Nonprofits

The Worcester Art Museum has received a $400,000 grant from the National Endowment for Humanities to help fund the installation of the John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection.

The YWCA Central Massachusetts announced on Tuesday it has completed a $24-million renovation of its Salem Square facility in Worcester, lauding both the work itself and the diversity of and wages paid to the crews who saw the project through.

Ken Bates, president and CEO of Open Sky Community Services in Worcester, has been named to the Association of Developmental Disabilities Providers board of directors, a statewide association, Open Sky announced on Thursday.

The Sheth Sangreal Foundation of Austin awarded a five-year, $1-million grant to the Discovery Museum in Acton to support the museum’s sustainability and inclusivity efforts.

Country Bank, headquartered in Ware, announced at its annual meeting on Monday it has pledged $1 million dollars to the Worcester County Food Bank and The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts.

With a disproportionate number of women forced to leave the workforce during the coronavirus pandemic – a phenomenon called the Shecession – Justina Lachapelle, executive director of the nonprofit Dress for Success Worcester, expects a spike in demand once children start attending school full-time in-person this fall, as women to prepare to enter the job market or level up in their careers. 

With Mimi Sheller of Philadelphia’s Drexel University just named incoming dean, The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic University has launched as a formalizing and furthering of something the university has done all along: global projects. 

Marlborough human services nonprofit Thrive Support & Advocacy has named Stacey Forrest as the organization’s first chief operating officer, the nonprofit announced late in May.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has awarded five Worcester organizations $494,000 to help lead coronavirus vaccination education efforts among Latinos, Black, Indigenous and other people of color in Worcester’s inner city.

The Regional Environment Council, a Worcester nonprofit, plans to open its Summer Markets farmers market program on Monday, with the intention of running the program through November.