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Only Together: Our Five-Year Action Plan
We’ve spent more than a year conducting a careful assessment of our work and engaging deeply with Rhode Islanders from diverse backgrounds and experiences.
On behalf of the Board of Directors, and the entire team at the Rhode Island Foundation, we are thrilled to share the Foundation’s Five-Year Action Plan with you.
We’ve spent more than a year conducting a careful assessment of our work and engaging deeply with Rhode Islanders from diverse backgrounds and experiences. The outcome is an evolved mission and approach that is informed by the people we serve, and by our experience over the last 100+ years.
A critically important part of this work is a deepened commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and access (DEIA). Rhode Islanders were clear about the intersecting challenges they are facing. Increased cost of living and difficulty finding a safe, affordable home; inadequately resourced public schools and rising sea levels; and challenges finding a doctor, or a childcare provider, or a living wage job.
Over and over, the Foundation’s team heard the call to do more to address the state’s housing crisis, improve public education, foster economic opportunity, ensure access to quality, affordable healthcare, mitigate the persistent root causes of inequity, support climate action efforts, and help communities form stronger connections to civic life. It’s a tall order - but it’s what we’re built for.
The challenges we address are often varied and complex. They’re the kind that take more than one organization, or even more than one generation, to solve. That’s where the Rhode Island Foundation comes in. Our local roots, state-wide relationships, and century of experience run deep, and our hopes for our home reach high. We’re a true partner to those who help this state thrive, working hard at each table, across every community, by their side. We know our neighbors and work to earn their trust. We share their desire for the best for Rhode Island, and we see the path to reach it. This desire fuels our bold vision for opportunity, equity, and the wellbeing of our state and its people. We’re constructing the way to it with our partners and donors, piece-by-piece.
Because separately, we can have impact; but only together, on a solid foundation, can we build the future we all hope for.
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