Tag: Crossroads Rhode Island
Rhode Island Foundation awards $260K to help locals stay housed this...
PROVIDENCE – Thirteen nonprofits recently received a total of $260,000 in grants from the Rhode Island Foundation to help more than 600 people stay...
Guillette wins Rhode Island Foundation’s Murray Family Prize
LISA GUILLETTE, executive director of East Providence-based nonprofit Foster Forward, was recently presented with the Rhode Island Foundation’s 2024 Murray Family Prize for Community...
R.I. gets $17.3M to fight homelessness
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island is receiving $17.3 million in federal grants for homeless assistance, U.S. Sen Jack Reed announced Wednesday.
The funds, administered by the...
Citizens’ Van Saun upbeat about 2025 at R.I. CEO Council gathering
WARWICK – Bruce Van Saun, chairman and CEO of Citizens Financial Group Inc., told the Rhode Island CEO Council that he expects 2025 to...
Citizens say it’s committing $1M to R.I. workforce development nonprofits
PROVIDENCE – Citizens Financial Group Inc. is pledging $1 million over the next two years to support workforce development organizations in Rhode Island that...
Now is the time R.I. must invest in housing, communities
Unsheltered homelessness in Rhode Island has surged nearly 400% over the last five years. In my 30 years of working in housing and homeless...
Centreville Bank awards $234K in grants to support organizations in R.I.,...
WEST WARWICK – The Centreville Bank Charitable Foundation has awarded $234,299 in funding to 24 organizations throughout Rhode Island and Connecticut as part of...
Jennifer Watkins
PBN Leaders & Achievers 2024 Awards
Jennifer Watkins | Crossroads Rhode Island | Vice president of emergency shelters and housing problem solving
UNDERSTANDING THE NEEDS...
Tapping the private sector: Could R.I. businesses provide more affordable housing...
As Martha L. Wofford stood at a construction site in Providence’s West End in August 2022, the scaffolding at the site caught her eye...