More than $3 million in donations were collected for Massachusetts farmers impacted by the flooding this summer. The Massachusetts Farm Resiliency Fund was established on July 20th in partnership with the United Way of Central Massachusetts to support local farmers impacted by July’s catastrophic flooding. Estimates put the...
The Healey-Driscoll Administration and the United Way of Central Massachusetts (UWCM) today celebrated the distribution of the first round of checks through the Massachusetts Farm Resiliency Fund to flood impacted farmers in Massachusetts. Launched in July, the fund is a partnership between philanthropic organizations and...
The Healey-Driscoll Administration and the United Way of Central Massachusetts (UWCM) today announced the Massachusetts Farm Resiliency Fund. The fund is a partnership between philanthropic organizations and private foundations intended to support Western and Central Mass farms impacted by recent flooding and strengthen farm resiliency...
Skeptical about the timeline for federal aid, the Healey administration on Thursday backed an effort to raise private donations to help farmers who sustained major damagein a series of flood-inducing storms. The administration and United Way of Central Massachusetts on Thursday launched a fundraiser campaign, dubbed...
The gift was “transformational,” United Way of Central Massachusetts CEO Tim Garvin said, “in the size and magnitude.” It started two years ago on Nov. 16, 2020. An email appeared in Garvin’s inbox from someone who supported “the efforts of a philanthropist who is interested in...
WORCESTER ― Since 1938, the T&G Santa Fund has brightened Christmas for thousands of local children whose circumstances call for a bit of elfin intervention. This year, the 84-year tradition continues as Santa’s Worcester workshop, otherwise known as the newspaper, partners with the United Way of...
The New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill has long been a place for Worcester residents to get back in touch with nature, but over the last couple of years, the NEBG has been working so that Worcesterites can get a dose of green right...
When Elmo Quiles was a kid, he would often make wooden toy cars for fun. Now, years later as a member of a Worcester makerspace, he loves to spend time in the woodshop creating similar cars through a unique program, Hector Reyes x Technocopia. Technocopia, a...
How the United Way of Central Massachusetts Doubled - and spent - its annual budget, thanks to a mysterious billionaire. ...
Funds will expand capacity for statewide health and human services hotline WORCESTER – December 15, 2021 – United Way organizations across the Commonwealth have successfully advocated for $1M in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to expand capacity for Mass211, a statewide hotline that provides...
