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PLAYTIME: Jordan Towle, a visitor services manager at the Providence Children’s Museum, plays with Jorge Rodrigues, 1, of Providence. The museum, according to Executive Director Caroline Payson, relies on ticket sales and membership fees to bolster operating costs. 
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

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...
HELPING HAND: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center volunteer Susan Barnes, right, assists a customer in the nonprofit organization’s food pantry in Newport.
PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN

Soaring inflation hurting nonprofits in many ways

Ask Heather Hole Strout what keeps her up at night and she answers without hesitating. “Housing. It’s a big issue. Many we help have...

Bristol County Savings Bank awards $117K to 14 R.I. nonprofits

TAUNTON – Bristol County Savings Bank recently awarded $116,500 to 14 northern Rhode Island nonprofits as part of its 25th anniversary celebration, according to...
GOV. DANIEL J. MCKEE OUTLINED PLANS to vaccinate 80,000 children between 5 and 11 years old for COVID-19 in Rhode Island during a press conference on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, at Providence Children's Museum. / PBN FILE PHOTO

McKee: COVID-19 vaccines for kids under 12 coming to R.I. within...

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee and the R.I. Department of Health are outlining plans to vaccinate 80,000 children between 5 and 11 years...

Providence Children’s Museum building closing temporarily for renovations

PROVIDENCE – With help from a local philanthropic organization, the Providence Children’s Museum is getting a makeover, requiring the building to be closed to...

Centreville Bank donates $177,500 to 11 local nonprofits

WEST WARWICK – Centreville Bank through its charitable foundation recently donated $177,500 to 11 local nonprofits, according to a news release. Recipients include: Capital Good...
Executive director, Providence Children’s Museum / COURTESY PROVIDENCE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM

Five questions with Caroline Payson

1. What is the function of the Providence Children’s Museum? The museum’s mission is to inspire lifelong learning for all through play, creativity and exploration....
PURPOSE FINDER: Carole Ann Penney, owner of Penney Leadership LLC, says most of her coaching clients are seeing meaning in their work and the career path they’re on. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Penney poised to help when leaders feel lost

Part of Carole Ann Penney’s role as a business leadership coach is being a myth buster. Cultural notions of achieving a successful career by a...
PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS honored Thursday eight C-level executives for their work in the 2020 C-Suite Awards program. Pictured top row, from left, are Providence Children's Museum Associate Director Jennifer Bose (named the 2020 Rising Star), Rhode Island Medical Imaging Inc. Chief Marketing Officer Dana Alexander Nolfe, The Groden Network Chief Clinical Officer Cooper Woodard and Brown Medicine Chief Information Officer David Hemendinger. Pictured bottom row, from left, are International Game Technology PLC Senior Vice President of Global Brand and Marketing Communications Wendy Montgomery, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Matt Collins (named the 2020 Career Achiever), Carousel Industries of North America Inc. Chief Financial Officer Jason Cherry and Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England CEO Pam Hyland. / PBN PHOTO

2020 C-Suite Awards: Collins takes pride in improving health care

PROVIDENCE – Being part of an organization that’s “passionately leading” a state of health and well-being for all of Rhode Island is why Blue...
FIXER-UPPER: Upon arriving at Providence Children’s Museum in 2017, Associate Director Jennifer Bose quickly took action to help upgrade several operating systems in order to get the museum up to date. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Bose’s creativity, leadership at Providence Children’s Museum on full display

C-SUITE AWARDS 2020 RISING STAR: Jennifer Bose | Providence Children’s Museum JENNIFER BOSE had never visited a museum when she chose to major in art...
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