The Edinburg Center of Lexington has been nominated for a Nonprofit Excellence Award by the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network (MNN).

Since November 2004, the Watertown Police Department has partnered with the Edinburg Center to create a unique collaboration between law enforcement officers and mental health professionals known as the Jail Diversion Program.

Massachusetts Nonprofit Network announces that Advocates for Autism of Massachusetts, Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation, Resolve of the Bay State, and World Connect – all based in Waltham – have been nominated for a Nonprofit Excellence Award. These awards honor organizations making a difference in their community. Winners will be notified in June.

Four nonprofit agencies have been nominated for a Nonprofit Excellence Award by the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network. The awards are given out annually on Nonprofit Awareness Day, June 14 this year, at the Statehouse. They are:

The Lowell Community Health Center provides health-care services to individuals and families who are medically underserved, uninsured and low income. In the past year, LCHC served more than 32,000 patients. LCHC collaborates with dozens of social-service, mental-health, community-service, academic, civic and cultural organizations in Greater Lowell to help connect patients with support services.

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BOSTON — Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, the state trade association for nonprofits, announced that 132 nonprofits across the state have been nominated for Nonprofit Excellence Awards, the winners of which will be recognized during Nonprofit Awareness Day in June.
The awards honor organizations in 10 categories that the 600-member Massachusetts Nonprofit Network (MNN) [...]

The Boys & Girls Clubs of MetroWest has been buffeted in recent years by state funding cuts that forced the small nonprofit agency to close one of its Marlboro locations, freeze salaries and lay off employees after it was hit with an $800,000 deficit.

At the same time, the Marlboro-based group’s national parent organization reported a $13 million loss on its most recent tax return and came under fire in Congress last month for doling out nearly $1 million in salary and expensive perks to its president.

The MetroWest Daily News
METROWEST – The state spends billions of taxpayer dollars each year, but do you know where your money is going? Do you care?
Hoping to inform and encourage awareness among Massachusetts residents, a nonpartisan research group has launched a Web site where people can click around and see specific line items [...]

Major health insurers, vilified during national health care debates and now in the Patrick administration’s crosshairs for seeking premium hikes for small businesses, have long enjoyed nonprofit status in Massachusetts and all the tax breaks that status entails.

But top Patrick administration officials have wondered in recent days whether it’s time to change course.

“Certainly I think it may be something worth looking at in this environment,” Lt. Gov. Tim Murray told the News Service. “To regular people, it’s just hard to understand and grasp how these are nonprofits – hitting businesses, hitting cities and towns, hitting individuals with double-digit increases that are well beyond the medical rate of inflation year in and year out, and saying that they’re losing money and that their CEO salaries have gone up.”