The City of Warwick has decided how to allocate its $150,000 in contributive support for 30 various groups and organizations throughout the city – and although there are many groups benefiting from …
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The City of Warwick has decided how to allocate its $150,000 in contributive support for 30 various groups and organizations throughout the city – and although there are many groups benefiting from allocations, the biggest winner in terms of total amount is Mentor Rhode Island.
The mentorship program received $33,300 from the city, which when added to the $25,000 that was carved out and saved through the actions of the Warwick School Committee, makes for a budget that the group can work with going forward to continue training new mentors. It is an especially welcome number considering, at one point, they were unsure if they’d receive any money at all.
“I am so grateful because the mayor has said all along that he would stand behind the program,” said Mentor Rhode Island executive director Jo-Ann Schofield. “As we went through last year, it was obviously very difficult without the funding. This is such an affirmation not only of the work, but also that the city is standing behind our kids.”
“It could not have happened at a better time,” Schofield continued. “We’ll be actively recruiting more mentors and continuing to build the program as a result of both of those actions.”
Other allocations of note include $10,000 for the Volunteers of Warwick Schools (VOWS) program, which faces a total cut of its budget for the upcoming year due to the budgetary crisis faced by the school department; $2,500 for the Warwick Center for the Arts, which still faces an uncertain future regarding their leased building in Apponaug; $10,000 for WestBay Community Action and $8,500 for the Elizabeth Buffum Chace Center.
The full list of allocations is as follows:
ALS Association - $3,500
Boys and Girls Club - $7,500
Bridgemark - $5,000
C.H.I.L.D., Inc - $5,000
CCAP Health Center - $2,500
Cornerstone Adult Day Care Services - $5,000
Crossroads RI - Beach Avenue Apartments - $2,500
E.B.C. House - $8,500
Friend’s Way - $2,500
Greenwood Volunteer Fire Museum - $1,500
House of Hope CDC - $4,500
Kent County YMCA - $1,500
Meals on Wheels - $500
OSCIL - $3,000
RI Mentoring Partnership - $33,300
Sargent Rehabilitation Center - $2,500
Shalom Housing, Inc. - $3,000
The Gamm Theatre - $2,500
The Impossible Dream - $2,500
The Samaritans - $500
Thrive Behavioral Health - $5,000
Trudeau Memorial Center - $10,000
VNA of Care New England - $10,000
VOWS - $10,000
Warwick Center for the Arts - $2,500
Warwick PAL - $1,000
WestBay Community Action - $10,000
Warwick Coalition to Prevent Child Abuse - $1,500
St. Gregory the Great Church - $700
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church - $2,000
Total allocation - $150,000
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