Nonprofits

The United Way of Central Massachusetts will distribute $2.8 million to 35 different agencies in the organization's latest round of grant funding.

YOU Inc. has tapped longtime local leader David P. Forsberg to lead the human services agency while it searches for a new CEO.

The French multinational materials company Saint-Gobain has announced the expansion of its YouthBuild partnership internationally with the extension of a $600,000 grant and the building of a school.

Gov. Charlie Baker stressed the importance of collaboration Thursday when he addressed the 50th-anniversary celebration of the Worcester Business Development Corp. (WBDC) and the Worcester Community Action Council (WCAC).

In a continued bid to expand the college's focus on nonacademic career paths, Becker College has appointed the president and CEO of the Seven Hills Foundation as the school's first Professor of Practice in Social Innovation.

It's our annual list of 10 change makers from MetroWest who are making a difference in their businesses, industries and communities.

Massachusetts displayed little progress in adding women to board and chief executive positions of major nonprofits over the last two years, according to a Boston-based organization that promotes the advancement of women to high-level leadership roles.

A new report says jobs in the Massachusetts human services sector grew almost 48 percent between 2003 and 2011.

The Bridge of Central Massachusetts, a Worcester-based human services provider, has a new leader: Kenneth J. Bates, who has moved over from the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

In a back room of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, teams work at cataloging and digitizing the organization's collection of American printed artifacts. It's just one example of a group of Central Massachusetts nonprofits that use business ventures to round out grant and foundational funds as part of their revenue mix.