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Centreville Bank Promotes Paola Fernandez to Senior Vice President, Community Development Officer

Centreville Bank announced that Paola Fernandez has been promoted to senior vice president, community development officer. In this role, Fernandez joins the leadership team...
HELPING HAND: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center volunteer Susan Barnes, right, assists a customer in the nonprofit organization’s food pantry in Newport.
PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN

Soaring inflation hurting nonprofits in many ways

Ask Heather Hole Strout what keeps her up at night and she answers without hesitating. “Housing. It’s a big issue. Many we help have...
IN THE WORKS: Pictured are ­
affordable housing units under ­construction on Bowdoin 
Street in Providence.
COURTESY ONE 
NEIGHBORHOOD 
BUILDERS

How will R.I. use $250M to ease its housing woes?

Rhode Island has received $1.1 billion in federal money from the American Rescue Plan Act, passed in response to the economic effects of the...
VITAL SERVICE: Ashlee Austin, right, site inclusive health clinician at Thundermist Health Center, meets with a patient at the 
center’s West Warwick location.
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Mental health providers are overwhelmed in R.I.

As COVID-19 began to creep into Rhode Island in early 2020, Michelle Crossley saw a steady increase in emails from people wondering whether they...

Award-winning Moss Pure elevates your everyday space by improving air quality and providing therapeutic...

Moss Pure, which won first place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Lebanon Challenge, is gaining recognition for its innovative synergy of science...

How employers can offer inclusive benefits for today’s families

With only 19% of U.S. households comprising “traditional families,” employers must rethink how they deliver benefits to meet diverse family needs. Today’s definition of family...

BankNewport Names Sarah Courtney Senior Vice President, Director of Project Delivery and Business Intelligence

BankNewport is pleased to announce that Sarah Courtney has been named senior vice president, director of project delivery and business intelligence. In her new...