Tag: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Strout receives community service award from Newport Mental Health
HEATHER HOLE STROUT, executive director for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center in Newport, received the Outstanding Community Service Award from Newport...
KIDS COUNT: Child homelessness, racial disparities remain problematic
PROVIDENCE – Children and families still facing homelessness, increased rent costs, persistent racial disparities and federal programs under threat of change from the new...
Wood River Health offers services to address homelessness
WESTERLY – Wood River Health recently announced it is expanding service to offer housing stabilization to residents of Washington County.
Wood River is becoming a...
Pawtucket man admits to defrauding SNAP, U.S. Treasury out of $100K
PROVIDENCE – A Pawtucket man has admitted in federal court that he defrauded the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the U.S. Treasury out of...
EBT card-skimming scheme defrauds Rhode Island SNAP recipients out of $500K
CRANSTON – Roughly 1,800 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit recipients throughout Rhode Island were defrauded out of a total of $500,000 after their EBT...
PCU supports Farm Fresh R.I. with $10K donation, volunteer work
MIDDLETOWN – People’s Credit Union has donated $10,000 to Farm Fresh Rhode Island in support of the organization’s work to empower local farmers and...
R.I. Food Bank CEO Schiff to retire in 2025
PROVIDENCE – For close to two decades, Andrew Schiff has worked to help feed Rhode Islanders in need, especially when a global health pandemic brought such...
R.I. DHS supervisor, daughter facing federal charges in alleged SNAP fraud
PROVIDENCE – A R.I. Department of Human Services supervisor and her daughter are facing federal charges for allegedly defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,...
Finding workforce is labor intensive for local nonprofits
The COVID-19 pandemic’s cascading aftereffects have been complicated and hard to shake for Rhode Island’s nonprofits, which employ 67,000 Rhode Islanders. That number represents...
High food costs still difficult to digest in R.I.
The past few years have been especially hard for Rhode Island residents facing food insecurity. Within the Ocean State, 1 in 3 households cannot...
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