Tag: Children’s Friend
Shariff receives Ben Mondor Award from NRI Chamber of Commerce
BAHJAT SHARIFF is this year’s recipient of the Ben Mondor Award, which is given by the Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce to a...
Children’s Friend uses Nordson Big Build grant to install new playground...
BIG BUILD: Children’s Friend and Nordson EFD staffers congregate at the Althea Street Center in Providence, where they installed new playground equipment courtesy of...
URI police collect 3,000 toys for local charities
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island Police Department collected more than 3,000 unwrapped toys, winter clothing, bath products and food during the...
Children’s Friend hopes to reach 5,500 children in need with annual...
PROVIDENCE – Children’s Friend, a nonprofit that specializes in improving the lives of children who are most vulnerable in the state, is seeking donations...
R.I. restaurants cooking up some good deeds
This time of the year, there is a kindness movement that almost everyone joins. It may be the magic of the season. At the...
DiSandro named new chair of Children’s Friend board of directors
MICHAEL DISANDRO, senior vice president and team leader of New England commercial banking for Wells Fargo Bank N.A., was recently named chairman of the...
Children’s Friend opens Center of Excellence at former Asa Messer School...
PROVIDENCE – The nonprofit Children’s Friend has opened an early-childhood center in the city’s West End after a $6.2 million renovation of the former...
Grants promote cultural inclusion
Culturally and linguistically responsive teaching is coming to more early-childhood education classrooms in Rhode Island.
As part of a grant program through the R.I. Department...
Culture shift to wellness at Children’s Friend
Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island 2019
150-499 EMPLOYEES #1: Children’s Friend
CEO (or equivalent): David Caprio, CEO and president
Number of employees: 380
For the past 185 years,...
DHS, DOH partner to award preschool-development grants
PROVIDENCE – As a result of a partnership between the R.I. Department of Human Services and the R.I. Department of Health, five health equity...
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