United Way of Rhode Island

5Q: David N. Cicilline

Business Services 10/27/2023

5Q: David N. Cicilline | CEO and president, Rhode Island Foundation 1. When you were named the foundation’s new CEO and president, you told...

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...

STARTING IT OFF: Nancy Wolanski has been appointed the first executive director of the newly formed nonprofit resource center that is getting support from United Way of Rhode Island Inc. PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

To aid nonprofits, new United Way of R.I. resource center needs...

Business Services 10/27/2023

Establishing a village to support Rhode Island’s nonprofit industry is going to take, well, a village. That’s why the United Way of Rhode Island Inc....

HOMEGROWN: Amelia Lopez, left, Southside Community Land Trust food access associate, and Appoline Alphonsine, a college intern, sort through vegetables harvested by the Providence nonprofit. SCLT recently received an $80,000 grant from the city that was not part of the $10 million racial reparation initiative. Some have complained that the city is moving too slow on deploying the $10 million equities program. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

What happened to Providence’s reparations initiative?

Cover Story 09/15/2023

Jim Vincent threw himself into the work when he was appointed to the Providence Municipal Reparations Commission in early 2022 because he saw an...

United Way of R.I. to launch nonprofit resource center in fall,...

News Story 07/31/2023

PROVIDENCE – Nancy Wolanski feels Rhode Island’s nonprofit sector is overlooked, under resourced and there are not enough adequate investments in the capacity of...

Business Services 06/09/2023

PBN Best Places To Work Awards 2023 MIDSIZE COMPANIES #20: United Way of Rhode Island Inc. Employees in R.I. 75 CEO Cortney Nicolato Questions answered by Millicent Budlong-Springer,...

PBN announces 2023 Best Places to Work honorees

Uncategorized 04/28/2023

PROVIDENCE – Sixty-seven honorees have been named by Providence Business News for its 2023 Best Places to Work Awards program. Each of the companies and...

A SPECIAL WATERFIRE event took place April 1 as part of the 2023 401Gives Day initiative. The weekend-long statewide nonprofit support event raised a record $3.5 million for more than 540 organizations. / COURTESY AUDUBON SOCIETY OF RHODE ISLAND

401Gives Day event raises $3.5M, sets new records for fundraising

News Story 04/04/2023

PROVIDENCE – The state’s largest nonprofit fundraising initiative over the weekend set a new standard for raising money for local organizations. Now, it has...

401Gives Day to be weekend affair this year, looks to raise...

Community Service 03/30/2023

PROVIDENCE – The largest single-day philanthropic event in Rhode Island will get a bit bigger this weekend, hopefully reaching more lofty goals in order...