Central Massachusetts' Source for Business News Volume 33 • Number 1 $3.50 January 10, 2022
Worcester Business Journal
WBJ
L IST:
LARGEST
LABOR UNIONS
Will the show go on?
Entertainment venues hanging by
a thread must overcome new
obstacles
| 6
Best of Business awards
PHOTO/MATT WRIGHT
38
Our readers make recommendations
in 58 categories for WBJ's annual
awards.
| 12
PHOTO/COURTESY
10 THINGS
What to cancel
in 2022 |
33
Saint Vincent's
CEO on healing
from the strike
S H O P TA L K
PHOTO/COURTESY
How the United Way
doubled – and spent
– its annual budget,
thanks to an
initially mysterious
billionaire. Page 10.
Tim Garvin and Naomi Sleeper
of the United Way (center
front), with the beneficiaries
of 2020's surprise donation
A vague email, a dummy bank
account & a $5M surprise