Nonprofits

Lutheran Social Services of Worcester said it will change its name to help expand its reach and shift its direction without changing its core values.

There have been two leadership changes at Central Massachusetts chambers of commerce within the last year, and there's another one coming when David McKeehan, president and CEO of the North Central Massachusetts chamber, retires at the end of the year.

Maynard-Based JM Coull Inc. is slated to begin building a new two-story Collings Foundation Military Museum in Stow next month.

Three Central Massachusetts nonprofit charities are among 70 throughout the eastern United States that have been awarded more than $400,000 by the charitable arm of BJ's Wholesale Clubs.

The Worcester-based Reliant Medical Group Foundation has awarded $70,000 in its latest round of community grants to Central Massachusetts organizations in support of curbing childhood obesity and increasing access to health care.

Holliston-based LW Robbins, a direct response fundraising agency, acquired Texas-based data analytics company KerstenDirect Wednesday, the new company announced.

As leader of Seven Hills Foundation and its affiliates for nearly 19 years, David Jordan oversees an...

Commerce Bank said it and Habitat for Humanity—MetroWest/Greater Worcester have been awarded a $50,000 grant by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston that will help fund the rehabilitation of a single-family home in Auburn.

United Way of Central Massachusetts has received one of its largest-ever single donations, the organization said.

(From Jan. 20 print edition) A recent report that revealed compensation for top-paid nonprofit executives in Massachusetts called attention to the fact that a “nonprofit” designation doesn't mean top officials at those organizations scrape by. Most of those reviewed in the report, released in December, actually make millions of dollars.