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When two local human services organizations merge on Jan. 1, it will create one of the region’s largest nonprofits that serves individuals with developmental disabilities, those in recovery and refugees. Catholic Family Center and Catholic Charities Community Services began discussing ...

Statistics about the aging of Americans will give anyone grey hair: 10,000 Baby Boomers turn 65 every day. By 2060, those 65 and older are projected to make up nearly one-quarter of the population. The number of people 85 years ...

When Heidi Zimmer-Meyer looks out of her office window on Chestnut Street, she can see five or six buildings under construction out her window. Zimmer-Meyer, president of the Rochester Downtown Development Corporation, says that since 2000, 5,200 people have moved ...

At one time, Angelica Perez-Delgado was a teen mom who had dropped out of high school to care for her child. Today, she runs the Ibero-American Action League Inc., a local nonprofit with more than 200 staffers that serves roughly ...

Bryant & Stratton College and Rochester Psychiatric Center have partnered on student fieldwork since the school began its occupational therapy assistant program several years ago. But this year, the two organizations have added therapeutic gardening to the Level I component ...

The time to invest in our community of Rochester is now. Greater Rochester is home to individuals and families who hold rich talents and diverse cultural backgrounds. Our landscapes offer abundant waterways, vistas, and parks that form a visually stunning region. Dynamic and ...

Men looking to get back on track with their fitness goals after a more sedentary lifestyle over the past year-plus should take things slow and steady rather than rushing back into the exercise routines they did pre-COVID-19. Richard Alweis M.D., ...

It’s no secret that people are living longer. In 2018, for the first time in history, people over the age of 65 outnumbered children under the age of five across the globe, according to the United Nations’ World Population Aging ...

“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” — Booker T. Washington We are in our fifteenth month since the pandemic was officially announced. We have an entire country of individuals, with the exception of our ...

Curb-to-curb service has come to Rochester’s public transit system in the form of RTS on Demand. Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority (RGRTA) this week rolled out the long-awaited Reimagine RTS, with RTS on Demand as one aspect of the newly redesigned ...

As more vaccines are distributed and businesses continue to open up, the COVID-19 pandemic is seemingly easing with a bright future on the horizon. As we experience renewed optimism, consumers are emerging from their homes and spending within their communities, ...

New York state’s enacted 2022 budget includes a historic $5 billion investment in child care through both state and federally funded initiatives designed to help restart the economy, support essential workers and child care providers and improve access to quality, ...

The Rochester Metropolitan Statistical Area trails New York state in five of eight key areas used to assess the nine-county region’s wellbeing, a new report from ACT Rochester shows. The 2021 Nine-County Regional Report Card, presented Tuesday by ACT Rochester, ...

Rochester RHIO will use $222,000 in funding from the Greater Rochester Health Foundation over the next two years to improve the quality and completeness of demographic data collected and shared in electronic health record systems across the region. The effort ...

When advertising is your bread and butter, it seems unlikely you would want to give it away. But that is exactly what Debra Ross did during the pandemic. Ross is the founder, publisher and CEO of EntertainmentCalendar.com, the umbrella company ...