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AT THE HELM: David Salvatore has been executive director of The Providence Foundation for less than a year, but the nonprofit business association has been focused on economic development and urban revitalization in downtown Providence for half a century. 
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

For 50 years, an advocate for downtown success

Unless there was a sporting event or the circus was in town, David Salvatore was probably not venturing into downtown Providence when he was...

R.I. Foundation earmarking $3M to support nonprofits impacted by federal funding...

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation is earmarking $3 million in grants to help local nonprofits that suffered lost federal funding due to recent...

R.I. Foundation awards $87M in grants in 2024

PROVIDENCE – Grantmaking was still aplenty last year for the Rhode Island Foundation. The prominent nonprofit funder announced Thursday that it awarded close to $87...

R.I. Foundation awards $130K in grants to 22 organizations supporting Black...

PROVIDENCE – Twenty-two nonprofit organizations that serve the state’s Black community were awarded close to $130,000 in grants from the Rhode Island Foundation, the...

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...

R.I. Foundation, Annenberg Institute create commission to assess state’s education funding...

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation and the Annenberg Institute at Brown University are launching a new education committee to study, assess and make...
David N. Cicilline / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

SETTING A NEW COURSE: 5-year action plan to determine how R.I....

When David N. Cicilline became the Rhode Island Foundation’s new chief executive and president in May 2023, he and the rest of the nonprofit’s...
COMMITTED: Rhode Island Foundation CEO and President David N. Cicilline says diversity, equity, inclusion and access initiatives will be prioritized in a new five-year action plan. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

RIF’s new action plan to prioritize diversity, equity

The Rhode Island Foundation’s new five-year action plan couldn’t be better timed for those worried about a national rollback in support for diversity, equity,...
SANDRA CANO, a former state senator from Pawtucket, is now the U.S. Small Business Administration's new regional administrator for New England. / COURTESY SANDRA CANO

Former R.I. senator Cano now SBA’s New England regional administrator

PROVIDENCE – Two months after she resigned from the R.I. Senate, rumors of Sandra Cano taking a job with the U.S. Small Business Administration...
BLANK CANVAS: Arts students work on paintings at Riverzedge Arts Project Inc. Leaders at the Woonsocket-based social service and arts organization had to put its fall programming on hiatus due to a lack of financial help for its operations. 
COURTESY RIVERZEDGE ARTS PROJECT INC.

Without state help, arts groups paint dire financial picture

FACING A FALL SEASON with little financial help from the state, arts and cultural organizations across Rhode Island are paring down operations, scrambling to...
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