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More than most in Rhode Island, Hope & Main Founder and President, Lisa Raiola, has experienced first-hand the drastic increase in need for food assistance programming since the pandemic. Their Nourish Our Neighbors program has shown one inventive way to get food to people who need it.
“The infrastructure just isn’t here,” said one of the founders of Papi’s Coquito, which is rebranding, of Rhode Island’s ability to home-grow food and beverage companies.