advisory Commission.
March 15, 2022
Amid resignation controversy, Worcester diversity officer says she is leaving to have a greater impact elsewhere
March 11, 2022Stephanie Williams, Worcester’s chief diversity officer whose resignation was announced on March 4, has released her own statement about her decision to leave.
March 11, 2022
NAACP berates City of Worcester over third chief diversity officer departure
March 7, 2022"We have gone backwards. With a population so diverse we now only have one person of color in the leadership of the administration and no Black women," wrote Fred Taylor, president of Worcester’s NAACP Unit, in a letter.
March 7, 2022
WBJ Hall of Fame: Sawyer is driven by love
Updated: March 7, 2022Anh Vu Sawyer can list the top five best decisions she’s made in her 68 years of life.
Updated: March 7, 2022
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