City libraries change hands today
PROVIDENCE – The city’s nine neighborhood library branches are under new management today as a new nonprofit group took control under terms of a...
PBN announces 40 Under Forty winners
PROVIDENCE – Providence Business News has chosen the 2009 class of its annual 40 Under Forty program, to be honored at a July 30...
R.I. Foundation awards $1.6M for health
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation today announced that it has awarded $1.6 million in grants from its health fund to be distributed over...
Brown to cut 2010-11 budget by $30M
PROVIDENCE – Brown University administrators said yesterday the school must cut its operating budget for the 2010-11 fiscal year by an additional 5.5 percent,...
‘Green shoots’ sprouting up all over
WASHINGTON – If only the economy had caught fire this fast.
“Green shoots” – the phrase, if not the phenomenon – has been everywhere since...
Deepwater signs $20.7M Quonset lease
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Deepwater Wind Rhode Island LLC yesterday signed a 10-year, $20.7 million agreement to lease 117 acres of land at the Quonset...
R.I. Foundation’s investments drop 27%
PROVIDENCE – The value of The Rhode Island Foundation’s investments fell 27 percent in 2008, the 93-year-old nonprofit has disclosed in its annual report.
The...
Nehme-Malko new vice president at ALPFA’s R.I. arm
Rulla Nehme-Malko has been named vice president of membership for the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting of Rhode Island (ALPFA-RI). She...
Being minority-certified can provide an edge
One of the first rules that owners of a company learn is that to successfully market their business, they must differentiate themselves or their...
Cemetery project offers hope for eager workers
If you are fortunate enough to find employment in this tough economy, and you do even the most menial job well and cultivate useful...
