Tag: Nonprofit
Fund for a Healthy Rhode Island taking grant applications
PROVIDENCE — Nonprofits have until April 2 to apply for $2.8 million in grants from the Rhode Island Foundation’s Fund for a Healthy Rhode Island,...
Nonprofits wary of tax law’s impact on giving
For nonprofits that solicit individual and corporate donations, one of the potential pitfalls of the new federal tax law is the doubling of the...
Help for Jamaican immigrants
A new association seeks to harness the collective culture, spirit and interests of the Jamaican population of Rhode Island. This would include both Jamaican...
Filling a need for diapers and more
When Richard Fleischer and his wife adopted two girls, ages 4 and 2, from India, the youngest was still in diapers – “a surprise...
Steel Yard artisans meld art, function
Walking along a city street in Rhode Island, you do a double-take, smile, maybe nudge a companion and point to a trash can or...
A passion for art education
When Norah Diedrich was 8 or 9 years old, growing up outside Chicago, she would entertain herself at home by engaging in a favorite...
N.B. nonprofit develops mentors
Manny DeBrito has coached basketball for about 15 years, and the discipline has taught him what it means to be a mentor.
It also helped...
Five Questions with Keith Lang
1. The Champlin Foundation has a long history of philanthropy in Rhode Island. What are your primary areas of focus? Nearly 90 percent of...
Five questions with Steven G. O’Donnell
1. After five years as the R.I. State Police superintendent and serving as the commissioner of the R.I. Department of Public Safety, why did...
Business leaders partner for stronger Rhode Island
The nonprofit Partnership for Rhode Island brings together the heads of companies that collectively employ more than 500,000 people.
The companies all have headquarters or...
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