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2025 Power 100: Noreen Johnson Smith
Updated: May 19, 2025Johnson Smith joined the science and nature museum in 2022, after the EcoTarium experienced a 90% drop in visitation during COVID and had to lay off 67% of staff.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Pete Dunn
Updated: May 19, 2025As head of GWCF, he leads distribution of the funds from the third-largest grantmaking foundation in Central Massachusetts, as it has more than $205 million in assets.
Updated: May 19, 2025
The Insiders 2025: Patty Eppinger
Updated: May 19, 2025Story by Tim Garvin, president & CEO of United Way of Central Massachusetts
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Dana Neshe
Updated: May 19, 2025When Neshe stepped into her executive roles in 2024, she made Middlesex Savings the largest woman-run bank in Central Massachusetts. She was promoted from her previous position as chief operating officer, playing a key role in the bank rounding out
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Debbie Hall
Updated: May 19, 2025Working to help eliminate racism and empowering women are two monumental lifts, but Hall is up to the task.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Kathleen Jordan
Updated: May 19, 2025After a nearly 20-years tenure with Seven Hills, Jordan assumed her position as leader of Central Massachusetts’ largest human services nonprofit in 2023, as the region continued to reel from strained clinical, mental, and behavioral health systems
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Amie Shei
Updated: May 19, 2025Shei addresses the nuanced and complicated need for health equity by using an intersectional and holistic approach as she tirelessly advocates for those who don’t have a seat at the table. In February, she was honored as Massachusetts Woman of the
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Liz Hamilton
Updated: May 19, 2025She leads the 136-year-old nonprofit by centering partnership and empathy as she works to grow its programming, which reaches 8,000 youth annually.
Updated: May 19, 2025
The Insiders: Who do Central Mass. power players say are the most influential people in the region?
Updated: May 19, 2025In February, WBJ asked the 400+ people who have ever been on a WBJ power list (Power 100, Power 50, Power Players) to vote for the professionals they believed are the most influential in the region. Nearly 600 votes were cast
Updated: May 19, 2025
Better Business Bureau CEO departs after one year, succeeded by Hanover Theatre VP
May 13, 2025The president and CEO of the Worcester-based Better Business Bureau of Central New England has stepped down from his position after just one year on the job.
May 13, 2025
Safe Exit Initiative launches sex trafficking outreach program in Baltimore
May 13, 2025Safe Exit Initiative, a Worcester nonprofit supporting those involved in the sex trade, has expanded its reach into the Mid-Atlantic, launching a harm reduction and outreach program in Baltimore.
May 13, 2025
Former Mercy Centre site up for sale for $3.25M after nonprofit’s move to West Boylston
May 12, 2025The site had used by the Mercy Centre until it moved its operations to West Boylston earlier this year.
May 12, 2025
Collaborating through a crisis: More than 50% of Central Mass. ER beds are taken up by mental health patients waiting for treatment
Updated: May 5, 2025In February, Gov. Maura Healey declared Massachusetts is facing a mental health crisis.
Updated: May 5, 2025
Q&A: Kathleen Gagne's legacy of culture & connections at Mechanics Hall
Updated: May 5, 2025Now preparing for retirement, Kathleen Gagne is grateful for the chance to preserve history while inspiring future generations to engage with music and culture.
Updated: May 5, 2025
Boys & Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster appoints former volunteer as CEO
April 25, 2025Bercume comes to the nonprofit having most recently served as director of ecommerce fort Berry Global, an Indiana-based manufacturing company.
April 25, 2025
Willard House & Clock Museum to develop new 10,000-sq-ft facility
April 23, 2025The new facility will be named the Charles N. Grichar Center after the museum’s trustee and benefactor who pledged more than $15 million to the Willard House & Clock Museum in April 2024
April 23, 2025
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