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Waiting for a lifeline: Social equity cannabis businesses navigate the increasingly difficult industry as they await grants from a $27M fund
Updated: September 16, 2024Social equity cannabis companies say more support needed.
Updated: September 16, 2024
The search for sustainable change: Worcester is close to filling its long-vacant DEI role, which was restructured in hopes of creating stability
Updated: September 16, 2024The City of Worcester’s chief diversity officer position has been vacant for nearly two and a half years, a timeframe longer than any individual has held the role since its creation in 2016.
Updated: September 16, 2024
CVS offering birth control at Mass. pharmacies to help combat contraceptive deserts
September 13, 2024CVS Pharmacy has begun offering same-day birth control consultation and prescriptions in Massachusetts, as part of an effort to provide lower-cost, easier-to-access reproductive health services.
September 13, 2024
Central Mass. nonprofits receive cut of $8.5M in capital funding for early education facilities
August 30, 2024Three Worcester County nonprofits have been awarded a combined $1.49 million in capital funding to refurbish their early education and out-of-school time program facilities predominantly serving low-income families.
August 30, 2024
Safe Exit Initiative re-opens community resource center and day shelter
August 29, 2024Worcester-based Safe Exit Initiative, a survivor-led nonprofit working to end the sex trade by providing support and safe exit options, has re-opened Harbor, its community resource center and day shelter.
August 29, 2024
EcoTarium launches accessibility app to boost equitable museum viewing
August 26, 2024Worcester’s EcoTarium has launched a mobile-phone navigation app prototype.
August 26, 2024
Three Central Mass. nonprofits granted slice of $3.8M to fight opioid impacts
August 22, 2024Three Worcester nonprofits have been named among the first recipient cohort of Massachusetts’ new grantmaking program Mosaic Opioid Recovery Partnership, an initiative providing funding to grassroots organizations working to reduce harm caused by
August 22, 2024
State's cannabis equity fund eclipses $27M
August 21, 2024A state fund meant to open the legal marijuana industry up to more entrepreneurs from communities most harmed by prohibition and enforcement now has more than $27 million at its disposal.
August 21, 2024
Daughter of Blue Hive’s founder takes over leadership, ownership of Worcester manufacturer
August 19, 2024Caitlyn Correia has taken over ownership of BlueHive Exhibits.
August 19, 2024
40 Under Forty alumni: Stacey Luster, Class of 2000 - groundbreaking education executive
Updated: August 19, 2024Before she was named to the inaugural class of WBJ’s 40 Under Forty, Stacey Luster was breaking new ground as the first Black woman elected to Worcester City Council.
Updated: August 19, 2024
40 Under Forty 2024: Jennessa Burks, artist educating the community
Updated: August 19, 2024Burks has left her mark on Worcester. Literally. She has collaboratively painted more than 20 murals throughout the city and has been commissioned to create more than 45 works of art total to be displayed across 18 states.
Updated: August 19, 2024
40 Under Forty 2024: Raquel Castro-Corazzini, leads Worcester recreation
Updated: August 19, 2024Not only did Castro-Corazzini found Worcester’s Division of Youth Opportunities, she herself grew the department's team from a staff from one in 2016 to more than 100 in less than a decade.
Updated: August 19, 2024
40 Under Forty 2024: Ariana Dello Stritto, Pride festival director
Updated: August 19, 2024Dello Stritto involves herself in all aspects of the Worcester community, whether it be her former role as marketing outreach officer at Bay State Savings Bank or serving as festival director at Pride Worcester.
Updated: August 19, 2024
40 Under Forty 2024: Leonard Jusme, mental health pioneer
Updated: August 19, 2024Since opening, Jusme has grown his practice from one provider to three providers of color on a staff offering a range of expertise including depression treatment, trauma therapy, and racial identity.
Updated: August 19, 2024
40 Under Forty 2024: Hayley Haywood, equity entrepreneur
Updated: August 19, 2024Haywood left the security of her 9-to-5 position in higher education to set out on her own, launching her equity-based consulting firm in April 2023.
Updated: August 19, 2024
40 Under Forty 2024: Rosibel Alicea Torres, child advocate
Updated: August 19, 2024Today, Alicea Torres oversees 40 home daycares in Greater Worcester, while providing services to those receiving help from the Mass. Department of Transitional Assistance, in addition to her work with unhoused families and teen and adult parents
Updated: August 19, 2024
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