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Every WBJ Power 50 ever, through 2023
Updated: May 1, 2023Here’s all 264 professionals who has been named to a Power list & the year(s) they were listed.
Updated: May 1, 2023
2023 Power 50: Fred Taylor
Updated: May 1, 2023Fred Taylor gives Central Massachusetts a voice in one of the largest trade unions in the country, advocating for more than 30,000 members across the region.
Updated: May 1, 2023
City of Worcester to employ external firm in search for chief equity officer
April 18, 2023The City of Worcester is seeking an executive search firm to find the person who will become chief equity officer in the new executive office of diversity, equity and inclusion.
April 18, 2023
Diagnosing AI: Healthcare community excited, wary of artificial intelligence
Updated: April 17, 2023With the medical world on the cusp of an artificial intelligence revolution, researchers and clinicians are excited about the potential and wary of technology implicitly reliant on human bias
Updated: April 17, 2023
Central Mass. small businesses eligible for $78M from new grant programs
April 4, 2023Two new grant programs will make $78 million available to Massachusetts small business owners focusing on disadvantaged communities and movie theater owners.
April 4, 2023
The next leader: Tran takes over at the Southeast Asian Coalition
Updated: April 3, 2023As the Southeast Asian Coalition settles into new digs, its executive director arrives with big ambitions for its role in the community.
Updated: April 3, 2023
Artists selected to paint first Black portraits for Mechanics Hall installation
March 28, 2023The Worcester County Mechanics Association on Monday named the four artists who have been chosen to paint portraits of prominent 19th century Black abolitionists for its Great Hall gallery.
March 28, 2023
Assumption officially inaugurates Weiner as first Jewish president of U.S. Catholic university
March 24, 2023Nearly one year after he assumed the role in interim and five months after being officially appointed to the position, Greg Weiner was inaugurated as Assumption University’s 17th president on Thursday.
March 24, 2023
MBTA says $31M needed to offer low-fare option
March 24, 2023MBTA officials estimated Thursday it would need at least a year and about $5 million to get a widespread low-income fare option off the ground, plus tens of millions of dollars per year to cover its recurring costs.
March 24, 2023
Jamaican producer to take over as City of Worcester cultural development officer
March 24, 2023Jamaican film producer and theater manager Fabian Barracks will take over as the cultural development officer in Worcester on Monday.
March 24, 2023
Small businesses run by people of color struggle to find financing as VCs' priorities have shifted away from providing multicultural opportunities
Updated: March 20, 2023BIPOC-owned startups seeking out larger investments have come up short, in large part because the deck is stacked against them.
Updated: March 20, 2023
Central Mass. Agency on Aging to create resource center with $1.2M in federal money
March 9, 2023Central Massachusetts Agency on Aging, Inc. will tackle the project of creating a new resource center in Worcester for its populations. The Grandparents Raising Grandkids Resource Center will seek to connect grandparent-led households to essential
March 9, 2023
WBJ Hall of Fame: Nosike pioneered cultural competency in health care
Updated: March 6, 2023Nosike opened her business, Acclaim Home Health Care, in 2005 after an initial career as a physical therapist in England and her home country of Nigeria.
Updated: March 6, 2023
WBJ names the 2023 Business Leaders of the Year
Updated: March 6, 2023Each of this year's five Business Leaders of the Year have their own unique story to tell, of triumph, of perseverance, of seizing opportunities in the market. Yet, they all share one trait, which has led to their success: love.
Updated: March 6, 2023
Business Leaders of the Year: Hylton provides dignity in mental health services
Updated: March 6, 2023At Jennifer Hylton’s Counseling & Assessment Clinic of Worcester, word choice matters.
Updated: March 6, 2023
Girls Inc. CEO to semi-retire
March 3, 2023Victoria Waterman, the CEO of nonprofit Girls Inc. of Worcester is stepping down at the end of June after 11 years in the role. Waterman has been CEO of the Worcester nonprofit since 2012, before which she was president of the board of directors.
March 3, 2023
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