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Mitchell earns 2024 AARP Rhode Island Andrus Award for Community Service

In Their Own Words 03/14/2025

MARCUS MITCHELL, immediate past volunteer state president for AARP Rhode Island and founding president of the Providence Community Library, recently received the 2024 AARP...

AARP Rhode Island names Mitchell state president

Leadership 12/28/2021

PROVIDENCE – AARP Rhode Island on Tuesday named Shere Strategy Enterprises founder Marcus Mitchell as state president. He replaces Phil Zarlengo in the volunteer position...

United Way of R.I. awards $150K to Olneyville community groups

Nonprofit 08/16/2019

PROVIDENCE – United Way of Rhode Island has awarded $150,000 to 12 organizations that support children and families in the city’s Olneyville neighborhood. The grants...

PCL hosts legal literacy program

Education 08/24/2018

PROVIDENCE – In partnership with Libraries Without Borders, the Providence Community Library is offering a series of legal literacy pilot programs and legal resources...

UWRI provides $90,000 in grants to community organizations

Nonprofit 07/06/2018

PROVIDENCE – Nine local organizations were the recipients of a shared total of $90,000 in grants from the United Way of Rhode Island’s Olneyville...

Elorza approves $749M FY19 budget

Government 07/02/2018

PROVIDENCE - Mayor Jorge O. Elorza on Monday finalized a $748.7 million fiscal year 2019 city budget that he said again has no tax...

Providence Public Library receives $7K grant from Wells Fargo

News Briefs 06/29/2018

PROVIDENCE – Providence Public Library was awarded a $7,500 grant from Wells Fargo to help support the library’s Passport to Summer Learning program, PPL...

HOT SPOT: Mobile Beacon staffers, from left, Rick Lindholm, sales manager; Cristina Graham, program director; and Katherine Messier, founder and executive director, speak with Kate Aubin at the Providence Public Library about the broadband-service provider’s 4G mobile hotspot devices, which people can check out from the library – the first and now largest such program in the country. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Passionate entrepreneur driven to assist nonprofits

Business Women 05/25/2018

Honoree | Katherine Messier, Mobile Beacon A Rhode Island innovation story may not get more homegrown than Katherine Messier’s. But the impact of her...

KNIGHT STEWARDS: Jeffrey Cannell, library director of the Providence Community Library network, and Sue Gibbs, chief operating officer, inside the Knight Memorial Library, which has received $544,800 from the Champlin Foundation to go toward much-needed renovations. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Champlin Foundation grant helps fund Knight Library renovations

Nonprofit 03/16/2018

THE Knight Memorial Library is getting much-needed renovations this spring, as the historic community library looks to maintain its footing as an architectural jewel...