Tag: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center
Strout receives community service award from Newport Mental Health
HEATHER HOLE STROUT, executive director for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center in Newport, received the Outstanding Community Service Award from Newport...
United Way: Rhode Islanders, nonprofits ‘shined in [the] moment’ during 401Gives...
PROVIDENCE – The sense that this year’s 401Gives Day would be one for the ages occurred mere moments after the giving portal opened at...
401Gives Day surpasses $4.01M fundraising goal
PROVIDENCE – The long-awaited goal that United Way of Rhode Island Inc. set in 2023 for its largest single-day nonprofit fundraising initiative was finally...
Newport Mental Health celebrates 60th anniversary
MIDDLETOWN – Newport Mental Health recently marked its 60th anniversary with an annual meeting at the Wyndham Newport Hotel.
The event brought 80 supporters, partners...
401Gives Day sets new records for fundraising, donors, organizations supported
PAWTUCKET – The bar continues to be raised with Rhode Island’s largest single nonprofit supporting initiative, with new records across the board during the...
MLK Center renovation includes upgrades, expanded space
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center
20 Dr. Marcus Wheatland Blvd., Newport
Building owner and tenant: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center
General contractors: Bonfatti...
BankNewport $200K grant helped fund MLK Center’s new food pantry
NEWPORT – BankNewport awarded a $200,000 grant in 2022 to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center’s Building Hope Campaign, specifically to go...
MLK Center unveils $7M renovations, expanded services
NEWPORT – With a quick cut of the ribbon on Jan. 15 – the day celebrating the nonprofit’s namesake – the Dr. Martin Luther...
Neighborhood Health celebrates annual Gingerbread Express gift drive
SMITHFIELD – Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island celebrated its annual Gingerbread Express children’s holiday gift drive in which more than 1,000 gifts were...
Finding workforce is labor intensive for local nonprofits
The COVID-19 pandemic’s cascading aftereffects have been complicated and hard to shake for Rhode Island’s nonprofits, which employ 67,000 Rhode Islanders. That number represents...
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