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Local nonprofits, new and returning, seek to benefit on 401Gives Day

Business Services 03/31/2022

PROVIDENCE – Melissa Guillet knows full well how to help the community discover itself. At Johnston-based nonprofit 15 Minute Field Trips, Guillet – the organization’s...

BROWN UNIVERSITY has extended its 'BrownTogether' fundraising campaign to the end of 2024, and set a new target amount of $4 billion. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY

Brown University extends fundraising campaign to 2024, hopes to raise additional...

Education 03/02/2022

PROVIDENCE – Brown University is extending its “BrownTogether” fundraising campaign through the end of 2024, with the hopes of raising an additional $1 billion...

RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE, along with the Rhode Island College Foundation, the Rhode Island Foundation and the Rhode Island Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP-RI) announced today the creation of the Fundraising Apprenticeship Specialization program to create a pipeline for diverse fundraising professionals. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE

Rhode Island College launches pipeline program to develop fundraising professionals

Education 02/09/2022

PROVIDENCE – A new fundraising apprenticeship program at Rhode Island College is being created to help develop a pipeline of fundraising professionals. RIC announced Wednesday...

THE ANNUAL 401 GIVES DAY, scheduled for April 1 and run by the United Way of Rhode Island, hopes to raise $1.5 million this year to support local nonprofits.

401 Gives Day goal is $1.5M for nonprofits on April 1

Coronavirus 03/30/2021

PROVIDENCE – In early March 2020, United Way of Rhode Island officials were in the final stages of planning a unique day-long event to...

THE RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION awarded a record $87 million in grants to local nonprofits in 2020. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

R.I. Foundation awards record $87M in grants to nonprofits in 2020

Nonprofit 02/17/2021

PROVIDENCE – In a year where Rhode Island saw immense hardship, the Rhode Island Foundation offered no shortage of help to the community, and...

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

Coronavirus 10/28/2020

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...

RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN raised $24.7 million during the 2019-20 fiscal year. Of that amount, it raised a school-record $15.8 million for student financial aid. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN

RISD sets school record for most student financial aid raised

Coronavirus 10/14/2020

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island School of Design raised the most money for student financial aid in the school’s history during the 2020 fiscal...

Laboissonniere receives Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Man of the Year honors

Health Services 09/04/2020

RICHARD LABOISSONNIERE, a North Providence resident, is the recipient of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s 2020 Man of the Year honors. The recognition is...