Nonprofits

The Sterling Academy of Gymnastics has received a $50,000 microloan from the North Central Massachusetts Development Corp. for working capital for pandemic-related relief and recovery, as well as to help start a remote education program, NCMDC announced on Tuesday.

On Monday, WBJ released Restaurant Scene, a special collaborative report done in conjunction with the Worcester Regional Research Bureau.

Childcare nonprofit Guild of St. Agnes will run a daycare center as a future tenant of the Creative Hub Community Arts Center Worcester, powered by a $1-million grant from the Early Education and Out-of-School Time grant program.

The Worcester Together: Central Massachusetts COVID-19 Fund will distribute $1 million to organizations that present plans to disrupt systems which uphold societal inequities, the Greater Worcester Community Foundation announced on Tuesday about its third and final stage of funding.

Finance and development agency MassDevelopment has issued a $17-million tax-exempt bond on behalf of the Doctor Franklin Perkins School in Lancaster, for constructing a new middle school building and dormitory, according to a joint press release issued Monday.

Like many nonprofits in 2020, The Shine Initiative had to rethink its annual gala fundraiser this October, in the wake of social distancing rules amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Worcester Area Mission Society has named longtime Children’s Friend, Inc. leader Karen Ludington as its new executive director, the organization announced on Friday.

The Greater Worcester Community Foundation appointed four new members to its board of directors and corporators at its annual meeting this fall.

The Addiction Referral Center in Marlborough has named Kelly McCausland of Milford as its new executive director, the nonprofit announced on Wednesday.

The Worcester Art Museum has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services to fund the design and development phase for a long-term installation of the John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, which the museum acquired in 2014 after the Higgins Armory closed in 2013.