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…
This STEM Week we allowed more students than ever to “See themselves in STEM”. Despite the pandemic, we persisted harnessing the T in STEM to provide a multitude of programs…
We want to spend the last few weeks of 2019 celebrating you – the people and partners who stepped up to help us think differently, try new approaches and never…
This month, we’ve been talking about workforce development and innovative ways to bridge the skills and labor gap that many businesses are facing. In fact, one local manufacturing company recently…
Behind the headlines of a strong job market stands the threat of a skills gap. The mismatch between what the job market needs and the skills of underemployed workers represents…
There’s a huge need for talent in the advanced manufacturing sector – yet there were a few employers in the Merrimack Valley for which this has not been the case.…
It’s Innovation Month here at United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley, so we sat down with Michael Taylor (President) and Caitlin Callahan (Dir. of Development) at Urban College…
It’s been a long journey. Your child has gone to school for almost her entire life and now she’s on to an exciting new chapter in her life. For many…
Jamel was raised in housing projects in Lawrence, MA. When he was 17, he was convicted of armed robbery and incarcerated for 18 months. Upon release, he floated from one…
If you’ve ever visited the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Boston campus, then you know it’s buzzing with people—patients, administrators, physicians, surgeons, researchers—and if you look carefully you may even see…