Nonprofits Receive Nearly $7 Million in Grants in Alignment with the Priorities of the Foundation’s Five-Year Action Plan

Pocasset Pokanoket Land Trust is one of dozens of nonprofits across the state that will share nearly $7 million in grants from two new grant programs launched last year as part of the Rhode Island Foundation’s new Five-Year Action Plan.

“We are focused on crucial community priorities like civic and cultural life, housing and economic mobility, healthy and strong communities, sustainability, and education and student success,” said David N. Cicilline, the Foundation’s president and CEO.

“These grants deliver on the more than one year of community outreach and research that went into developing a blueprint to address the varied and complex challenges the state faces,” said Cicilline.

The Foundation awarded more than $6.5 million from its new Community Priority Grants program, which, provides programmatic and general operating support to organizations and programs that respond to one or more of the Foundation’s community priorities and related focus areas.