Posts Tagged ‘RI Foundation’
Rhode Island Foundation invites Rhode Islanders to bring their ideas to the table at 1 of 6 event
From the Rhode Island Foundation to Rhode Islanders: Bring your ideas to the table as we chart a course for the Rhode Island Foundation that is informed by what matters most to you. We do not have all the answers, resources, experience, or expertise to alone address the challenging issues we face as a state. We…
Read MoreRhode Island Foundation awards $20M for housing, hunger, behavioral health
Nonprofits win $20 million in grants for housing, hunger and behavioral health The $20 million is the largest pool of grants in the Foundation’s history The Rhode Island Foundation today announced it has completed awarding $20 million in grants for hunger, housing and behavioral health to 240 nonprofits across the state. State leaders tapped the Foundation…
Read MoreRhode Island Foundation awarded nearly $84 million in grants in 2022 – raised $75 million
Rhode Island Foundation issues 2022 report
Read MoreLife sciences lessons not yet learned – Richard Asinof
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI, contributing writer Photo: Richard Asinof, Dignitaries throw ceremonial shovels of dirt as part of the official groundbreaking at the Wexford Innovation Center in September of 2017 Editor’s Note: The launch of the latest effort to build out a biotech/life sciences sector in Rhode Island, attempting to emulate the Massachusetts experience of…
Read MoreCommunity invited to RI Slave History Medallion installation, Sunday, in Barrington
Community invited to RI Slave History Medallion installation ceremony on Sunday, Oct. 2 The local community is invited to a special Rhode Island Slave History Medallion Installation Ceremony on Sunday, October 2 at 2 pm, at Barrington Public Library. History students and graphic design students will present the work they did for the Town of Barrington’s slave…
Read MoreRI Foundation $10,000 Community Grants application open
Local libraries, schools, neighborhood groups and nonprofits have until March 31 to apply The Rhode Island Foundation is offering local libraries, schools, neighborhood groups and nonprofit organizations grants of up to $10,000 to fund proposals that bring people together as a community. March 31 is the deadline to apply. “We are looking for ideas that will enhance…
Read MoreRhode Island Foundation awards nearly $500,000 in grants for animal welfare
Uses include funding low-cost vet care for pets of low-income households, preparing animals for adoption and wildlife rehabilitation The Rhode Island Foundation announced it has awarded nearly $500,000 in grants to dozens of animal welfare programs across the state. The funding will support a range of uses including low-cost vet care for pets of low-income households,…
Read MoreRhode Island Foundation offers “big ideas” for RI’s $1.1 billion
The RI Foundation announcement caps a six-month-long, rigorous research and public input process to identify “big ideas” with long-term benefits, especially for those impacted the most by the pandemic, to guide decision-making by state leaders The Rhode Island Foundation today released recommendations for spending $1.1 billion in broad stimulus funding the state is receiving from…
Read MoreAs the health care industry turns… – Richard Asinof
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI.com, contributing writer A wealth extraction system run amok? Has the health care industry in Rhode Island become a commodities market, immersed in a soap opera of private equity acquisition and consolidation? When happens when the patients say “Ouch?” Under the proposed merger of Lifespan, Care New England, and Brown, the Warren…
Read MoreRI Foundation meeting the demand, when there’s an incredible amount of need – Richard Asinof
Photo: An interview with Neil Steinberg, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI, contributing writer An interview with Neil Steinberg, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation In the midst of the terrible COVID pandemic, investments by the Rhode Island Foundation in the last year have served, in many…
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