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LEGAL ADVICE: Partridge, Snow & Hahn attorney Elizabeth Manchester chats with Sam Sylvester, vice president financial services at OceanPoint Insurance. Manchester was speaking at United Way about what nonprofits should do to ensure employees and employers don’t engage in harassment.  / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

Nonprofits need formal harassment policies

Focus 09/20/2019

Nonprofit leaders are often so focused on the mission that they can overlook essential policies that underpin their business. Many nonprofit organizations lack the formal...

BIG IMPACT: Sam Salganik, executive director of the Rhode Island Parent Information Network, said the Affordable Care Act has made the biggest positive impact in the health care system in recent years. It’s been complemented by the state’s efforts to make insurance more accessible and affordable.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Reinsurance program helps curb premiums

Focus 09/20/2019

Sam Salganik sees hardship cases of Rhode Islanders struggling to pay for health care. But he’s seeing less of it. “The state is making progress,”...

ON THE MOVE: Island Moving Company founder and Artistic Director Miki Ohlsen, with company dancer Emily Baker in the background. The ballet performance company is planning and fundraising for a new $4 million building that would include three studios as a black box theater and provide a home for its Newport Academy of Ballet.  / PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

Island Moving ballet works to connect

Art & Culture 08/30/2019

Masterful use of venues such as Rosecliff mansion and the tall ship SSV Oliver Hazard Perry has shaped the Island Moving Company’s relationship with...

COMMUNITY LINCHPIN: As longtime executive director of West Elmwood Housing Development Corp., Sharon Conard-Wells has played a role in innovative projects, such as the Sankofa Initiative, that have revived blighted properties.   / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Sharon Conard-Wells, 25 Over Fifty-five

Nonprofit 08/23/2019

25 Over Fifty-Five 2019 Award Winner SHARON CONARD-WELLS | Executive director, West Elmwood Housing Development Corp. TO HEAR SHARON CONARD-WELLS tell it, she is merely...

JOB TRAINING: We Make RI staff, from left: Diana Castellone, marketing specialist; Barbara Jackson, executive director; Katelyn Boudreau, vice president of employer relations; and Samantha Gobin, outreach coordinator, meet at the nonprofit’s Cranston offices.  / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Manufacturing a new job

Business Services 08/09/2019

At least half of the men accepted into classes at We Make RI say they want to be machinists, or computer numerically controlled operators. The...

Grady leading Meals on Wheels

In Their Own Words 08/09/2019

MEGHAN GRADY was recently named executive director for Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island, a nonprofit that helps deliver meals to senior residents in...

FLEX TIME: Yoga classes at Children’s Friend are popular among its employees. From left: Stacy Couto, Michele Yun, Nicole Esposito, Kim Samos and Edouard Latortue, in the background.  / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Culture shift to wellness  at Children’s Friend

Nonprofit 08/09/2019

Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island 2019 150-499 EMPLOYEES #1: Children’s Friend CEO (or equivalent): David Caprio, CEO and president Number of employees: 380 For the past 185 years,...

RENOVATED HOME: Homeowner Carlos Reyes, left, is pictured with Providence Mayor Jorge O. Elorza and Smith Hill Community Development Corp. Executive Director Jean Lamb in front of his home at 120 Camden Ave. during ceremonies to celebrate homeowners moving into houses renovated under the city’s EveryHome program.  / COURTESY CITY OF PROVIDENCE

One answer to blight

Cover Story 06/21/2019

During a panel discussion in Providence following a screening earlier this month of a documentary featuring a family left homeless after an eviction, Mayor...