Tag: United Way of Rhode Island
United Way of Rhode Island works to build on previous success...
PROVIDENCE – For the seventh straight year, 401Gives Day will try to raise significant money for hundreds of nonprofit organizations across the Ocean State...
McKee nominates Beacon Bank president as chairman of Life Science Hub
PROVIDENCE – William C. Tsonos, president of Beacon Financial Corp. and former leader of BankRI, has been nominated to be the next board chairman...
Former United Way of Rhode Island employee sentenced for leading money-laundering...
PROVIDENCE – A former philanthropy officer for the United Way of Rhode Island Inc. has been sentenced to more than three years in prison...
‘The impacts are everywhere.’ Federal cuts devastate nonprofits
Rhode Island’s nonprofits are in turmoil. This important segment of the economy – 16% of the workforce – has an uncertain future and the...
Foster Forward’s laser focus on 401 Gives pays off
The nonprofit Foster Forward has raised more than $1.2 million over the past six years during 401 Gives, the statewide day of giving led...
R.I. needs holistic energy strategy
Greg Cornett | Rhode Island Energy president
Rhode Island has some of the most ambitious clean energy and climate policies in the nation, including a...
New law requires many nonprofits to reveal salaries of top executives
A 2023 audit by the inspector general at the U.S. Department of Justice found significant deficiencies in financial management by the Pawtucket nonprofit Blackstone...
DEI TEST: Roll back? Push ahead? For many organizations, a critical...
The diversity pledges flooded corporate inboxes across the country as protests filled the streets over George Floyd, a Black man who died under the...
R.I. homelessness is down, but more people are out in the...
For the first time in half a dozen years, the number of unhoused people in Rhode Island is on the decline.
But the good news...
Getting the first taste of success
It was 25 years ago in the spring of 2000 at the International Association of Culinary Professionals conference in Providence when royalty of the...
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