Nonprofits

🔒This year’s judges for the Outstanding Women in Business awards

For the 2024 Outstanding Women in Business awards, WBJ received 51 nominations for 41 nominees.

🔒WBJ names the recipients of the 16th annual Outstanding Women in Business awards

The Outstanding Women in Business awards have long been one of WBJ’s hardest honors to win.

🔒Recovery: A year and a half after their split, Nikki Bell-Peña and the leaders of Safe Exit Initiative are on their own paths to...

Bell-Peña and the nonprofit she founded are now hard at work again addressing the original core mission: Supporting those exploited by the sex trade.

Worcester Community Action Council brings on chief marketing officer

David Ginisi has been named the new role of chief marketing and communications officer for social service nonprofit Worcester Community Action Council.

Executive director of Downtown Worcester business district stepping down

Evelyn Darling, executive director of the Downtown Worcester Business Improvement District, has stepped down from the role.

🔒Inclusive development: The dustup over WPI’s hotel plans sparked a debate over who sits at Worcester’s tables of power

The WPI hotel-to-housing controversy sparked a secondary conversation about the organization which initially led the charge by sending WPI a fiery public letter.

🔒Bridging the gap: Joint Open Sky-Seven Hills program is boosting BIPOC representation in the mental health field

As the U.S. faces an ongoing behavioral health provider shortage, one Worcester program is working to boost BIPOC representation in the mental health field.

Seven Hills hires executives from Springfield, Boston

Worcester-based Seven Hills Foundation & Affiliates has hired two new executives into its C-suite, helping lead Central Massachusetts’ largest human services nonprofit.