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ONE Neighborhood Builders buys 3 acres in East Providence, plans mixed-income...

EAST PROVIDENCE – The nonprofit ONE Neighborhood Builders recently bought three neighboring vacant properties on Taunton Avenue in East Providence totaling 2.95 acres, with...
TWO RHODE ISLAND organizations, Crossroads Rhode Island and ONE Neighborhood Builders, are in line to receive a total of $315,000 in grants from the Point32Health Foundation, a joint group made up of the former Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation and Tufts Health Plan Foundation.

2 R.I. nonprofits advocating for affordable housing to receive $315K in...

PROVIDENCE – Two Rhode Island nonprofit organizations that are focused on affordable housing issues are in line to receive a total of $315,000 in...
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

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

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...
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Karen Santilli

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

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...

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

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

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

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,...
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