Tag: Neil D. Steinberg
RIF expands grant opportunities, staff, recommits to strategic priorities
PROVIDENCE - While the Rhode Island Foundation closed out 2017 having doled out $43 million in grants to more than 1,700 nonprofit organizations and...
R.I. Foundation sets meeting date, puts spotlight on community leaders
PROVIDENCE - The Rhode Island Foundation has announced the date of its 2018 annual meeting, May 24, as well as the names of the...
RIF donates $100K to R.I. Food Bank
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded the Rhode Island Community Food Bank a $100,000 donation to tackle the growing hunger crisis in...
Six years in, RIF innovation fellows’ impact unclear as they fight...
Six years ago, the Rhode Island Foundation announced it was accepting applications for something called an innovation fellowship. The program, funded by local philanthropists...
RIF grants new Murray Family award to Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program...
PROVIDENCE –Rob DeBlois, the principal of the The Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program received $50,000 in the inaugural Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment, the...
Commerce updates Amazon web pitch with new renderings, testimonials
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Commerce Corp. updated its RIforAmazon.us domain to include new renderings of proposals for Amazon.com Inc.’s second headquarters, HQ2.
The drawings include...
RIF ‘investment’ in state grows
The Rhode Island Foundation in recent years has increasingly taken a more active role as a community convener, planner and funder. That evolution, as...
RIF takes making an impact to an entirely new local place
With an endowment that passed $800 million in 2016, the Rhode Island Foundation has one of the largest single pools for investment in the...
Recovery strains community, philanthropic resources
As 2017 comes to a close, the United States is a long way from closing the book on the devastating effects of three hurricanes....
RIF announces $10M impact investment program
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation is looking to invest $10 million in local business projects during the inaugural year of its new Impact...


















