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CHANGING NEEDS: Laurie White, president of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, says business grants should be targeted differently as challenges for businesses shift over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Pandemic relief programs still have aid available

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses in the hard-hit arts and hospitality industries were forced to shutter. But drawing from state grant funding, Brooklyn...
NOT EASY: Saeed Roohani, chair of the Department of Accounting at Bryant University, says becoming a certified public accountant requires money and time, which may be dissuading some people from becoming a CPA candidate. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Is qualifying for a CPA license too tough?

Within the accounting profession, certified public accountants are regarded as among the field’s most highly capable and well-compensated individuals. But as firms have difficulty...

We Share Hope, business community pitch in to aid Afghan evacuees

EAST PROVIDENCE – We Share Hope is teaming up with local grocery stores and community groups to provide Afghan evacuees with a taste of...

State, R.I. Foundation and partners announce Afghan Relief RI portal and...

PROVIDENCE – As the state prepares to welcome around 250 evacuees from Afghanistan over the next several months, a new initiative will connect evacuees...

Miriam Hospital physician elected president of American College of Gastroenterology

PROVIDENCE – A Miriam Hospital physician was elected to lead the American College of Gastroenterology, which represents over 17,000 gastroenterologists and other digestive disease...

Met High School student wins national entrepreneurship program

PROVIDENCE – For many people, the legislative jargon can be confusing and inaccessible. Carissa Lombardi, a senior at The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center...
MOTOR VEHICLES ARE unloaded on Pier 1 at the Port of Davisville in North Kingstown in early 2019. Port officials say the number of imports has declined during the COVID-19 pandemic. / PBN FILE PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

At Quonset port, supply chain problems of a different kind

Major ports around the country are jammed with ships carrying products and materials waiting to be delivered to their final destinations, but Rhode Island’s...

R.I. Foundation to match up to $60,000 for Trinity Rep, Food...

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation will match public donations to Trinity Repertory Company this season and provide an equal grant to the Rhode...
GREETING STUDENTS: Salve Regina University President Kelli J. Armstrong stops to talk with students as they return to campus recently in Newport. Armstrong says she enjoys getting to know students and soon after she arrived at the school in 2019, she implemented “Pizza with the President” gatherings, in which she would invite cohorts of students to her house for pizza. / PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

MISSION FOCUSED: Salve’s first lay president is determined to uphold school’s...

(Editor's note: This is the third installment in an occasional series of interviews with the state’s new wave of higher education leaders.) When Kelli J....
DISHING OUT MEALS: Douglas Spikes, kitchen manager, and volunteer Kathy Block prepare meals for guests at social services nonprofit Amos House in Providence. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

For many groups, hardships evolving, not subsiding

Social services nonprofit Amos House in Providence has been inundated since the COVID-19 pandemic first hit in March 2020, and it doesn’t appear that...
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