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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...
HELPING HAND: Foster Forward Executive Director Lisa Guillette, center with flowers, poses with her family after receiving the Rhode Island Foundation’s 2024 Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment for her work supporting teenagers and young adults in the foster care system. 
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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...
KEITH KELLY, Citizens Bank Rhode Island president, says the bank is dedicated to tackling workforce challenges and investing in job training initiatives. That's why the bank says it will be giving $1 million to workforce development organizations in Rhode Island over the next two years. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

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...
Michelle Wilcox

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...
FINDING HOMES: Jennifer Watkins, vice president of emergency shelters and housing problem solving at Crossroads Rhode Island, and her staff help house more and more families each year. 
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Jennifer Watkins

PBN Leaders & Achievers 2024 Awards Jennifer Watkins | Crossroads Rhode Island | Vice president of emergency shelters and housing problem solving UNDERSTANDING THE NEEDS...
UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Michelle Wilcox, 
CEO and president of Crossroads Rhode Island, stands in front of the Summer Street Apartments project in Providence, a five-story development by Crossroads that will feature 176 single-bed residences for those who were previously homeless.
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MICHAEL SALERNO

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...
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