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Providence Community Health Centers names incoming CEO

PROVIDENCE – Two weeks after Merrill Thomas, president and CEO of Providence Community Health Centers, announced he would retire by the end of the...

America250-Enduring Success: Saint Elizabeth Community

(Editor’s note: This is the 22nd installment in a weekly series featuring Rhode Island’s oldest companies as the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of...
DONALD MCCORMACK, senior consultant to McLaughlin Research Corp., has been elected chairperson of the Undersea Technology Innovation Consortium board of directors. / COURTESY UNDERSEA TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CONSORTIUM

McCormack elected chair of UTIC board of directors, replacing Proffitt

MIDDLETOWN – Donald McCormack, senior consultant to McLaughlin Research Corp., has been elected chairperson of the Undersea Technology Innovation Consortium board of directors, the nonprofit announced...
GIVING GOALS: David N. Cicilline, who became Rhode Island Foundation CEO and president in 2023, unveiled a five-year strategy for the state’s largest funder of nonprofits in 2024. The new plan identified six community priorities that will guide the foundation’s grantmaking.
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Federal funding cuts put nonprofits to the test

It took years for Rhode ­Island’s nonprofits to put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror, but the sector found it had a new...
David N. Cicilline

Driving Forces: David N. Cicilline

David N. Cicilline Rhode Island Foundation CEO and president DAVID N. CICILLINE’S 2023 resignation from Congress to take the top job at the Rhode Island Foundation...
Barnaby Evans

Driving Forces: Barnaby Evans

Barnaby Evans WaterFire Providence executive artistic director JUST WHEN IT looked as if the flames might finally die out, ­WaterFire Providence came roaring back in 2026,...
Colleen Daley Ndoye

Driving Forces: Colleen Daley Ndoye

Colleen Daley Ndoye Project Weber/RENEW executive director OPERATING ONE OF the ­nation’s first government-regulated overdose prevention centers put a lot of pressure on nonprofit Project Weber/RENEW...
David N. Cicilline

Reimagining philanthropy as ‘a strategic investment’

Five years ago, Rhode Island was emerging from the darkest days of the COVID-19 crisis. Over the next few years, all of us figured...
Cortney Nicolato

Driving Forces: Cortney Nicolato

Cortney Nicolato United Way of Rhode Island Inc. CEO and president CORTNEY NICOLATO HAS 25 years of experience leading complex, mission-driven organizations through growth, modernization and...
Laurie White

Driving Forces: Laurie White

Laurie White Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce president WHEN NEIGHBORING states began positioning themselves to poach Citizens Financial Group Inc. from its longtime Rhode Island home,...
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