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INVESTED: Rhode Island Foundation President and CEO Neil D. Steinberg and Jessica David, senior vice president of strategy and community investments, have helped launch 12 Rhode Island entrepreneurs through RIF’s innovation fellowship program. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Six years in, RIF innovation fellows’ impact unclear as they fight...

Entrepreneurship 12/15/2017

Six years ago, the Rhode Island Foundation announced it was accepting applications for something called an innovation fellowship. The program, funded by local philanthropists...

CCF receives $100K donation from James M. Cox Foundation

Nonprofit 12/15/2017

WOONSOCKET – The James M. Cox Foundation has donated $100,000 toward the Beacon of Hope Campaign, which has allowed Connecting for Children & Families...

THOMAS P. KANE, left, president and CEO of AccessPoint RI, assists Christopher Perry of Coventry with his workout. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

AccessPoint RI receives $48K grant from RIF to collaborate with NEIT

Capital Goods 12/11/2017

CRANSTON - AccessPoint RI was awarded a $48,000 grant from the Rhode Island Foundation to launch a new initiative to help individuals with disabilities...

Small businesses are in holiday-sales game

Capital Goods 12/08/2017

Small businesses, locally owned and operated, have been fighting to keep their place amid growing pressure from online sales. Two weeks into the traditional holiday...

THE RHODE ISLAND Foundation announced more than $470,000 in grants for animal welfare services statewide. (L-R) The Foundation’s Adrian Bonéy joins Debra Turrisi, Larry Hirsch and Linda Winfry of Stand Up for Animals, which received $21,000 to provide veterinary assistance, medications and microchips for animals offered for adoption. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

Local animal welfare programs benefit from $470K in R.I. Foundation grants

Nonprofit 11/16/2017

PROVIDENCE – More than $470,000 in animal welfare grants was awarded by the Rhode Island Foundation Thursday to 20 programs from across the state...

ROB DEBLOIS SPEAKS a ceremony Thursday honoring him as the first recipient of the inaugural Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment at the Rhode Island Foundation. DeBlois received the $50,000 prize in recognition of decades of work with disadvantaged youth as the founder and director of the Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program in Providence. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

RIF grants new Murray Family award to Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program...

Nonprofit 11/10/2017

PROVIDENCE –Rob DeBlois, the principal of the The Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program received $50,000 in the inaugural Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment, the...

COURTESY R.I. COMMERCE CORP./PRESTON SCOTT COHEN INC.

Commerce updates Amazon web pitch with new renderings, testimonials

Capital Goods 11/08/2017

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Commerce Corp. updated its RIforAmazon.us domain to include new renderings of proposals for Amazon.com Inc.’s second headquarters, HQ2. The drawings include...

FAMILY-OWNED: Pier Ice Plant in Narragansett was founded June 15, 1966, by owner Robert Shumate, above, and his father, Lawrence. Robert Shumate is a member of the Narragansett Indian Tribe. He says he was lucky to grow up in a family that owned its own business. / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

For R.I.’s indigenous people, good jobs and prosperity are often out...

Economic Activity 11/03/2017

For 51 years, Robert Shumate said he has been “keeping South County cool.” Owner of Pier Ice Plant in Narragansett and a Narragansett Indian Tribe...

RIF ‘investment’ in state grows

Hot Topic 11/03/2017

The Rhode Island Foundation in recent years has increasingly taken a more active role as a community convener, planner and funder. That evolution, as...