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Rhode Island’s kayakers and canoers now have a crystal clear idea of what kind of waters they’re getting into. The Rhode Island Blueways Alliance, a nonprofit organization, released 20 detailed maps of paddle trails throughout the state on Monday.
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By Dana Reilly |
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Capital Good Fund, a Providence-based nonprofit financial services organization, will receive an $81,273 Community Development Financial Institutions Technical Assistance grant.
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By Katie Dougherty |
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(Updated, 5:35 p.m.)
Thomas A. Mann Jr. has resigned as executive director of the Pawtucket Foundation, effective Oct. 12, the organization announced Tuesday.
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The Rhode Island Foundation and President and CEO Neil D. Steinberg will host “Make It Happen RI” on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 7 and 8. The event is designed to identify specific plans, along with the path to implement them, that in the end will help to create economic activity in the state that supplements what the private sector is doing currently.
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By PBN Staff
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The University of Rhode Island was one of 13 to earn a Rhody Award from the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission and Preserve Rhode Island.
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By PBN Staff
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AS220 Youth – the arts collaborative’s free arts education program for at-risk teens – has won a 2012 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, AS220 announced Friday.
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The Ocean State Theatre Company Inc. will conclude its role as the production company for the Theatre By The Sea at the end of the current season, the Matunuck-based theater announced Friday.
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By PBN Staff
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(Updated, 4:30 p.m.) A new marketing campaign for the Welcoming Rhode Island initiative kicked off Tuesday on RIPTA buses throughout Rhode Island.
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By PBN Staff
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Trinity Repertory Company will rename its artistic director position “The Richard L. Bready Artistic Director” through June 2015 to celebrate a $250,000 gift from former Nortek CEO Richard L. Bready.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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“Things need to change” in the Ocean State economy, Rhode Island Foundation Executive Director Neil Steinberg told business and community leaders Friday morning in a plea for new ideas at the nonprofit's Make It Happen RI forum.
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By Patrick Anderson |