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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...



















