First Change Accelerator class graduates

PROVIDENCE - The first class graduated eight social entrepreneurs in the new program Wednesday Change Accelerator incubator created by Social Venture Partners Rhode Island, a nonprofit that provides advice to other organizations.

The mentorship program of eight weeks for small organizations offered workshops on mentoring, business plan refinement and seed capital to early stage of Rhode Island at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Providence.

"We are delighted to play this important role in helping to start businesses in Rhode Island," said Chuck Holland, president of Social Venture Partners' board."This program ... meets the needs of these unique, companies focused on the mission at a time when the social enterprise sector picks up speed and power at the national level.

Aruba

Boca Catalina and the Antilla shipwreck - These are two of many sites for snorkel tours take you. The wreck is Antillla the rest of the cargo of a sunken ship 400 feet German was anchored off of Aruba during WW2. It was thought that the ship has been providing German submarines in the Caribbean and after Holland was invaded in 1940, the captain received a notice to abandon ship. In lieu of delivering the ship to the Dutch Navy, the captain of the sunken ship by exploding boilers. (The crew swam to shore and were taken prisoner of war and shipped to Bonaire.) The joke you hear "They did not get the cargo and they also wanted to provide tourists with a future site to see." The remains are outside the range of Malmok. After the war, the captain and his crew bought their former camp prisoners of war and converted into a hotel. Today, the site is the Divi Flamingo resort. Hooiberg (Haystack Mountain) ak...

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