Tag: Rhode Island Food Policy Council
Everybody’s Business: Arriving in R.I., she felt compelled to connect
(Editor’s note: This is the 43rd installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...
Five Questions With: Cassandra Thomas
5Q: Cassandra Thomas | Director of economic development, city of Providence
1. What are the greatest economic challenges facing the city and the best...
Value-based care may be a remedy, panelists say
To Eric Swain, the shift toward value-based care models is one of the health care industry’s most exciting developments amid growing quality and affordability...
Point32Health Foundation awards $750K to food justice efforts in New England
CANTON, Mass. – Point32Health Inc. announced it will be granting a total of $750,000 through the Point32Health Foundation to 19 nonprofit emergency food response...
Five Questions With: Chelsea Siefert
Chelsea Siefert | Chief operating officer, Quonset Development Corp.
1. What are your top priorities as the new chief operating officer of QDC? Quonset is...
Regionalized approach on food production, consumption urged
PROVIDENCE – A new report released June 5 by the New England State Food System Planners Partnership notes that the region has become too...
CCRI’s new degree program to help support state’s growing land, sea...
WARWICK – A new federally funded associate degree program at the Community College of Rhode Island has been created to help prepare students for...
R.I. nursing schools sounding alarm on faculty shortage
Faced with a crippling staffing crisis at local hospitals, professors at Rhode Island’s public colleges say it’s time to solve a long-standing problem with...
Just like grandma used to make
Schantel Maxine Neal grew up with a grandmother who baked using whole ingredients, and who created meals and desserts from scratch.
Her new business, Maxine...
New app to help local fishing industry reach customers
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island Fisheries Center, along with Rhode Island Sea Grant, Eating with the Ecosystem, the Commercial Fisheries Center...
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