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LOCAL NONPROFIT LEADERS and representatives gather Tuesday at The Guild in Pawtucket for a special 401Gives Day event. / PBN PHOTO/JAMES BESSETTE

401Gives Day sets new records for fundraising, donors, organizations supported

News Story 04/03/2024

PAWTUCKET – The bar continues to be raised with Rhode Island’s largest single nonprofit supporting initiative, with new records across the board during the...

Nonprofits seeking more money, new donors on upcoming 401Gives Day

News Story 03/29/2024

PROVIDENCE – More money being contributed to local nonprofits is always the annual goal for 401Gives Day, and this coming April 1 will be...

R.I. Good Neighbor Energy Fund seeking money to address urgent heating...

Natural Resources 02/13/2024

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Good Neighbor Energy Fund, administrated by United Way of Rhode Island Inc., is appealing to the public for donations...

MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE attended Providence Business News' 2024 Book of Lists Premier Event on Thursday at the Graduate Providence. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

PBN debuts 2024 Book of Lists

Business Services 01/19/2024

PROVIDENCE – More than 200 business and nonprofit representatives spent Thursday evening at the Graduate Providence networking with one another, as well as obtaining...

United Way launches Alliance for Nonprofit Impact

Education 01/18/2024

PROVIDENCE – Three years ago, the United Way of Rhode Island Inc. launched its five-year, $100 million LIVE UNITED 2025 comprehensive plan to help...

United Way of R.I. opens registration for 401Gives Day

Nonprofit 01/16/2024

PROVIDENCE – Nonprofits can now register to participate in Rhode Island’s largest single-day fundraising event set for April 1. United Way of Rhode Island Inc....

5Q: David N. Cicilline

Business Services 10/27/2023

5Q: David N. Cicilline | CEO and president, Rhode Island Foundation 1. When you were named the foundation’s new CEO and president, you told...

PLAYTIME: Jordan Towle, a visitor services manager at the Providence Children’s Museum, plays with Jorge Rodrigues, 1, of Providence. The museum, according to Executive Director Caroline Payson, relies on ticket sales and membership fees to bolster operating costs.  PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Finding workforce is labor intensive for local nonprofits

Business Services 10/27/2023

The COVID-19 pandemic’s cascading aftereffects have been complicated and hard to shake for Rhode Island’s nonprofits, which employ 67,000 Rhode Islanders. That number represents...

STARTING IT OFF: Nancy Wolanski has been appointed the first executive director of the newly formed nonprofit resource center that is getting support from United Way of Rhode Island Inc. PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

To aid nonprofits, new United Way of R.I. resource center needs...

Business Services 10/27/2023

Establishing a village to support Rhode Island’s nonprofit industry is going to take, well, a village. That’s why the United Way of Rhode Island Inc....