PBN Giving Guide 2022

Hal Horvat has tea with a friend at a Centreville Foundation event.

Centreville Bank has been caring for the Rhode Island community for almost 195 years. As a financial institution deeply rooted in and committed to the communities where we live and work, we believe that investing in programs and services that offer opportunities to succeed is foundational for a more prosperous Rhode Island.

Our goal has always been to help organizations positively impact the lives of individuals and families for the long term.

And while we are proud of our philanthropic efforts, we understand that it is the nonprofit sector that makes the work of truly giving back possible. We applaud and acknowledge these community-based organizations across Rhode Island for their tireless efforts in making the Ocean State a better place.

The last two years have taught us just how valuable and important these organizations are. The pandemic has had a detrimental impact on many and looking to the future is more critical than ever. This is and continues to be an important time for funders to invest in and support community-based organizations.

Winston Churchill’s words still ring true today. The work we each do every day is important, but real living — and the satisfaction it provides us — comes from what we give back to one another.

Sincerely, Harold M. Horvat

President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board

Proud supporter of these Rhode Island organizations

Adoption RI

Back to School Celebration of RI

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island

Capital Good Fund

Central Falls PB Initiative

Children’s Friend and Service Clinica Esperanza

College Crusade Comprehensive Community Action Inc. (CCAP)

Coventry Housing Associates Corporation

Day One Down City Design

Foster Forward

Friends Way Genesis Center

Girls on the Run Rhode Island Habitat for Humanity Providence

Inspiring Minds

Jewish Collaborative Services

Jonnycake Center of Westerly Junior Achievement of Rhode Island

McAuley House

Meals on Wheels: Rhode Island

North Kingstown Food Pantry

Olneyville Housing Corp, DBA ONE Neighborhood Builders

Pawtucket Central Falls Development Corporation

Providence Children’s Museum

Providence Public Library

Reach Out and Read of Rhode Island

Rhode Island Community Food Bank

Rhode Island Write on Sports Ronald McDonald House Saint Elizabeth Community San Miguel School

Shri Service Corps

Sojourner House

Sophia Academy

Special Olympics Rhode Island

The Autism Project

The Sharing Locker Thundermist

Tides Family Services

United Way of Rhode Island URI Foundation

Wood River Health Services

Year Up RI YMCA of Greater Providence (List of 2021 recipients.)

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

BY SARAH FRANCIS | Contributing Writer

Soaring inflation hurting nonprofits in many ways ASK

Heather Hole Strout what keeps her up at night and she answers without hesitating. “Housing. It’s a big issue. Many we help have lost their homes or are on the verge,” she said. “They have housing insecurity, food insecurity and sometimes mental health issues.”

Strout is executive director at the nonprofit Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Com munity Center in Newport, which last year distributed 654,000 meals to Aquidneck Island residents. Many were forced to choose between putting food on the table or paying rent.

“We’ve seen more people coming to us in need of food assistance. The slightest increase in the cost of anything can put people over the edge,” Strout said. “Using our food pantry may help people stay in their homes. We’ve seen seniors who’ve become homeless recently. No one should have to go through that.”

Price increases caused by soaring in flation became a steady drumbeat during the summer: the consumer price index up 9.1% since June, the highest annual increase since 1981; one-bedroom apart ments in Providence clocking in with a

13% annual increase in rent; and gas at the pump up 60% since June, the biggest 12-month increase since 1980.

And although the CPI has eased slight ly since then, the longer-term effects have taken a goll. One of the MLK Center’s most-valued employees gave notice. “She lives 45 minutes away and can’t afford gas prices,” Strout said. And filling positions has been difficult. “People are expecting much higher wages, which is very difficult for any business, let alone a nonprofit to do overnight,” she said. “This year we gave 4-5% increases to the staff. It’s not enough to compete with inflation, but more than that annually isn’t sustainable to a nonprofit like ours.”

Food prices have also shot much higher – in many cases, more than 10% higher than a year ago; some staples, such as poultry and eggs, have climbed

even higher.

Perhaps no one in the nonprofit world has a clearer view of this than Andrew Schiff, CEO of the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. Last year, the food bank distrib uted more than 15 million pounds of food to local pantries, meal sites, shelters, youth programs and senior centers around the state. Some 53,000 needy Rhode Islanders received healthy fruits, vegetables, bread, beans and more through its services.

“In the past, we saw certain types of food increase in price,” Schiff said.

Eggs, for example, became so expen sive that the food bank stopped sourcing them until costs dropped. That’s not an option now, with inflation across the board. “We’re relying on donors to help us,” Schiff said. The food bank is looking for more support from the public and the federal government, which provides onethird of the food bank’s inventory. Schiff says a recent increase of almost $2 billion in federal funding to food banks and school lunch programs across the country will help.

“That’s the message we’re trying to get across,” he added. “The public is aware of inflation, but the reminder they need is that this is a real crisis for low-income families and those on a fixed income. They’re experiencing food price increases in a different way from middle-income families.”

Rising energy prices have also pushed up the costs of moving food from whole salers to the massive Providence food bank headquarters and then on to dozens of final destinations around the state. And while gas prices have eased since the sum mer, the same isn’t true for what we eat.

“We don’t think those costs will come down quickly,” Schiff said. “We anticipate in the next 12 months, they’ll stay high. Food prices are sticky, and once they go up, it’ll take time for them to come down.”

HELPING HAND: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center volunteer Susan Barnes, right, assists a customer in the nonprofit organization’s food pantry in Newport.

PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN

‘People are expecting much higher wages, which is very difficult for any business.’

HEATHER HOLE STROUT, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center executive director

Inflated food prices have also in directly affected how the Providence Children’s Museum does business. The museum is 17,000 square feet in the city’s Jewelry District, where kids can play in unstructured surroundings, far away from the lure of computer games and TV. “Our job is to be a joyful place for families,” said Caroline Payson, the museum’s executive director.

Like many museums around the coun try, the museum relies heavily on ticket sales and memberships to cover operating costs. And like many museums, it took a huge hit because of the COVID-19 pan demic, with admissions dropping to 47% of pre-pandemic levels. The museum was forced to close for six months in the early days of the surge, reopened, then closed again six months later, reopening a second time in July 2021.

As more of the Providence Children’s Museum’s visitors rely on the Supplemen tal Nutrition Assistance Program, more become eligible for discounted tickets. The museum isn’t always recognized as a non profit because middle-class families pay full ticket prices, Payson says. “But more than one-third of the visitors around them have either free or reduced admission,” she said.

Without a large endowment, the museum has become more flexible in hiring staff, whose numbers have shrunk to 37 from 52 before the pandemic. At the same time, it has worked hard to keep salaries and benefits on par with other New England museums. Recent grants have helped with funding and various projects, but the children’s museum still relies on corporate donors and the public to make up for admission decline. At the same time, employees have been asked to fill multiple roles to make up for the museum’s smaller workforce. “We look for staffers who can do more than one thing,” Payson said.

Responding creatively is also a familiar

concept to Comprehensive Community Action Plan, the largest community orga nization of its kind in Rhode Island. CCAP has offered medical and dental care, sub stance abuse counseling, early childhood education and food assistance, among other services, to more than 40,000 clients, thanks in part to government funding and private donations.

In the last year, more than 2,500 Rhode Islanders received heating assistance and still use its food pantry, and more than 18,000 visited CCAP health centers. And while CCAP hasn’t had to eliminate these critical services, it has felt the squeeze of pandemic-related inflation.

A big chunk of increased expenses includes a 4% raise to staff – roughly a cost of $800,000 – as well as an additional $100,000 in other expenses such as utilities.

“Many of our services are free and based on income, so we can’t refuse anyone for a lack of money,” said Joanne McGunagle, CCAP’s CEO and president. “We’ve seen a 1,000-pound drop in food and other donations. People can’t do it now and that’s OK,” she added. “We’ve looked for smaller donations from banks and foundations, $3,000 here or there. We still offer food, including 1,600 pounds from our garden to supplement, but the schools used to do huge food drives and they haven’t been able to do it in the last year or more. It’ll probably start up again.”

CCAP is planning a new health center

URGENT NEED: Rhode Island Foundation CEO and President Neil D. Steinberg said “The case for philanthrop ic giving is as high as it’s ever been.”

and expanding dental services, but supply chain issues and the inflated costs that have bedeviled other building projects are affecting these as well. “The cost of construction is going up as much as 40 to 50% overall, and the dental center came in over budget. We have to rob Peter to pay Paul,” McGunagle said. “We’ve submitted funding requests to the state and federal agencies but haven’t heard yet.”

As the effects of inflation have chal lenged nonprofits to a dizzying degree, the Rhode Island Foundation has boosted its funding to agencies providing direct services to vulnerable residents. Case in point: its ongoing Basic Human Needs Grants, bumped up 50% to $7,500 to local agencies filling emergency food, clothing, housing, prescription, utility and transportation needs.

“We raise money and we have to keep stating the case. Some people think that because federal money is coming in, there’s less of a need, but that’s not true,” said Neil D. Steinberg, the foundation’s CEO and president.

“The war in Ukraine and a volatile oil market send a message that prices are unpredictable,” he said. “If the foundation receives a donation of 100 shares of Tesla, that stock might have been worth more last year and less this year. That affects our fundraising. The case for philanthrop ic giving is as high as it’s ever been.”

Despite the challenges facing the philanthropy world, however, Steinberg remains optimistic about the future. Nonprofits, as a group, will have to look at how they collaborate, and maybe merge, to come up with innovative ideas on how to offer preventative treatments, he says.

“If we can get ahead of the curve in how we provide services, it’s a lot less expensive than interventions later on,” he added. “It’s not doom and gloom. We’ve been through these economic cycles be fore, but it takes a lot of work and money to meet the challenges.” n

‘This is a real crisis for lowincome families and those on a fixed income.’

ANDREW SCHIFF, Rhode Island Community Food Bank CEO

COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

WAREHOUSE WALK: Rhode Island Com munity Food Bank CEO Andrew Schiff, left, and Director of Operations Jack Russell peruse the nonprofit’s food ware house in Providence.

PBN PHOTO/ RUPERT WHITELEY

Mental health providers are overwhelmed in R.I.

BY ELIZABETH GRAHAM | Contributing Writer

ASCOVID-19 began to creep into Rhode Island in early 2020, Michelle Crossley saw a steady increase in emails from people wondering whether they could schedule an appointment at her small Pawtucket counseling practice.

“It was just overwhelming. At one point I was getting up to three requests a day within months of the pandemic starting,” said Crossley, a licensed mental health counselor who is also president of the Rhode Island Mental Health Counselors Association

Crossley usually works with a total of about 20 clients, but to keep her workload manageable she stopped accepting new clients.

And she wasn’t alone – many mental and behavioral health providers in Rhode Island say that once the pandemic took hold, demand for services soared.

Organizations and smaller clinics took on as many new patients as they could, but low reimbursement rates from commercial insurance and Medicaid made hiring enough staff all but impossible.

“We’re still challenged in that realm, we’re still living with the fact that we haven’t had a rate increase in nine years,” said Dan Kubas-Meyer, CEO of Thrive Behavioral Health Inc. in Warwick.

Wages for licensed mental health coun selors in the Ocean State hover around $14 an hour because of the low rates that insurance and Medicaid reimburse for their services. Medicaid rates, which are determined by state officials, have not been increased in years. In other states, including Massachusetts and Connecticut, higher reimbursement rates mean higher wages for the same jobs.

A commission formed by the R.I. Office of the Insurance Commissioner and the R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services plans to begin reviewing reimbursement rates for mental health services this fall, but recommendations aren’t expected until 2024.

The combination of pandemic-induced demand and insufficient pay is crippling mental health care in Rhode Island, many say, including John J. Tassoni Jr., CEO and president of the Substance Use and Mental Health Leadership Council of Rhode Island, a network of 33 organizations.

“People at the highest level need to understand how crucial this is for the

well-being of Rhode Islanders,” Tassoni said. “We had a robust system back in the early 2000s, and now we’ve got a dead system.”

Still, some organizations, such as Thundermist Health Center, a Woonsock et-based community health provider with a behavioral health staff of more than 75, were able to respond quickly as the pandemic brought a wave of patients seeking help with depression, anxiety and substance use.

Early in the pandemic, the nonprofit partnered with the Rhode Island College School of Social Work to train students onsite at Thundermist in the hopes of hiring them.

Funded for two years by the Rhode Island Foundation, and this year by Real Jobs RI, the effort has resulted in 15 new behavioral health hires, said Matt Roman, Thundermist’s chief of innovation and behavioral health.

The shift to telemedicine in 2020 brought another challenge.

Patients began showing up for appoint ments at a much higher rate, and counsel ors were hard-pressed to do behind-thescenes work with the increased time they were spending with clients. To relieve counselors’ workload, Thundermist creat ed the position of behavioral health case manager.

At Thrive, the number of open jobs is about double the pre-pandemic rate. The organization is handling the surge of new

patients by putting them into therapy groups.

“We don’t have the ability to have them seen by individual clinicians immediate ly,” Kubas-Meyer said. “If someone is in crisis, we can have our crisis group look at them … we’re able to respond to the most acute needs and channel them into therapy.”

United Way of Rhode Island, which operates the state’s 211 call center, logged about 1,640 calls for mental health-related needs in 2019.

In 2020, the number of calls shot to more than 8,200. Last year, the volume de creased to about 3,300 calls, but now 2022 is on track for a 40% spike, said Courtney Smith, United Way’s 211 program director.

Many agree that higher reimbursement rates are key to alleviating the crisis.

Providers across the state are paying close attention as state legislation to in crease commercial insurance reimburse ment rates is expected to be submitted again next year.

If the legislation, which is likely to be opposed by insurance companies, fails to pass, and state lawmakers do not raise Medicaid rates, the results could be devas tating to mental health care, said Lau rie-Marie Pisciotta, Mental Health Associa tion of Rhode Island executive director.

“If rates aren’t increasing, providers can’t keep their doors open,” she said. “It’s just so counterproductive for a state not to invest in its mental health system.” n

VITAL SERVICE: Ashlee Austin, right, site inclusive health clinician at Thundermist Health Center, meets with a patient at the center’s West Warwick location.

PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

BY ANDY SMITH | Contributing Writer

How will the state use $250M to ease its housing woes? RHODE

Island has received $1.1 billion in federal money from the American Rescue Plan Act, passed in response to the eco nomic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Of that, $250 mil lion is allocated for housing, particularly affordable housing.

The Housing Network of Rhode Island, a Pawtucket-based state association of 17 nonprofit housing developers, cites a report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition that Rhode Island has a deficit of about 24,000 homes for extreme ly low-income renters, an 11% increase over 2021. (Area median income for an extremely low-income household of three is $26,500.)

Colin Penney, executive director for South County Habitat for Humanity Inc., says that extremely low-income families only represent a subset of the larger problem. Many Rhode Island families with somewhat higher incomes are also unable to afford housing.

Penney says that for six prospective houses, Habitat receives about 150 appli cations.

Asked how much it would cost to com pletely eliminate Rhode Island’s housing issue, affordable housing advocates say billions. Just how many billions, no one could say. But they say it’s foolish to con template that kind of spending without a comprehensive statewide plan.

“$250 million is significant,” HNRI Executive Director Melina Lodge said. It has an opportunity to be transformational. But we try to be very clear that this is a down payment, not an endpoint.”

Housing finance is a complex business. For one thing, numbers are always chang ing as population, costs and the economy evolve. Construction costs, for example, went up 40% since January 2020, accord ing to the National Association of Home Builders.

Brenda Clement, director of Housing Works RI, a statewide source of housing data based at Roger Williams University, says most nonprofit housing organizations use between four and 10 funding sources for their projects, including other federal programs, low-interest loans, tax credits and more.

Private philanthropy is another source of revenue for housing nonprofits.

Crossroads Rhode Island, for example, raised or earned about $22 million in 2021. Of that, about $4 million, or 18%, came from contributions, fundraising events and in-kind donations.

South County Habitat for Humanity

has a $1.7 million annual budget. Much of it comes from corporate and individ ual donations of either cash, material or labor. (Habitat operating expenses are paid by profits from a thrift store at 1555 Shannock Road in Charlestown.)

Individual donors make small cash donations or volunteer to come out to a building site and swing a hammer. (That includes the new homeowners, who are required to put in between 200 and 400 hours of time on their own houses.)

The $250 million in ARPA money will be distributed over three fiscal years and won’t all go toward pouring foundations and building walls. Money is allocated for site acquisition, predevelopment and development of affordable and middle-in come housing, which will create about 1,500 housing units, according to the R.I. Office of Housing and Community Development.

But there is also funding to give

down-payment assistance for first-time buyers, to address homelessness in the state and to develop that badly needed comprehensive state housing plan.

Affordable housing advocates also cite as obstacles the high cost of land in Rhode Island, plus different land use policies in 39 cities and towns, each with its own pri orities. Many municipalities, Lodge says, oppose multifamily housing units.

“Historically, zoning has been used to protect the interests of property owners who want their property to retain its val ue,” R.I. Housing Sec retary Josh Saal said. “We need to think hard whether we want to be a state that can keep everything the same … paradoxically, for some things to stay the same, some things also have to change.”

Affordable hous ing advocates are cautiously optimistic that the state is finally taking housing seriously.

“I do think it’s a higher priority; now we need the actions,” Rhode Island Foundation CEO and President Neil D. Steinberg said. “We’ve all spent a lot of time brainstorming, saying if we only had the money, we could do this or we could do that. This is the first time in my memory that we’ve had the money first.” n

‘We try to be very clear that this is a down payment, not an endpoint.’

MELINA LODGE, The Housing Network of Rhode Island executive director

IN THE WORKS: Pictured are affordable housing units under construction on Bowdoin Street in Providence.

COURTESY ONE NEIGHBORHOOD BUILDERS

5Q: Nina Stack

The Champlin Foundation executive director

BY JAMES BESSETTE | Bessette@PBN.com

1Have the requests for donations from The Champlin Foundation remained high in the past year?

The need for support continues to increase and is reflective of the tremen dous demand being felt by our nonprofit community. These organizations were hit hard by the [COVID-19] pandemic, adding programs [such as] food delivery, health services and client transportation, yet even as recovery continues, the demand has not subsided. Organizations such as Higher Ground International, the Center for Southeast Asians, and the Women’s Refugee Center – even Community Librar ies of Providence – all saw the demand for services grow substantially and they continue to deliver above and beyond their mission.

2What kinds of nonprofits have sought donations from the foundation the most as of late?

The Champlin Foundation works across nine areas of focus: arts and culture, conservation and parks, education, health care, historic preservation and heritage, libraries, social services, youth services and welfare of animals. We consistently see and support requests across all these areas, but certainly social services stand out when we look at the past year. There are a lot of organizations doing great work in this space: Sojourner House Inc., Amen ity Aid and Better Lives Rhode Island are just a few examples.

3Can you offer some examples of nonprofits that have benefited from grants they received from the foundation?

It’s the communities that benefit most, as that’s where the impact of nonprofits is most deeply felt. There are examples in every city and town, from Mt. Hope Learning Center, where children and adults build critical life skills, and CODAC [Behavioral Healthcare], which provides lifesaving substance abuse intervention, to the Ocean Community [YMCA]. Last year alone, we supported 30 first-time grantees, and it’s exciting to see these organizations – some new and others just new to Champlin – bring forward services that make a meaningful difference for Rhode Islanders.

4Recently, The Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum, Crossroads Rhode Island and the Boys and Girls Club of Providence each received $1 million from Champlin. What about those organizations stood out to the foundation for them to receive those large grants?

In all three cases, they presented transfor mational projects that expand their reach and impact exponentially. These organi zations have proven records of success in their respective fields, and they put forward well-conceived, thorough project plans with clear visions for progress.

Honoring the region’s Indigenous history, addressing the state’s urgent housing crisis and expanding services [such as] ac ademic intervention and career readiness for students – these are exactly the kinds of priorities that transform lives and

communities, and that we’re privileged to be able to help.

5What, if any, new donation initiatives does the foundation have planned for the future?

Capital funding has a massive impact but is often the hardest to raise. The Champlin tradition of supporting bricks, mortar and equipment is our anchor, yet we continue to evolve and learn from our grantees. We are more focused on bring ing a racial-equity lens to grantmaking and understanding how applicants are serving historically marginalized com munities. We also recognize that access to “know-how” on facility expansion is a significant need for many organizations, and we are exploring how to help close that knowledge gap. n ‘As recovery continues, the demand has not subsided.’

PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

JANUARY

5/TBD Crossroads Rhode Island Women

Women crossroadsri.org

5/TBD We Share Hope Heroes of Hunger Breakfast wesharehope.org

JUNE

6/TBD United Way of Rhode Island The Night is Young unitedwayri.org

6/TBD United Way of Rhode Island Day of Action unitedwayri.org

AUGUST

8/26 Leadership Rhode Island

RI Statewide Scavenger Hunt riscavengerhunt.com

8/TBD Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England Back 2 Troop Day gssne.org

SEPTEMBER

9/TBD We Share Hope Mission Impastable wesharehope.org

9/TBD The Groden Network Bike to the Beach grodennetwork.org

OCTOBER

10/2 Westbay Community Action, Inc. Golf Tournament westbaycap.org

10/TBD Crossroads Rhode Island Neighbors Helping Neighbors crossroadsri.org

10/TBD United Way of Rhode Island Annual Celebration unitedwayri.org

10/TBD Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England Leading Women of Distinction Awards gssne.org/leadingwomen

NOVEMBER

11/TBD Make-A-Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island Evening of Wishes Gala massri.wish.org/events

Adoption

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GOALS

For nearly 40 years Adoption Rhode Island (ARI) has been dedicated to ensuring the best lifelong outcomes for children, teens and families impacted by foster care and adoption.

are driven by the belief that every child deserves a place to call home and a family to be there during the best and worst of times.

UPCOMING EVENTS

November is National Adoption Month.

year's theme, Small Steps Open Doors

a special focus on permanency for older youth.

Connect with ARI on social media, (@adoptionri) and learn how small steps can help build relationships with youth and open doors to opportunities that once seemed impossible. Be a part of opening doors to permanency and guiding a young person to the best possible future. #NationalAdoptionMonth

FUNDRAISING

exists because foster children, youth and young adults need us. And we need you – to make certain their lives are much better when they leave us than when we meet them.

community is a better place when every

is safe, loved, healthy and hopeful, and every teen has a path to a successful future -no matter where their journey began. When

support ARI’s mission with a donation, by attending or hosting a fundraiser, learning more, or helping others to discover how they can help, you create opportunities that

a child’s life – and you make this a better Rhode Island for all of us.

No matter where their journey began, every child deserves to flourish into adulthood and never age out of foster care to homelessness.

Visit our website, AdoptionRI.org for a calendar of upcoming events, including a schedule of monthly information meetings – a great way to begin exploring your interest in foster care or adoption.

Watch for news about Gathering to Give 2023 coming in the spring with a special tribute to ARI’s 40th anniversary. Grand events for a great cause where fun, friends, and our mission are celebrated across the state while raising funds that help change the life of a child.

Donations from ARI’s fundraising close the gap between what government funding provides and what it truly costs for ARI’s team to surround every child we meet with what they need to fulfill dreams of a better future. We rely on fundraising for more than 35% of our program costs each year, or close to $1 million.

Learn more about how your donation will connect children and youth to healing, hope and a better future.

Visit our website at AdoptionRI.org or contact us at 401-865-6000 email: adoptionri@adoptionri.org.

FUNDING SOURCES

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

PARENTE HOWARD DULUDE TODD COSTA JULIE NAVARRO Board President Board Vice President Board Treasurer Board Secretary

MEMBERS

PATRICIA BENNETT DONNA CALDWELL ELIZABETH CARABALLO-WESLEY

HON. FRANK CAPRIO FRANK CARPANO MURRAY CHARRON

CHRISTOPHER DEPALO FRANCES DIFIORE DOLPH JOHNSON

CHARREL MAXWELL DR. MARION ORR JOHN OTTAVIANI BRET WILLIAMS

DARLENE ALLEN CEO and Executive Director Adoption RI

STEVEN

Children First, and Always.

Our community is a better place when every child is safe, loved, healthy and hopeful. No matter where their journey began, when you invest in our mission, you create opportunities that transform a child’s life – and you make this a better Rhode Island for all of us.

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that empower individuals of all abilities and their families to achieve

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• To provide those in our care with leading edge technology, equipment, and facilities.

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MISSION STATEMENT

The Groden Network’s mission is to provide a caring, person-centered, comprehensive continuum of supports across the lifespan for individuals with autism, other neurodevelopmental disorders, and associated behavioral and life challenges, to lead productive, dignified, and satisfying lives. This is achieved through professional expertise in implementing effective and innovative strategies and techniques; research; technology; education and training; and most importantly involving and supporting clients and families.

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Since 1976, The Groden Network has been on the leading edge of innovations to ensure that individuals with autism and other intellectual and developmental disabilities lead the most productive lives possible

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MISSION STATEMENT

College Visions empowers low-income and first-generation college students to achieve the promise of higher education, while leading the way for innovative college planning and advising.

GOALS

College Visions helps students from underserved communities in RI achieve their dream of

98% of College Visions students enroll in college immediately after high school

a college

with only 44% of low-income students in RI. College Visions continues to support students once they enroll in college and an impressive 71% of our students earn a degree within 6 years of enrollment compared to 42% of low-income RI college students.

At a time when RI needs more degree-holding workers, College Visions students are earning degrees and becoming diverse young professionals working as educators, nurses, designers, financial analysts, accountants, entrepreneurs, and more. A college degree is an individual achievement and also an investment in a family, community, and our shared society.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

Donate: College Visions relies almost entirely on donations to run our program. Your donation can provide our students with individualized college application assistance, ensure that every College Visions student has an advisor who provides year-round support while in college, or direct financial support to a student with extraordinary need.

To make a gift visit www.collegevisions.org/donate/

Sponsor: We have several event sponsorship opportunities. Interested companies and individuals should contact Moira at moira@collegevisions.org or (401) 490-3996.

“Being a first-generation college student means a lot to me because I’ve been working toward this since I was a little kid. I come from a family of 5 and I am the middle child. I’ve always wanted to go to college for myself and my family. College Visions helped me turn my dreams into reality, I just need to take advantage of my opportunity and make the best out of it. Hard work and dedication go a long way. I am proof of it.”

ANGEL

Volunteer: Volunteers support College Visions students throughout the year by acting as mock admissions interviewers and supporting students to complete college applications. We are also recruiting career mentors and volunteers with expertise in mentoring.

For more information, please contact Monephia at monephia@collegevisions.org or (401) 490-3996.

Lamont Gordon Executive Director

Boston College Class of 2025

Michelle Carr Executive Director

Nicole Benjamin Chair Pete Rumsey Vice Chair Sulina Mohanty Treasurer

Ashia Graziano Secretary

Ting

Hamza

Sharon Conard-Wells

Vinny

Priscilla

Shallcross

Christine

MISSION STATEMENT

We engage and connect people through shared experiences that positively transform individuals, organizations, and communities.

VISION & GOALS

We envision a Rhode Island that is flourishing — economically, civically, culturally — built on a foundation of ever-improving human capital whose strengths and potential we spend each day revealing and igniting.

we see the lessons of this lively leadership experiment being shared and amplified around the country and the world to nurture the kind of fully-engaged societies that create lasting, positive change.

Our strategic goals over the next four years include: activating our network of over 2,800 cross-generational alumni, fostering engagement and belonging through inclusive shared experiences, and building the Leadership Hub to serve as the go-to center for leadership and innovation across the Ocean State.

OPPORTUNITIES

Donate Your support fuels our mission and removes financial barriers for leaders through our tuition assistance scholarships for our Core Program, and ensures our College Program remains 100% tuition free. See if your gift can be matched or increased through your employer’s giving program, support LRI through a donor advised fund, or leave a legacy gift to LRI.

Make Rhode Island Stronger Invest in your teams while investing in a local nonprofit organization. Hire LRI to bring high-impact training initiatives and consulting services that drive cultures of engagement, inclusion, wellbeing, and performance. Sponsor or Attend Be in the room. Whether attending events as an individual or supporting us as an organization, be a part of the transformative experiences that we create by convening a diverse group of committed Rhode Islanders.

FUNDRAISING / EVENTS

Inspiring Leaders

Wednesday March 22, 2023 LRI’s annual luncheon recognizes

simultaneously serving as our most

January 2022,

has distributed more than

class members who otherwise might not have been able to participate.

Statewide Scavenger Hunt, Saturday & Sunday August 26 & 27, 2023

What began as a one-time fundraiser

is now a highly anticipated

and friends

Rhode Island and beyond.

more than 100 locations

state,

of excitement,

Statewide Scavenger Hunt

the fun in fundraiser.

20 Hemingway Drive

East Providence, RI 02915 401.781.9474

massri.wish.org

@MassRIWish

@makeawishmassri

@makeawishmari

Donate Make a one time donation of any amount, a monthly gift, or a tribute in honor or memory of a loved one

Donate a vehicle If you have a car, truck, motorcycle, RV, or other vehicle that you no longer need, a donation to Wheels for Wishes will benefit Make A Wish

Donate airline miles Help wish children and their families travel to their dream destinations Minimums are low, so anyone can give Once donated, your miles will never expire

Host a fundraiser Engage your network and community through an online campaign, in person, or virtual fundraising event

In-kind Donate goods or services to help grant wishes. Needs include transportation, store or restaurant gift certificates, skilled trade support (landscaping, carpentry, painting), auction and raffle prizes, and professional services

Volunteer Volunteer for wish granting, office

and

MISSION

wish to

Skyla,

from Woonsocket,

wish to

Noah,

from Smithfield,

Burkitt lymphoma

Nevaeh,

from

from North Kingstown,

MEALS ON WHEELS OF

LOCATION

70 Bath Street Providence, RI 02908

PHONE NUMBER 401.351.6700

WEBSITE www.rimeals.org

ANNUAL REVENUE

Meals on Wheels of RI is a $3.69-million organization, with 20% of its annual operating budget raised through donations from foundation, corporate, and individual supporters. There is no required cost for participation in any of our nutritional programs.

YEAR ESTABLISHED

Our founder, Joseph Brown (1924-2014), established Meals on Wheels of RI in 1969 to help homebound Providence seniors get enough nutritious food to keep them healthy. In 2022, we celebrated delivery of our 20-millionth home-delivered meal.

GOALS

MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is to meet the nutritional and other special needs of older adults and other eligible populations in order to help them maintain their independent lifestyles.

Our unique service model focuses on addressing food insecurity and social isolation as risk factors for loss of independence amongst homebound and other atrisk older adults and Rhode Islanders statewide. In 2021, our programs served a total of 3,365 clients: 3,029 homebound clients with more than 357,000 meals through the HomeDelivered Meal Program and 336 clients through the Capital City Café Program. In 2022, we delivered our 20-millionth home-delivered meal and are launching “Meals on Wheels of RI, Inc. Strategic Plan 2022-2025: Planning of our next 20 million meals.”

FUNDRAISING/EVENTS

DONATE: The pandemic exacerbated the already existing need for us to reach more at-risk Rhode Islanders across the state who, because of food insecurity and social isolation, live with the daily worry of losing their ability to maintain independent living.

A donation of $42 this year will help provide a full week of home-delivered meals to one of those Rhode Islanders.

VOLUNTEER: Each weekday, we deliver meals across 79 delivery routes; 70 of those routes are delivered by volunteers. Each year, we rely on the partnership of approximately 500 volunteers to help us enact our mission and we are always looking for our next delivery heroes.

Megan Grady Executive Director

Corey McCarty Board Chair

POTTER LEAGUE ANIMAL CARE & ADOPTION CENTER

LOCATION

87 Oliphant Lane Middletown, RI 02842 401.846.8276

POTTER LEAGUE PETS IN NEED VETERINARY CLINIC LOCATION

Amaral Street Riverside, RI 02915 401.270.3832

POTTER LEAGUE SPAY & NEUTER CLINIC LOCATION

Elm Street Warwick, RI 02888 401.369.7297

WEBSITE potterleague.org

EMAIL info@potterleague.org

NUMBER

ANNUAL

YEAR

ANIMALS

LEADERSHIP:

Brad Shear, CAWA

CEO

BOARD OFFICERS

Elena Kissel

President

Terrance Tinkham

Vice President

Mike Grandchamp

Treasurer

Mary Edwards

Secretary

As the heart of a compassionate community, we enrich lives and promote the humane treatment of animals.

GOALS

The Potter League is Rhode Island’s go-to animal care and resource center. We provide shelter, veterinary care, training, spay & neuter, owner assistance programs, humane education, and the opportunity for hundreds of animals to find loving homes each year. We offer programs and services that help animals and support those who love them. Our programs aim to:

Save Homeless & At-Risk Animals

At our Animal Care & Adoption Center, we provide lifesaving care, shelter, and new beginnings for our community’s most vulnerable animals. We also temporarily house pets for people in crisis.

Support Animals in the Community

We offer a wide range of programs and services for animals in the community that strengthens the human-animal bond and keep pets with the people who love them. We are expanding access to veterinary care for companion animals and providing community support programs that help all pet owners provide better lives for their pets.

Work collaboratively

We strive to work collaboratively with local community-based human service organizations and animal welfare and rescue groups locally and nationwide.

OPPORTUNITIES

Volunteer Volunteering at the Potter League is a fun and gratifying experience as you work with animals and fellow animal lovers. Our volunteers ensure the health and happiness of animals in our care and contribute to the success of our lifesaving programs. To learn more about volunteering: volunteer@potterleague.org.

Donate As an independent 501(c) (3) nonprofit, the Potter League is neither affiliated nor a sub-chapter of any national organizations. Our lifesaving work is funded by service fees, fundraising, and events. We rely on many types of gifts to achieve our mission, from one-time online donations to donations in honor or memory of a loved one.

Sponsor Businesses that contribute to the Potter League enable us to make a difference in the lives of more than 10,000 animals annually and enrich the lives of the people who love them. We have several opportunities to help your business become one of our treasured Community Humane Heroes. By becoming a business partner of the Potter League, you’re improving the lives of pets and their families while connecting your business to a cause that so many Rhode Islanders are passionate about.

To learn more about donating or sponsoring: development@potterleague.org.

RHODE

LOCATION

655 Broad Street Providence, RI 02907

PHONE NUMBER 401.274.6347

WEBSITE www.riFreeClinic.org

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES

FTE

AmeriCorps VISTAs

ANNUAL REVENUE

The Clinic raises 100% of its $1.5 million operating budget from donations. Our patients receive care at no cost. With this $1.5 million, the Clinic leverages over $7.5 million more in donations of goods and services each year.

YEAR ESTABLISHED

The Clinic was established in 1999 by former First Lady Stephanie Chafee. The Clinic celebrates its 25th Anniversary in 2023.

GOALS

Forrest Daniels CEO

William

Carrie Bridges Féliz, MPH

Jeffrey Chase-Lubitz, Esq.

George

Mark Gim President

STATEMENT

The Rhode Island Free Clinic’s mission is to provide free, comprehensive medical care and preventive health services to adults who have no health insurance and cannot afford those services; and to serve as an educational training site for aspiring health care professionals.

PROVIDE VITAL CARE TO VULNERABLE RHODE ISLANDERS

You can help us provide vital care to uninsured, low-income adults as the pandemic lingers on. Working poor and people of color are hardest hit. They suffer disproportionately and need healthcare. You can provide primary care, dental, behavioral health, specialist services, labs and tests, medicine, and COVID-19 care –which are essential for health and vitality.

VOLUNTEER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

If you are a healthcare professional, language interpreter, or administrative support, you can volunteer!

FUNDRAISING / EVENTS

This is a critical moment for the Clinic. Our Medical, Dental, and Behavioral Health Volunteers and the people we serve remain on the front lines. They need your help now more than ever before!

Demand for care is increasing every day. DONATING RIGHT NOW WILL ALLOW MORE PATIENTS TO GET THE CARE THEY NEED.

OPPORTUNITIES

VOLUNTEER: Our award-winning Clinic provides cost effective health care to Rhode Island adults who need it most. We seek Volunteer Medical, Dental, and Behavioral Health professionals. We need Spanish Interpreters to help provide care to Spanish speaking patients. Each year our 500+ volunteers coordinate 14,000+ patient visits including medicines, and COVID-19 continuing care. For more information to volunteer, contact Isabel Eggleston at ieggleston@rifreeclinic.org or 401.274.6347 x203.

GIVE: We leverage every $1 donated into $5 of additional donated medicine and services. Just 5% of our budget goes to administration. Our cost to deliver comprehensive health care to vulnerable Rhode Islanders is just $500 per person per year, far less than the national estimated average of $11,000. Make your donation go further by visiting our website or contacting Marvin Ronning at mronning@rifreeclinic.org or 401.274.6347 ext. 322.

Rhode Island Free Clinic honors our inspiring Corps of Medical and Dental Volunteers, Community Partners, and Donors for their extraordinary commitment to ensure vital care for vulnerable adults. Thank you.

BOARD

Dominique Alfandre

Kamilah A’Vant

Dante Bellini

Erik Carleton

Melissa Cummings

Kas DeCarvalho

Nicholas Denice

David Fontes

Gary Glassman

Bari Harlam

Barbara Haynes

Dave Laverty

Rajani Mahadevan

Amanda D. McMullen

Denise Parent

David W. Piccerelli

Pablo Rodriguez

Merrill Sherman

GOALS

With the various non-profits out there, why should you invest in a TV station? Because Rhode Island PBS is more than just a TV station – we are a community partner with a goal to be Southeastern New England’s media choice for high-value and high-quality local content. We focus on our audience; create and acquire local content that aligns with our mission, is storydriven, and aligns with funding opportunities; extend our prominence as a provider of highquality educational media; and forge production partnerships with media and community organizations of distinction.

OPPORTUNITIES

There are many ways to engage with Rhode Island PBS and our viewers.

• Corporate Underwriter: Your fifteen or thirty second “ad” can be broadcast on our air for $15-$600.

With the support of our members and sponsors, we serve the needs of all generations within Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. We spark imagination, explore our history, and reflect the values of our diverse community. Guided by civic engagement, we provide unique, high-quality local, national, and international programming, and digital content that educates, inspires, and engages.

Our vision: Rhode Island PBS strives to be the most trusted resource for life-long enrichment and alternative, engaging content, reflecting the values of our diverse community.

• Program Sponsor: Your business can help fund your favorite program. Various packages available.

• Uncorked! Sponsor: Our annual event in April is a great opportunity to be included in on-air promotional spots, social media posts, invitation, and event program. Details available upon request.

Partnering with Rhode Island PBS publicizes your business to people and markets not available through other forms of advertising.

• 51% of viewers say that sponsors are different and better than other networks and have a more favorable view of a brand that sponsors PBS.

• 40% of consumers are more likely to be motivated to purchase from a PBS sponsor than from advertisers on other networks. Increase your exposure. Support our mission. We want to work with you!

FUNDRAISING

Rhode Island PBS relies on the support of donors, sponsors, and members to fund our educational programs and services, and produce content for broadcast, Video On Demand, and in-classroom instruction. We raise money through on-air membership pledge appeals and host membership cultivation and public events.

Our annual fundraiser “Uncorked!” connects sponsors to 300+ food and wine enthusiasts, with several levels of sponsorship available.

We offer virtual and live events with beloved public television performers and series hosts.

Of course, there is content sponsorship for your steady presence on air year-round.

MISSION STATEMENT

David C. Reiss Chief Executive Officer

Heather Alge Chief Operating Officer

EXECUTIVE BOARD OFFICERS:

James Campagna President

Lisa Rafferty Vice President Anthony Dennis Treasurer

John B. Affleck, Esq. Secretary

MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is to empower people to improve the quality of their lives.

WHAT WE DO

The Fogarty Center provides a variety of community-based supports to children and adults with intellectual, developmental and other disabilities throughout Rhode Island. Adults have access to 24-hour Residential, Independent Living, Day and Employment opportunities, Clinical supports and Self-directed services. For children and young adults, we offer Respite, Personal Assistance Services and Supports (PASS), Home Based Therapeutic Services (HBTS), and Enhanced Outpatient Services (EOS).

Our goal to is to increase independence by offering a variety of individualized opportunities designed to assist individuals to be included and accepted as a valuable community member.

HOW TO HELP

As a 100% Medicaid funded organization we will gladly accept all financial contributions. Over the past few years, we have minimized our fund-raising efforts as the economy has been challenging to all. Additionally, not having a professional fund raiser, we found ourselves taxing our already overburdened staff. If we added up all their “volunteer” time, we lost money on the fundraising efforts.

What is most valuable to us is personnel. We need full and part time employees for a variety of roles from direct service professionals to finance associates. We strive to recruit caring people who are committed to make a positive difference in the lives of someone else as well as their own. Operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, there are a variety of shifts and locations. We offer competitive wages, signing and referral bonus, tuition reimbursement and a generous health benefit package.

Volunteers are greatly appreciated. We have opportunities for college interns who need clinical/observation hours and supervision in a graduate or undergraduate human service curriculum. We welcome volunteer high school students, introducing them to the field in hopes of developing emerging leaders. We also encourage retirees and other folks that have personal time to devote.

The Fogarty Center has locations convenient to the University of RI in Kingston, Rhode Island College in Providence and Bryant University in Smithfield.

Whether interested in employment or volunteer opportunities, you can reach us by visiting our website, telephone 401-245-7900 or email at info@fogartycenter.org.

BOARD MEMBERS

Alden M. Anderson Jr.

Marcela Betancur

David Bonenberger

Anthony Botelho

Brian Carroll

Barbara Chernow

Wes Cotter

Joanne M. Daly, CDFA®

Jayne M. Donegan

Paola N. Fernandez

James R. Galloway

Courtney Hawkins

Junior Jabbie

Dolph Johnson

Wendy E. Kagan

Barbara A. Mullen, Ph.D.

Cortney M. Nicolato

Gregg Perry

Yahaira “Jay” Placencia

Betsey A. Purinton,

Ramona Royal,

Frank D. Sánchez,

Rena Sheehan,

Suresh Swaminathan

MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is to unite our community and resources to build racial equity and opportunities for all Rhode Islanders. We facilitate Rhode Islanders helping Rhode Islanders, mobilizing corporations, government, policymakers, social service agencies, and thousands of individual donors and volunteers.

GOALS

Root causes. United solutions.

in affordable housing, improving

and expanding access to adult education

training.

working to ensure that all Rhode Island

walk into the classroom with the tools

learn. This includes increasing literacy levels and expanding access to afterschool and summer learning programs.

We’re building nonprofit resiliency and leadership development. We’re also empowering donors, engaging corporations, and connecting Rhode Islanders with volunteer opportunities.

We’re driving systemic change through public policy and research. And, because democracy isn’t a spectator sport, we’re training Rhode Islanders to be advocates and working to increase voter turnout.

United Way 211 is the go-to helpline for Rhode Islanders seeking social supports and has been instrumental during the pandemic – answering over half a million calls in the last two years.

Through research, advocacy, and grantmaking, we are building a state where everyone can live, learn, and thrive. For example, we helped secure a record investment of $250 million from the state budget to increase affordable housing production and preservation.

And last year, we invested over $6 million from our Community Impact Fund in programs backed by research, data, and results. We’ve enhanced childcare, expanded learning for school-age children, and provided access to life-changing workforce development programs that put people to work in better jobs.

OPPORTUNITIES

Advocate Help us mobilize Rhode Islanders to vote, run for office, and advocate for the platforms they are most passionate about.

Donate Help us make Rhode Island a place where everyone can live, learn, and thrive by donating to support our work.

Engage Contact us to create a shared purpose program encompassing corporate giving, employee volunteering, workplace giving campaigns, and related communications programs.

Join Deepen your involvement with our mission by joining the Impact Network, the Rhode Island

Young Leaders Circle.

the state via our online Volunteer Center.

Cortney Nicolato

President and CEO

WE

LOCATION

310 Bourne Avenue Building 70 Rumford, RI 02916

PHONE NUMBER

FUNDRAISING EVENTS

Mission Impastable: Corporate teams compete to see who can bag the most pasta in a certain period of time.

Flames to Feed: Formal event at Skyline during Waterfire with Silent Auction.

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

>> Providence Rescue Mission – Providence, RI

Provide food and other necessities for those who need it most in our community.

Johanna Corcoran Executive Director

>> Iglesia de Cristo Casa Sobre la Roca - Providence, RI

>> Centro de Innovación Mujer Latina - Providence, RI

>> Veterans Association of Bristol County - Fall River, MA

>> St. David’s on the Hill Church – Cranston, RI

>> Amenity Aid – Warwick, RI

>> East Bay Food Pantry – Bristol, RI

>> MAE Organization for the Homeless – West Warwick, RI ( Woonsocket, Providence, Pawtucket Chapters) Loaves & Fishes RI – Providence, RI

>> Providence Community Fridge (Broad St) and Refri PVD (Westminster St)

>> Iglesia de Dios Viviendo en Fe – Pawtucket, RI

>> Breadlines – Riverside, RI

>> Coalition to End Homelessness

>> Dorcas International Institute

OPPORTUNITIES

Hope on the Road: We provide food deliveries five days a week to non-profit groups in Rhode Island who serve meals or distribute food to their community members.

Pantry Pick-up: If you have nonperishables you wish to donate, schedule a Pickup, and we’ll send a volunteer to your home to collect your items and distribute them out to communities in need.

Hope Market: Hope Market, a budget-friendly marketplace in Rumford that provides goods at low cost to under resourced communities. This market allows those who are experiencing difficult times to get the supplies and food they need. Anyone is welcome to visit Hope Market.

Corporate Volunteer Opportunities:

> Group Sorting Events

> Holiday-Themed Collections/Sorting

> Food Drives

LOCATION

Administration: 224 Buttonwoods Ave., Warwick, RI 02886

Program Services: 487 Jefferson Blvd., Warwick, RI 02886

PHONE NUMBER 401.732.4660

EMAIL info@westbaycap.org

WEBSITE www.westbaycap.org

NUMBER

MISSION

The mission of Westbay Community Action, Inc. is to empower and mobilize people through our programs, partnerships, and advocacy to gain greater self-sufficiency.

BACKGROUND

The 1960s were a turbulent time. President Lyndon B. Johnson went to “war” changing how America fought poverty, determined to mold his country into the great society of his dreams. The War on Poverty inspired local organizations to help others with everything from education to keeping food on the table. Warwick Community Action, now Westbay Community Action, was founded in 1966. Over fifty years later, Westbay’s commitment to helping the local community continues to strengthen.

BRAG LINES

In the year of 2021-2022,

◆ We provided emergency food to more than 7,000 people, ensuring that our families received the necessary food to keep them healthy.

◆ More than 20,000 people received services, helping them stay safe and independent in their homes.

◆ Over 3,700 households avoided crisis with energy assistance.

◆ More than 2,000 people received case management services.

◆ More than 1,300 older adults participated in home delivered or congregate meal programs.

PAY IT FORWARD

Westbay will continue to help people when they need it most. We promise to look at new and innovative programming to better serve our community. We will always listen to those we serve to attain the services that are most truly needed. Westbay will always be ready to meet any challenge or obstacle that is put in front of us.

Whether you need a hand… or have one to lend, we’re here.

Faith • Hope • Charity “It is in giving that we receive…” -Prayer of Saint Francis

ABOUT US

Since 1925, the Diocese of

numerous works to meet the social, spiritual and

have been made possible by donations to the annual Catholic Charity Appeal. The diocese is the second largest provider of human services in Rhode Island, second only to the state government. Donations to the Catholic Charity Appeal are used

of

to support the designated agencies. Our annual appeal strives to raise over $6.5 million

OUR IMPACT

• 14,600

• 12,500

• 700

• More

DONATE

Consider

to support the vital outreach and charitable programs of the church.

House

Shelter

2021.

St. Martin de Porres Multi-Service Center in 2021.

Immigration & Refugee Services Office in

by annual donations.

GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND

500 Greenwich Avenue

RI 02886

PHONE NUMBER 401.331.4500

WEBSITE gssne.org

NUMBER

GIRLS ON THE RUN RHODE ISLAND

Box 72787

RI 02907

PHONE NUMBER 401.541.5907

kasha.hanflik@girlsontherun.org

NUMBER OF

MISSION STATEMENT

Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

WITH GIRL SCOUTS, YOU CAN DO IT ALL.

Girl Scouts is a leadership development program designed to help youth discover their personal best, connect with others in an increasingly diverse world, and take action to improve their communities.

This year, with support from our generous donors, GSSNE was able to:

• Deliver free programming to over 550 youth in traditionally underserved Communities

• Send girls in foster care to day and overnight camp for free

• Honor 110 Highest Award Girl Scouts as they bring their ‘take action’ projects to life.

GIRL SCOUTS NEEDS YOU!

• Volunteer your time and talents

• Sponsor our events and troops (and come to Cookies & Cocktails in March!)

• Donate! Visit gssne.org or scan the QR code to learn about volunteering, donating, and more

MISSION STATEMENT

Girls on the Run inspires girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.

OUR IMPACT

Girls on the Run RI serves third through eighth grade girls throughout Rhode Island and Bristol County, Massachusetts. Our first season with 34 girls started in 2012 and now 700 girls participate annually. Since then, we have empowered over 4,000 girls across 90+ sites. Our social-emotional learning and physical activity programs are led by more than 150 volunteer coaches every year. Girls on the Run RI provides 50% of our participants with financial assistance each season.

Girls on the Run was recognized as one of three social-emotional learning programs with an integral emphasis on equitable and inclusive education in the 2021 Social-Emotional Learning Guide by Harvard University and the Wallace Foundation.

OPPORTUNITIES

LOCAL PARTNERSHIPS Invest in her power and potential and make a transformative impact on the lives of girls and their families in your community.

EVENT SPONSORSHIPS The Girls on the Run 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run is on May 21, 2023 at Colt State Park.

VOLUNTEERS Get involved with us at one-time events or on a longer term basis and help activate the limitless potential of our participants.

PROVIDENCE PROMISE

LOCATION

2 Regency Plaza, Suite #4 Providence, RI 02903

PHONE NUMBER 401.383.3381

WEBSITE pvdpromise.org

EMAIL info@pvdpromise.org

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES

full-time staff

ANNUAL REVENUE

Less than $1,000,000

YEAR ESTABLISHED

2017

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The board is composed of local business and education leaders, parents, students, and champions of our work. Board Chair, Dan Baudoiun, is the former Executive Director of the Providence Foundation, and Founder, Richard Lappin, is the President of Lisco Development, Inc.

BACKGROUND

Low-income students with a college savings account (CSA) are 4x more likely to complete college than those without. Providence Promise invests in youth by partnering with families to open and invest in 529 CSAs. Families and students have the opportunity to grow the CSA through our robust Early Scholarship and Family Engagement Programs. We are the only college and career readiness program in RI, working with students as early as birth. Of our currently enrolled 850 students, nearly half are under the age of 10.

GOALS

RI BIO

LOCATION

225 Dyer Street Providence, RI 02903

PHONE NUMBER 401.400.5499

WEBSITE ri-bio.org

EMAIL Connect@RI-Bio.org

MISSION STATEMENT

Crucial to human life, the Life Sciences develop technologies, therapeutics, and products that transform lives. Life Science workers help us combat debilitating and rare diseases; reduce our environmental footprint; feed the hungry; use less and cleaner energy; and have safer, cleaner and more efficient industrial manufacturing processes.

MISSION STATEMENT

Providence Promise promotes high educational aspirations and more equitable opportunities for Providence Public School students by advocating for college savings accounts and family engagement, increasing financial literacy, and reducing the financial burden of higher education.

Over the next three years, Providence Promise will increase enrollment by 300-400 students per year and cumulative savings in CSAs by $500,000 per year. If Providence Promise is effective in achieving its goals, 1,600 students will hold $2.5M in CSAs by 6/30/25. With this growth in mind, Providence Promise hopes to continue to attract and retain new funders.

VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO

• Sign up for our newsletter

• Support our campaign on Giving Tuesday

• Attend and/or sponsor our Annual 529 Day Celebration on May 20, 2023

Breakthrough science, powered by RI Bio. WHY SUPPORT THE RI BIO FOUNDATION?

We help innovators, students, clinicians, institutions, and corporations in their efforts to advance science through education, collaboration and advocacy. We share information and resources, provide access to capital, create industry connections, and offer informative programs and training.

YOUR GIFT COULD:

• SUPPORT a drug design start-up as they improve cancer therapies or develop lifesaving vaccines.

• EDUCATE a displaced worker for a new career path in Life Sciences.

• FOSTER INNOVATION and bring new ideas to market.

• EMPOWER women in science by sharing insights and experience from trailblazing leaders.

• INSPIRE the next big breakthrough with leadership training.

Help support the most vulnerable children in Rhode Island

Who You Can Assist

accelerates impact

OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE

also

power. Asthenis

manage

Eugenio Fernandez, Asthenis

you and

Francis Parra Executive Director

MISSION STATEMENT

R.I.02903

R.I.02903

R.I.02903

R.I.02902

TEATRO ECAS IS

The only year-round Spanish language theater company north of New York City. Improving Young Lives Through the Arts in Providence and Pawtucket, annually serving hundreds of public-school children with Spanish-language after school arts. Draws audiences from all over New England and abroad.

Through virtual performances and workshops reaches thousands of people in Latin America and world-wide. Silver Certificate of Transparency from GUIDESTAR.

Established in 1997, the mission of Teatro ECAS is to promote theater as self-discovery, within an urban multicultural community, with particular emphasis on children and young adults. Participants discover hidden talents and self-confidence. Francis Parra is Artistic and Executive Director. As the largest professional Spanish-speaking theater in New England, with a 25-year history, we aim to elevate our Providence community through the power of the arts.

CELEBRATE

Come and celebrate Teatro ECAS’s 25th Anniversary at ¡Extravaganza! Saturday, Nov. 19 at our soon-to-be new home at 679 Valley Street, Providence.

• Tickets: teatroecas.org

• Sponsor information: ybeauregard@teatroecas.org

• Support Teatro ECAS: teatroecas.org/support

& ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS

2021:

2021:

2021:

2021:

2021:

2021:

2021:

2021:

Rhode Island Foundation | rifoundation.org Neil D.Steinberg 1, CEO and

HopeHealth | hopehealthco.org DianaFranchitto, CEO and president

Plan InternationalUSA | planusa.org MustafaKudrati, CEO and

The Fogarty Center | fogartycenter.org DavidC.Reiss, CEO

EdesiaInc. | edesianutrition.org NavynSalem, founder and CEO;Maria Kasparian, executive director

United Way of Rhode Island | unitedwayri.org CortneyNicolato, CEO and president

East Bay Community Action Program | ebcap.org

DennisRoy, CEO and president 2

Saint Elizabeth Community | stelizabethcommunity.org MatthewJ.Trimble, CEO and president

Comprehensive Community Action Program

comcap.org JoanneMcGunagle, CEO and president

Community Care Alliance | communitycareri.org BenedictF.Lessing Jr., CEO and president

Rhode Island Community Food Bank | rifoodbank.org AndrewSchiff, CEO

PACE Organization of Rhode Island | pace-ri.org

JoanKwiatkowski, CEO

Children's Friend and Service | cfsri.org DavidCaprio, CEO and president

1 Union Station Providence, R.I.02903 (401) 274-4564 $292.4 mil. 12/31/21 Nonprofit funder

1085 North Main St. Providence, R.I.02904 (844) 671-4673

$82.9 mil. 09/30/21

Nonprofit health care organization

155 Plan Way Warwick, R.I.02886 (401) 738-5600 $68.2 mil. 06/30/21 Global girls' rights and children's charity

310 Maple Ave., Suite 102 Barrington, R.I.02806 (401) 245-7900 $63 mil. 12/31/21

550 Romano Vineyard Way North Kingstown, R.I.02852 (401) 272-5521 $57 mil. 12/31/2021

50 Valley St. Providence, R.I.02909 (401) 444-0600

19 Broadway Newport, R.I.02840 (401) 847-7821

$47.3 mil. 06/30/21

$44.7 mil. 06/30/21

2364 Post Road, Suite 100 Warwick, R.I.02886 (401) 773-7400 $43.5 mil. 12/31/21

311 Doric Ave. Cranston, R.I.02910 (401) 467-9610 $39.1 mil. 06/30/21

800 Clinton St. Woonsocket, R.I.02895 (401) 235-7000

200 Niantic Ave. Providence, R.I.02907 (401) 942-6325

225 Chapman St. Providence, R.I.02905 (401) 490-6566

153 Summer St. Providence, R.I.02903 (401) 276-4300

$36.2 mil. 06/30/20

$34.5 mil. 06/30/21

$33.8 mil. 06/30/22

$33.5 mil. 12/31/22

Provides services to children and adults with intellectual, developmental and/or other disabilities

Manufacturer of ready-to-use therapeutic and supplemental food for malnourished children

Nonprofit that provides for the community resources to build racial equity and opportunities for all Rhode Islanders

Health and human services provider offering Head Start and family development/social services

Home health services, adult day health centers, apartments for seniors and mobility-impaired adults, assisted living, short-term rehabilitation, and nursing home care

Social services, health care nonprofit

Nonprofit social services organization

Addresses food insecurity by acquiring healthy, nutritious food and distributing it to Rhode Islanders in need

Assists and cares for older adults with significant health needs

Nonprofit that improves the well-being and healthy development of Rhode Island’s most vulnerable young children

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