Tag: Nancy Wolanski
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...
Nonprofits seeking more money, new donors on upcoming 401Gives Day
PROVIDENCE – More money being contributed to local nonprofits is always the annual goal for 401Gives Day, and this coming April 1 will be...
Crypto hasn’t lived up to promise for R.I. nonprofits
In 2022, the Rhode Island Community Food Bank announced it would start accepting donations of cryptocurrency, joining a small group of local nonprofits seeking...
Survey: Local nonprofits still facing ongoing challenges
PROVIDENCE – Low pay and limited benefits offered for employees due to having few resources, having few donors contributing to their causes and responding...
Five Questions With: Nancy Wolanski
Nancy Wolanski is the inaugural director of the new, statewide Alliance for Nonprofit Impact at the United Way of Rhode Island Inc. On Jan....
United Way launches Alliance for Nonprofit Impact
PROVIDENCE – Three years ago, the United Way of Rhode Island Inc. launched its five-year, $100 million LIVE UNITED 2025 comprehensive plan to help...
Finding workforce is labor intensive for local nonprofits
The COVID-19 pandemic’s cascading aftereffects have been complicated and hard to shake for Rhode Island’s nonprofits, which employ 67,000 Rhode Islanders. That number represents...
To aid nonprofits, new United Way of R.I. resource center needs...
Establishing a village to support Rhode Island’s nonprofit industry is going to take, well, a village.
That’s why the United Way of Rhode Island Inc....
United Way of R.I. to launch nonprofit resource center in fall,...
PROVIDENCE – Nancy Wolanski feels Rhode Island’s nonprofit sector is overlooked, under resourced and there are not enough adequate investments in the capacity of...
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