Partnerships and collaboration rebuild communities

In Pawtucket, Rhode Island, a university and community partnership used collaborative planning to strengthen a neighborhood. Marcia Marker Feld of the University of Rhode Island describes Woodlawn's Community Outreach Partnership Center Program.Universities and colleges - Rhode Island ; Economic development - Rhode Island

Thinking holistically: Woonsocket Neighborhood Development Corporation

A new idea in affordable housing—in-home child-care businesses—exemplifies big-picture thinking in community revitalization.Community development corporations - Rhode Island ; Housing - Rhode Island ; Child care - Rhode Island

HELIN Consortium LORI Grant Applicant Information

Completed grant application for HELIN\u27s successful Library of Rhode Island grant. Project Synopsis: The purpose of this project is to collaborate with Rhode Island library and information management professionals, community and business leaders, government and education professionals, and college and university scholars to gather information in preparation for writing a grant to create a statewide digital repository for Rhode Island

For Mixed-Status Latino Families, Family-Based Strengths Counter Major Challenges

Data presented by Latino Policy Institute at RWU and Rhode Island College professor spotlight mixed-immigration-status families in Rhode Island

Responsive community development

In spite of being told it couldn’t be done, Conard-Wells spearheaded the transformation of Rau Fastener, an abandoned Providence factory. Today, attractive mixed-income rental units anchor a larger revitalization effort in the West Elmwood neighborhood.Community development - Rhode Island ; Housing - Rhode Island ; Rental housing - Rhode Island

Tenement House Conditions in Five Rhode Island Cities

George H. Webb, Commissioner. Carol Aronovici, Special Agent. Rhode Island Bureau of Industrial Statistics. Part I of the Annual Report for 1910. A report commissioned by the Rhode Island Bureau of Industrial Statistics conducted in cooperation with the Rhode Island Bureau of Social Research, an agency of the Union for Christian Work, which examined the tenement housing conditions found in Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, Woonsocket, and Newport, RI.https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/ri_history/1017/thumbnail.jp

“No Baker’s dozen was her taste”: Rhode Island, Ratification, and Rhetoric in American Constitutional History

In 1787, Rhode Island refused to send any delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, becoming the only state to do so. From its early colonial beginnings, Rhode Island\u27s unique status gave its residents the opportunity to develop equally unique attitudes about the nature of government. These attitudes, however, also made the colony particularly susceptible to criticism from outside commentators. Over time, this criticism hardened Rhode Island\u27s individualist, self-reliant determination to resist outside control, which ultimately resulted in the refusal to send delegates to the Convention and later continued refusal to ratify the Constitution until 1790. As Rhode Island\u27s dissidence calcified, outside criticism also intensified, resulting in a dramatic debate over the nature of government, freedom, and even of good and evil

Roger Williams, The Founder of Providence – The Pioneer of Religious Liberty

By Amasa M. Eaton, A.M., LL.B. With Suggestions for Study in Schools by Clara E. Craig. Department of Education, State of Rhode Island. Rhode Island Education Circulars, Historical Series II – 1908. A biography of Roger Williams first delivered as an address before the Rhode Island Historical Society on October 2, 1906, on the unveiling of the tablets placed by the state to mark the site of the spring where the settlers first landed and on the site the Roger Williams Home Lot.https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/ri_history/1013/thumbnail.jp

Burying Evidence\u27s Dead Hand

When the Rhode Island Rules of Evidence were adopted, they displaced all inconsistent case law existing at the time. Though the Rules retain a great deal of the evidence practice that preceded them, there is much in evidence practice that changed with their adoption. Rhode Island courts have consistently applied Rule 403 in a manner that comports with practice as it existed before the enactment of the Rhode Island Rules of Evidence. That practice, though, is inconsistent with the plain language of the Rule. These doctrines must be discarded

Commencement Program 1919

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