Nonprofits

After a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, Worcester festival stART on the Street is planning to return for its 18th iteration in September.

The Greater Worcester Community Foundation has distributed more than $64,000 in grants to various local organizations, the nonprofit announced Tuesday.

Community Legal Aid, Inc., a free legal aid provider for residents in Central and Western Massachusetts, has named Worcester attorney Leticia Medina-Richman as its first chief operating officer, according to the CLA website.

Worcester and Fitchburg have received just over $1 million in Transformative Development Initiative Equity grants for their respective neighborhood revitalization efforts.

The City of Worcester is seeking volunteers who can serve a three-year term on one of five ad-hoc committees tasked with distributing $146 million in federal and state pandemic recovery aid.

The Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts have unrolled online cookie purchasing options -- along with a new brownie and caramel cookie -- as part of a national rollout to grow its annual fundraising activity, the main source of the nonprofit's income.

The North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce will team up with the Leominster nonprofit Spanish American Center and Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner as part of a national grant program aimed at breaking down barriers for and increasing the number of students of color earning short-term industry-related credentials and degrees.

DOUG BROWN, president of community hospitals and chief administrative officer for UMass Memorial Health in Worcester, was...

Jim Ayres took the helm as CEO and president at the Greater Worcester Community Foundation at the start of the new year, replacing Barbara Fields, who resigned as head of the organization in March.

African Community Education, a Worcester nonprofit which assists African refugee and immigrant families, has purchased the former site of Learning First Charter Public School on Gage Street for $1.8 million, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.