Collaborative power ?is a model venture
As a leader in local innovation, Social Venture Partners Rhode Island is a company that uses Rhode Island’s size to its benefit.
“SVPRI leverages the...
Reaching out with new services, to new places
When the executive team at Russell Morin Fine Catering began signing exclusive agreements and management contracts with clients, they were looking for a way...
Investing in broad range of brain power
Cranston-based Taco Inc. has a long history of developing new heating and air-conditioning technologies, including such advances as the tankless water heater, zone valves...
Forging bonds to deliver better care, cost savings
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, the state’s largest health insurer with more than 600,000 members, signed a two-year, shared-savings contract in...
Building community through its children
Innovation, for Providence After School Alliance, comprises the core of the organization and extends right through all aspects of the group. Its AfterZone Program,...
Dad helps firm make environmental inroads
Howard Schachter is a water guy.
For 50 years, he worked as a metallurgical engineer concentrating on recycling wastewater and solid waste, then...
Social networking big factor in firm’s success
Gurnet Consulting, a project- management-solutions firm that enables clients to deliver on successful IT initiatives, does not have a sales or marketing arm. Instead,...
Location no barrier to getting the best hires
The secret behind the rapid growth of Drupal Connect, a Web-development firm headquartered in Newport, is “the willingness to hire the best talent, the...
Relationships spur growth after industry setbacks
Robert E. Nickerson, president of commercial real estate firm Stone Tower Properties, appreciates the designation of one of the fastest-growing companies in Rhode Island,...
Matching people with positions, done right
The staff-recruitment agency – based in Providence but serving all of southern New England – is one of the fastest-growing companies in Rhode Island....