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Guillette receives Rhode Island Foundation’s 2024 Murray Prize

PROVIDENCE – Lisa Guillette, executive director of East Providence-based nonprofit Foster Forward, was recently presented with the Rhode Island Foundation’s 2024 Murray Family Prize...
BRISTOL THEATRE COMPANY will hold its annual "Holiday Celebration – A Cabaret Fundraiser" from Dec. 20-22 at Linden Place Mansion in Bristol. / COURTESY LINDEN PLACE MANSION

Philanthropy Calendar, Dec. 18, 2024

If a nonprofit wants an upcoming fundraiser to be considered for a calendar listing, email information to Nonprofit@PBN.com or Bessette@PBN.com at least four weeks...
David N. Cicilline / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

SETTING A NEW COURSE: 5-year action plan to determine how R.I....

When David N. Cicilline became the Rhode Island Foundation’s new chief executive and president in May 2023, he and the rest of the nonprofit’s...
COMMITTED: Rhode Island Foundation CEO and President David N. Cicilline says diversity, equity, inclusion and access initiatives will be prioritized in a new five-year action plan. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

RIF’s new action plan to prioritize diversity, equity

The Rhode Island Foundation’s new five-year action plan couldn’t be better timed for those worried about a national rollback in support for diversity, equity,...
ANN-MARIE HARRINGTON, left, has been elected as the Rhode Island Foundation's new board chairperson. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

Harrington elected R.I. Foundation’s new board chairperson

PROVIDENCE – Ann-Marie Harrington, the founder and former CEO of digital marketing company Embolden who has served on the Rhode Island Foundation’s board of...
BRISTOL THEATRE COMPANY will hold its annual "Holiday Celebration – A Cabaret Fundraiser" from Dec. 20-22 at Linden Place Mansion in Bristol. / COURTESY LINDEN PLACE MANSION

Philanthropy Calendar, Dec. 4, 2024

If a nonprofit wants an upcoming fundraiser to be considered for a calendar listing, email information to Nonprofit@PBN.com or Bessette@PBN.com at least four weeks...
Michelle Wilcox

Now is the time R.I. must invest in housing, communities

Unsheltered homelessness in Rhode Island has surged nearly 400% over the last five years. In my 30 years of working in housing and homeless...
STAYING POWER: ­Erica Busillo Adams, president of the Rhode Island chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, says a front-line fundraiser will double their salary with a nonprofit from their first year on the job to the next. But if that person leaves, the organization takes a major financial hit, she says.
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

What happens when nonprofits struggle to hire fundraisers, financial professionals?

COVID-19 may be in the rearview mirror for most, but it’s left Rhode Island’s nonprofits with a rocky, challenging road to navigate. A 2024 survey...
BLANK CANVAS: Arts students work on paintings at Riverzedge Arts Project Inc. Leaders at the Woonsocket-based social service and arts organization had to put its fall programming on hiatus due to a lack of financial help for its operations. 
COURTESY RIVERZEDGE ARTS PROJECT INC.

Without state help, arts groups paint dire financial picture

FACING A FALL SEASON with little financial help from the state, arts and cultural organizations across Rhode Island are paring down operations, scrambling to...
SEN. SANDRA CANO, D-Pawtucket, announced late Thursday she is resigning from the R.I. Senate and will not seek reelection this year. / COURTESY R.I. GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Sandra Cano resigns to take possible new job with SBA

PROVIDENCE – Sen. Sandra Cano, D-Pawtucket, who has served in the R.I. General Assembly for the last six years and recently had a brief...
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