Patricia Daddona, Author at Providence Business News

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"By all accounts our state is not on fiscally sound footing."

Five Questions With: Larry Girouard

In Their Own Words 08/30/2013

Larry Girouard, newly named president of Rhode Island Taxpayers, the state’s largest nonpartisan taxpayer advocacy group, is also president of the Business Avionix Co.,...

AIDS Project moves to Mount Hope

Nonprofit 08/30/2013

PROVIDENCE - AIDS Project Rhode Island has moved 20 employees and volunteers from 404 Wickenden St.in the Fox Point neighborhood to a former medical...

McDonald House Charities gives to Big Brothers

Nonprofit 08/30/2013

PROVIDENCE – A grand reopening of the 736 Branch Ave. McDonald’s on Aug. 16 included presentation of a grant for $25,000 from the Ronald...

Igliozzi Fund holding 10th golf tournament

Nonprofit 08/30/2013

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The Sandi “McGee” Igliozzi Memorial Fund Inc. holds its 10th annual golf tournament on Sept. 22 at the Crystal Lake Golf...

ANDY KINNECOM of Swipe for a Cause presents Diana Franchitto of HHCRI with a check to help provide end-of-life care in Rhode Island.

Home & Hospice Care<br> partners with Swipe

Nonprofit 08/30/2013

NEWPORT – Swipe for a Cause and Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island are partnering in a way that will allow them to...

THE SANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE and the R.I. State Council on the Arts are using a $29,900 grant from The Rhode Island Foundation to establish a center that will support and help develop teaching artists in the state. / COURTESY THE SANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE

Gamm establishes teaching center

Economic Activity 08/28/2013

PAWTUCKET - A new Rhode Island Teaching Artists Center is being established to provide Rhode Island-based teaching artists with job opportunities in the public...

THE RECENTLY CREATED IonaFest has named its initial award recipient, photographer Kate Petrie, who was the founder of the Jamestown Arts Center. She will be honored at the first IonaFest on Sept. 28 in Providence.

IonaFest picks first honoree

Entrepreneurship 08/28/2013

PROVIDENCE – IonaFest, a new arts festival, has named Kate Petrie, founder of the Jamestown Arts Center, as its first award recipient. IonaFest is dedicated...

THE EDUCATION ACHIEVEMENT GAP between Latino and white students in Rhode Island is among the largest in the nation, according to a study by Roger Williams University's Latino Policy Institute.

Report: Latino achievement gap in R.I. among largest in U.S.

Education 08/27/2013

(Updated, 11:35 a.m.) PROVIDENCE – While Latinos struggle in Rhode Island’s public schools, as evidenced in the results of a new study, they also represent...