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MAKING CONNECTIONS: Social Venture partners Rhode Island CEO Kelly Ramirez networks with Capital Good Fund Executive Director Andy Posner at his new offices in the Knowledge District. / PBN PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD

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...
A NEW RECIPE: When the recession hit, Russell Morin, right, looked to new revenue streams that built on the company’s expertise. At left is Michael Morin. / PBN PHOTO/NATALJA KENT

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...
BUILDING ON EDUCATION: Shawmut Design and Construction Project Manager Joe Raposa, left, discusses Taco’s new education center with Taco Executive Vice President B. Christopher Integlia. / PBN PHOTO/NATALJA KENT

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...
ALL TOGETHER NOW: Coastal Medical’s team approach brings together a physician, an RN, a pharmacy practice resident and a medical assistant to manage a patients care. / PBN PHOTO/NATALJA KENT

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...
MAKING CONNECTIONS: Middle schoolers at Providence’s Nathan Bishop School, from middle left, Alondra Gomes, Gabriel Rodriguez, Jasmin Fields and Lauren Thornton take part in a PASA AfterZone recruitment fair. In charge of the “Conservation Station” part of the program is Becca Buckler, at left. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

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,...
TEAM EFFORT: Using a prototype designed by a metallurgical engineer Howard Schachter, in black shirt, Petro-Cycle Solutions looks to make gas and oil drilling more sustainable. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

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....
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