Saturday, September 5, 2026

TOPICS

Home Tags Nonprofit

Tag: Nonprofit

EXPANSION WORK: Nancy Wolanski, left, director of United Way of Rhode Island Inc.’s Alliance for Nonprofit Impact, and Engagement Manager Caitlynn Douglas collaborate at the organization’s Providence office. The alliance has launched Give4GoodRI, a year-round online platform to enable perpetual giving to local nonprofits that builds off of 401Gives Day. 
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

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...
Courtney Bourns / PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

5Q: Courtney Bourns

Courtney Bourns | Executive director, Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island 1. When you were first brought aboard at the council, board President Thomas Brendler...
ACCORDING TO MARIA MONTANARO, interim CEO of Thundermist Health Center, the organization is seeking an $8 million loan from various health care stakeholders across Rhode Island to help keep the organization's doors open. / COURTESY THUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER

Should R.I. health care entities provide requested loans to financially ailing...

Woonsocket’s Thundermist Health Center last month terminated the contract of its former CEO and president and laid off 124 people. Now the nonprofit is asking...

A wake-up call for health care system

The financial crisis that enveloped Steward Health Care hospitals just across the state border in Massachusetts over the past year was a wake-up call...
ACCORDING TO MARIA MONTANARO, interim CEO of Thundermist Health Center, the organization is seeking an $8 million loan from various health care stakeholders across Rhode Island to help keep the organization's doors open. / COURTESY THUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER

Thundermist interim CEO Montanaro optimistic about future, but bailout is needed

WOONSOCKET – Maria Montanaro sees a light at the end of a very dark tunnel at Thundermist Health Center’s offices in that she hopes...
A BETTER MINDSET: From left, Francheska Calderon, human resources business partner; Susan Piacenti, vice president of philanthropy; Dr. Richard Whalen, medical director; and Dayna Gladstein, CEO and president, have a conversation at Newport Mental Health’s offices in Middletown. 
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Newport Mental Health improving the quality of care

2024 PBN Innovative Companies Awards NONPROFIT: Newport Mental Health MANY ORGANIZATIONS WERE FORCED to adapt and change the way they did business to meet the increased...

At Teatro ECAS, curtains – and revenues – rising

PBN 2024 Fastest Growing Companies Awards $250,000 to $2.5 MILLION: 4. Teatro ECAS CEO (or equivalent): Yvonne Beauregard, general manager 2023 Revenue: $955,447 2021 Revenue: $482,442 Revenue growth: 98% ARTS ORGANIZATIONS...
PAOLA FERNANDEZ, senior vice president and community development officer for Centreville Bank, has been elected as the new chairperson of the United Way of Rhode Island Inc.’s board of directors. / COURTESY UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC.

United Way of R.I. elects Fernandez as new board chair

PROVIDENCE – Paola Fernandez, Centreville Bank’s senior vice president and community development officer, has been elected as the new chairperson of the United Way...
ANDREW SCHIFF will retire in 2025 as the Rhode Island Community Food Bank's CEO. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

R.I. Food Bank CEO Schiff to retire in 2025

PROVIDENCE – For close to two decades, Andrew Schiff has worked to help feed Rhode Islanders in need, especially when a global health pandemic brought such...

Jennifer Schanck-Bolwell Returns to Crossroads RI as COO

Crossroads Rhode Island, the state’s leading provider of housing and services for people experiencing homelessness, announced that Jennifer Schanck-Bolwell will return as Chief Operating...
- Featured Event -

Latest News