THE 1999 RI KIDS COUNT factbook.
The Rhode Island Foundation Board of Directors has approved grants for 26 projects, totaling nearly $1.5 million. Health care projects comprised 20 percent of the projects. Continued support for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, the Rhode Island KIDS COUNT children advocacy project, and WRNI national public radio in Rhode Island, highlighted the rest. The grants included the following:
$75,000 to Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island for third year support of the Teen Clinic in Providence which helps young adults avoid early pregnancy, stay in school and have healthy futures through information, counseling, support, referral and treatment.
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$53,250 to St. Joseph Health Services of Rhode Island for third year support of the Providence Smiles school-based dental program, which provides examinations, cleanings, fluoride treatments and sealant services to elementary students throughout Providence.
$50,000 to Rhode Island Hospital Foundation for the Draw a Breath Community Initiative, a program to provide Providence public school children diagnosed with asthma, and their families, with the tools, knowledge and resources to control the disease.
$50,000 to Rhode Island Health Center Association as a first-year match to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s support of Rhode Island’s Covering Kids Initiative, an effort to enroll all eligible children in Rite Care, the state’s health insurance program.
$150,000 to Rhode Island KIDS COUNT to advance the status of children in the state by issuing the annual Factbook and other information on child well-being, as well as strategic organizing and advocacy.
$75,000 to Connecting for Children & Families for the Woonsocket Children’s Initiative to connect the best interests of families in the Fairmont area of Woonsocket to their schools, the city and other human service providers.
$56,000 to Rhode Island College Foundation for the Poverty Institute to improve the economic well-being of low-income Rhode Islanders and to advocate for policies to assure long-term solutions to the problem of poverty.
$50,000 to George A. Wiley Center for second year support of its Structural Solutions to Poverty in Rhode Island program which works statewide, through advocacy, organizing efforts and policy development to alleviate poverty.
$50,000 to Rhode Island Youth Guidance Center for Re-Inventing Cain: A Teen Care Consortium for Boys, a project which brings together agencies in Pawtucket and Central Falls to collaborate for male adolescents in the Blackstone Valley.
$50,000 to Family Service for fourth year support of Proyecto Familia IV, a family preservation and strengthening program focused on Hispanic students at Perry Middle School in the Olneyville section of Providence.
$160,000 to Rhode Island Community Food Bank for second year funding of Breaking the Cycle of Hunger, a statewide, comprehensive case management, food pantry system restructuring and centralized client registration program, conducted collaboratively with Federal Hill House, The Salvation Army and Travelers’ Aid Society.
$100,000 to WRNI Foundation to support public radio through increased local programming, statewide access, national and international news coverage, and a locally based public affairs radio program.
$75,000 to City Year Rhode Island for fourth year support of the Service to Children in Urban Schools Project which promotes community service to students within Providence, Woonsocket, Newport, Pawtucket and Central Falls.
$100,000 to Progreso Latino to support its capital campaign for the renovation and expansion of its Central Falls facility to meet the increasing need for comprehensive social and family support services for Hispanic/Latino and other immigrant groups statewide.
The Rhode Island Foundation Board of Directors will hold two additional grant-making meetings this year, in August and December, with a focus on economic/community development and on education, respectively.
