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Serve Rhode Island, the state’s volunteer center and commission for national and community service, is now connecting volunteers and nonprofit organizations through a new website called HandsOn Connect.
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By PBN Staff
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The Rhode Island Foundation ended the year with a record $678 million in asset, an increase on its 2011 year-end asset total of $604 million, thanks in part to a 13.1 percent return on its investments, according to its recently released annual report.
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By Alex Kowalski |
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In honor of its support as a blood collection sponsor, the Washington Trust Co. was recently presented a framed print from the Rhode Island Blood Center.
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By PBN Staff
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Employees at Clements Market in Portsmouth donated $15,000 worth of nutritious food to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank through small payroll deductions from 60 percent of its staff over the year.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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If a nonprofit wants an upcoming fundraiser to be considered for a calendar listing, email information to nonprofit@PBN.com at least four weeks in advance of the event.
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By PBN Staff
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The Providence Center’s Anchor Recovery Community Center, a support program for people in recovery, has surpassed 100,000 visitors as of Aug. 2, about 18 months after opening its doors.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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If a nonprofit wants an upcoming fundraiser to be considered for a calendar listing, email information to nonprofit@PBN.com at least four weeks in advance of the event.
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By PBN Staff
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Foster Parrots, a parrot rescue organization based in Hopkinton, will hold its fifth annual fall fundraiser on Sept. 16 at its New England Exotic Wildlife Sanctuary in Hope Valley beginning at 1 p.m.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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FirstWorks, a Providence nonprofit arts organization, has announced the schedule for the FirstWorks Festival: On the Plaza in 2012 on Sept. 29, officially kicking off the ninth annual FirstWorks festival.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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quintet of Steel Yard artists are installing a 385-foot sculptural interactive fence around the Bank of America Skating Center in Kennedy Plaza downtown as the final installment of the National Endowment for the Arts $200,000 Our Town grant that was awarded to the City of Providence, Department of Art, Culture and Tourism, FirstWorks, the Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy and 15 arts and community partners earlier this year.
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By Rebecca Keister |