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HER OWN JOURNEY: Crossroads Rhode Island Chief Financial Officer Laurie A. Devlin joined the organization in 2001, when it was known as Traveler's Aid Housing. She said she was looking to grow professionally, but ended up finding her work in the field rewarding. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Crossroads grows with Devlin at financial helm

Resources and services for Rhode Island's homeless have grown steadily wider, deeper and more progressive since the start of the millennium. Part of the...
WAITING GAME: Rob Cagnetta, owner of Heritage Restoration in Providence and a member of the Health Insurance Small Employer Task Force, left, works with Shop Manager Seth Jacobson. / PBN PHOTO/?RUPERT ?WHITELEY

Med. budgets capped ?but firms don’t feel relief

Rhode Island Health Insurance Commissioner Dr. Kathleen Hittner turned the screws a little tighter last month to force lower medical costs and more-efficient care...
Full House: More than 300 people attended last month's PBN-sponsored ?Summit on Health Care Reform & The Insurance Exchange. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Stick with HealthSource? It comes down to cost

Would Rhode Island ease its painfully strained finances by bailing out of its homegrown health insurance exchange and leaping into the federal exchange under...
8 CALL A MEETING OF THE MINDS

10 things that will turn Rhode Island around

Rhode Island woke up on New Year’s Day 2015 with a groaning hangover from years of wallowing in bad economic news. Standing by the...
A Healthy Thought:
“We are proud of what our Rhode Island employees have been able to achieve.” 
Maria Gordon-Shydlo 
Public relations director

Monetary rewards help spark healthy habits

People usually evaluate their health by simple observations: an ache in a joint or a lesion on the skin. As a corporate body, UnitedHealthcare...

Facilitating far-reaching effects of volunteerism

The basic task of Serve Rhode Island is to recruit volunteers across the state and link them to nonprofit groups that need their work....
OUTSIDE THE BOX: Serving mainly city kids from less-privileged neighborhoods, the Center for Dynamic Learning looks to help children who are not thriving in traditional classrooms. Above, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed takes instruction from Samuel Cunha, red shirt, and Krystalee Diaz Nieves prepares to start cart racing at the Center for Dynamic Learning’s End-of-Session Celebration at Culcutt Middle School in Central Falls. / PBN PHOTO/FRANK MULLIN

Center tailors teaching to kids as individuals

Some people learn well in a lecture hall: seated and washed in a torrent of words, written and spoken. Some people learn with their...
IMPORTANT WORK: Aside from enjoying the perks that come with working for the company, employees at Amgen also take pride in their work to ease suffering. Pictured from left are: Senior Manager for Quality Control Adam Konow, specialist Danielle Paul, and Quality Control Managers Leo Espondle and Monika Soban.

Rewarding work at Amgen, but benefits a draw, too

How’s this for a job perk: knowing your work helps people suffering from painful, debilitating, chronic illnesses to get out of bed, move without...

Looking for male volunteers to mentor children in need

We’re all familiar with the billboard image and mission of Big Brothers and Big Sisters: a man or woman offering care, time and attention...
COURTESY R.I. EDC
SHINING EXAMPLE: After decrying large corporate incentives,, Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee, left, came on board for a $1 million grant to Toray Plastics to build a solar power array backed by EDC Executive Director Keith W. Stokes, right. With the two at the unveiling of the array are Toray president and CEO, Richard Schlosser, second from left, R.I. Senate President M. Teressa Paiva Weed and URI President David M. Dooley.

Forging a new/old path on economic development

When Keith W. Stokes left the Newport Chamber of Commerce in early 2010 to take a temporary appointment as head of the R.I. Economic...
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