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TOPHER HAMBLETT, who became Save The Bay Inc.'s interim executive director in July, has been named the organization's permanent executive director. / COURTESY SAVE THE BAY INC.

Hamblett named Save The Bay’s permanent executive director

NEWPORT – The “interim” tag has been removed from Topher Hamblett’s title with Save The Bay Inc. The local marine advocacy nonprofit announced Monday that...
TOPHER HAMBLETT has been named interim executive director of Save The Bay Inc. / COURTESY SAVE THE BAY INC.

Save The Bay names Hamblett interim executive director

PROVIDENCE – Save The Bay Inc.’s director of advocacy will temporarily lead the marine advocacy nonprofit for the time being. The organization announced on June...
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Five Questions With: Jonathan Stone

5Q: Jonathan Stone | Executive director, Save The Bay Inc. 1. You announced in September you will be retiring on June 30, 2023. What led to your...
JONATHAN STONE will retire as executive director of Save the Bay on June 30, 2023. / COURTESY SAVE THE BAY

Save The Bay director Stone to retire next June

PROVIDENCE – Save The Bay Inc.'s longtime executive director will call it a career at the end of next June. The local environmental advocacy nonprofit...

CRMC leader says agency focus has not changed, despite controversy over...

PROVIDENCE – A change in the leadership of the R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council has not diminished the state agency’s focus on education, analysis...

Who’s On the Board?

Mission: To protect and improve Narragansett Bay. Year founded: 1970 Executive director: Jonathan Stone 2019 revenue: $3,778,816 Board members Cheryl Nathanson, board president Retired, Bristol Gilbert Conover Jr., board vice president Retired,...
SAVE THE BAY received $2.3 million in contributions, gifts and grants in 2018 and raised $1.6 million for an anniversary capital campaign. / COURTESY SAVE THE BAY

Save The Bay finishes fiscal ’18 in black, moves ahead on...

PROVIDENCE – Save The Bay Inc. had total revenue of $3.7 million in fiscal 2018, including $2.3 million in contributions, gifts and grants, the...
LUNCH PICKUP: Dweight Davidson, left, of Ashland, Mass., gets his lunch every day at Ocean State Sandwich on Westminster Street in Providence. Owner Eric Handwerger hands it to him in a plastic bag. Soon, Handwerger will have to eliminate his use of plastic bags, as Mayor Jorge O. Elorza has signed an ordinance approved by the City Council banning single-use plastic bags at retail locations in the city.
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Providence latest to ban plastic bags

Ocean State Sandwich Co., a downtown Providence restaurant, uses the ubiquitous, pale white, single-use plastic bags for most takeout customers. But owner Eric Handwerger and...

Proceeds from new Granny Squibb beverage to aid Save The Bay

PROVIDENCE – The Granny Squibb Co. LLC is giving a portion of the proceeds from its new organic iced-tea flavor – Charlie’s Cranberry –...
BEACH CLEANUP: Save The Bay Executive Director Jonathan Stone, left, speaks with a volunteer at a cleanup in the Oakland Beach neighborhood of Warwick during last year’s International Coastal Cleanup Day. Above right, a logo in support of Question No. 3 on next month’s ballot created by Save The Bay. 
 / COURTESY SAVE THE BAY

For nonprofits, less is more on political advocacy

Rhode Island nonprofits, to varying degrees, have thrown their weight behind certain causes in past elections that align with their missions. But some have learned...
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