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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When Hannah Davis traveled to China to teach English, she noticed how Chinese workers and farmers were often sporting olive green army-style shoes. Those shoes served as her inspiration to create her own social enterprise, Bangs Shoes.