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When floods devastated the city of Leominster in September, United Way of North Central joined forces with other nonprofit groups to help those displaced, raising nearly $500,000 to support 600 people with basic needs and home repairs.
Akindele’s job is to nurture relationships with WPI funders, whether private foundations, government organizations, or corporate sponsors, to support research and operations, as well as to strengthen community connections.
Amie Shei’s career centers the health of the Central Massachusetts population, especially amongst those in disenfranchised communities.
In this first-time expansion of the previous power players list, WBJ names the professionals in Central Massachusetts who most effectively wield their power to have an outsized influence on the economy and community.
Worcester’s art scene wouldn’t be what it is today, if not for the impact of Gloria Hall.
Now the dust has settled and programming has resumed, Tiffany Lillie is tasked with putting the nonprofit back on solid ground, reassuring its diverse employee and client base while keeping funding levels up.
After the coronavirus pandemic threw an already strained healthcare system into chaos, Lou Brady appears to have pulled FHCW out of a deep dive and turned around a once-tenuous financial position.
An average of 2,000 children live in foster care across Worcester County on any given day, and Julie Bowditch leverages connections to help those kids on their path to permanent homes as executive director of CASA Project Worcester County.
Gibbs joined UMass Memorial as the hospital system’s inaugural vice president and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer in 2020, selected from a nationwide search.
The Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts casts a wide net to find and fund worthy projects to improve the quality of life in North Central Massachusetts. Leading the charge is Stephen Adams, leader of the nonprofit public charity
Central Massachusetts born and educated, Debra Maddox has a firm hand on the pulse of the people she and her team serve at the Multicultural Wellness Center, founded in 2005.
The philanthropic community nonprofit with $8.5 million in annual revenue and its partners have learned to follow Tim Garvin’s lead for the good of the 30 cities and towns they serve.
As the main organizer behind the Worcester Caribbean American Carnival Association, Jennifer Julien Gaskin brings the increasingly popular festival into the mainstream.
For 20 years, Nativity School of Worcester has been providing a Jesuit middle-school education free to underserved boys of all faiths. Now, Andrea Bazarian is about to open the school to the other half of the population.
Borenstein has represented developers who are looking to permit hundreds of new housing units, helping Central Massachusetts address its shortage of housing stock.
Redemption Rock is known for brewing beer, but Dani Babineau has been hard at work brewing a sense of community and kinship in Worcester’s small business community.