Rajiv Kumar has become a familiar face across Rhode Island because of his nonprofit Shape Up RI project, which has made fitness a community affair, drawing friends and co-workers into teams that competed and shared their achievements.

Last year, Kumar and fellow Brown University medical student Brad Weinberg won the Rhode Island Business Plan Competition as well as a new state innovation tax credit with a business-oriented version of this concept: Shape Up The Nation, a project of their new Providence Health Solutions LLC. Since then, they have signed up more than 100 clients across the country and continued to expand their offerings.

 

Full Story: IT gives boost to efforts in workplace wellness Source: Providence Business News, November 24th, 2008 Author: Marion Davis Added on November 25th, 2008 at 9:59 am, by Matt Mikula