Our grant making priorities focus on the impact we aspire to make in the community.
These grant priority areas are intentionally designed to recognize the connections between
education, health, economic development, and place. Emphasis in the grant consideration process will be on the impact the proposed activities will have on one or more of these grant priority areas. The Foundation is open to innovative and collaborative approaches, encouraging
proposals in the discovery, planning and pilot stages.
Aquidneck Island and Newport County remain at the center of our work. We recognize
that communities are part of larger systems and economies and we welcome proposals from outside this region that can make a clear case for the benefit to our target communities.
Additionally, we invest in strengthening organizations. Through our programming and grant making, we seek to advance our community’s capacity for leadership and best practices needed to thrive and to sustain high-performing nonprofits.