NEWPORT – BankNewport recently awarded more than $230,000 in grants to Rhode Island organizations that address food insecurity, education, workforce development, health and underserved populations.
Another $20,000 in “proactive funding” was donated to nonprofits to serve individuals and families during the holidays.
Grant recipients included:
- Amenity Aid
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Northern Rhode Island and Newport County
- Boys Town New England
- Butler Hospital
- Community Blessings Foundation
- Crossroads Rhode Island
- East Bay Community Action Program
- Eastern Rhode Island Conservation District
- Family Service of Rhode Island
- FirstWorks
- Hasbro Children’s Hospital
- Hope’s Harvest
- John Clark Nursing & Retirement/John Clarke Senior Living
- Lucy’s Hearth
- McAuley Ministries
- Norman Bird Sanctuary
- Providence Promise
- Rhode Island Community Food Bank
- Rhode Island Hospitality Education Foundation
- Salvation Army – Providence Corps
- Social Enterprise Greenhouse
- Southern Rhode Island Volunteers
- The Providence Center
- We Share Hope
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Those receiving proactive funding included:
- AIDS Care Ocean State
- Adoption RI
- Amos House
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Newport County
- Center for Southeast Asians
- Children’s Friend and Service
- Clinica Esperanza/Hope Clinic
- Community Action Partnership of Providence County
- Corliss Institute
- Domestic Violence Resource Center of South County
- East Bay Community Action Program Food Pantry Program
- Family Service of Rhode Island
- Genesis Center
- Good Neighbors
- Goodwill Industries
- General Federation Women’s Clubs Rhode Island
- J. Arthur Trudeau Memorial Center
- Living in Fulfilling Environments
- Looking Upwards
- Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island
- Pawtucket Soup Kitchen
- Refugee Dream Center
- Tides Family Services
- Turning Around Ministries
- Women’s Resource Center
- Woonsocket Homeless Shelter
- YMCA of Pawtucket
- Youth Pride of Rhode Island
Nancy Lavin is a PBN staff writer. Contact her at Lavin@PBN.com.
