Best Places to Work 2025 Awards
#7 MIDSIZE COMPANIES: United Way of Rhode Island Inc.
Local Employees: 95
CEO and President: Cortney Nicolato
Questions answered by: Kevin Matta, Senior Director of People and Culture
What fun activities does your company offer employees to participate in? “Annual Team Forwards” in partnership with Half-Full allows our team to go off-site, get to know one another and break down silos; it’s really a fun experience. We also do things such as delivery candygrams with music and recognize employees for their birthdays with a five-piece mariachi band.
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What role do diversity, equity and inclusion play in your hiring and promotion decisions? Diversity, equity and inclusion are at the center of all of our decisions. We engage in redacting/scrubbing identifiable information during the resume review process to reduce bias.
Describe a new employee benefit(s) or initiative(s) your company has launched in the past 12 months. As part of our effort to improve employee well-being, we offer an employee loan at zero interest, which allows employees to borrow and pay back money when they are in need. This effort allows us to help our employees find peace of mind and also avoid predatory lenders and pulling from retirement/savings.
