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R.I. EDUCATION COMMISSIONER Angélica Infante-Green wanted the business community to be involved in improving the public schools in Providence three years ago. Now a new public policy report has, in part, renewed those calls but on a statewide basis. PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Calls renewed for business community to help with schools

Three years after R.I. Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green led the takeover of Providence’s failing schools with a plan that included the involvement of the...
KEVIN MATTA, board vice president for Diversity and Inclusion Professionals and Amos House’s chief human resources and diversity officer, is the 2022 Diversity Champion for Providence Business News' Diversity & Inclusion Awards program. / COURTESY KEVIN MATTA

Matta among 16 honorees for PBN’s 2022 Diversity & Inclusion Awards

PROVIDENCE – Kevin Matta, board vice president for Diversity and Inclusion Professionals and Amos House’s chief human resources and diversity officer, is among 16...
HOUSE SPEAKER K. Joseph Shekarchi, left, speaks on Wednesday at the Rhode Island Foundation about ways to boost the state's biotech and life sciences sector. Seated next to Shekarchi are, from left, Bob Coughlin and Travis McCready of JLL, Inc. PBN PHOTO/CHRIS ALLEN

Shekarchi backs new agency to boost biotech and life sciences

PROVIDENCE – On the heels of a newly released report looking at creating a more-thriving life sciences and biotechnology sector in the state, House...

R.I. Foundation offering $30K grants to arts, culture organizations of color

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation is partnering with the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the Rhode Island Council for the...

McKee announces $20M grant program to address housing, hunger, behavioral health

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee along with state officials Thursday announced a new $20 million grant program through the Rhode Island Foundation that...

R.I. Foundation awards $77,500 for services to LGBTQ communities

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded 12 nonprofit organizations $77,500 in total grants to assist their efforts in supporting the Ocean State’s...
THE RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION has created a seven-member search committee and hired national advisory firm Spencer Stuart to help find the organization's next CEO and president. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

R.I. Foundation creates committee to find next president and CEO

PROVIDENCE – The process to find the Rhode Island Foundation’s next CEO and president is underway. The state’s largest nonprofit funder announced it has formed...

R.I. Foundation selects 31 individuals for latest Equity Leadership Initiative class

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation has chosen 31 new individuals to participate in the second class of the nonprofit funder’s Equity Leadership Initiative. The...
CLOSE TO 90 Rhode Island-based high school students received more than $470,000 in scholarships from the Rhode Island Foundation's new Robert G. and Joyce Andrew College Scholarship Fund. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

R.I. Foundation’s Andrew College Fund awards $470K to close to 90...

PROVIDENCE – Close to 90 students received more than $470,000 in financial aid in order to attend college via the Rhode Island Foundation’s new Robert...
THE RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION has awarded three nonprofits $375,000 in total grants from its Rhode Island Perinatal Workforce Fund in order to help improve care during and after pregnancies for women of color. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

R.I. Foundation awards 3 nonprofits $375K to improve perinatal care for...

PROVIDENCE – Three nonprofits became the beneficiaries of $375,000 in total grants from the Rhode Island Foundation’s Rhode Island Perinatal Workforce Fund in order...
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