Our Grantees

Congratulations to our new (2011) Grantees

George Wiley Center: An $8,500 grant toward the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.

Girls Rock! Rhode Island: An $8,000 grant to support capacity building and development.

Olneyville Neighborhood Association (ONA): A $6,500 grant to support Nuestra Comunidad Segura.

Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE-RI): An $8,500 grant to support Transforming Health Care for Lesbian Elders.

Senior Agenda Coalition: An $8,000 grant to engage the community of women 65 and older to become policy advocates.

Socio-Economic Development Center for Southeast Asians (SEDC-SEA): An $8,500 grant to support Southeast Asians Restoring Community Hope (SEARCH).

Grant Award Recipients - 2010

For the third consecutive year the Women’s Fund of Rhode Island was awarded a grant by the Verizon Foundation to support social change grant making with focus on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault and Trauma issues in our state. As a result, the following of organizations were funded in 2010:

Day One: A $6,000 grant to support One Voice program, which allows survivors of sexual assault and sexual abuse to join together in support and advocacy, with women’s leadership at the core of the group.
Perishable Theatre: A $2,500 grant to support production of Carson Kreitzer’s 1:23, a play that examines two nationally recognized cases of domestic violence and the hidden risk-factors at work.
Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (RICADV): A $9,000 third-year grant to support the program Sisters Overcoming Abusive Relationships (SOAR): Child Custody and Visitation Solutions. The program trains survivors of relationship abuse to advocate for policy change and general awareness that protect abuse victims made vulnerable by current protocol in custody and visitation suits.
In addition to the grant received from the Verizon Foundation, the Fund awarded a $5,000 grant to Planned Parenthood of Southern New England to be directed towards the Healthy Kids RI Coalition project –a grassroots coalition whose primary goal is to build and develop strong working relationships with key legislative and agency stakeholders in the state, while also training youth to implement a successful campaign strategy.

What grantees have to say about receiving a grant from us

“Many more traditional funders tend to provide support for projects that have real quick short-term results and make the funders feel they had an immediate impact. But social change takes a long time, and that is why it is so helpful and so important for the Women’s Fund to sustain the work of the Child Safety Custody and Visitation project.”

- Deb DeBare, Executive Director, RICADV, Grant Recipient

“Not only has the Women’s Fund of Rhode Island helped with our mentoring program, it has helped the women in our chapter become more involved politically. The Women’s Fund brought us together with others to learn about advocacy.”

- Jackie Ogidan, LEAD Coordinator and Member, Rhode Island Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women.