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R.I. Mortgage Bankers Association announces 2024 scholarship winners

PROVIDENCE – Lauren Perrone and Julie Vieira are the Rhode Island Mortgage Bankers Association’s 2024 Future of Rhode Island Scholarship Award winners, the association...

BankRI awards $100,725 to 40 Rhode Island nonprofits

PROVIDENCE – Bank Rhode Island has awarded $100,725 in charitable grants to 40 nonprofits throughout the state to support community programs that provide basic...
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE'S athletics department in the 2024 fiscal year raised $10.7 million and had $8.5 million in ticket sales, both new school records. / PBN PHOTO/JAMES BESSETTE

PC athletics sets new records for fundraising, ticket revenue in 2024 fiscal year

PROVIDENCE – One year after setting a new benchmark for fundraising, financial support for Friartown’s athletic programming raised the bar once again. Providence College announced...

Boys & Girls Club of Northern Rhode Island gets $850K for clubhouse renovation

CUMBERLAND – Boys & Girls Club of Northern Rhode Island will receive $850,000 to support a renovation project at the Cumberland-Lincoln clubhouse and grounds,...
JEANINE ACHIN has been named CEO and president of Mentor Rhode Island. / COURTESY MENTOR RHODE ISLAND

Achin named CEO, president of Mentor Rhode Island

WARWICK – Jeanine Achin has been named CEO and president of Mentor Rhode Island: The RI Mentoring Partnership Inc., a nonprofit providing mentoring services...
PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS has announced 34 companies and organizations as the 2024 Fastest Growing & Innovative Companies Awards honorees.

PBN unveils 2024 Fastest Growing & Innovative Companies

PROVIDENCE – Thirty-four local companies and organizations are among both the highest earners and the most innovative as part of Providence Business News’ 2024...
ACCORDING TO A STUDY by Philadelphia-based consulting firm EConsultSolutions Inc., Providence College's athletic programs, including the men's basketball team, generate approximately $100.3 million in total economic impact across Rhode Island annually, creating and/or generating 630 jobs in the process. / PBN FILE PHOTO/JAMES BESSETTE

Should the state and/or local communities help fund college athletics?

Providence College last month released results of a study it commissioned on the economic and social impact of its athletics programs. The report by a...
FIRST CLASS: A rendering of what the $170 million Middletown middle school and high school complex is expected to look like when completed in 2027. The building will be constructed at the site of the existing middle school on Aquidneck Avenue. 
COURTESY HMFH ARCHITECTS

R.I. schools undergoing $1.3B worth of changes

When it comes to public schools, they don’t build them like they used to. In a move away from the traditional New England schoolhouse system...
Jennifer Hawkins joined Providence-based ONE Neighborhood Builders 11 years ago. She has served as CEO and president since 2017 and recently announced that she will leave the nonprofit at 
the end of September. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Control your narrative

Jennifer Hawkins | ONE Neighborhood Builders CEO and President Over the last decade, I’ve seen our organization grow into one of the most dynamic and...
Elizabeth Howlett

Howlett appointed president of AARP Rhode Island

ELIZABETH HOWLETT, a former elected official who served both in the R.I. Senate and two terms as the state’s lieutenant governor, was recently appointed...
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