Rhode Island Monthly January 2020 | Page 70

BLUMSHAPIRO WINNER, MEDIUM CATEGORY: LOCATION: 50 – 249 EMPLOYEES CRANSTON, blumshapiro.com The largest regional business advisory firm based in New England provides accounting, tax and consulting services. O ver the past thirty-five years, Blumshapiro, the largest regional Friend to donate holiday gifts to families in need. Blumshapiro most recently launched its signature community accounting, tax and business consulting initiative, Seeds for Success, a financial literacy program. It is a firm in New England, has provided fully developed, semester-long curriculum that teaches high business advisory services to the school students with developmental disabilities basic financial community. The employees in its Cranston office make servicing skills to help them live independently as adults. Not only do the community a priority through many volunteer opportunities. Blumshapiro volunteers write the curriculum, but they also In fact, of the eighty people who work there, nearly 80 percent teach the classes. The program, which was vetted by educators volunteer. Blumshapiro has partnered with Save the Bay to and administrators in the Cranston School Department, is participate in the International Coastal Clean-Up and has implemented at both Cranston East and Cranston West high coordinated and participated in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s schools. Since its launch in 2018, more than seventy students in Newport and Providence and the Best Buddies Friendship have completed the program and Blumshapiro employees have Walk in Pawtucket. They have also worked with Children’s volunteered more than 600 hours of their time. 68    RHODE ISLAND MONTHLY l JANUARY 2020