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CVS Caremark gives $5M for health quality
WOONSOCKET – The CVS Caremark Charitable Trust, a private foundation created by CVS Caremark Corp., made a $5 million commitment in mid-December to expand...
Job Lot teams with book dealer
FALL RIVER – The Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation has teamed up with local wholesale book dealer Book Enterprises LLC and Fall River...
Schools boost financial literacy offerings
Undergraduates at some local schools are turning to financial-literacy programs to help them cope with college debt, which can easily exceed the mortgage of...
Five Questions With: Amiee Turner
Amiee Turner, a co-founder of the Ocean State Theatre Company, is also president, CEO and the producing artistic director. Founded in 2007 to reinvigorate...
Belichick launches foundation
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick has launched the Bill Belichick Foundation, a nonprofit created to provide coaching, mentorship, and...
Fundraising professionals honors Gregg’s
CRANSTON – The Rhode Island chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals presented Gregg’s Restaurants & Pubs with the Award for Outstanding Philanthropic Corporation...
Schwartz hosts volunteer breakfast
The Schwartz Center for Children on Dec. 13 hosted its annual Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast and honored two volunteers, Margaret Alden-Roderick and Kenneth Shwartz.
Alden-Roderick...
Blackstone Valley CAP gives thousand of toys
PAWTUCKET – As it has for more than 25 years, the Blackstone Valley Community Action Program this week gave out thousands of toys as...
R.I. employment highest since 2008, as jobless rate drops to 9%
CRANSTON – Rhode Island’s unemployment rate dipped slightly to 9 percent in November from 9.2 percent in October, and dropped a whole percentage point...
Simmons highest-paid R.I. college president in 2011, 21st in U.S.
(Updated, Dec. 17, 2:07 p.m.)
PROVIDENCE – Former Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons was Rhode Island’s highest paid college president in 2011 at just...
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