Tag: Papitto Opportunity Connection
Salve Regina University receives $5M gift for new student pavilion
NEWPORT – The founder of the Papitto Opportunity Connection who also is a board trustee at Salve Regina University provided the private university a...
United Way of R.I.’s Alliance for Nonprofit Impact offers a new...
FOUR YEARS AFTER United Way of Rhode Island Inc. launched a special online fundraising day to support local nonprofits, local organizations are now in...
Lifespan Sickle Cell Program receives $1M grant
PROVIDENCE – The Papitto Opportunity Connection recently announced it awarded its first $1 million Innovation Grant to the Lifespan Sickle Cell Program.
The funding will...
Exits that could help a minority entrepreneur
Rhode Island-based entrepreneur David Owoyemi was no stranger to startups in August 2022, when he was in the middle of launching a new enterprise,...
Carr a driving force at Leadership R.I.
2024 Business Women Awards
WOMAN TO WATCH | PROFESSIONAL SERVICES: Michelle Carr
Leadership Rhode Island executive director
WHEN SHE FIRST STEPPED into her role as...
Central Falls collaborates with local nonprofits to create 30-unit affordable housing...
CENTRAL FALLS – A former assisted living facility within the city will soon be transformed into temporary affordable housing for at-risk women and their...
401Gives Day sets new records for fundraising, donors, organizations supported
PAWTUCKET – The bar continues to be raised with Rhode Island’s largest single nonprofit supporting initiative, with new records across the board during the...
Nonprofits seeking more money, new donors on upcoming 401Gives Day
PROVIDENCE – More money being contributed to local nonprofits is always the annual goal for 401Gives Day, and this coming April 1 will be...
United Way launches Alliance for Nonprofit Impact
PROVIDENCE – Three years ago, the United Way of Rhode Island Inc. launched its five-year, $100 million LIVE UNITED 2025 comprehensive plan to help...
Tarantino receives lifetime achievement award from Justice Assistance
JOHN A. TARANTINO, a senior counsel at Providence-based law firm Adler Pollock & Sheehan PC and a managing trustee at the Papitto Opportunity Connection,...