News Archive

  • Women-led YWCA construction project breaks ground ...
    Telegram / Jan 09, 2020

    Poised to “meet the challenge of the new downtown,” as YWCA Central Massachusetts President Roberta Brien announced, the all women-led construction team for the YWCA’s $24 million re...

  • Worcester YWCA begins $24M renovation
    Worcester Business Journal / Jan 09, 2020

    The YWCA Central Massachusetts began construction Thursday on a $24-million renovation of its Worcester facility. The construction project has already hit a milestone: what the nonprofi...

  • Greater Lowell YMCA receives $1 million for renova...
    Lowell Sun / Dec 28, 2019

    Smiling kids smear green paint on paper plates. It’s Christmas Eve, and children in the Greater Lowell YMCA’s school-age care group are crafting cone-shaped pine trees. ...

  • Central Mass. YMCA receives $1M state grant to imp...
    Telegram.com / Dec 27, 2019

    The YMCA of Central Massachusetts was among six early education providers around the state this month to receive a $1 million grant to improve their facilities. In total, Gov. Charlie Baker a...

  • YWCA Gets Piece of $6 Million Grant from State to ...
    This Week in Worcester / Dec 20, 2019

    The Baker-Polito Administration and the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC) announced $6 million in grant awards for facility improvements at early education and care p...

  • YMCA Cape Cod Receives $1M Grant for Hyannis Early...
    CapeCod.com / Dec 20, 2019

    The YMCA Cape Cod has been awarded a $1 million grant from the state to support a new early education center in downtown Hyannis. The grant was one of six announced Thursday at the Hyannis Vi...

  • Baker-Polito Administration Awards $6 Million for ...
    Department of Early Education and Care, Executive Office of Education / Dec 19, 2019

    The Baker-Polito Administration and the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC) today announced $6 million in grant awards for facility improvements at early education and ...

  • YMCA Cape Cod gets $1M grant for child care center
    Cape Cod Times / Dec 19, 2019

    The Hyannis Village Marketplace will be home to a new early education center this fall with help from a $1 million capital grant the YMCA Cape Cod received from the Baker-Polito administration. ...

  • YMCA Cape Cod To Receive $1 Million Grant for New ...
    CapeCodToday.com / Dec 18, 2019

    On Thursday December 19th, Early Education and Care Commissioner Samantha Aigner-Treworgy; Senator Julian Cyr, and Representatives Will Crocker, David Vieira and Tim Whelan; and YMCA Cape Cod P...

  • Child Care of the Berkshires Ready for Next Renova...
    iBerkshires / Dec 10, 2019

    Child Care of the Berkshires took a moment Friday to mark the end of the first phase of its $1.75 million renovation — and the start of the second. It's been a long journey, said President an...

  • Cost of early child care is unsustainable
    The Boston Globe / Dec 05, 2019

    Two recent articles (“In academia, a caste system for parents,” Page A1, Dec. 1; “Poor workers struggling with a child-care debt trap,” Page A1, Dec. 2) demonstrate that parents at ever...

  • Springfield’s Educare Facility Is State-Of-The-A...
    Business West / Nov 12, 2019

    Nikki Burnett says Springfield’s Old Hill neighborhood and those surrounding it certainly need the gleaming new $14 million Educare facility constructed next door to the Elias Brookings Elementa...