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Citizens donates $12.5K for Meeting Street telethon

Financial Services 10/23/2015

PROVIDENCE – Citizens Financial Group has donated $12,500 to Meeting Street’s 40th annual telethon, scheduled for Jan. 30. The telethon will be held on Meeting...

AG, Neighborhood Alliance partner for winter apparel drive

Nonprofit 10/23/2015

PROVIDENCE – Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin is partnering with the Neighborhood Alliance of Pawtucket to collect winter apparel in an annual “Warm Hearts,...

A RENDERING OF THE NEW Brown University School of Engineering research building. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY/KIERENTIMBERLAKE

Brown to break ground for engineering as part of growth

Economic Activity 10/22/2015

PROVIDENCE – Brown University leaders will break ground Thursday evening on an $88 million School of Engineering building that will focus on nanoscience and...

PROVIDENCE HOTELS HAVE ENJOYED increasing room rates through August compared with previous years, according to research by hospitality data tracker STR, thanks to high occupancy rates. / COURTESY STR

Providence hotels healthiest they’ve been in a number of years

Economic Activity 10/20/2015

PROVIDENCE – The city’s lodging industry is the strongest it has been in the last few years, Jan D. Freitag of STR told invited...

A $72,030 grant from the Rhode Island Foundation will enable Day One to address the commercial exploitation of children and expand services.

Day One receives $72K to combat child sex trafficking

Nonprofit 10/20/2015

PROVIDENCE – Day One plans to increase response to and community education about child sex trafficking using a $72,030 grant from the Rhode Island...

THE RHODE Island Foundation has begun taking applications for its 2016 innovation fellowships. This year's recipients, the husband and wife team of Daniel Kamil and Emily Steffian, and John Haley, talk after the announcement of their $300,000 grants last April. Haley is on the right. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION/CONNIE GROSCH

R.I. Foundation accepting applications for innovation fellowships

Entrepreneurship 10/20/2015

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation is accepting applications for a fifth round of $300,000 innovation fellowships. Made possible by Letitia and John...

DELTA DENTAL of Rhode Island is giving more than $1 million in five separate donations to professionals to support critical oral health care across the state. Pictured, from left to right., Neil D. Steinberg, president and CEO of The Rhode Island Foundation; U.S. Sen. Jack F. Reed; Dr. Timothy J. Babineau, president and CEO of Lifespan; Joe Nagle, president and CEO of Delta Dental of Rhode Island; Raymond Lavoie, executive director of Blackstone Valley Community Health Care; Chuck Jones, president/CEO of Thundermist Health Center; Elaine Hardman, chief operating officer of Providence Community Health Centers; Dr. Latha Sivaprasad, senior vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children's Hospital; John Marchant, president of the Scituate Health Alliance and Dr. Elizabeth G. Benz, director of the Samuels Sinclair Dental Center. / COURTESY DELTA DENTAL OF RHODE ISLAND

Delta Dental donating $1M to support oral health care in R.I.

Health Services 10/19/2015

PROVIDENCE – Delta Dental of Rhode Island is giving more than $1 million in five separate donations to professionals to support critical oral health...

AN INTERNATIONAL body that accredits arboretums has recognized the 88 landscapes cared for by the Preservation Society of Newport County as an official arboretum. Pictured are trees surrounding the sunken garden at The Elms. / COURTESY THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY

Newport mansions landscapes recognized as official aboretum

Hospitality & Tourism 10/19/2015

NEWPORT – An international body that accredits arboretums has recognized the 88 landscapes cared for by the Preservation Society of Newport County as an...

WELl STOCKED: Asli Ascioglu, left, professor of finance at Bryant University, instructs student Jack Grant, a senior from Rocky Hill, Conn., during a portfolio management class in the Archway Investment Fund program. / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

Students get invested in Bryant program

Education 10/17/2015

Jack Grant, a Bryant University senior, recently researched whether or not to invest in Microsoft for the university's Archway Investment Fund. He found the...