Impact (highlights)
- With a Foundation grant of $50,000 the Newport County After School Excitement (iNCASE) will seek to ensure that 750 youth in Newport County have increased and easier access to high-quality after-school programming and will build an innovative,
“Employment is an often neglected part of
gang intervention and prevention. The Rhode
Island Foundation has supported the Institute
generously and loyally for many years and
additionally last summer made an emergency
grant to fund our Beloved Community Summer
Job Program. This grant was instrumental in
saving the program and ultimately saved lives.”
Teny Gross, Executive Director
Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence |
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“The Rhode Island Foundation’s support of
Meeting Street was critical in allowing us to
serve more children and young adults and
continue to expand our commitment to the
healthy development of the whole child.”
John M. Kelly, President, Meeting Street |
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The Rhode Island Foundation is a true
community champion and valued partner of
YWCA Northern Rhode Island in our efforts to
eliminate racism, empower women and
celebrate diversity. Not only does the
Foundation talk the talk, they walk it with us.
Deborah L. Perry, Executive Director
YWCA Northern Rhode Island | county-wide network that expands youth choices in after-school activities. Members are Boys & Girls Clubs of Newport County, Jamestown Teen Center, Newport Art Museum, Child & Family Services (Ophelia and Iron John Sessions), and East Bay Met School. In developing this model, it has sought technical assistance from the successful Providence After School Alliance (PASA) model.
- The Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence will expand its program offerings for youth with Foundation support of $75,000. Currently, the Institute serves 175; that number will increase to 500 in 2011. Current programs provide positive opportunities for atrisk youth, including employment, life skills training, and leadership development. Specific programs include summer and after-school jobs, and community drop-in programs. These opportunities will greatly expand in scope in the coming year, since the Institute is now occupying a renovated building with extensive space for classrooms, after-school programs, and youth development.
- The Youth 4 Change Alliance (Y4C), a collaborative, youth-led initiative housed at Youth In Action, will plan, build, and implement its “Right to Education” campaign with a Foundation grant of $35,000. The project will ultimately involve 600 students. Y4C will leverage relationships, access, and share objectives to increase public understanding, develop a sense of urgency for change, and provide youth-developed solutions in Providence.
- The Foundation provided Meeting Street Center with $75,000 for general operating support. Meeting Street is where infants, preschoolers, and children of all ages and abilities receive individualized attention from highly-trained, dedicated educators, therapists, and staff who work as a team. The School will ultimately serve 3,100 children age birth to five.
- Our general operating support grant of $125,000 will allow Rhode Island Kids Count to continue its statewide policy and advocacy work in the areas of health, education, and economic well-being and safety of Rhode Island’s children. Rhode Island Kids Count collects and disseminates data on the well-being of Rhode Island’s children and advocates for and facilitates the development of responsive policies and programs by framing the issues, stressing their impact on children and communities, enlisting media coverage, and collaborating with key partners.
- The YWCA of Northern Rhode Island received a grant of $50,000 to support the Rhode Island Alliance to End Teen Pregnancy. The Alliance will build upon its 41- member partner coalition to increase its capacity to use science-based approaches to prevent teen pregnancy and promote adolescent reproductive health, including abstinence, sexually-transmitted infections and HIV prevention. Approximately 1,100 teens have children each year in Rhode Island. Seventy percent of these adolescents live in the state’s core cities.
- The Rhode Island Foster Parents Association received a grant of $75,000 to continue its efforts to improve outcomes for children and youth in Rhode Island’s child welfare system. The organization estimates these policies affect 5,000 children and youth each year.
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