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    United Way picks new director of Framingham community support agency

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo May 6, 2024

    United Way of Tri-County has named Liz Leonard as director of WHEAT Community Connections, a program within the Framingham-based community support nonprofit. 

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo May 6, 2024
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    Two nonprofits launch data platform detailing quality of life in Worcester County

    Eric Casey May 2, 2024

    The Greater Worcester Community Foundation and Worcester Regional Research Bureau have teamed up to launch a new platform designed to provide data regarding the quality of life in Worcester County. 

    Eric Casey May 2, 2024
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    African business expo in Worcester eyes increased attendance for second year

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo May 1, 2024

    For the second year in a row, Worcester will host the New England African Business Expo, an event aiming to provide Black and African entrepreneurs with the education and tools needed to start and maintain a successful business. 

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo May 1, 2024
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    2024 Power 100: Amie Shei

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    Amie Shei’s career centers the health of the Central Massachusetts population, especially amongst those in disenfranchised communities.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
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    2024 Power 100: Lou Brady

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    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.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
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    2024 Power 100: Julie Bowditch

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    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.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
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    2024 Power 100: Brian Gibbs

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    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.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
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    2024 Power 100: Debra Maddox

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    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.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
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    2024 Power 100: Tim Garvin

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    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.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
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    2024 Power 100: Jennifer Julien Gaskin

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    As the main organizer behind the Worcester Caribbean American Carnival Association, Jennifer Julien Gaskin brings the increasingly popular festival into the mainstream.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
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    2024 Power 100: Stephen Adams

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    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

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
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    2024 Power 100: Andrea Bazarian

    Nancy Campbell Updated: April 29, 2024

    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.

    Nancy Campbell Updated: April 29, 2024
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    2024 Power 100: Mark Borenstein

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    Borenstein has represented developers who are looking to permit hundreds of new housing units, helping Central Massachusetts address its shortage of housing stock.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
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    2024 Power 100: Dani Babineau

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024

    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.

    Eric Casey Updated: April 29, 2024
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    2024 Power 100: Kurt Isaacson

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    Kurt Isaacson and Spectrum Health Systems stand at the forefront of treating the rising problem of addiction.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
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    2024 Power 100: Jessica Sassi

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Now, the next generation of the organization falls to Vincent Strully’s hand-picked successor: Jessica Sassi, who took over the top leadership role in 2023.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

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Should Massachusetts significantly reduce the environmental review time for new housing projects?
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In an effort to increase the pace of new housing development in Massachusetts, Gov. Maura Healey has proposed streamlining the environmental review process for certain new housing projects, with the goal of reducing the time spent on the process from about one year to 30 days. Environmental reviews are a hallmark of community planning, to ensure new development doesn't negatively impact surrounding properties or natural resources, even though the process does add significant time and often cost to projects. Healey's proposal comes after Massachusetts fell behind the national average in new housing production, despite adding 90,000 new units since she became governor in 2023.

New England already averages the longest timeline in the nation to build a single-family home once the developer has been giving the authorization to move forward with construction, according to U.S. Census statistics compiled by the National Association of Home Builders. In 2023, single-family homes in New England averaged 13.9 months from permit to completion. The South Atlantic states have the lowest average of 8.9 months while the region that includes Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana is the second quickest at 9.4 months. The second-longest average after New England is the New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania region, which takes 13.2 months.

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