Community Partners

The Amos House: Helping people help themselves out of oppression, homelessness, and poverty through vital services and results-oriented programs.

The Boys and Girls Club (South Side Club): To enable and inspire youth, especially those from diverse or difficult circumstances. 

CCAP (Cranston) & CCAP (Providence): To empower all people and communities, challenged by poverty as well as social and cultural barriers, through advocacy, education, and access to high quality health and human services.

City Year of Providence: At City Year, we believe that all students can succeed and that developing the skills and mindsets of children and young adults contributes to strong, vibrant communities—outcomes that benefit all of us.

Clothes to Kids RI: Our mission is to provide new and quality used clothing to low-income or in-crisis, school-age children in Providence County, Rhode Island—free of charge. Clothes To Kids RI envisions a community in which every school-age child has quality clothing so that he or she may attend school with the confidence and self-esteem needed to achieve academic success.

College Visions: College Visions empowers low-income and first-generation college students to achieve the promise of higher education, while leading the way for innovative college planning and advising.

Crossroads RI: To help homeless or at-risk individuals and families secure stable homes.

Dorcas International: Empowers individuals and families, especially immigrants, refugees and the underserved, to become self-sufficient and fully participating members of our diverse community through innovative programs and advocacy that promote education, training, and cultural understanding.

Eduleaders of Color RI: EduLeaders of Color RI is an initiative of the Equity Institute and focuses on supporting and developing Rhode Island education leaders of color and allies through community events, educational programming, and professional development.

Equity Institute: Aim to partner with schools and communities to develop equitable and sustainable learning environments.

Family Service of Rhode Island: Advance equity, opportunity, and hope in our communities. We believe all children and families have limitless potential. But for those growing up surrounded by poverty, family instability, and physical or emotional stress, life is too often about survival, not possibility.

Genesis Center: Committed to supporting our students and community and remain dedicated to advancing and creating programs that center on social justice, equity and inclusion. 

Habitat for Humanity - RI: Partners with people in your community, and all over the world, to help them build or improve a place they can call home.

Inspiring Minds: Empowers students to succeed and thrive in school and life by developing trusted relationships with community members who are knowledgeable of the culturally responsive, academic, and socio-emotional needs necessary for student success.

LISC Rhode Island: LISC bridges the gap by offering the relationships and expertise to help community organizations attract the kinds of resources that allow them do their best work. 

Lucy's Hearth: To provide comprehensive programs and services to homeless families in a safe, supportive environment that promotes family health and stability and increases self-sufficiency in order to achieve permanent, affordable housing.

One Neighborhood Builders: Develops affordable housing and engages neighbors across Greater Providence to cultivate healthy, vibrant, and safe communities.

Onward We Learn: Prepare and inspire young people in Rhode Island to become the first in their families to attend and complete college.

PLEE (Parents Leading for Educational Equity): To demand a high-quality public school education for every child of color and be a voice for parents, caregivers & caretakers when policy decisions are being made at the local and state level.

PASA (Afterzone and The Hub): To help close persistent opportunity gaps by expanding and improving quality after school, summer and other out of school time learning opportunities for all youth of Providence by organizing a sustainable public-private partnership that contributes to student success and serves as a national model. 

Progreso Latino: To help Rhode Island's Latino and immigrant communities to achieve greater self-suffciency and socio-economic progress by providing transformational programs that ;support personal growth and social change. 

Providence Public Libraries: PPL is continually transforming and focused on providing equally transformative experiences for all Rhode Islanders. The Library is actively expanding our reach through critical statewide collaborations and serving as an open and supportive teaching and learning place where communities can connect, experience, create and achieve, whether in our physical or virtual realms.

Refugee Dream Center: Offering direct services to fill gaps in refugee resettlement, while also providing continuation of services to ensure refugee self-reliance and self-sufficiency.

RI Indian Council: To meet the needs of today's Native families. We hope to build independence through a strong economic foundation utilizing our culture, history and traditions. 

RIDE: Together Through Opportunity: Pathways to Student Success, Rhode Island's Strategic Plan for PK-12 Education, developed in collaboration with key stakeholders across the state, aims to unify students, families, and educators across the state around the priorities and commitments that will advance opportunities for all Rhode Island students.

RIRAL: To assist adults in the process of reaching their academic, occupational, or personal goals through education, counseling, and training.

Sojourner House: To promote healthy relationships by providing culturally sensitive support, advocacy, housing, and education for victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assualt, and human trafficking; and to effect systems change.

South Providence Neighborhood Association (SPNA): Our focus remains first & foremost on what neighbors, especially our Black & Brown neighborhors, in our footprint of the Southside of Providence want to focus on as part of their goals & vision for our neighborhood. 

Teach for America - RI: Teach For America finds, develops, and supports equity-oriented leaders–individually and in teams–so they can transform education and expand opportunity with children, starting in the classroom.

The Education Exchange: The Education Exchange has been committed to empowering adults through education and job training.

UCAP: The UCAP School provides what most urban schools are not able to offer to students who face socio-economic challenges including early and intensive intervention, accelerated learning opportunities, personal attention to students’ needs in a small-school environment and extended learning and social growth opportunities through Beyond U programs.

West End Community Center (WECC): The main objective is to expand the quantity and improve the quality of services available to the residents of our diverse community and to aid them in acquiring the  knowledge, motivation resources and skills to achieve the American Dream.  

Young Voices: Young Voices is a Rhode Island based non-profit organization that transforms urban youth into powerful advocates, who partner with our Stae's major leaders to create systemic reform and policy change that improve the lives of thousands of youth across the state.