Emily Gowdey-Backus
Emily Gowdey-Backus joined Providence Business News as a staff writer in April 2016. She is a native of Connecticut and holds a Master’s Degree in international journalism from Cardiff University. Emily covers the education, workforce development, hospitality and tourism, and nonprofit beats for the newspaper.
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RIF expands grant opportunities, staff, recommits to strategic priorities
PROVIDENCE - While the Rhode Island Foundation closed out 2017 having doled out $43 million in grants to more than 1,700 nonprofit organizations and...
Fidelity Charitable celebrates $4.5B, record-breaking 2017
PROVIDENCE - Breaking its previous record of $3.5 billion in 2016, Fidelity Charitable awarded $4.5 billion through more than one million grants to roughly...
City fire stations help combat drug addiction
Between 2009 and 2016, more than 1,700 Rhode Islanders died from drug overdoses.
This sobering statistic is from the Prevent Overdose Rhode Island action plan...
Former New York Times CEO named to RIF board of directors
PROVIDENCE – Janet Robinson, former president and CEO of The New York Times Co., was named to the Rhode Island Foundation board of directors...
Five Questions With: Leah Burgin
Leah Burgin joined Brown University’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology as the manager of museum education and programs in August 2017. Much of her previous...
Film based on RIC professor’s novel wins Grand Jury Prize at...
PROVIDENCE – The film adaptation of “The Miseducation of Cameron Post,” a novel penned by Rhode Island College associate professor of English Emily Danforth,...
Trinity Repertory Company awarded $15K NEA Art Works grant for ‘Ragtime’
PROVIDENCE – Trinity Repertory Company has received a $15,000 Art Works grant for its production of “Ragtime,” the theater company announced.
The grant is among...
RWU, Providence Public Schools to launch joint ESL program for teachers
PROVIDENCE – Increasing the number of English as a second language teachers is the core of a new program being launched by Roger Williams...
Five Questions With Maggie Anderson
Maggie Anderson | Education director, R.I. State Council on the Arts
1. What do you hope to learn from the 31-year legacy of former Education...
Brown welcomes $50M gift from Chancellor Mencoff
PROVIDENCE - A $50 million gift made to Brown University by Chancellor Samuel M. Mencoff and Ann S. Mencoff to fund the translation of scientific...
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