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Mutual of America opens regional office in Providence

Financial Services 10/28/2019

PROVIDENCE – Mutual of America Financial Group, which specializes in retirement plans and investments, last week officially announced the opening of its new regional...

THE JOHN H. CHAFEE Center for International Business at Bryant University has received a $374,002 grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration to aid small businesses to enter the global market or to expand their global exports. / COURTESY BRYANT UNIVERSITY

Chafee Center receives $374K in federal funds for export initiative

Education 10/21/2019

SMITHFIELD – The John H. Chafee Center for International Business at Bryant University has received a $374,002 grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration...

GA wants to jump-start investment in small businesses but new fund...

Cover Story 10/18/2019

A messy debate has been unfolding in the halls of political power in Rhode Island over how the state should help small businesses with...

How the GA-backed investment fund works

Cover Story 10/18/2019

This is how the Small Business Development Fund, as approved by the General Assembly, would work: The state would issue up to $42 million in...

Applications available for Commerce RI’s new Site Readiness program

Government 10/04/2019

PROVIDENCE – Applications for R.I. Commerce Corp.’s new Site Readiness program are available. Included in Gov. Gina M. Raimondo’s fiscal 2020 budget and passed by...

GOV. GINA M. RAIMONDO took the lead Thursday in announcing a second round of Innovation Campus funding aimed at commercializing academic research./PBN FILE PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

Raimondo, URI announce new round of Innovation Campus funding

Entrepreneurship 10/03/2019

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo and University of Rhode Island President David M. Dooley on Thursday announced a second round “RI Innovation Campus”...

$250K grant to help URI professor develop ‘smart glove’ for Parkinson’s...

Education 10/01/2019

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A University of Rhode Island professor has been awarded a $249,977 federal grant to help him continue to develop a "smart...

UPDATING THE PATH A new collaboration between the Westerly Education Center, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training, the R.I. Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner and businesses across the state, with support from the Real Jobs Rhode Island initiative, is training the next generation of process technicians and chemical operators, positions needed in the brewing, medical research and consumer products industries, among others. The program requires a high school diploma or GED to begin, takes eight weeks of both classroom learning and hands-on training,  and is free. Here, Clarke Richmond makes circuits to control fluids at the WEC. / PBN PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD

Paths to manufacturing jobs grow

Manufacturing 10/01/2019

Perhaps it was an extraordinary run as a major manufacturer in a number of industries, one that kept the state looking backward instead of...

GOV. GINA M. RAIMONDO and the R.I. Commerce Corp. announced 240 new Wavemaker Fellowship awards to help STEM and design professionals defray student loan costs.

More than 150 applicants to receive latest Wavemaker Fellowship awards

Government 09/27/2019

PROVIDENCE – R.I. Commerce Corp. and Gov. Gina M. Raimondo announced Friday that 153 college graduates who work in STEM – science, technology, engineering...