Monday, October 7, 2024

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THUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER is seeking an $8 million bailout to avoid going into receivership and shutting down, according to a report Monday by WPRI-TV CBS 12. / COURTESY THUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER

Report: Thundermist asking for $8M bailout to avoid receivership

WARWICK – About a month after it laid off 14% of its staff, Thundermist Health Center is reportedly in such dire straits that it...

Boys & Girls Clubs of Providence awarded $100K from Webster Bank...

PROVIDENCE – The Boys & Girls Clubs of Providence will receive a $100,000 boost to its financial software and education efforts courtesy of Webster...

Smiley proposes amendments to reallocate unspent ARPA funds

PROVIDENCE – Mayor Brett P. Smiley on Tuesday announced a proposal to reallocate the roughly $4.4 million unspent from the city's $166 million in...

This year’s MacArthur ‘genius’ fellows include Providence’s Tony Cokes

NEW YORK (AP) – The 2024 class of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellows includes more writers, artists and storytellers than...

Tax cuts led to cut in charitable giving

Americans give about half a trillion dollars a year to charity. That money helps fund services for the homeless, fight diseases, run museums and...

Babin receives 2024 Dave Hammis Employment Innovation Award

SUE BABIN, director of the Self-Employment Business Program at the Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council, was recently awarded the 2024 Dave Hammis Employment Innovation...
A BETTER MINDSET: From left, Francheska Calderon, human resources business partner; Susan Piacenti, vice president of philanthropy; Dr. Richard Whalen, medical director; and Dayna Gladstein, CEO and president, have a conversation at Newport Mental Health’s offices in Middletown. 
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Newport Mental Health improving the quality of care

2024 PBN Innovative Companies Awards NONPROFIT: Newport Mental Health MANY ORGANIZATIONS WERE FORCED to adapt and change the way they did business to meet the increased...

At Teatro ECAS, curtains – and revenues – rising

PBN 2024 Fastest Growing Companies Awards $250,000 to $2.5 MILLION: 4. Teatro ECAS CEO (or equivalent): Yvonne Beauregard, general manager 2023 Revenue: $955,447 2021 Revenue: $482,442 Revenue growth: 98% ARTS ORGANIZATIONS...
ABOUT 300 PEOPLE attended Providence Business News' 2024 Fastest Growing & Innovative Companies awards program on Wednesday at the Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick in Warwick. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Novel ideas, revenue growth celebrated at PBN’s Fastest Growing & Innovative...

WARWICK – A public relations and communications firm, an employment placement firm, a meal delivery company, and a sports marketing and branded merchandise firm...

Five Questions With: Robin Covington

Robin Covington became the inaugural director of the Rhode Island Coalition for Elder Justice in June. The coalition is a Warwick-based nonprofit created in...
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