When Providence Mayor Angel Taveras delivered his State of the City Address this time last year, the city was $22 million short of closing a $110 million structural deficit, and it needed to find a … more

The Rhode Island Foundation awarded more than $30.4 million in 2012, a record year of giving according to the organization’s newly released report. more

The Ashoka U Exchange, a global conference on social innovation and social change, will take place at Brown University in February 2014. The annual event attracts students, university leaders and entrepreneurs. more

Lynda Gilbert had no clue that she had been nominated for Providence Business News’ Rising Star award for chief financial officers, so when she learned that she had won, it stunned her. more

When Kristin Fraser was 22 years old, she started her first job and never left. more

Merrill W. Sherman knows a few things about banking. In the early 1990s, she was named president, chairman and CEO of Eastland Financial Corp., and was charged with turning that institution around after years of losing money. She did it. more

The Savings Bank Life Insurance Co. recently provided Providence nonprofit Louie’s Place with 20 Pawtucket Red Sox tickets. The donation allowed several Providence youths to attend the team’s opening night game at McCoy Stadium. more

The Rhode Island Foundation on May 30 awarded $1.8 million to seven organizations from its Fund for a Healthy Rhode Island. Winners were chosen for their focus on creating access to affordable, primary care for patients. The grants range from $100,000 to $375,000 over two or three years. Pictured from left are: Dr. Kathleen Hittner, senior vice president for community health and perioperative services, Lifespan; Providence Mayor Angel Taveras; Neil Steinberg, foundation president & CEO and Merrill Thomas, Providence Community Health Centers CEO. more

Seven local nonprofit organizations have been awarded more than $1.48 million federal AmeriCorps grants as a result of the 2012 AmeriCorps State and National funding competition to advance the priorities of the Edward M. Kennedy Service America Act and the Corporation for National and Community Service. more

Ask around at the next group gathering you happen to attend and you’ll likely find that most everyone will agree the state’s waterways are deserving of protection from pollution and their surrounding wildlife should be saved from hazardous plastic. more