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.
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Textbooks for Change, a London-based social enterprise that has obtained the B Corporation seal for positive social and environmental impact, is seeking investors that would be helping the company expand.