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NEW OPERATION: Shelby Perry, an adjunct professor at the New England Institute of Technology, launched a nonprofit called Operation: LifeLines in 2021, which she uses to discuss the lack of human-trafficking education. 
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Perry stayed home to be ‘Tech’ savvy

Business Women Awards 2025 WOMAN TO WATCH EDUCATION: Shelby Perry, New England Institute of Technology adjunct professor BROWN UNIVERSITY BECKONED. University of South Florida lured....
SAVING ST. MARY’S: Under Beth Bixby’s leadership, Tides Family Services began supporting the St. Mary’s Home for Children in North Providence after details from a December 2023 investigation by the R.I. Office of the Child Advocate found “significant safety concerns and abusive living conditions,” which led to leadership changes there. 
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Bixby rising Tides to help area children and families

Business Women Awards 2025 INDUSTRY LEADER SOCIAL SERVICES/NONPROFIT: Beth Bixby, Tides Family Services CEO WINDS OF CHANGE have been swirling around children’s behavioral health, particularly...
GIVING BACK: Jaclyn Leibl-Cote, CEO and president at Collette Travel Services Inc. in ­Pawtucket, established the Collette Foundation, a nonprofit that supports communities in need worldwide through hunger and education initiatives. 
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Collette’s Leibl-Cote navigates through a world of wonder, and uncertainty

Business Women Awards 2025 INDUSTRY LEADER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES: Jaclyn Leibl-Cote, Collette Travel Service Inc. CEO STAYING IN BUSINESS for more than a century in any...
BY THE BOOK: Polaris MEP Director of Marketing Erin Read helped create a “playbook” in 2020 to assist manufacturers on how to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. 
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Polaris MEP’s Read a manufacturer’s helping hand

Business Women Awards 2025 WOMAN TO WATCH TECHNICAL SERVICES Erin Read, Polaris MEP director of marketing WHILE ATTENDING COLGATE UNIVERSITY in Hamilton, N.Y., pursuing a double major,...

League of Charter Schools’ Deltito-Sharrott charts the course for education

Business Women Awards 2025 WOMAN TO WATCH SOCIAL SERVICES/NONPROFIT: Chiara Deltito-Sharrott, Rhode Island League of Charter Public Schools executive director EDUCATION PREPARES MANY to succeed in...
Lauren Pimpare founded Massachusetts-based Tomorrow’s Women TODAY in 2009. The nonprofit opened a Rhode Island chapter in 2023. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Feed lifelines for change

Lauren Pimpare | Tomorrow’s Women TODAY founder and president A strong belief in the power of mentorship has guided my journey and fuels my commitment to...
MELISSA S. CHERNEY, who has led the Great Plains Food Bank in North Dakota for the last six years, has been named the Rhode Island Community Food Bank's next CEO. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK

R.I. Food Bank names Cherney as new CEO

PROVIDENCE – The leader of North Dakota's largest hunger relief organization will head to the Ocean State to take the top role at the...

KIDS COUNT: Child homelessness, racial disparities remain problematic

PROVIDENCE – Children and families still facing homelessness, increased rent costs, persistent racial disparities and federal programs under threat of change from the new...

Edesia’s warehouse piling up without new federal government orders

NORTH KINGSTOWN – Edesia Inc. President and founder Navyn Salem said the humanitarian aid agency's warehouse is once again piling up with life-saving food...

Papitto Opportunity Connection awards $4.3M in grants to 136 organizations

PROVIDENCE – More than 130 local nonprofits have been awarded $4.3 million in grants from the Papitto Opportunity Connection to address a myriad of...
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