NEW: Two Non-Profits Win RI Foundation Best Practice Awards
Thursday, May 17, 2012
The Rhode Island Foundation’s Initiative for Non Profit Excellence (INE) announced College Visions and the Pawtucket Citizens Development Corporation as the inaugural winners of the Best Practice Awards. Sponsored by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, the new award program recognizes outstanding practices by Rhode Island nonprofit organizations in the areas of board governance, leadership development, and creative collaboration.
“This is the first time we are honoring nonprofit organizations for their work in building capacity and are pleased to put the spotlight on these two outstanding Rhode Island organizations,” said Jill Pfitzenmayer, vice president of the INE. “It the INE’s mission to strengthen Rhode Island’s nonprofit sector and we are pleased to recognize successful practices that we hope can be shared with other organizations across the state.”
College Visions
College Visions is being honored with the Best Practice Award for Board Governance. Founded in 2004, the organization is dedicated to coaching low-income and first-generation students to enter, succeed in, and graduate from college. The award recognizes the organization for creating and implementing a process for identifying and on-boarding passionate, mission-driven board members, with a strong commitment to diversity.
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The Pawtucket Citizens Development Corporation’s “Project RENEW” is receiving the Best Practice Award for Creative Collaboration. Launched in 2006, “Project RENEW” is an innovative project focused on providing street outreach, case management, HIV prevention, and referrals for female commercial sex workers. The award recognizes that “nontraditional partnerships have been created with the police departments of Central Falls and Pawtucket, probation, parole, substance abuse and mental health treatment agencies, and the Pawtucket Housing Authority to change the lives of women involved in prostitution, thereby reframing an issue that is often seen as ‘police work’ to ‘community work.’”
Both organizations will receive unrestricted grants of $1,500 and tuition waivers for up to two board or staff members to any INE programs for one year following the award. Recipients will also be honored in a ceremony on Thursday, May 24, 2012, at Blue Cross & Blue Shield Rhode Island headquarters, as well as recognized at the annual meeting of the Rhode Island Foundation on Wednesday, May 30, 2012.
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