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ANY TIME, ANY PLACE: Philip Burrows, a Verizon manager, watches live TV on his tablet at the train station in Basking Ridge, N.J. Internet streaming of TV, film and video are markets that providers of traditional cable TV services such as Verizon, Cox and Full Channel Inc. are catering to more and more, the companies say. / COURTESY VERIZON

TV access meets mobile demand

Technology 01/10/2015

In Rhode Island, television access through providers like Verizon, Cox and Full Channel Inc. is evolving to meet consumer demand from so-called “cord-cutters,” who...

INNOVATIVE APPROACH: Bryant University accounting professor Mary Ella Gainor, standing, works with students in a prototype facility within the George E. Bello Center for Information and Technology. / COURTESY PATRICK O’CONNOR PHOTOGRAPHY

Bryant innovation rooms target applied learning

Education 01/10/2015

When Bryant University students worked on Dec. 10 to address how best to attract and retain millennial workers for Target, as part of a...

SUPPORTING ROLE: Roxanne Nadeau, left, works on a painting at Access Point Rhode Island with direct-support professional Karen Matteson. Through CCRI, APRI has offered two different, for-credit courses in a professional training program. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

CCRI training to meet needs of employers

Education 01/10/2015

Since the 1980s, the Community College of Rhode Island has been contracting with employers to offer for-credit and noncredit classes that train students in...

"Since our founding in 2009, we have had aspirations to become a national organization that is headquartered in Providence," says Capital Good Fund Founder and CEO Andy Posner. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Five Questions With: Andy Posner

In Their Own Words 01/09/2015

Andy Posner is CEO of Capital Good Fund, a nonprofit he founded in 2009 while getting his master's degree in environmental studies from Brown...

Big Brothers Big Sisters kicks off yearlong recruitment

Nonprofit 01/09/2015

WARWICK – Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Ocean State is kicking off a yearlong recruitment effort to pair mentors with more than 200...

ARTS Scholarships applications sought

Nonprofit 01/09/2015

PROVIDENCE – Applications for the ARTS Scholarships 2015 program are being accepted through Feb. 27. Jo-Ann Ragosta, program chairperson, and the community outreach committee of...

Mechanics donates to St. Vincent’s

Nonprofit 01/09/2015

FALL RIVER – Mechanics Cooperative Bank has donated $1,000 to St. Vincent’s Home this past holiday season. Directed to the Life Skills Program for youth...

BRISTOL COUNTY SAVINGS BANK, through its Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation (BCSCF), recently awarded $64,450 to eight Taunton, Massachusetts area nonprofits. Pictured from left are: Russ Martorana, foundation board member and president of FBinsure; Michele Roberts, Foundation clerk and bank executive vice president and community relations officer; Edward Pariseau, Jr., foundation board member; Kit Tunney, president and executive director, Associates for Human Services, Inc.; Patrick J. Murray, Jr., foundation president and bank president and CEO; Annemarie Matulis, executive director, Greater Taunton Community Services Center; Phil Shea, president and CEO of CCBC Properties, Inc.; Jill Precopio, executive director, Boys & Girls Club of Taunton; Marge Largey, foundation board member; Karen Ennis, executive director, Triumph, Inc.; Dennis Leahy, foundation treasurer, and bank executive vice president, CFO and treasurer; Kim Thomas, vice president of development, Justice Resource Institute, Inc.; and Bethany Kendall, president and CEO, Executive Service Corps of New England. / COURTESY BOB BARTLETT

Bristol County gives grants to 8

Nonprofit 01/09/2015

TAUNTON – Bristol County Savings Bank, through its charitable foundation, awarded grants totaling $64,450 to eight Taunton area nonprofit organizations in early January. The awards...

R.I. earns C+ on education report

Economic Activity 01/08/2015

PROVIDENCE - Rhode Island earned a C+ on Education Week’s Quality Counts report, with the ranking reflecting strength in the “chance for success” category...