Tag: social services
R.I. College’s Sherlock Center receives $3M federal grant
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island College’s Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities has been awarded a five-year, $3 million U.S. Department of Health and Human...
Children’s Friend keeps its employees fit for work
PBN Healthiest Employers Awards 2022
15-499 EMPLOYEES
4. CHILDREN’S FRIEND AND SERVICE
CEO (or equivalent): David Caprio, CEO and president
Number of employees: 345
CHILDREN’S FRIEND AND SERVICE’S...
RIPEC: R.I. total spending grew 16.1% from FY14-19
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s state and local governments outspent the national average in fiscal 2019, the latest year for which such data are available,...
Spaulding named Connecting for Children and Families’ new executive director
WOONSOCKET – Erin Spaulding, the former senior vice president of youth development and family strengthening for Old Colony YMCA, has been named executive director...
Postcards could be effective tool in social safety net
President Joe Biden’s social safety net bill faces a tough road to passage. If it is passed, there’s another challenge ahead: How to get...
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island provides the right match...
PBN DIVERSITY & INCLUSIONS 2020 AWARDS
Social-Services Agency: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island
AS AN ORGANIZATION devoted to providing children in Rhode Island communities...
Social-service organizations finding ways to stay essential, even in hard times
Providing essential services to those with disabilities can be challenging in the best of times.
But as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted life for many people,...
Day One director calls projected $400K funding cut ‘dangerous’
PROVIDENCE – Day One, Rhode Island’s lone agency that directly addresses issues of sexual assault, faces a $400,000 budget cut for 2021 that Executive...
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island
PBN Best Places to Work 2020
SMALL COMPANIES 9. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island
Employees in R.I.: 45
Executive Director Katje Afonseca
Questions answered by: Katje...
Tides Family Services
PBN Best Places to Work 2020
MIDSIZE COMPANIES 9. Tides Family Services
Employees in R.I.: 132
CEO and President Beth Bixby
Questions answered by: Beth Bixby
What support programs...