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ESTABLISHING RELATIONSHIPS: RI Bio Executive Director Carol C. Malysz feels that building relationships within the life sciences sector leads to economic growth and everyone benefits as a result.  PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Malysz at RI Bio turned collaboration into a science

Business Services 05/24/2024

2024 Business Women Awards INDUSTRY LEADER | NONPROFITS: Carol C. Malysz RI Bio executive director THE LAST SEVEN YEARS leading RI Bio as its executive director have...

THE RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION has awarded $120,000 in grants to 24 nonprofits that support the state's Black community. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

R.I. Foundation awards $120K to 24 nonprofits supporting Black community

News Story 02/09/2024

PROVIDENCE – Twenty-four local nonprofits serving the state’s Black community received more than $120,000 in grants from the Rhode Island Foundation’s Black Philanthropy Bannister...

CONGRESSIONAL TALK: U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss, D-Mass., will be the guest at One SouthCoast Chamber of Commerce’s Congressional Update luncheon on Nov. 2 at the Fall River Country Club.  COURTESY JAKE  AUCHINCLOSS

Editor’s Choice: One SouthCoast Chamber lunch to feature Rep. Jake Auchincloss

Subscriber Only 10/27/2023

EDITOR’S CHOICE One SouthCoast Chamber lunch to feature Rep. Jake Auchincloss ONE SOUTHCOAST CHAMBER of Commerce will hold a Congressional Update luncheon featuring U.S....

HER IMPRINT: Franchesca M. Fernandez was a civil engineer in the Dominican Republic, but when she moved to Rhode Island she decided to start a business that had little to do with engineering. PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Everybody’s Business: She made a change of country and career

Business Services 05/12/2023

(Editor’s note: This is the 33rd installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...

Providence launches loan program for micro-business reopening costs

Business Services 06/08/2020

PROVIDENCE – The city has launched a new, low-interest loan program to help small businesses in select parts of Providence with reopening costs, Providence...

Center for Women & Enterprise names Martinez new R.I. director

Entrepreneurship 01/23/2020

PROVIDENCE – The Center for Women & Enterprise, a nonprofit that partners with the U.S. Small Business Administration to offer services to women entrepreneurs,...

SUCCESS STORY: Lisa J. Raiola is the founder of Hope & Main, a Warren-based food-startup incubator that has worked with more than 350 businesses. Three of the 51 initial PBN Something New small businesses are either graduates or current members of Hope & Main.  / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

From ‘Something New,’ the strong survive

Cover Story 08/17/2018

“To some people, small sounds like a limitation,” said Travis Webster-Booth, owner of TWB Creative, a copywriting and business-services firm launched in October 2014...