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Teach For America has announced that it will expand to Rhode Island, with plans to bring 30 top college graduates to teach in the state's highest-need schools - Providence Public School District and Democracy Prep Blackstone Valley charter school - for the 2010-11 school year. Learn more about Teach For America-Rhode Island.
Citing the need to increase philanthropy by demonstrating to donors the real impact of their investments in Rhode Island, Foundation President and CEO Neil D. Steinberg has announced the Foundation's streamlined, more responsive approach to grantmaking and its focus on two economic drivers, public education and health. See our Grantmaking fact sheet.
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