R.I. Foundation, McKee administration launch $150K initiative to support minority-owned businesses
THE RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION and Gov. Daniel J. McKee jointly announced Monday that they are launching the $150,000 initiative to help enhance the growth and support of minority-owned businesses across Rhode Island. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation and Gov. Daniel J. McKee jointly announced Monday that they are launching the $150,000 initiative to help enhance the growth and support of minority-owned businesses across Rhode Island.
The initiative is part of a collaboration between the foundation and R.I. Commerce Corp., where Camoin Associates, based out of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and the Providence-based Multicultural Innovation Center will work as partners on this project. The cost of the project will be split between R.I. Commerce and the Rhode Island Foundation.
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“I may be an absolute twerp on Twitter, but that doesn’t matter,” Burnett said. “My colleagues and I still have the right to express our views.”
Burnett’s dust-up with the school is the latest episode in a battle over speech at Collin College. Many critics have accused the school of abandoning its duty to protect professors’ freedom of speech. Others are amazed: For a campus that’s attracted such bad press lately, it sure seems hellbent on making more.
Last week, the
Observer reported that Burnett has at least one enemy in high places: state Rep. Jeff Leach, a Plano Republican. A record published by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) showed the lawmaker had complained about Burnett in a text message to Collin College district President Neil Matkin.
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To grow, pick and ship six million pounds of mushrooms each year requires lots of labor, total commitment, and the perfect compost recipe.
“If you make good compost you get lots of mushrooms, said Gary Crouch. “If you don’t make good compost you get no mushrooms.”
Crouch, who was recently named San Diego Farm Bureau Farmer of the Year, is owner of Mountain Meadow Mushroom north of Escondido. He said mushroom farming is like one big ongoing science project where everything has to be done just right.
It’s also very much a business, one that’s getting tougher and tougher to manage in California with all its labor laws and rules, he said.
R.I. Foundation awards $5M in CARES Act funds to nonprofits
THE RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION has awarded $5 million in Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act relief funds to more than 120 nonprofits across the state. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation announced Monday that it has awarded $5 million in federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act funds to more than 120 nonprofits across the Ocean State. The foundation said it has split the funding into two pools. The Nonprofit Support Fund, the foundation said, will provide $4 million…
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