Tag: Papitto Opportunity Connection
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,...
Finding workforce is labor intensive for local nonprofits
The COVID-19 pandemic’s cascading aftereffects have been complicated and hard to shake for Rhode Island’s nonprofits, which employ 67,000 Rhode Islanders. That number represents...
United Way of R.I. to launch nonprofit resource center in fall,...
PROVIDENCE – Nancy Wolanski feels Rhode Island’s nonprofit sector is overlooked, under resourced and there are not enough adequate investments in the capacity of...
Inaugural group of students selected for Lifespan Cancer Institute program
PROVIDENCE – Twenty public high school students of color from Central Falls, Pawtucket and Providence have been selected for the inaugural cohort of the...
Polaris MEP, Chicago nonprofit open manufacturing job training center
PROVIDENCE – Advanced manufacturing training sessions, job placement assistance, English language classes and financial coaching are a few resources now available to residents free...
Lifespan’s nursing assistant school licensed by the state
PROVIDENCE – Lifespan Corp.’s nursing assistant school has been licensed as an approved training program by the R.I. Department of Health.
The program offers free,...
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