RIDE adds Serve Rhode Island to portfolio, awards $1.8M in AmeriCorps funds

THE R.I. DEPARTMENT of Education announced it had folded Serve Rhode Island into its services, the local awardee of AmeriCorps funding. It simultaneously announced nearly $1.8 million in grants to 11 Rhode Island programs. / COURTESY R.I. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

PROVIDENCE – The distribution of AmeriCorps grants will now be the responsibility of the R.I. Department of Education, per a Tuesday RIDE announcement, after a 2017 law dissolved Serve Rhode Island, incorporating it into the state entity.

Calling ServeRI’s inclusion under RIDE auspices a “seamless” transition “so far,” Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Ken Wagner said: “Enhancing education and supporting young people have long been key priorities for ServeRI and the AmeriCorps organizations it works with, so it’s exciting to welcome this body of work into our agency.”

Also announced Tuesday was the awarding of nearly $1.8 million in AmeriCorps funding from the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency responsible for the allotment of such funds, to 11 Rhode Island-based programs:

  • The Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence’s practice of nonviolence training to 1,000 students in Providence, Pawtucket and Central Falls ($276,600)
  • The Learning Community’s Education Fellows program ($270,740)
  • Providence Children’s Museum’s math enrichment programs ($224,455)
  • Accessing Home services at NeighborWorks Blackstone River Valley ($199,715)
  • Brown University’s College Advising Corps ($187,468)
  • Family Service of Rhode Island, Attendance Improvement Matters program ($179,140)
  • Generations of Learning program at Connecting for Children and Families Inc. ($166,790)
  • Providence After School Alliance’s improved school attendance efforts ($121,402)
  • Teach for America Inc. Rhode Island’s placement of 60 AmeriCorps members in high-need, low-income schools ($60,000)
  • Jumpstart for Young Children Inc.’s expansion of language, literacy, and social-emotional programming ($33,007)
  • The Newport Working Cities AmeriCorps Team at Boys and Girls Club of Newport County ($28,998)

Emily Gowdey-Backus is a staff writer for PBN. You can follow her on Twitter @FlashGowdey or contact her via email, gowdey-backus@pbn.com.

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