Tag: Neil D. Steinberg
RIF awards $2.2M in grants, creates endowments for organizations addressing racial...
PROVIDENCE – Six local nonprofits have received $2.2 million in total grants from the Rhode Island Foundation to help take down causes of systemic...
Outgoing R.I. Foundation leader: State’s economic prospects grim without better education,...
PROVIDENCE – For 15 years, Neil D. Steinberg has helmed Rhode Island’s largest funder of nonprofits.
The 69-year-old former banker also has been at the...
UNFINISHED BUSINESS: He helped raise and give out $693M, but outgoing...
Neil D. Steinberg has never worked as hard as he has over the last 15 years. But he has also enjoyed every moment of...
15 R.I. nonprofits get $3.35M to address opioid use
PROVIDENCE – Fifteen Rhode Island nonprofit organizations on Thursday were granted a total of $3.35 million from both the R.I. Executive Office of Health...
RIF distributes $11.7M in ARPA grants to address hunger, housing, behavioral...
WARWICK – The Rhode Island Foundation, along with state elected officials, on Wednesday announced at Westbay Community Action that $11.7 million in federal COVID-19...
New RIF report outlines problems, plans to address homelessness, housing
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation on Monday released a lengthy 183-page action plan that looks at the state’s housing crisis, with calls to...
RIF awards $1.4M in grants to local health nonprofits to help...
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded $1.4 million in grants to eight local nonprofits as part of an effort to reduce health...
RIF unveils policy framework to improve public education
PROVIDENCE – Adjusting the state’s funding formula to offer schools more money for low-income and multilingual students, creating a state fund to pay for...
R.I. Foundation awards $84M in grants in 2022, second-most in history
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation in 2022 had its second-best grantmaking year and its third-best fundraising year in the nonprofit funder’s century-plus history.
The...
R.I. Foundation awards $110K to 19 organizations supporting Black community
PROVIDENCE – Close to $110,000 in grants via the Rhode Island Foundation’s Black Philanthropy Bannister Fund were awarded to 19 local nonprofits supporting the...
