The Rhode Island Foundation announced the first winners of its Innovation Fellowships, funded by philanthropists John and Letitia Carter, providing entrepreneurs with $300,000 for three years to develop, test and implement innovative ideas that can improve Rhode Island life.
The winners are Soren Ryherd who has proposed a series of online businesses that would evolve into retail stores and Allan Tear who wants to create nothing less than a start-up revolution.
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Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.