Tag: Tomás Ávila
DEI in the DEDI Office: ‘It’s about meeting people where they...
PBN 2025 DIVERSITY EQUITY & INCLUSION AWARDS
Diversity Champion: The State of Rhode Island
In an effort to ensure that communities can truly thrive in the...
Stokes named new R.I. Division of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion leader
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Division of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion has a new leader familiar to many Rhode Islanders.
Keith W. Stokes, the former executive...
Not everyone is sold on McKee’s plan to boost MBE program
AFTER THE STATE last year exceeded the minimum requirements for awarding government contracts to minority- and women-owned businesses, Gov. Daniel J. McKee wants to...
New leadership, reorganization of state division has led to increased MBE...
PBN 2022 Diversity Equity & Inclusion Awards
Government: R.I. Division of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Upon being hired in August 2021 as the associate director...
MBE program sees record-high participation, but advocates still skeptical
PROVIDENCE – After again falling short of mandated minimums for contracts and purchases with women and minority-owned businesses in fiscal 2021, the state rebounded...
Additional $30M from Facility Equity Initiative available for school construction efforts
CENTRAL FALLS – About $30 million in funds for the second round of the state School Building Authority’s Facility Equity Initiative is now available...
Progress on MBE contracting limited without enforcement
This year’s General Assembly session ended without changes to the state’s Minority Business Enterprise program, despite a $500,000 study that identified a host of...
Is help on the way for R.I.’s Minority Business Enterprise program?
THE STATE IS STILL STRUGGLING to overcome decades of dysfunction around tracking and enforcing its laws for contracting with minority-owned businesses, even after a...
Five Questions With: Tomás Ávila
Tomás Ávila | Associate director, R.I. Office of Diversity, Equity and Opportunity
1. How does your experience in small-business advocacy and connections to the...
Latino advocate to head R.I. office in charge of minority business...
PROVIDENCE – A longtime leader and advocate for the Rhode Island Latino community will head the state department responsible for minority business contracting.
Gov. Daniel...
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