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STUDENTS FROM William Winsor Elementary School in Smithfield, which was one of the schools statewide to win grants for classroom innovation from the Rhode Island Foundation. Nearly two dozen school districts will share $153,000 in grants. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

$153K in RIF classroom innovation grants shared by 23 R.I. towns,...

Education 03/12/2018

PROVIDENCE - More than 150 educators, among them many elementary school teachers, in 23 Rhode Island cities and towns will share $153,000 in grants...

ON THURSDAY, the Rhode Island Foundation launched a website to pair with its new TogetherRI initiative which focuses on Rhode Islanders discussing ways to improve the state. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

Rhode Island Foundation launches TogetherRI to encourage community discussion

Nonprofit 03/01/2018

PROVIDENCE – Starting this month and stretching into early May, the Rhode Island Foundation will host 20 community gatherings as part of a new...

NEIL D. STEINBERG, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation, told the Providence Business News Thursday the $150,000 Together RI initiative which saw community members discuss current events and challenges in person was "worth the investment." / PBN FILE PHOTO/PHOTO BY MICHAEL SALERNO

RIF expands grant opportunities, staff, recommits to strategic priorities

Economic Activity 02/19/2018

PROVIDENCE - While the Rhode Island Foundation closed out 2017 having doled out $43 million in grants to more than 1,700 nonprofit organizations and...

The Rhode Island Foundation will honor Delta Dental of Rhode Island, the Care Transformation Collaborative and attorney Renée A.R. Evangelista of Howland Evangelista Kohlenberg Burnett at its 2018 annual meeting this year. Foundation President and CEO Neil D. Steinberg speaks at last year’s event. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

R.I. Foundation sets meeting date, puts spotlight on community leaders

Nonprofit 02/02/2018

PROVIDENCE - The Rhode Island Foundation has announced the date of its 2018 annual meeting, May 24, as well as the names of the...

THE RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION donated $100,000 to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. Above, Neil D. Steinberg, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

RIF donates $100K to R.I. Food Bank

Nonprofit 12/19/2017

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded the Rhode Island Community Food Bank a $100,000 donation to tackle the growing hunger crisis in...

INVESTED: Rhode Island Foundation President and CEO Neil D. Steinberg and Jessica David, senior vice president of strategy and community investments, have helped launch 12 Rhode Island entrepreneurs through RIF’s innovation fellowship program. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Six years in, RIF innovation fellows’ impact unclear as they fight...

Entrepreneurship 12/15/2017

Six years ago, the Rhode Island Foundation announced it was accepting applications for something called an innovation fellowship. The program, funded by local philanthropists...

ROB DEBLOIS SPEAKS a ceremony Thursday honoring him as the first recipient of the inaugural Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment at the Rhode Island Foundation. DeBlois received the $50,000 prize in recognition of decades of work with disadvantaged youth as the founder and director of the Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program in Providence. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

RIF grants new Murray Family award to Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program...

Nonprofit 11/10/2017

PROVIDENCE –Rob DeBlois, the principal of the The Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program received $50,000 in the inaugural Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment, the...

COURTESY R.I. COMMERCE CORP./PRESTON SCOTT COHEN INC.

Commerce updates Amazon web pitch with new renderings, testimonials

Capital Goods 11/08/2017

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Commerce Corp. updated its RIforAmazon.us domain to include new renderings of proposals for Amazon.com Inc.’s second headquarters, HQ2. The drawings include...

RIF ‘investment’ in state grows

Hot Topic 11/03/2017

The Rhode Island Foundation in recent years has increasingly taken a more active role as a community convener, planner and funder. That evolution, as...