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R.I. Foundation awards $440K in grants to support 18 medical research...

PROVIDENCE – Approximately $440,000 in seed funding has been awarded by the Rhode Island Foundation to five health organizations and higher education institutions to...

R.I. Foundation offering $2.5M in grants for opioid use recovery, services

PROVIDENCE – Close to $2.5 million in grants is being made available by the Rhode Island Foundation to support services and programs that address...
GOVERNMENT WORK: Prior to being deputy director of communications for the R.I. Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Emily Martineau’s past government experience includes working for the R.I. Office of the Attorney General, R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. and the Providence Public School District.
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R.I. House speaker’s office’s Martineau had a lifelong destiny fulfilled

Business Women Awards 2025 INDUSTRY LEADER GOVERNMENT/QUASI-GOVERNMENT: Emily Martineau, R.I. Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives deputy director of communications GROWING UP...
A CLOSER LOOK: More than 30 scholarships offered at the University of Rhode Island are the focus of a complaint filed by the conservative nonprofit Legal Insurrection Foundation alleging that the scholarships violate federal law because eligibility is partially based on race and gender. 
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URI among schools targeted in civil rights complaints

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has opened an investigation into 35 scholarships offered at the University of Rhode Island after...

United Way: Rhode Islanders, nonprofits ‘shined in [the] moment’ during 401Gives...

PROVIDENCE – The sense that this year’s 401Gives Day would be one for the ages occurred mere moments after the giving portal opened at...

401Gives Day arrives as nonprofits face challenges, funding uncertainty

PROVIDENCE – Even five years after the world stopped and life has since returned to normal, COVID-19’s tentacles still have a firm grasp on...
AT THE HELM: David Salvatore has been executive director of The Providence Foundation for less than a year, but the nonprofit business association has been focused on economic development and urban revitalization in downtown Providence for half a century. 
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For 50 years, an advocate for downtown success

Unless there was a sporting event or the circus was in town, David Salvatore was probably not venturing into downtown Providence when he was...
STAYING AFLOAT: Delite Primus, left, director of advancement for Farm Fresh Rhode Island, speaks with Harvest Kitchen Production Manager Charreese Braxton at Farm Fresh’s Providence location on Sims Avenue. Farm Fresh recently had to lay off four employees and is seeking financial assistance amid a federal funding freeze imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration.
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Hurting R.I. nonprofits eye offers of financial help

A federal funding freeze is putting the hurt on Farm Fresh Rhode Island, and now the nonprofit’s administrators are looking for any other funding...

Giordano: Partnership for R.I. to focus on making state business-friendly

PROVIDENCE – When Tom Giordano arrived in Rhode Island in 2017 to lead Partnership for Rhode Island, then a newly formed nonprofit CEO roundtable,...

R.I. Foundation earmarking $3M to support nonprofits impacted by federal funding...

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation is earmarking $3 million in grants to help local nonprofits that suffered lost federal funding due to recent...
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