Tag: Nancy Wolanski
‘The impacts are everywhere.’ Federal cuts devastate nonprofits
Rhode Island’s nonprofits are in turmoil. This important segment of the economy – 16% of the workforce – has an uncertain future and the...
New law requires many nonprofits to reveal salaries of top executives
A 2023 audit by the inspector general at the U.S. Department of Justice found significant deficiencies in financial management by the Pawtucket nonprofit Blackstone...
United Way accelerates $1.5M in Community Impact Fund grants to nonprofits
PROVIDENCE – United Way of Rhode Island Inc. accelerated its final round of a three-year cycle of Community Impact Fund grant payments, totaling more...
United Way: Rhode Islanders, nonprofits ‘shined in [the] moment’ during 401Gives...
PROVIDENCE – The sense that this year’s 401Gives Day would be one for the ages occurred mere moments after the giving portal opened at...
401Gives Day arrives as nonprofits face challenges, funding uncertainty
PROVIDENCE – Even five years after the world stopped and life has since returned to normal, COVID-19’s tentacles still have a firm grasp on...
Hurting R.I. nonprofits eye offers of financial help
A federal funding freeze is putting the hurt on Farm Fresh Rhode Island, and now the nonprofit’s administrators are looking for any other funding...
What happens when nonprofits struggle to hire fundraisers, financial professionals?
COVID-19 may be in the rearview mirror for most, but it’s left Rhode Island’s nonprofits with a rocky, challenging road to navigate.
A 2024 survey...
United Way of R.I.’s Alliance for Nonprofit Impact offers a new...
FOUR YEARS AFTER United Way of Rhode Island Inc. launched a special online fundraising day to support local nonprofits, local organizations are now in...
Grantmakers Council of R.I. names Bourns new executive director
PROVIDENCE – Courtney Bourns, who has served as a strategy and program consultant for multiple foundations across the country for the last six years,...
401Gives Day sets new records for fundraising, donors, organizations supported
PAWTUCKET – The bar continues to be raised with Rhode Island’s largest single nonprofit supporting initiative, with new records across the board during the...




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