R.I. business groups form alliance to support education
PROVIDENCE – A collection of prominent groups representing hundreds of businesses across Rhode Island on Thursday formed a new alliance to support better education...
Brown University engineer awarded National Medal of Science
PROVIDENCE – A Brown University professor of engineering received national recognition for his contributions to the sciences last week.
Subra Suresh, a professor at large in the...
URI launches $20M fundraising campaign for athletic fields upgrades
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The state has already given the University of Rhode Island a significant financial boost to help renovate and refurbish the aging...
Providence mayor finalist in NewDEAL’s National Ideas Challenge
PROVIDENCE – Mayor Brett P. Smiley has been named one of 20 finalists in The NewDEAL’s 2023 National Ideas Challenge for the city’s Early Learning...
New England Tech launches new early college program for high school seniors
EAST GREENWICH – The New England Institute of Technology has launched a pilot early college dual-enrollment program, collaborating with one technical school and the...
5Q: David N. Cicilline
5Q: David N. Cicilline | CEO and president, Rhode Island Foundation
1. When you were named the foundation’s new CEO and president, you told...
Finding workforce is labor intensive for local nonprofits
The COVID-19 pandemic’s cascading aftereffects have been complicated and hard to shake for Rhode Island’s nonprofits, which employ 67,000 Rhode Islanders. That number represents...
To aid nonprofits, new United Way of R.I. resource center needs help
Establishing a village to support Rhode Island’s nonprofit industry is going to take, well, a village.
That’s why the United Way of Rhode Island Inc....
High food costs still difficult to digest in R.I.
The past few years have been especially hard for Rhode Island residents facing food insecurity. Within the Ocean State, 1 in 3 households cannot...
Meet the Makers: A manufacturer with a super absorbing history
(Editor’s note: This is the 14th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
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