Karen Santilli

THE CITY PLAN COMMISSION voted 5-0 on April 19 to approve a preliminary plan submitted by the nonprofit homeless service provider Crossroads Rhode Island for a five-story, 176-unit affordable housing apartment building at 94 Summer St. / COURTESY KITE ARCHITECTS/PLAN B DESIGN

Plans approved for 176-unit affordable housing building in Providence

Economic Activity 04/21/2022

PROVIDENCE – Plans for a five-story, 176-unit affordable housing apartment building on a vacant site in Upper South Providence were unanimously approved by the...

Crossroads Rhode Island Names Michelle Wilcox President

People on the Move 01/12/2022

Crossroads Rhode Island, the state's leading homeless service provider, today announced that Michelle Wilcox has been named President by the agency’s Board of Directors. Wilcox...

Nonprofit 11/26/2021

As a longtime marketing specialist, Karen Santilli understands the value of a good message. Add tenacity, compassion and a get-things-done attitude, and you have a...

Karen Santilli joined the social service agency Crossroads Rhode Island in 2008 and became the nonprofit’s CEO and president in 2015. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Commit to each other

Coronavirus 03/05/2021

Karen Santilli | Crossroads Rhode Island CEO and president I’ve learned some lessons in my role as CEO and president of Crossroads Rhode Island. Two...

CRUCIAL CREATION: Dr. Pablo Rodriguez, medical director of community relations at Care New England Health System, says forming an independent committee to plan the state’s vaccine distribution will build trust in the process. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Slow-spending R.I. has two months to disperse $900M in CARES Act...

Coronavirus 11/06/2020

Rhode Island officials rejoiced when they learned in March that the state would get a $1.25 billion slice of the federal coronavirus relief package....

STANDING HER GROUND: Karen Santilli, director of Crossroads Rhode Island, is hopeful that an affordable-housing program included in Gov. Gina M. Raimondo’s initial budget proposal will survive despite the state’s new revenue woes. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Unkindest cuts: Many casualties expected as R.I. begins ‘brutal’ budget process

Coronavirus 05/15/2020

The future looked encouraging for Karen Santilli just a few months ago. In mid-January, Gov. Gina M. Raimondo released a $10.2 billion fiscal 2021 budget...

Karen Santilli, / PBN FILE PHOTO/STEPHANIE ALVAREZ EWENS

Five Questions With: Karen Santilli

5Q 04/17/2020

Karen Santilli | CEO and president, Crossroads Rhode Island 1. You’ve been urging the state to establish a permanent funding stream for housing. Has...

Five Questions With: Karen Santilli

Real Estate 08/14/2019

Karen Santilli is the CEO and president of Crossroads Rhode Island, the state’s largest nonprofit that works with homeless individuals and families. On Thursday,...