GCRI Member Organization Events

Please join your colleagues for the following events sponsored by GCRI member organizations.  If you have organizational events that you’d like to share with GCRI colleagues, please forward them to nancy.wolanski@uwri.org.

PAWTUCKET / CENTRAL FALLS HEALTH EQUITY ZONE LAUNCH
Sponsored by LISC RI
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 – 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Veterans Memorial Garden Amphitheater, adjacent to Pawtucket City Hall

The collaborative HEZ work plan, for both cities, strives to create neighborhoods where all residents have full and equitable access to safe streets, parks, recreational areas, affordable housing, and healthy food.  Join First Gentleman Andy Moffit, Office of the Governor; Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott, MD, MPH, Director, Rhode Island Department of Health; Mayor James Diossa, City of Central Falls; and Mayor Donald Grebien, City of Pawtucket.  Questions?  Please contact Deanna Bruno at LISC:  (401) 519-5696 or dbruno@lisc.org.  Please RSVP by June 10.

INVESTING IN CHANGE:  FOUNDATION SUPPORT FOR LOBBYING AND OTHER ADVOCACY
Sponsored by the Rhode Island Foundation
June 30, 1:30pm-2:45pm
On Thursday, June 30, Isaiah Castilla of Bolder Advocacy, an initiative of the Alliance for Justice to promote active engagement in democratic processes and institutions by giving nonprofits and foundations the confidence to advocate effectively, will be in town for a training with nonprofits on federal and state advocacy rules. (Learn more about that session.) We’re pleased to invite our funder colleagues to a private session with Isaiah that afternoon.  Not sure how to make the case for funding advocacy? Uncertain whether you can fund grantees that lobby? Wondering whether your public or private foundation can speak out on a particular issue? This training, for both public and private foundations, answers these questions and more!  Please RSVP by June 27.  REGISTER HERE