The city of Woonsocket seeks a $100,000 federal arts grant to revitalize downtown. Some of the generous new Rhode Island Foundation grant will be used to help incubate art and design start-ups around the state.
Rebekah Greenwald Speck of the RiverzEdge Arts Project, a youth development nonprofit, says that art and culture bring communities attention, and attention leads to community investment. Read the Entire Article
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Social enterprise, HandiConnect, wins the Audacious-Business Idea competition’s Doing Good category. The company is spearheaded by University of Otago entrepreneurship master’s student Nguyen Cam Van.