Nonprofits

The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts has received a contribution of $500,000 from the Central Massachusetts Independent...

Central Massachusetts business organizations with recent hires and promotions include Oriol Health Care, GFA Federal Credit Union, and Bay State Savings Bank.

Freilich spent more than 16 years at Milford-based SALMON Health and Retirement, working first as an executive director at Willows of Worcester before assuming the same role at the Willows and Whitney Place at Medway.

The project aims to help and enhance young, incarcerated fathers’ relationships with visiting children.

The goal of this effort is to better the health of community members in 11 communities: Ashby, Ayer, Bolton, Groton, Harvard, Lancaster, Littleton, Lunenburg, Pepperell, Shirley, and Townsend.

The Nativity School of Worcester received a $200,000 gift from a California foundation run by the family of Worcester native J.D. Power III to establish a scholarship in his name, the school announced Monday.

A 16,473-square-foot building within the 150-acre Southbridge Innovation Center has been sold for $1.7 million to the nonprofit YOU, Inc., an affiliate of the Seven Hills Foundation & Affiliates, according to a Wednesday press release from seller Franklin Realty Advisors.

Eight nonprofit organizations across MetroWest have received grants totaling more than $1 million as part of the Cummings Foundation annual $25-million grant programs, which donated 140 grants to nonprofits across the eastern part of Massachusetts.

Dean College in Franklin announced Wednesday that Kenneth Elmore will serve as its 14th president and former Worcester City Manager Edward Augustus will be the school’s first-ever chancellor. Elmore is the college's first Black president.

On April 1, Sheree Gaus began her first term on the board of Women in Manufacturing Association, a nonprofit trade group founded in Ohio with aspirations of making a global impact.