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THE REACTION TO Gov. Gina M. Raimondo being selected as President-elect Joe Biden's secretary of commerce has been mostly positive. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Raimondo’s Cabinet appointment garners mostly positive reaction from local leaders

PROVIDENCE – Elected and politically tied officials, company executives and nonprofit leaders on Friday offered both congratulations and criticism to Gov. Gina M. Raimondo...
UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND has received a $10 million gift from philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott.

United Way of R.I. receives $10M gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott

PROVIDENCE – The United Way of Rhode Island received an eight-figure gift from a nationally prominent philanthropist that will help the nonprofit’s upcoming goals...
UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND is making $2 million in grants available to nonprofits that are addressing systemic inequality in the state.

United Way of R.I. making $2M in grants available to nonprofits...

PROVIDENCE – The United Way of Rhode Island announced Thursday it is making $2 million in grants available from the organization’s community impact fund...

Enrollment for United Way’s Good Neighbor Energy Fund now open

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island households facing financial challenges and needing heating assistance can now apply for the 2020-21 United Way of Rhode Island Good...
ON THE LINE: United Way of Rhode Island Call Center Manager Evelyn Cabrera takes a call at the organization’s office in Providence.  / COURTESY UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND

United Way of Rhode Island answers the call during the COVID-19...

PBN Business Excellence Awards 2020 Excellence at a Midsize Company: United Way of Rhode Island CORTNEY NICOLATO WAS MIDWAY through her second year at the...
HUNGRY TO HELP: Heather Hole Strout, left, executive director of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Newport, distributes chowder and chicken vegetable bean soup to the needy recently in a new partnership with McGrath Clambakes Inc. of Newport. Assisting with the distribution are T.R. McGrath, third from left, owner of McGrath Clambakes, and his daughter Aibhlinn. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Challenges for nonprofits reach unimagined heights

It’s times like these that Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island President Kathleen Cloutier feels as though all the nonprofits in Rhode Island are...
UNITED WE STAND: Employees at United Way of Rhode Island pose for a fun picture together at the office. / COURTESY UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND

United Way of Rhode Island

PBN Best Places to Work 2020 MIDSIZE COMPANIES 24. United Way of Rhode Island Employees in R.I.: 70 CEO and President Cortney Nicolato Questions answered by: Cortney Nicolato What...

United Way awards $600K in grants to 41 nonprofit organizations

PROVIDENCE – Through its Rhode Island Recovers grant program, United Way of Rhode Island announced Aug. 20 it issued $600,000 in grants to 41...
NOT CONVINCED: Joshua Riazi, left, manager at Genesis Center, leads a culinary class in February. Riazi isn’t sold on the idea of forming an association to serve as a “chamber of commerce” for the Rhode Island nonprofit sector.  / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Strength in numbers? Some struggling nonprofits eye an alliance

While many nonprofits are fighting for survival amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Steamship Historical Society of America knows better than most what it is...
TWENTY-THREE NONPROFITS received about $700,000 in grants combined in the latest round from the United Way of Rhode Island and Rhode Island Foundation's COVID-19 Response Fund.

23 nonprofits receive $700K from COVID-19 Response Fund

PROVIDENCE – An additional $700,000 in grants were issued to 23 nonprofit organizations across Rhode Island from the United Way of Rhode Island and...
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