Tag: Rhode Island Foundation
Most-read stories on PBN.com, October 2025
1. Cranston building containing beer distributor sells for $8.2M POSTED ONLINE: OCT. 24. A 107,647-square-foot commercial/industrial building that’s home to beer distributor McLaughlin &...
Rhode Island Foundation distributes $1M in emergency food grants amid SNAP...
PROVIDENCE – Dozens of food pantries and meal sites across the Ocean State will receive $1 million in emergency grants from the Rhode Island...
Judges order the Trump administration to use contingency funds for SNAP...
BOSTON (AP) – Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest...
When the SNAP supply chain breaks, Rhode Islanders must become the...
Every month, about 140,000 Rhode Islanders depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to feed themselves and their families. That’s 86,000 households, including 23,000...
‘The impacts are everywhere.’ Federal cuts devastate nonprofits
Rhode Island’s nonprofits are in turmoil. This important segment of the economy – 16% of the workforce – has an uncertain future and the...
Moran-Ventre Charitable Foundation closes operations, transfers funds to R.I. Foundation
WARWICK – Following nearly four decades of service and leadership, the Moran-Ventre Charitable Foundation has closed operations and transferred its funds to the Rhode...
Rhode Island Foundation awards $2.5M to nonprofits for opioid recovery
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded nearly $2.5 million in grants to 19 nonprofits addressing the state's opioid crisis. The grants are...
One Neighborhood Builders gets $3M loan from Rhode Island Foundation for...
EAST PROVIDENCE – One Neighborhood Builders has secured a $3 million loan from the Rhode Island Foundation for the first phase of its Center...
R.I. Foundation awards $375K in grants for services to Newport County...
PROVIDENCE – Fifty-nine nonprofits that support residents in Newport County received $375,000 in grants from the Rhode Island Foundation to aid their respective causes...
Five Questions with: Lisa Roth Blackman
Lisa Roth Blackman was recently hired by the Rhode Island Foundation as the nonprofit funder’s new vice president of development. She has nearly 30...
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