Posts Tagged ‘awards’
May 1st RI State House event launches Mental Health Month programs. Awards, personal stories.
May is Mental Health Month. Each year the Mental Health Association of Rhode Island hosts a kickoff at the Rhode Island State House. This year it will be held on Wednesday, May 1st at 1:30pm. The recognition of the month of May as Mental Health Month is a national tradition going back 50 years. The…
Read MoreRISCA awards 71 Rhode Island arts organizations, artists, educators. Application process.
Arts and culture organizations, arts educators, artists, and folk fellowships and apprentices benefited from $224,663 in grants approved by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) in December. The 71 grant awards will further advance arts and cultural activities throughout the state. “Today’s announcement by the Arts Council reminds us of our state’s…
Read More“The Bull and Other Stories” by Michael Fine wins 2021 IPNE Book Award for Literary Fiction
by Nancy Thomas, publisher Contributing writer to RINewsToday, Michael Fine, has won the 2021 IPNE Book Award for Literary Fiction for his book, The Bull and Other Stories. RINewsToday congratulates Fine for this honor. “Most of the stories in the book have been published as part of Dr. Fine’s monthly short story feature with us,…
Read MoreRhode Island Foundation’s most prestigious awards announced
Work includes preserving cultural traditions, promoting healthy lives, enhancing charitable giving Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI), a slew of community arts organizations of color and an attorney who advises Rhode Islanders on charitable giving are this year’s recipients of the Rhode Island Foundation’s most prestigious awards. BCBSRI received the 2021 Carter Inspiring…
Read MoreRay Rickman: AFP’s 2019 Outstanding Philanthropic Citizen
This year’s National Philanthropy Day awards, presented by the RI Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) will be headlined by the presentation of the Outstanding Philanthropic Citizen Award to Ray Rickman. Rickman is “well known thanks to his years as a state representative and deputy secretary of state, as well as for his…
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