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Connect with Commerce: Investments improving R.I. economy

(Editor’s note: This is the fifth in an occasional series focused on questions from Providence Business News readers for R.I. Commerce Corp. Secretary Elizabeth...

R.I. Foundation awards $130K in grants to 22 organizations supporting Black...

PROVIDENCE – Twenty-two nonprofit organizations that serve the state’s Black community were awarded close to $130,000 in grants from the Rhode Island Foundation, the...

Center for Women & Enterprise R.I. director leaving organization

PROVIDENCE – Significant leadership changes are occurring with the Center for Women & Enterprise, including at its Rhode Island chapter. In an emailed note to...
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

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

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. 
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AUCHINCLOSS

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

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

(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

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

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

“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...
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