Many nonprofit leaders have felt the need to revise their strategic plan or hold a team retreat in light of the coronavirus pandemic, but are postponing this critical work because face-to-face events are off limits for now and people get Zoom fatigue. However, that's not good enough. MORE
July 3, 2020 — Life Science Cares, a Cambridge-based nonprofit that connects the life sciences industry with nonprofits to fight poverty, this week announced it has granted $870,200 to 26 Greater Boston nonprofits to help mitigate the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. MORE
July 2, 2020 — Community foundations serving Cape Cod, Cambridge, and Boston, as well as the City of Boston, recently announced they distributed $3,365,000 to 52 nonprofits in eastern Massachusetts that are providing critically needed services to people who have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. MORE
June 28, 2020 — KIPP Massachusetts, a Lynn-based nonprofit that is part of a national network of college preparatory, public charter schools educating elementary, middle, and high school students, recently announced that Rhonda “Nikki” Barnes has been named executive director. MORE
June 27, 2020 — Twenty Massachusetts theater, dance, and arts-related organizations, from the Berkshires to the Cape and islands, recently shared in $1,260,000 granted to them by the Shubert Foundation, part of a nationwide effort to support operations at nonprofit performing arts organizations. MORE
July 5, 2020 — More than half of charitable organizations in the United States expect to raise less money in 2020 than they did in 2019, and an equal percentage believe the same will occur in 2021, according to a recently completed survey. MORE
July 3, 2020 — The Arc of South Norfolk and Lifeworks, longtime affiliated nonprofit providers of services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, based in Westwood, this week announced they will merge to become Lifeworks Arc. MORE
June 29, 2020 — The Yawkey Foundation, Tufts Plan Foundation, and The Boston Foundation recently granted $1,370,132 to 34 Massachusetts nonprofits that are continuing to provide vital services in response to the coronavirus pandemic that has roiled much of the state's nonprofit sector. MORE
June 26, 2020 — While extensive diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts by nonprofits in recent years have increased awareness of race and racism, "the entrenched disparity of white privilege continues to dominate the nonprofit sector," according to a newly completed report on the nonprofit racial leadership gap. MORE
June 30, 2020 — Seven Massachusetts nonprofits get funding for census outreach. Cambridge Center for Adult Education enduring by its own COVID-19 relief fund. Behavioral Health Network names president and CEO. Nominations sought for .ORG awards. MORE
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