Tag: Social Enterprise Greenhouse
Hope Scholars Initiative takes top prize at Growth Lab pitch competition
PAWTUCKET – Hip hop-based education and mentorship service Hope Scholars Initiative, a venture developed by Harrison Grigsby, took top honors at the Social Enterprise...
Half Street Group building a brand for themselves, and others
PBN 2025 FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES
$250,000 TO $2.5 MILLION 1. Half Street Group
CEO (or equivalent): Mike Raia, founder and president
2024 Revenue: $812,956
2022 Revenue: $390,194
Revenue growth:...
Citizens appoints Carrascoza business banking market executive for New England South region
PROVIDENCE – Melisa Carrascoza has been appointed as market executive for business banking for the New England South region at Citizens Bank.
Carrascoza joined Citizens 13...
Shifting the social determinants of business
The story plays out every day. An industrious woman – an “entrepreneur by necessity”– starts a business because she has no other income potential....
Constance Ferber
PBN 40 Under Forty Awards 2025
CONSTANCE FERBER | 36
Chief impact officer, Social Enterprise Greenhouse
What is the biggest challenge currently facing your industry and...
PBN announces 2025 40 Under Forty honorees
PROVIDENCE – Forty young professionals were selected as the winners of Providence Business News’ 21st annual 40 Under Forty Awards program.
The honorees were chosen...
R.I. Commerce Corp. awards $361K in Innovation Network Matching Program grants
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Commerce Corp. board of directors on Monday unanimously awarded five grants totaling $361,614.72 through the agency’s Innovation Network Matching Grant...
Central Falls launches new business center at RIC Workforce Development Hub
CENTRAL FALLS – Local business owners, community leaders and city officials on Tuesday formally cut the ribbon on the new Central Falls Business Center...
Everybody’s Business: Minority owners resilient in face of uncertainty
Providence Business News’ Everybody’s Business monthly series began with the intention of providing a voice to minority business owners in the tumultuous summer of...
Editor’s Choice: Convention Center to host R.I. Home Show in April
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Convention Center to hostR.I. Home Show in April THE 75TH ANNUAL Rhode Island Home Show, the region’s largest home improvement exhibition, will...


















