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ONE|NB Welcomes Experienced Fundraising and Communications Professional

ONE Neighborhood Builders (ONE|NB) welcomes Kyle McKendall as Vice President of Resource Development and Communications. McKendall comes to ONE|NB with over 12 years of...
5Q: David N. Cicilline
CEO and president, Rhode Island Foundation / PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

5Q: David N. Cicilline

5Q: David N. Cicilline | CEO and president, Rhode Island Foundation 1. When you were named the foundation’s new CEO and president, you told...
PLAYTIME: Jordan Towle, a visitor services manager at the Providence Children’s Museum, plays with Jorge Rodrigues, 1, of Providence. The museum, according to Executive Director Caroline Payson, relies on ticket sales and membership fees to bolster operating costs. 
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

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...
STARTING IT OFF: Nancy Wolanski has been appointed the first executive director of the newly formed nonprofit resource center that is getting support from United Way of Rhode Island Inc.
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

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....
HEAVY LIFTING: Joe Parillo, left, warehouse expeditor, and Joe Regan, warehouse manager, unload cases of canned goods at the Rhode Island Community Food Bank’s distribution center in Providence.
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

High food costs still difficult to digest in R.I.

The past few years have been especially hard for Rhode Island ­residents facing food ­insecurity. Within the Ocean State, 1 in 3 ­households cannot...
THE 2023 HOUSING Fact Book from HousingWorks RI at Roger Williams University notes that while steps have been taken to address the housing crisis in the state, housing affordability is still a problem. / COURTESY HOUSINGWORKS RI AT ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY

HousingWorks Fact Book: Housing affordability in R.I. still out of reach

PROVIDENCE – While steps have been taken to address the state’s housing crisis and Rhode Island’s labor market is recovering in a strong way,...
MICHAEL REIS, founder of Tides Family Services Inc., died Sunday at the age of 81. / COURTESY TIDES FAMILY SERVICES

Tides Family Services founder Reis dies at 81

PROVIDENCE – Michael Reis, a De Lasalle Christian brother who founded Tides Family Services Inc. in the early 1980s to help address needs of...
TRAINING DAY: From left, Deric Vazquez, a client, and Michaela Fraser, employment enhancement facilitator at AccessPoint RI, go through training at the Woonsocket Education Center. 
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

AccessPoint RI building a workforce through an access point

PBN Innovative Companies 2023 Nonprofit/Social Services: AccessPoint RI For more than a half century Access­Point RI has taken an innovative approach to helping individuals prepare for...
MARISA ANGELL BROWN has been named the Providence Preservation Society's new executive director. / COURTESY PROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Brown named Providence Preservation Society’s new executive director

PROVIDENCE – The former associate director of Rhode Island School of Design’s Center for Complexity will now lead the Providence Preservation Society. The historic preservation...
JO-ANN SCHOFIELD will depart Mentor Rhode Island as its CEO and president on Sept. 22. /PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Schofield to leave Mentor R.I. as its CEO and president Sept....

WARWICK – After more than a quarter century with Mentor Rhode Island, Jo-Ann Schofield will soon shift her work to another local nonprofit. Brendan Ahearn,...
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