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Dining Out: Making it in the West End

With the recent visit of the joyous Scottish soccer fans to Rhode Island, it seemed like everyone wanted to make a connection with the...
PROGRAM ­SUCCESS: Amy Grzybowski, vice president of workforce development and ­community relations at New ­England Institute of Technology, says the success of its surgical technologist pilot program allowed it to become a registered ­apprenticeship. 
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Surgical technologist pilot turned apprenticeship helping hospitals fill vacancies

In the operating rooms of Rhode Island hospitals, the work moves fast. Scalpels are handed off, instrument trays are counted and procedures unfold with...

HopeHealth receives $200K grant to expand community engagement efforts

PROVIDENCE – HopeHealth, the second-oldest hospice organization in the country, says it has received a $200,000 grant from Papitto Opportunity Connection to support the...

R.I.’s first apprenticeship program for surgical technologists launches

EAST GREENWICH – New England Institute of Technology and Brown University Health, in partnership with Building Futures, on Thursday celebrated the signing day for...
TRAILBLAZER: Remi Jones is the CEO, executive producer and host of “Remi TV,” Rhode Island’s first Black-owned women’s television show. 
COURTESY JAY HUNT

Everybody’s Business: Multimedia maven gives voice to the underdog

(Editor’s note: This is the 68th installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...

‘It’s not luck’: Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand highlights consistency, discipline at...

SMITHFIELD – Though author Elin Hilderbrand has been called "queen of the beach read," achieving the title – and establishing it as a moniker...
A CLOSE LOOK: Carolina Carrillo, a Warren Alpert Medical School student, conducts a health examination of a Calcutt Middle School student at the SMART Plus clinic at Calcutt in Central Falls. Medical students also serve as mentors for middle schoolers interested in the field of health care. 
COURTESY WARREN ­ALPERT MEDICAL SCHOOL

At this school clinic, students get checkups, then career mentoring

As Rhode Island continues to face a shortage of health care workers, a first-of-its-kind program using students from Brown University’s medical school is attempting...
LAB WORK: Ivelisse Sabater and her husband formed SabaterLAB Foundation, which empowers Rhode Island’s diverse communities through workforce development, mental health programs and barrier-free education, in 2021. 
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

SabaterLAB Foundation’s Sabater combines education with community empowerment

Business Women Awards 2025 INDUSTRY LEADER EDUCATION: Ivelisse Sabater, SabaterLAB Foundation executive director IVELISSE SABATER is a natural educator. Even as a child and teenager,...

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...

United Way: Rhode Islanders, nonprofits ‘shined in [the] moment’ during 401Gives...

PROVIDENCE – The sense that this year’s 401Gives Day would be one for the ages occurred mere moments after the giving portal opened at...
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