Archive for July 2022

Good News Tuesday: Ascend Learning’s staff and CEO banded together to help change lives impacted by the war in Ukraine. Read More

Tech Goes Home said the funds will allow it to work with 100 new community-based organizations across Boston. Read More

The New England Independent Booksellers Association lists 78 independent bookstores as members. In the past year, the list grew by 25 members. Read More

Anne Tangen has led BankFive, a South Coast-based community bank, for two years after nearly 30 years at Fidelity Investments and State Street. Read More

H3 Biomedicine Inc., a Cambridge-based cancer biotech owned by Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai, is shutting down. Read More

The Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, which helped craft the report, said the new recommendations would help expand access to care in rural and underserved areas. Read More

In 2021, a disparity study commissioned by the City of Boston found that very few city contracts were being awarded to minority and women-owned businesses—and less than 1% went to Black-owned businesses. GrowBoston!, a partnership between the City of Boston and nonprofit Interise, aimed addressing the issue just graduated its first cohort. Read More

Segway has closed its facility in New Hampshire and is betting on a future in micro-mobility technology — just not in the product that its name has become synonymous with. Read More