Marra buys out restaurant partner Pinelli
EAST GREENWICH – Steve Marra has bought out his partner, Bill Pinelli, to become sole owner of Pinelli Marra Restaurant Group, one of the...
Brown raises $1.4B, plans construction
PROVIDENCE – Brown University’s leaders this weekend announced that the school’s four-year-old “Boldly Brown” capital campaign had reached its initial goal of raising $1.4...
Mentoring Partnership raises $56K for programs
The Rhode Island Mentoring Partnership (RIMP) held its annual fundraising event, “Dancing with the Stars of Mentoring,” at Rhodes on the Pawtuxet with more...
Making interns part of the team
These are tough economic times for nonprofits, and any way that an agency can expand its work force temporarily without spending a lot of...
Warwick Citizens team RBS service award
Citizens Bank parent company RBS announced winners of its annual Chairman’s Award for Community Excellence, which recognizes significant contributions colleagues make in their local...
R.I.’s future requires hard choices, pinpoint focus
(Editor’s Note: This piece is adapted from the Spring 2009 New England Economic Partnership forecast, delivered May 21 at the Federal Reserve Bank of...
R.I. women creating business success
The special section included in the current issue of Providence Business News celebrates women honored at our second annual Business Women luncheon held last...
Sam Walton’s survival plan
Sam Walton, the legendary founder of Wal-Mart, had 10 rules for running a successful business. They are simple and straightforward. But guess what? I...
New life for historic Island mill
Built at a cost of about $40,000 in 1831, using granite quarried from nearby Jamestown, the Aquidneck Mill on lower Thames Street in Newport...
Instilling respect in students a focus at Moses Brown
Next month, Joanne Hoffman is stepping down as the head of Moses Brown School – an indepentent pr-K-through-12 school on the East Side of...
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