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Worcester has to decide by the end of the year how it will spend its remaining $44.3 million in federal pandemic relief money, GBH reports. With that deadline looming, some local nonprofit leaders are criticizing the city for inequitably dispersing some of the money in prior grant rounds — and urging officials to do better.
The American Rescue Plan Act money is intended to support economic recovery and address long-term challenges, especially those affecting communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. But some nonprofits and activists argue Worcester has used a lot of its ARPA funds to continue a pattern of preferential treatment to larger, well-funded organizations over small Black- and Brown-led groups…