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CLOSE TO 90 Rhode Island-based high school students received more than $470,000 in scholarships from the Rhode Island Foundation's new Robert G. and Joyce Andrew College Scholarship Fund. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

R.I. Foundation’s Andrew College Fund awards $470K to close to 90...

PROVIDENCE – Close to 90 students received more than $470,000 in financial aid in order to attend college via the Rhode Island Foundation’s new Robert...
THE RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION has awarded three nonprofits $375,000 in total grants from its Rhode Island Perinatal Workforce Fund in order to help improve care during and after pregnancies for women of color. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

R.I. Foundation awards 3 nonprofits $375K to improve perinatal care for...

PROVIDENCE – Three nonprofits became the beneficiaries of $375,000 in total grants from the Rhode Island Foundation’s Rhode Island Perinatal Workforce Fund in order...
SPEARHEADING CHANGE: Toby Ayers, executive director of Rhode Island for Community and Justice, is leading programming to help bring the community together and establish youth empowerment across cultures. / PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN

Toby Ayers, Rhode Island for Community and Justice executive director


Leaders & Achievers 2022 TOBY AYERS Executive director, Rhode Island for Community and Justice WHILE ATTENDING COLLEGE, Toby Ayers won a fellowship to study in...
A LIFELINE: James Donahue in 2019 led a partnership between Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Mass., to acquire Bristol-based nonprofit Coggeshall Farm Museum to help revitalize the struggling Rhode Island-based organization. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

James Donahue, Old Sturbridge Village/Coggeshall Farm Museum CEO and president

Leaders & Achievers 2022 JAMES DONAHUE CEO and president, Old Sturbridge Village/Coggeshall Farm Museum JAMES DONAHUE BELIEVES that in order to be a truly effective...
RAPID GROWTH: After Peter Marino became CEO and president of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island in 2014, the nonprofit health insurer’s revenue grew from $450 million to $1.5 billion and its membership has more than doubled. / 
PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN

Peter Marino, Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island CEO and president

Leaders & Achievers 2022 PETER MARINO CEO and president, Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island FRONT-LINE HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, as well as the Rhode Islanders they...
TO THE RESCUE: Wendy Taylor, founder and executive director of Tiverton-based nonprofit West Place Animal Sanctuary, oversees a home to approximately 100 rescued farm animals, wild waterfowl and gam/ 
PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Wendy Taylor, West Place Animal Sanctuary founder and executive director

Leaders & Achievers 2022 WENDY TAYLOR Founder and executive director, West Place Animal Sanctuary WENDY TAYLOR WAS 14 when she knew law school was for her. But...
BUILDING UP: Michelle Wilcox, president of Crossroads Rhode Island, managed the growth of the program and housing assets budgets from $5 million to $13.4 million. / PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN

Michelle Wilcox, Crossroads Rhode Island president

Leaders & Achievers 2022 MICHELLE WILCOX President, Crossroads Rhode Island NEARLY 30 YEARS into her career at Crossroads Rhode Island, Michelle Wilcox still feels working at...
LUCY RIOS has been named the new executive director for the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Rios named R.I. Coalition Against Domestic Violence’s new executive director

WARWICK – Lucy Rios, who has been serving as the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence’s interim executive director for close to a year,...
Judith S. Earle, 
Elizabeth Buffum Chace Center 
executive director
Judith Earle has served as executive director of Warwick-based Elizabeth Buffum Chace Center since 1997. The nonprofit serves victims and families of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Building a community

In the field of interpersonal violence, our mission and the wonderful work of our staff can only go so far, unless entire communities are...

Children’s Friend keeps its employees fit for work

PBN Healthiest Employers Awards 2022 15-499 EMPLOYEES 4. CHILDREN’S FRIEND AND SERVICE CEO (or equivalent): David Caprio, CEO and president Number of employees: 345 CHILDREN’S FRIEND AND SERVICE’S...
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