PROVIDENCE – An additional $700,000 in grants were issued to 23 nonprofit organizations across Rhode Island from the United Way of Rhode Island and Rhode Island Foundation’s COVID-19 Response Fund, the foundation announced Tuesday.
The fund, created in mid-March as the COVID-19 pandemic began to take hold on the Ocean State, supports local organizations that were impacted by the ongoing health crisis so they can provide help with food, rent, utilities and other expenses. To date, the fund has issued out close to $8 million in grants to local nonprofits, the foundation said, and donors have contributed more than $8.5 million to the cause.
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“We are so appreciative of the donors who have provided financial support since the crisis began in March,” Rhode Island Foundation CEO and President Neil D. Steinberg said in a statement, “and will continue to work with charitable Rhode Islanders to support the nonprofit organizations that remain on the frontlines, providing crucial community services.”
United Way CEO and President Cortney Nicolato said in a statement that the road to recovery for these organizations and the community from the pandemic would be much longer “without the incredible generosity of so many.”
The grants issued in this latest round ranged from $10,000 to $50,000. The organizations that received grants in this latest round are:
- Achievement First
- African Alliance of Rhode Island
- AS220
- Beautiful Day
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Northern Rhode Island
- Bridgemark Addiction Recovery Services
- Building Futures
- Clinica Esperanza
- Community College of Rhode Island Foundation
- Community Housing Resource Board/Housing Hotline
- Connecting for Children and Families
- Highlander Institute
- Hope Hospice and Palliative Care Rhode Island
- Key Program Inc.
- Opioid Treatment Association of Rhode Island
- Providence Community Health Centers
- Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church
- Scandinavian Home
- Spurwink | RI
- Trinity Episcopal Church Food Closet
- We Share Hope
- The Way, The Truth & The Life Health Clinic, Inc.
- Youth In Action
James Bessette is the PBN special projects editor, and also covers the nonprofit and education sectors. You may reach him at Bessette@PBN.com. You may also follow him on Twitter at @James_Bessette.
