Butler Hospital, union avert strike
PROVIDENCE – Butler Hospital and the New England Healthcare Employees Union / SEIU, District 1199, today announced a tentative contract.
The deal averts a strike...
Eric Weiner is R.I. Small Business Person of Year
PROVIDENCE – A Pawtucket transportation company, a historic Federal Hill restaurant and two small business advocates with the Rhode Island Coalition for Minority Investment...
APC: Save energy and help save land this Earth Day
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – APC-MGE, the critical power and cooling services business unit of Schneider Electric (Paris: SU.PA), has pledged to give The Nature Conservancy...
Landmark eyes merger with Memorial Hospital
WOONSOCKET and PAWTUCKET – Landmark Medical Center, which has been struggling financially and has approached Lifespan twice in the last year to discuss the...
Citizens, NBC10 recognize Goodwill for service
PROVIDENCE – Citizens Bank and NBC10 have named Goodwill Industries of Rhode Island as the 2008 second-quarter Champion in Action in the work force...
Theatre-By-The-Sea is now a nonprofit
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The Theatre-By-The-Sea in Matunuck is now operating as a nonprofit for the first time in its 75-year history. Owner and producer...
Financial literacy falls among teens in R.I., U.S.
WASHINGTON – Financial literacy among high school seniors has gone “from bad to worse,” the Jump$tart Coalition announced: Only 29 percent of high school...
Women & Infants researcher wins Brown award
PROVIDENCE – Dr. Maureen G. Phipps, director of the Division of Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Women & Infants Hospital,...
Citizens Bank grants $100K for homeless charities
The Citizens Bank Foundation recently granted the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless $100,000 to support the Shelter Heating Initiative.
Designed to help pay...
Cox awards $1.1M to local nonprofits
Cox Communications donated $1.1 million in the form of Cox Charities grants and in-kind support to selected area nonprofit organizations, including the YMCA of...
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