Nonprofit & Education

Baldwin to direct Healthy Kids lead-hazard initiative

Education 09/18/2007

PAWTUCKET – Barbara Baldwin has been named as program coordinator for the Healthy Kids Collaborative, R.I. Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch and the Children’s...

AT THE URI Fine Arts Center, above, is Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, during an exhibit last fall that chronicled the Americanization of call-center workers in India. The recorded interviews and photographs were the product of a one-year sabbatical. /

3 R.I. artists win MacColl Johnson Fellowships

Economic Activity 09/18/2007

PROVIDENCE – Three Ocean State visual artists have been named recipients of the prestigious MacColl Johnson Fellowships, The Rhode Island Foundation announced today. Selected...

THE STATE CREDIT for historic preservation has spurred about $2.5 billion in jobs and economic growth across the Ocean State since it took effect in 2002, GrowSmart found. /

Report: Historic tax credit paying off for R.I.

Economic Activity 09/18/2007

PAWTUCKET – Since taking effect in 2002, the R.I. State Historic Preservation Investment Tax Credit has brought about $2.5 billion in growth and jobs...

R.I. Local Food Fest raises $35,000 for local growers

Hospitality & Tourism 09/16/2007

Newport Restaurant Group, a division of Newport Harbor Corp., says its inaugural Rhode Island Local Food Fest – held at the group’s Castle...

PURVIS SYSTEMS has been expanding its existing offices and has opened a new one in Phoenix. Above, marketing manager Richard Foster, left, meets with Antoine E. Gharios, director of corporate business development. /

PURVIS thrives amid growing focus on safety

Business Services 09/16/2007

PURVIS Systems Inc., a Middletown-based IT systems and service provider for the public safety, emergency management and defense industries that has been operating in...

COLLEGE CONSULTANTS, such as Cristiana Quinn of Providence, above, offer students more personalized advice than a guidance counselor could provide. /

Consultants find big demand <br>for good advice on colleges

Business Services 09/16/2007

Michelle and Gary Beamon didn’t know where to start when their daughter, Alix, reached the an age when college was looming on the horizon. “She’s...

URI engineer at the forefront of ocean-floor research

Capital Goods 09/16/2007

An internationally renowned ocean researcher, Kate Moran has led major oceanographic expeditions since becoming an administrator and teacher at URI, including the 2004 Arctic...

Citizens gives backpacks to more than 12,000 kids

Economic Activity 09/15/2007

The Citizens Bank Foundation, through a grant to Recycling for Rhode Island Education, supplied more than 12,000 non-logo backpacks containing donated school supplies to...

Building skills to be competitive

Capital Goods 09/15/2007

Marcia LaBelle, vice president of operations at Nameplates for Industry Inc., already sees positive results forming from an introductory lean manufacturing course employees are...