Networking Pick of the Week: Mentor Rhode Island

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Join your business colleagues for Mentor Rhode Island’s networking event to be held on Friday, January 19th from 8:30 to 9:30am – to be held at the Woonsocket Education Center, 115 Main Street in Woonsocket. Did you know it’s National Mentoring Month? It is! Learn more about networking, have coffee on us, and meet your…

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South County Museum printing broadside copies of the Declaration of Independence

A man and woman standing next to a framed copy of the declaration of independence at BankNewport.

Photo: South County Museum Deputy Director and Curator Rebecca Kelly presents BankNewport President & CEO Jack Murphy with a hand-typeset reproduction of John Dunlap’s broadside of The Declaration of Independence. The South County Museum Print Shop recently printed a hand-typeset reproduction of John Dunlap’s broadside (poster-size printing) of The Declaration of Independence. After The Continental…

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RIPEC: RI state budget transitions from unprecedented revenues to fiscal restraint

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RIPEC Analyzes Key Issues as Rhode Island’s State Budget Tightens – Health and Human Services, K-12 Education, Transportation, and Affordable Housing Highlighted as Challenges The Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council released a report examining the state’s fiscal outlook ahead of the FY 2025 budget process. Over the past few years, Rhode Island’s state budgets have…

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Dave Kane and Carriage Inn team up to help nonprofits fundraise – and have FUN

DAve Kane fundraising with humor and hope.

Dave Kane & The Carriage Inn are inviting nonprofits to take advantage of an exciting, no risk, fundraising opportunity. Kane explains: Everyone knows that raising money for a non-profit organization can be difficult, time consuming, expensive and unsuccessful. Many times these efforts can actually result in financial loss. That’s why we are offering “Just for…

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Networking Pick(s) of the Week: RI Recommends & Ocean State Chamber

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 Fun & Done: Back to Work!  It’s a new year and what better way to kick it off than with an evening of networking and fun? Say goodbye to the holiday season and hello to new opportunities at Finn’s Harborside with RI Recommends! Meet old and new business associates on Tuesday, January 9th, 2024, from5:30…

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Burnout never really went away – Mary T. O’Sullivan

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By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL, contributing writer “We take better care of our smartphones than we do of ourselves – the phones are always recharged!’ – Ariana Huffington I thought the topic of burnout was an old theme, one which had been examined, scrutinized, studied, and assessed over and over for years. Maybe the New…

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