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CASUAL SOCIALIZING: Local business professionals gather at Whalers Brewing Co. in South Kingstown for last year’s Southern Rhode Island Young Professionals Statewide Summer Social. This year’s Statewide Summer Social will be held July 10 at Whalers Brewing.  COURTESY SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND YOUNG PROFESSIONALS

Editor’s Choice: Statewide Summer Social to be held at Whalers Brewing

Print Edition 07/05/2024

EDITOR’S CHOICE Statewide Summer Social to be held at Whalers BrewingTHE SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND Young Professionals will hold its annual Statewide Summer Social, hosted...

PLAYTIME: Jordan Towle, a visitor services manager at the Providence Children’s Museum, plays with Jorge Rodrigues, 1, of Providence. The museum, according to Executive Director Caroline Payson, relies on ticket sales and membership fees to bolster operating costs.  PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Finding workforce is labor intensive for local nonprofits

Business Services 10/27/2023

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...

Patricia Fiske

Health Services 04/14/2023

Health Care Heroes Awards 2023: Mental Health Provider/Advocate Patricia Fiske The Groden Network senior director of adult services and director of nursing What led you to choose...

PBN announces 9 Health Care Heroes

Health Services 03/03/2023

PROVIDENCE – Eight health care professionals and one health education program have been named honorees in Providence Business News’ inaugural Health Care Heroes awards...

Michael L. Pearis became CEO of Providence-based The Groden Network in 2021, after serving as chief operating officer. He has extensive nonprofit and corporate experience, including with the former Fleet Bank, and served as Providence’s finance director from 2012 to 2013. One of the network’s enterprises is the full-service Groden Greenhouse. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Nonprofits are businesses too

Nonprofit 10/28/2022

Michael L. Pearis | The Groden Network CEO All nonprofits endure the misperception that we are not “real businesses.” With over 400 employees, 26 locations and $30...

THE GRODEN NETWORK is one of nine early intervention providers that received $3.6 million in Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act funds to help offset the organizations’ revenue losses and high expenses that were incurred due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

$3.6M in state CARES Act funds distributed to 9 early-intervention providers

Coronavirus 12/20/2021

PROVIDENCE – About $3.6 million in Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act funds will be distributed to nine early-intervention providers across Rhode Island,...

RIHEBC awards $517K in grants to 7 nonprofits

Government 02/24/2021

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Health and Educational Building Corp. has awarded $516,946 in grants to seven local nonprofit health, education and community services, the...

CLASS LEADER: Middle school teacher Jana Gasboro helps a student at St. Mary’s Home for Children in North Providence. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Social-service organizations finding ways to stay essential, even in hard times

Nonprofit 10/28/2020

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,...

Five Questions With: Cooper Woodard

Nonprofit 09/29/2020

Cooper Woodard is the chief clinical officer for Providence-based nonprofit The Groden Network. The organization provides educational services for individuals who are on the...