Tag: Community Provider Network of Rhode Island
Babin receives 2024 Dave Hammis Employment Innovation Award
SUE BABIN, director of the Self-Employment Business Program at the Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council, was recently awarded the 2024 Dave Hammis Employment Innovation...
RIF awards $1.4M in grants to local health nonprofits to help...
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded $1.4 million in grants to eight local nonprofits as part of an effort to reduce health...
COVID-19 vaccine clinic for the intellectually, developmentally disabled established at Kirkbrae...
LINCOLN – While most older individuals across Rhode Island are being prioritized in receiving the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccination at various locations,...
R.I. Foundation awards additional $294K to nonprofits through census fund
PROVIDENCE – An additional 37 local nonprofits received a combined $294,000 from the Rhode Island Foundation’s Rhode Island Census 2020 fund in the latest...
Five Questions With: Tina Spears
Tina Spears is the executive director for the Community Provider Network of Rhode Island, a Warwick-based organization that represents multiple providers of services and...
Rhode Island Foundation recognizes 5 nonprofits with Best Practice Awards
PROVIDENCE – Five local nonprofits were recently honored with 2019 Best Practice Awards by the Rhode Island Foundation, the organization announced Dec. 30.
In a...
Raise helps some health workers
A 91-cent-an-hour pay increase for approximately 3,000 people who work directly with those with developmental disabilities in the state is welcomed, though more is...
Spears taking the reins at CPNRI
TINA SPEARS was recently named executive director of Community Provider Network of Rhode Island, an organization that supports more than 3,500 Rhode Islanders with...
Community Provider Network of R.I. hires executive director after national search
WARWICK – The Community Provider Network of Rhode Island has named Tina Spears as its executive director after conducting a national search.
The group, which...
CPNRI action week highlights need for increased pay at private agencies
PROVIDENCE – The Community Provider Network of Rhode Island will host a week of action starting March 26 at the Statehouse to seek a...