The Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce is one of Rhode Island's largest business advocacy organizations formed to enhance the business, civic, and economic vitality of Newport County and greater Rhode Island. The Chamber has taken a leading role in economic development and community planning throughout Newport County and Greater Rhode Island; members are eligible for programs and services that directly benefit their businesses or organizations.

The Composites Alliance of Rhode Island was formed to grow the sector and ensure purchasers of composites technology around the world know about the strong capabilities in Rhode Island. The Composites Alliance also provides a nexus where these companies can share expertise and focuses on workforce-development programs to ensure a skilled labor pool.

The East Bay Chamber of Commerce offers members networking and volunteer opportunities, discount programs, free advertising, and more.

Hope & Main is a first food business incubator, that’s goal is to help grow the local food economy by creating a community of support for food entrepreneurs and cultivating an environment where emerging culinary startups can test, create, scale and thrive. This is a place where food producers, farmers, fishermen and other industry members can connect directly with consumers, engage the community and collaborate with peers.

InnovateNewport is a new coworking space located in Newport that will provide a wide range of modern high tech office suites, rooms, meeting spaces with the latest technology and networks.

The Jamestown Chamber of Commerce works to provide business and community programs for its members and, at times the general public. The Chamber members meet, network, and exchange ideas at meetings designed specifically for that purpose; promoting an attractive downtown village area; and encouraging members to embrace accepted standards of professional and business conduct.

The Rhode Island Marine Trades Association (RIMTA) represents all aspects of the recreational boating industry in its home state. They are dedicated to growing Rhode Island’s marine trades through advocacy, education, and promotion and positioning the Ocean State as a worldwide leader in the marine industry.

The Center for Business Outreach links business owners, nonprofit organizations, entrepreneurs, and the public sector with students, faculty, and alumni from the Department of Business Studies and Economics. The Center provides resources and opportunities for students to tackle real-world situations and uses their talents and skills to address business issues, resulting in recommendations, research, and solutions.

With two locations in Providence and Warren, Sprout CoWorking offers flexible work space, dedicated desks, a local address, shared office, private offices and eight meeting rooms—the best of coworking for an innovative and creative environment. Beyond coworking, members have access to a community of entrepreneurs, creatives, startups, and more—the Sprout community is diverse and filled with individuals in all types of industries.

SENEDIA was formed to identify, champion and coordinate issues that contribute to our National security and provide benefit to our members, local communities, the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, and other Federal Government agencies. SENEDIA’s vision is to be a catalyst for thought leadership and technical innovation in undersea technology, cybersecurity and other critical defense technologies. Our mission is to enable the development of the innovative technology, foster thought leadership and facilitate required workforce development.

The Undersea Technology Innovation Consortium promotes the rapid development, prototyping and commercialization of innovative undersea and maritime technology and advances learning in the undersea and maritime sector for commercial, academic, and defense organizations. Our Consortium-based model welcomes participation by organizations - both traditional and non-traditional - who have technologies that can contribute to undersea and maritime domain applications.