PROVIDENCE – The Women’s Fund of Rhode Island has selected eight local organizations to receive grants from this year through 2026 for projects that will likely create a more equitable landscape for women and girls to thrive in the Ocean State.
The organizations will receive $75,000 in total per year through 2026 for their initiatives. The Women’s Fund says the projects focus on public policy work, youth-led opportunities, critical needs such as housing and employment, and reproductive rights.
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The annual grants range between $8,738 and $10,000. The organizations receiving the funding, their amounts and initiatives are:
- Amos House: $10,000 to fund the Bridge to Career Opportunities program, which includes concurrent support services, basic education, job training, career counseling and financial coaching to improve employment and economic outcomes for 25 low-income women facing financial insecurity.
- Alliance of Rhode Island Southeast Asians for Education: $10,000 for youth-led development, testing and implementation of a new civic advocacy curriculum, which focuses specifically on issues of gender inequity, including stipends for collaborators.
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England: $10,000 to strengthen advocacy and public policy work, growing a larger and more diverse base of supporters who will further shape the reproductive rights movement.
- Women’s Health & Education Fund: $10,000 for operating expenses for Rhode Island’s only abortion fund.
- Young Voices: $8,786 to fund GRL PWR, a youth-led Black, Indigenous and people of color women and non-binary empowerment group that focuses on policy change within the Providence community, focusing on dismantling systemic inequities in school disciplinary practices and implementing restorative justice.
- Rhode Island Coalition to End Homelessness: $8,738 in renewed funding for the Voices of Homelessness and Constituent Advisory Committee.
- Refugee Dream Center: $8,738 to fund the Afghani Women Integration project to alleviate social isolation and increase access to resources, including English as a second language, health education, employment opportunities and other services.
- SafeBae: $8,738 to comprehensively engage school and parent communities in a series of targeted activities that reduce relationship violence through youth engagement and supporting caregivers/parents to improve their communication with their teens.
James Bessette is the PBN special projects editor, and also covers the nonprofit and education sectors. You may reach him at Bessette@PBN.com. You may also follow him on Twitter at @James_Bessette.
