Businesses can do more for schools
Three years ago, R.I. Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green asked for more business support of Providence’s troubled public schools. The pitch was part of her...
How will R.I. use $250M to ease its housing woes?
Rhode Island has received $1.1 billion in federal money from the American Rescue Plan Act, passed in response to the economic effects of the...
Nonprofits are businesses too
Michael L. Pearis | The Groden Network CEO
All nonprofits endure the misperception that we are not “real businesses.” With over 400 employees, 26 locations and $30...
URI associate professors awarded $735K NASA grant to study methane gas emissions
DAWN CARDACE and Soni Pradhanang, associate professors of geosciences at the University of Rhode Island, and Serena Moseman-Valtierra, a URI associate professor of biological...
How to effectively use noncompetes in a tight labor market
With so much movement in the job market lately, efforts to enforce noncompete agreements have dramatically increased. It is important for employers to make sure...
R.I.’s top CEOs are backing Question 1
Publicly funded higher education and private industry rely upon each other. Public institutions of higher education – when properly funded and with adequate infrastructure...
Mental health providers are overwhelmed in R.I.
As COVID-19 began to creep into Rhode Island in early 2020, Michelle Crossley saw a steady increase in emails from people wondering whether they...
Training day
Does your company offer new employees on-the-job training?
Yes: 100%
No: 0%
Is it important for you to know how your employees learn?
Yes: 80%
No: 20%
Who at your...
R.I. awards $8.5 million to child care facility expansions, improvements
PROVIDENCE – Fourteen organizations will add or improve more than 1,200 slots at their child care centers with support from an $8.5 million funding...
Bryant University sets new Giving Day record, raises $2M
SMITHFIELD – Bryant University’s annual one-day fundraising initiative was another record-setter, reaching a new milestone in the process.
The university’s “Giving Day” raised on Wednesday...
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