Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, City of Providence, Rhode Island Foundation announce $110,000 in grants to grow knowledge economy
The Innovation Providence Implementation Council (IPIC), the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, the City of Providence, and The Rhode Island Foundation yesterday awarded $110,000 in grants to seven projects that have been identified as promising economic opportunities in growing the local Knowledge Economy. The grants were given in the areas of health care, design, workforce development, and entrepreneurship.
The projects will be funded through the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, the City of Providence, and The Rhode Island Foundation.
 "By supporting local innovators working in our state's knowledge economy, we are capitalizing on the opportunity to advanced new technologies, create jobs, and develop a center for entrepreneurial activity, said Neil D. Steinberg, president and CEO of The Rhode Island Foundation.
Learn more and see a list of award winners.
In top photo (l to r): Thom Deller, Providence Economic Development Partnership; Neil Steinberg, The Rhode Island Foundation; Sara Duphily, Julie Sygiel (CEO & founder), and Catherine Kwolek, grantee Eulie LLC; Connie Howes, chair, IPIC; and Bill Hatfield, vice chair, IPIC, and chair, Chamber board of directors.
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Foundation announces 14 first quarter strategy grants
The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded 14 competitive strategy grants totaling $565,028 to local nonprofit agencies during the first quarter of 2011. Through its discretionary grant program, the Foundation supports projects that strive for long-term solutions to critical community issues. Strategy grants strongly encourage collaborative projects that serve disadvantaged Rhode Islanders, foster innovation and seek to achieve efficiencies, reduce duplication, and provide strategies for long-term sustainability. In 2010, the Foundation awarded 114 strategy grants totaling $5.6 million.
"The Foundation offers several types of grant support for Rhode Island's nonprofits. Strategy grants are extremely competitive and we applaud these nonprofit organizations. From promoting effective energy policy to chronic disease management, organizations are committed to finding long term solutions that will improve the lives of Rhode Islanders," said Neil D. Steinberg, president and CEO of the Foundation.
Strategy grants fall into six sectors: arts and culture, community and economic development, education, environment, health, and human services. Last year, the Foundation announced an added emphasis on two areas within these sectors that it believes are critical to our state's economic well-being: public education and primary health care. The Foundation, the largest and most comprehensive funder of Rhode Island's nonprofit organizations, works in partnership with donors and nonprofit organizations to meet the needs of the people of Rhode Island. In 2010, it granted a record $29.2 million, the largest annual amount in the community foundation's 95-year history.
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Grantee spotlight:
TEAMhealth2 at Saint Antoine Residence
Not many job training programs - especially those targeting under-employed and under-skilled persons - can boast a placement rate of 100% and a retention rate of 92%.
Yet those are the impressive outcomes of TEAMhealth2 (Training, Employ, Advance, Mentor), a certified nursing assistant (CNA) training and career laddering program offered by Saint Antoine Residence in North Smithfield.
The program is much more than extraordinary statistics. It's people like Maria, a single mother of five from Puerto Rico who, while working full-time in a supermarket, registered for the first TEAMhealth class in 2007.
Read the story, Job training provides 'your path to a future in healthcare.'
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