Nonprofits

Boston healthcare nonprofit Commonwealth Care Alliance is expanding into Worcester with an office at 100 North Parkway, in order to create a bridge between the eastern and western regions of the state it services.

The Doctor Franklin Perkins School in Lancaster has named 10 new trustees through its new affiliation agreement with Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps, also of Lancaster, the school announced on Tuesday.

The New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund, a fund established this year by senior-level Black and brown corporate executives in Massachusetts, announced its first round of grant funding Friday, including $100,000 distributed between Family Health Center of Worcester and African Community Education, also based in Worcester.

Three Central Mass. sober housing groups received a cumulative $201,675 from the Center for Community Recovery Innovations, Inc., a nonprofit subsidiary of MassHousing, the government agency announced on Wednesday.

The Greater Worcester Community Foundation has awarded $1.935 million to 114 organizations as part of its 2020 Community Grant Program cycle, the organization announced on Tuesday.

Technocopia, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute alumnus-founded nonprofit makerspace and incubator in Worcester’s downtown, is recruiting for new board members as part of a board expansion, the organization announced on Tuesday.

Traditionally falling on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, Giving Tuesday is an annual tradition intended to provide organizations and individuals with the opportunity to make charitable contributions following a long weekend of holiday shopping.

The Reliant Foundation in Worcester has distributed more than $700,000 to 56 nonprofits operating in Central Massachusetts and the MetroWest area, surpassing its giving goal for the year, the nonprofit announced on Wednesday.

Two Worcester organizations have received a total of $66,400 in state funding to help reduce the spread of coronavirus in communities of color in the cities hardest hit by the pandemic in Massachusetts.

Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito are pumping $2.3 million into community foundations in Central Massachusetts as a method of providing immediate COVID-19 relief, the state announced Wednesday.