Nonprofits

Duty calls for Jeffrey Chin, CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mass/MetroWest.

MassDevelopment has provided $28.2 million in financing to help pay for the construction of a three-story medical building to expand access to care on the Athol Hospital campus.

A community partnership of five nonprofit organizations aimed at serving MassHealth patients with better care coordination has named Allison Bernier vice president.

UMass Memorial Health Care and Reliant Medical Group have launched an online platform designed to help patients get the social services they need.

Business leadership is moving toward gender equality through legislation, advocacy, investors pushing for the value of diversity, and pressure stemming from the #MeToo movement.

The rise in forensic cases has grown David McLaren's accounting practice to where he is completing an addition to double the company's office space.

Cheryl Gallant, of Coghlin Companies Inc. in Worcester, is one of two new board members at Spectrum Health Systems.

Lancaster human services agency Perkins has hired Kathleen Savage Mills as its director of research and innovation.

Many women in business are often one of few women – if not the only one – in the room, where they feel they aren't treated the same as their male counterparts.

Profits vs. prophets. That is a simplistic way to view the difference between for-profit businesses and nonprofit organizations. The purpose of a business is to make money for investors, while the purpose of a nonprofit is altruistic, if not spiritual: to help people in need.