Tag: Progreso Latino
Bueno receives Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment
MARIO BUENO, executive director of Central Falls-based nonprofit Progreso Latino, has been awarded the 2021 Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment from the Rhode...
Progreso Latino’s Bueno receives R.I. Foundation’s 2021 Murray Prize
PROVIDENCE – Mario Bueno, executive director of Central Falls-based nonprofit Progreso Latino, has been awarded the 2021 Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment from...
Nonprofits eye boost from vaccine incentive program
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Free Clinic CEO Marie Ghazal has seen COVID-19, and the state's response, from all angles for more than a year.
The...
Business incubator born in response to COVID-19
Jo Lee’s new business was on the fast track to success.
In a single year, she’d transformed PopUp Rhody LLC from an idea into a...
Five Rhode Island nonprofits receive $50K from National Grid Foundation
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...
RIC to open new workforce development hub at former Dexter Credit...
CENTRAL FALLS – Sensing a need to help address workforce skills gaps in Rhode Island, one state college will open this week its new...
Healthcentric Advisors uses $175K grant to target high blood pressure
PROVIDENCE – Healthcentric Advisors, a nonprofit based in the city, is launching a project focused on reducing uncontrolled high blood pressure in medically underserved...
Alzheimer’s Association R.I. chapter hosting multiple events in June
PROVIDENCE – Alzheimer’s disease affects more than 23,000 people and 53,000 caregivers in Rhode Island, and it is the fifth-leading cause of death in...
Rhode Island could lose one of its two U.S. House seats...
The last time a U.S. census form arrived in the mail, Marcela Betancur helped her mother fill it out. As a 20-year-old, she had...
Tufts Health Plan Foundation awards $100K in 10 grants to R.I....
PROVIDENCE – Ten Rhode Island organizations each will receive $10,000 grants from Tufts Health Plan Foundation’s new Momentum Fund.
The fund was created to develop...
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