Recent Recipients

Education

Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County, Inc.
to support the Reading Reaps Rewards program
$11,000
Institute on the Study and Practice of NonViolence
for the Peaceable Schools program at Thompson Middle School
$25,000
Jamestown Art Center
to pilot the Youth Design Studio
$25,000
Jamestown Education Foundation
to support the extension of the Science and Math Scholars Program into the fifth grade
$68,750
Martin Luther King Center, Inc.
to pilot the Move Up Math program
$25,000
Naval War College Foundation
to establish the John A. van Beuren Chair of Asia Pacific Studies
$1,250,000
Norman Bird Sanctuary Trust
to develop the Maidford River Watershed education programs
$22,000
Tiverton Library Foundation
toward the Children’s Wing in the new Tiverton Library
$250,000
Undersea Science and Engineering Foundation, Inc.
to support the Undersea Technology Apprentice Program for Summer 2012
$21,400
Total Education (9 items) $1,698,150

Health

Butler Hospital
to expand and reorganize the emergency room
$200,000
Farm Fresh Rhode Island
to pilot the Veggie Box program with low income families in Newport
$50,000
Healing Co-Operative
to expand the Mind/Body Medicine program
$17,000
Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island
for the Palliative Care Consult program at Newport Hospital
$25,000
Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island, Inc.
for general operating support of the Home Delivered Program in Newport County
$10,000
East Bay Community Action Program
to support a new Health Center
$50,000
Newport County Community Mental Health Center
for the purchase of new service vehicles
$66,000
Newport County YMCA
to replace the pool’s wheelchair lift
$12,400
Rhode Island Community Food Bank
to support the Newport Neighborhood Pantry Express program, transportation related costs to Newport County food pantries, and support of Aquidneck Island emergency food pantries
$85,000
Riverwood Mental Health Services
to pilot Housing First in Newport
$30,000
Southside Community Land Trust
to support the Rhode Island Food Policy Council
$41,025
Visiting Nurse Services of Newport & Bristol Counties
for the Hospice Program and new computers
$81,903
Women & Infants Hospital of RI
for support of the Middletown Center for Health and Well Being
$25,000
Women’s Resource Center
to support counseling for underinsured victims of domestic violence and their children
$25,000
Total Health (14 items) $718,328

Historic Preservation

AIA/Rhode Island Architectural Forum
to support the Peter Harrison AIA Gold Medal nomination
$5,000
International Tennis Hall of Fame
to restore the historic tile floor at the entry vestibule
$11,000
Newport Art Museum
for support of the Operations Manager and enclosing the Griswold House porte cochere
$73,000
Newport Historical Society
for Lost & Found: Phase II
$50,000
Preservation Society of Newport County
for The Elms Carriage House renovation drawings
$65,000
Preserve Rhode Island
for the Preservation Easement Program focus study in Newport County
$20,000
Rhode Island School of Design
for an Adaptive Reuse Studio in Newport
$60,000
Seamen’s Church Institute of Newport
for the exterior masonry and window restoration project
$12,820
University of Rhode Island Foundation
for the Pell Senatorial Papers Preservation project
$10,000
Total Historic Preservation (9 items) $306,820

Land Use and Conservation

American Farmland Trust
to develop baseline data for measuring food system progress in Rhode Island and New England
$17,500
Aquidneck Island Planning Commission
for initial staff support of the Regional Transportation Improvement Committee and for Board and strategic planning
$49,300
Aquidneck Land Trust
for the conservation of the Young and Gibbs properties
$300,000
Aquidneck Land Trust
toward completion of the Sakonnet Greenway Trail
$50,000
Doris Duke Monument Foundation
for artistic and landscape improvements to Queen Anne Square
$350,000
Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
to the annual fund
$2,000
Grow Smart Rhode Island
for general operating support and support of statewide transportation initiatives
$50,000
Grow Smart Rhode Island
to support the Aquidneck Island Smart Growth Forum
$5,000
Middletown Tree Association
to support the tree maintenance and tree planting incentive programs
$7,000
newportFILM
for the Green Screen Documentary Series
$35,100
newportFILM
to support the speaker fee for the Gasland Screening
$2,000
Norman Bird Sanctuary Trust
for the Strategic Financial Planning Project
$15,000
Rhode Island Association of Conservation Districts
for RI Agricultural Partnership staffing and pilot projects
$100,000
Rhode Island Natural History Survey
for botany work related to the Rhody Native project
$37,626
Rhode Island Rural Development Council
to support the Sustainable Fisheries Marketing and Education Collaborative
$30,000
Save the Bay
to support two Aquidneck Island Community adaptive land use demonstration projects and education/outreach for the Rhode Island Rivers project
$50,000
Third Sector New England
to support the RI Land Trust Council’s Farm Conservation Initiative
$20,000
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
for the Rhode Island River Study
$124,000
Total Land Use and Conservation (18 items) $1,244,526

Non-Categorical

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Ocean State
for the Traditional Mentoring Program in Newport County
$2,500
Council on Foundations
to support the annual fund
$500
Lucy’s Hearth
for general operating support
$40,000
Newport Music Festival
to support the 2011 festival
$15,000
Robert Potter League for Animals, Inc.
for requested support of staff positions and support of the Animal Care and Behavior program
$30,000
Shake-A-Leg, Inc.
to purchase a sailboat for the Adaptive Sailing Program
$25,000
Total Non-Categorical (6 items) $113,000
Grand Total (56 items) $4,080,824