HarborOne Foundation Rhode Island Awards $201,000 in Grants
(Pictured: HarborOne Bank’s Brigid Newman, Director of Institutional Giving and Year Up’s Program Director Uche Iloanusi, and Jamie Omisore and Claudia Cardozo from HarborOne. Youth from Year Up including, Brian Rodriguez, Ramon Nunez, Joselynn Moreno, Jeripher Pascual, Jonathan Rudolph, Jordan Baig, and Tarsavahn Sangasy)
(Pictured left to right: Jen White, VP Community & Public Relations of HarborOne Bank and HarborOne Foundation RI Board Member, Kathleen Breen Combes, Executive Director of Festival Ballet Providence and Phillip Kydd, VP of HarborOne Foundation RI Board of Directors)
(Providence, RI) – July XX, 2022 – Year Up Rhode Island, was among sixteen recipients of the bi-annual HarborOne Foundation Rhode Island grants benefiting local children and families. HarborOne’s grant will support Year Up’s job training program and provide skills to young adults looking to join the workforce in RI. The organization is committed to providing equitable access for all young adults. Through direct services and strategic partnerships, Year Up closes the opportunity divide and assists young adults in launching and furthering their careers.
HarborOne’s grant award will also support the Festival Ballet Providence. The grant will be utilized for a portfolio of transformative diversity and inclusion initiatives that includes multiple efforts: Funding tuition assistance for promising dance students of color through the Derrick Davis Memorial Fund; Providing recruitment support for BIPOC educators and dancers and choreographers; and Supporting program initiatives to include connecting BIPOC professional dancers and choreographers with aspiring dance students.
“The HarborOne Foundation Rhode Island is proud to support all sixteen grantees in Rhode Island said Phillip Kydd, Vice President HarborOne Foundation Rhode Island. “The Foundation’s work is centered on investing in programs and leaders who are having a transformative impact on their local community. “
Since its inception, The HarborOne Foundation Rhode Island has invested over $1 Million to support and expand the work of community non-profits including those organizations that promote educational opportunity, create access to safe and affordable housing and provide basic human services to our most vulnerable citizens.
Grantees for this round of funding include:
- Adoption Rhode Island
- AS220
- Books Are Wings
- Child & Family
- Crossroads Rhode Island
- Festival Ballet Providence
- Girls on the Run Rhode Island
- Inspiring Minds
- Meeting Street
- MENTOR Rhode Island
- Mount Hope Neighborhood Association, Inc
- Reach Out and Read RI
- Read to Succeed
- Rhode Island Community Food Bank
- Sojourner House, Inc.
- Year Up Rhode Island
About HarborOne Bank
HarborOne Bank, headquartered in Massachusetts, with $4.6 billion in assets. HarborOne Bank serves the financial needs of consumers, businesses, and municipalities throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island through a network of 30 full-service branches, and two commercial loan offices in Boston and Providence. The Bank also provides a range of educational services through “HarborOne U,” with content and classes available on personal finance and small business delivered virtually as well as at community locations throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island. HarborOne Mortgage, LLC, a subsidiary of HarborOne Bank, is a full-service mortgage lender with offices throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire and is licensed in seven additional states.