With the turn of the new year comes another surge of COVID-19 cases across the Commonwealth and the nation. During the first few days of 2022, United Way of Massachusetts…
As we look back at 2021, we’re grateful to everyone who has supported us in our efforts to help rebuild more equitable and more resilient communities. We began this…
The workforce that powers our economy is in crisis. Early education is essential infrastructure for a healthy economy. Yet over the past decade, a childcare crisis has arisen, with the…
This post is part of a special series about the workforce challenges our region faces and how we’re partnering to address them. Last week’s employment data from the Massachusetts Executive Office of…
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) was passed earlier this year to help communities recover from the wide-ranging economic and health impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. With an infusion of…
This past weekend, Haiti was hit by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that crumbled homes and buildings and killed more than 1,200 people. As relief organizations on the ground and around…
While the pandemic has left no one untouched, it also put a spotlight on the alarming disparities that have always existed throughout our country. As we look toward recovery, this…
The Covid-19 crisis has illuminated and widened existing cracks in our human services safety net and education system like no other point in time in our history. It is also a…
In March of 2020 when we were first sent home, the horizon of our lives shrank to the bounds of our backyards. At the same time, responding to the impacts of the pandemic had to…
In March of 2020, a global pandemic demanded we reimagine every aspect of daily life. At the United Way of MA Bay and United Way of Greater Seacoast, it was no…