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A quick retreat?

Does your company hold work retreats for employees? Yes: 67% No: 33% How do you build excitement for these retreats? Incorporate leisure/fun activities: 67% Our company does not hold...

College connection

Does your company partner with a local college/university as a pipeline to attract new employees? No: 67% Yes: 33% No, but we’re discussing that initiative: 0% Do you...

Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket to receive $50K technology, workforce...

PAWTUCKET – Citizens Bank has selected The Boys & Girls Club as one of seven nonprofits in the northeastern region to receive a $50,000 tech...
THE LAST MILE, a California-based nonprofit, has partnered with the R.I. Department of Corrections and Gov. Daniel J. McKee's office to launch a new technical skills program to help educate incarcerated individuals on technology and get them employed upon release from prison.

State partners with nonprofit on tech job training for incarcerated individuals

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Corrections and Gov. Daniel J. McKee’s Office have partnered with a California-based nonprofit on a new technical skills...
HEALTHY CHANGE: Rosemary A. Costigan began her career in health care and worked at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island in Pawtucket for more than 20 years before becoming the Community College of Rhode Island’s interim president. 
COURTESY COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND

Costigan always felt at home at CCRI

2024 Business Women Awards INDUSTRY LEADER | EDUCATION: Rosemary A. Costigan Community College of Rhode Island interim president A RECENT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE and first-generation college...

Reed secures $263K for Genesis Center for health care workforce training...

PROVIDENCE – The Genesis Center recently received a $263,000 federal earmark from U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., to boost training for certified nursing, medical...
READY MODE: Kolby Gomes went through pipefitter training through the partnership program operated by General Dynamics Electric Boat and the Community College of Rhode Island as he prepares to start a career with the submarine builder. 
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Class of their own: More employers partnering with local colleges

Although he had some experience working in construction, Kolby Gomes says learning the ins and outs of pipefitting was like studying a foreign language. But...
OFFERING GUIDANCE: Community College of Rhode Island professor Alyson Snowe, second from left, talks with her technical writing students, from left, Iskandar Miley, Kenneth Hanner and Bryan Pichardo.
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

CCRI offers pathways in the classroom and beyond

PBN Diversity Equity & Inclusion 2023 Awards Education – Postsecondary: Community College of Rhode Island BRINGING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION into the classroom and beyond...
A BETTER FUTURE: 
In 2009, Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council Inc. created The RI Cross Disability Coalition to focus on individuals with various disabilities and offer them ways to have career opportunities. Pictured, from left, are Kevin Nerney, the council’s executive director; Deanne Gagne, member of the RI Cross Disability Coalition; Sue Babin, the council’s special projects director; and coalition member Tanja Blicker-Ucran.
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

R.I. Developmental Disabilities Council creates new ways of thinking to aid...

PBN Diversity Equity & Inclusion 2023 Awards Nonprofit/Social Services: Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council Inc. ORGANIZATIONS STRIVING TO DO BETTER to be more diverse, equitable...
ALL WIRED UP: Joe Torres, left, a bridge assembly worker at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence Inc., and James Patnode, a machinist, work on the manufacturing floor at Hexagon’s North Kingstown facility.
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

People, parts, process put together make well-oiled machine at Hexagon

PBN 2023 Manufacturing Awards EXCELLENCE AT A LARGE MANUFACTURER: Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence Inc. AT HEXAGON MANUFACTURING INTELLIGENCE INC., success comes down to a focus on three...
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