Together RI

For the past fifty years, Amos House has been providing food and social services to some of our neediest neighbors. Eileen Hayes has led the organization for half of that time. She's helped Amos House grow from its...

Rabbi Sarah Mack has spent her entire career at Temple-Beth El in Providence. In 2017, she became the first female senior rabbi of a major congregation in the city. She's an outspoken advocate for social justice and...

Dana Borrelli-Murray is driven by the power of community, music-making, and social justice. She trained as an anthropologist, served as the Executive Director for the Highlander Institute, and now she's the CEO of the...

Manya Glassman grew up watching movies with her parents every night. Now, the Rhode Island native is a filmmaker herself. She's the creator of "How I Learned to Die," a short based on her own experience in high school...

Peter Chung is the executive director of Young Voices, a non-profit that gives urban youth the support and training they need to become powerful advocates for systemic reform and policy change. He joined Young Voices...

Earlier this year, David Cicilline was a guest on Give Better Get Better, a community foundation podcast. Take a listen to his conversation with host Josh Dukelow. Learn more about the Rhode Island Foundation at...

Zita Cobb grew up in Fogo Island, a small fishing community in Newfoundland. As she got older, overfishing led to a collapse of the industry, and her family was forced to move. Zita went on to a successful career in...

Pam Johnston has devoted her career to journalism- she started as a producer at TV stations in places like Maine and North Carolina, and went on to oversee news programming at WGBH in Boston. And when Rhode Island PBS...

One of the hard problems we face here in Rhode Island is our school funding formula. The current system is broken, unfair, unpredictable, and insufficient. Last year, the Rhode Island Foundation and the Annenberg...

This week, we're doing something a little different- letting you listen in on a conversation our host, David Cicilline, had on another podcast. Earlier this year, he spoke to Victor Baez, the host of Club Ambition. His...

Providence Bishop Bruce Lewandowski says he entered the priesthood to be a missionary. So, when he got the call to become the auxiliary bishop of Baltimore, he asked, 'Are you sure you have the right person?' This year...

Occasionally, the Rhode Island Foundation connects with thought leaders who are doing interesting work that might inform our efforts. We had our latest conversation with John Palfrey, the President of the John D. and...

More than 140,000 Rhode Islanders rely on supplemental nutrition assistance, known as SNAP, from the federal government to buy their food. But, because of the government shutdown, they won't be getting those SNAP...

Rhode Island schools throw away nearly 2,500 tons of food into the landfill every year. And nearly 400 tons of that food is perfectly edible. That's a problem for a lot of reasons. The landfill is running out of space...

Affordable housing is one of Rhode Island's most pressing issues. According to a recent poll, more than 90 percent of Rhode Islanders say housing costs are a problem, and the state is the 18th most expensive place to...