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TIGHT-KNIT STAFF: Members of Embrace Home Loans Inc. in Middletown gather for a team-building event at Stumpy’s Hatchet House in Fall River in October 2021. / COURTESY EMBRACE HOME LOANS INC.

Family-like approach, charity at the core of Embrace Home Loans culture

Financial Services 06/10/2022

PBN BEST PLACES TO WORK 2022 Large Company 1. Embrace Home Loans Inc. Employees in R.I. 450 CEO: Dennis Hardiman Full-service, nationwide mortgage lender Embrace Home Loans Inc.,...

Premeer Real Estate pledges charitable donation with every sale in 2022

Real Estate 01/05/2022

SMITHFIELD – Premeer Real Estate, which was established in 2013 and has an office in Smithfield and two others in Massachusetts, is planning to...

REINFORCED: U.S. Navy veteran Christopher Sanford, owner of PuroClean Disaster Restoration Services LLC in Cranston, didn’t panic when the pandemic hit last year. Without much trouble, he received a Paycheck Protection Program loan that helped keep his staff employed. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Vet-owned firms haven’t shied away from PPP loans

Coronavirus 05/28/2021

While small businesses across the state and the country scrambled to secure one of the popular Paycheck Protection Program loans, Christopher Sanford applied for...

Batchelder receives SBA’s 2020 R.I. Veteran-Owned Small Business of the Year...

Food & Agriculture 10/23/2020

ADAM BATCHELDER, a U.S. Marine veteran, is the recipient of the 2020 Rhode Island Veteran-Owned Small Business of the Year award from the U.S....

Five Rhode Island nonprofits receive $50K from National Grid Foundation

Nonprofit 05/28/2020

PROVIDENCE – Five Rhode Island-based nonprofits recently received $50,000 combined from the National Grid Foundation to support hunger relief and human services for individuals...

THE FILL-A-BUS food drive raised more than 25,000 pounds of food this year. Above, Cristina McKibbin, chief operating officer, We Share Hope; David Sarlitto, executive director, Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation; and Erik Wallin, executive director, Operation Stand Down Rhode Island. / COURTESY OCEAN STATE JOB LOT

Fill-A-Bus food drive collects over 25K lbs. of food

Nonprofit 11/25/2019

NORTH KINGSTOWN – The eighth annual Fill-A-Bus Food Drive collected more than 25,000 pounds of food to benefit food pantries in Rhode Island, Ocean...

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, PHIL MASON of ServiceMaster by Mason; Elizabeth Eckel, chief marketing officer for The Washington Trust Co.; and Beth Markowski-Roop of ServiceMaster by Mason pose with donated peanut butter at Washington Trust's Westerly Branch as ServiceMaster by Mason delivers boxes of peanut butter to Washington Trust's 19th annual Peanut Butter Drive. / COURTESY THE WASHINGTON TRUST CO.

Washington Trust collects 3.4 tons of peanut butter during annual drive

Financial Services 05/24/2019

WESTERLY — About 6,800 pounds, or 3.4 tons, of peanut butter were collected for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank and 12 area food...

DEE DEQUATTRO is the director of development and legal services for Operation Stand Down Rhode Island. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Five Questions With: Dee DeQuattro

In Their Own Words 05/24/2019

Dee DeQuattro is the director of development and legal services for Operation Stand Down Rhode Island, a nonprofit dedicated to helping military veterans through...