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.
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