Tag: Lisa Raiola
Weekly food block party launches in Warren
It sounds like the perfect summer evening. A Wednesday gathering with a craft cocktail or mocktail and a freshly fried falafel pocket, Korean corn...
BankNewport visits Hope & Main after giving $10K to Nourish Our...
WARREN – BankNewport representatives recently visited the food-business incubator Hope & Main to highlight a $10,000 grant awarded through the bank’s All In Giving...
Five Questions With: Lisa Raiola
Lisa Raiola is president and founder of the nonprofit Hope & Main, the culinary incubator that’s helped launch nearly 300 food businesses since it...
Hope & Main acquires former JKL Engineering building on Federal Hill...
PROVIDENCE – The former office of JKL Engineering on Federal Hill, a contracting firm that specialized in heating, ventilation and air conditioning, was recently...
Hope & Main making food Providence’s business
Lisa Raiola, founder and president of food business incubator Hope & Main in Warren, shared insights from her years of bringing amateur cooks through...
Hope & Main to open downtown marketplace in Providence
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s prominent food business incubator will soon have a significant presence in the city.
Additionally, the organization is currently negotiating to occupy...
Hope & Main food incubator is a recipe for success
The boating and sailing world returned to the City by the Sea in September for the Newport International Boat Show.
Food and beverage is a...
Boston-based food launchpad expands to R.I.
PROVIDENCE — A Boston-based food launchpad is expanding its network of industry connections and capital into the Ocean State.
Founded in 2015 by CEO Lauren...
R.I. considers relaxing law on homemade food
A home-based bakery seemed to make perfect sense to Portsmouth resident Kara Donovan. Friends and family had already asked to buy her creations, and...
For many groups, hardships evolving, not subsiding
Social services nonprofit Amos House in Providence has been inundated since the COVID-19 pandemic first hit in March 2020, and it doesn’t appear that...
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