Registration for the Council’s tuition remission program is now underway for the upcoming 2020-2021 academic year. Participation in this program allows your employees to receive tuition remission for undergraduate-level courses at our partner schools. Visit our website for more information. Since its inception in 2000, more than 400 organizations have participated in the program, helping
Join us as a mentor or mentee for our inter-agency mentoring program, The Leadership Initiative. This program contributes to the professional development of the human services sector by matching mentees with mentors who have similar interests, strengths, and career objectives. The pairs connect either in-person or virtually each month over the span of a year
Our office will be closed on Friday, July 3, 2020 to observe the holiday. All of us at the Providers’ Council wish you and your loved ones a safe and happy July Fourth holiday weekend!
The Providers’ Council this week joined a group of state nonprofit advocates in asking the Massachusetts Congressional delegation to support additional federal relief for unemployment assistance. In a June 29 letter to Massachusetts members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the group wrote: “As you know, nonprofits are on the front lines responding
The Council is proud to be a recipient of the Statewide Complete Count grant from the Commonwealth’s Secretary of State’s office. We have used funding to host an educational webinar with the Census Bureau; give small mini-grants to human services organizations (including one that produced this excellent video from Community Resources for Justice); and create
The state Department of Children and Families announced two updates to provider payments this week. According to correspondence from DCF Assistant Commissioner Katherine Canada, provider COVID-19 Enhancement Payments for May and June will be paid together. Providers should see the payments by the end of next week, before the July 4 holiday. Residential Placement Providers
The COVID-19 global pandemic has brought worldwide economies to a grinding halt. Join us Wednesday, July 1 at 1:00 p.m. for a members-only hourlong webinar as experts from KPM experts provide information related to the most recent Paycheck Protection Flexibility Act that may be helpful as you navigate your organization’s PPP loan forgiveness. During this
The Council invites you to nominate those individuals within your agency, legislators, business partners, media professionals and others who make a difference for the human services sector. Help us recognize their outstanding contributions with a 2020 Award of Excellence. There are awards for direct care professionals, supervisors, managers, executive directors, chief executive officers, volunteers, advocates,
Today is Juneteenth — an annual holiday commemorating the end of slavery. In recognition, the Providers’ Council plans to cease normal business operations at noon and our staff will mark the day by supporting local, Black-owned businesses by purchasing goods and services. We encourage our members to join us in celebrating this important holiday by
This Friday June 19, people across the country will celebrate Juneteenth, an annual holiday commemorating the end of slavery in 1865. On that day, 155 years ago, enslaved Africans learned in Galveston, Texas, that the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed by Pres. Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863, more than two years earlier. A day normally
The Providers’ Council provides email updates on various items through our Academy for Learning & Exchange (ALEX) e-newsletter and our Providers’ Council eDigest. Sign up here to receive ALEX, and if you’re a Council member, contact info@providers.org to make sure you get our members only communication, like eDigest.
