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Summary: Rhode Island LISC (PDF)

In Rhode Island—where LISC’s Building Sustainable Communities program is called “Our Neighborhoods”—police and community residents working together have made community safety a central part of comprehensive community development plans. In Providence’s Olneyville neighborhood, nuisance properties have been transformed into quality affordable housing, helping attract businesses to commercial corridors where crime previously deterred investment. Most recently, thanks to collaboration among LISC, community leaders, neighborhood organizations and the City of Providence, Riverside Park along the Woonasquatucket River has been reborn as a vibrant recreational space used by families, seniors and school groups. These efforts—as well as the broader Our Neighborhood agenda to build healthy neighborhoods—have been embraced by residents, elected officials, local businesses and other stakeholders, and featured in the news as a model that is having a significant impact in Rhode Island.

Cumulative Statistics

  • $228,917,021
    in total investments
    (LISC and affiliates)
  • 6,901 affordable homes and apartments
  • 1,717,414 square feet of retail and community space
  • $876,910,879 leveraged

2009 Statistics

  • $9,902,755
    in total investments
    (LISC and affiliates)
  • 249 affordable homes and apartments
  • 23,966 square feet of retail and community space
  • $22,953,113 leveraged

Donors

Private Sector Support

  • M.J. Andersen
  • B. Boyle Design
  • Bank of America
  • Bank of America - Frank B. Hazard Charity Fund
  • BankRI
  • Barbara Sokoloff Associates
  • Maria & Thomas Barry
  • Dan Baudouin & Renee Ciccoine
  • Robert & Susan Baxter
  • Robert & Mitzi Berkelhammer
  • Adrian Bonéy
  • Joshua Brandt
  • Maria & Denis Canton
  • Buff & Johnnie Chace
  • Citizens Bank
  • Citizens Bank Foundation
  • City Kitty Veterinary Care for Cats
  • Brenda Clement
  • Jeanne Cola
  • Dorene M. Conlon
  • CVS Caremark Charitable Trust
  • Lisa Davis
  • Jerrold Dorfman
  • Jonathan Fain
  • Fannie Mae
  • Barbara Fields
  • June N. Gibbs
  • Gilbane Building Company
  • Richard & Carla Godfrey
  • Nellie Gorbea
  • Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce
  • H. Carr & Sons, Inc.
  • Nicholas Haber
  • Amahl Harik
  • Nancy Howard & Mev Miller
  • Constance A. Howes
  • Marjorie Jensen
  • Ellen Kasle
  • Lawrence Katz
  • Michael J. Kerr
  • Scott D. LaJoie
  • Cynthia Langlykke
  • Sally Lapides
  • Brooke & Eugene Lee
  • Mary Lovejoy & John Whistler
  • Madison Properties, Inc.
  • Nancy Markham
  • Jack & Sara McConnell
  • Laura Mullen & Ben McOsker
  • Nation Wide Construction
  • Ray Neirinckx
  • Charles & Linda Newton
  • Charlotte Orlowski-Eicher Memorial Fund of The Rhode Island Foundation
  • Stephen J. O'Rourke
  • Nic & Joan Retsinas
  • The Rhode Island Foundation
  • Craig & Sarah Richardson
  • Clay Rockefeller
  • Robert M. Sabel
  • R. Eric Shorter
  • Alix Ogden & John Simmons
  • Julia Anne & Peter Slom
  • Sovereign Bank (acquired by Banco Santander, S.A.)
  • Stand Corporation
  • Richard & Betsy Staples
  • Sally Strachan
  • Natividad Taveras
  • Kelly & Nelson Taylor
  • Textron Charitable Trust
  • Matthew & Andrea Underwood
  • United Way of Rhode Island
  • Joe Vaughan & Aisling Dugan
  • Washington Trust Charitable Foundation
  • Webster Bank
  • Richard & Lindsey Yates
  • Myrth York & David Green
  • Charles & Rebecca Zakin
  • Carrie Zaslow

Public Sector Support

  • Corporation for National and Community Service
  • Rhode Island Housing
  • State of Rhode Island Department of Human Services
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development