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Appropriations Project Requests On January 6, 2009 the House and Senate Appropriations Committees announced additional reforms in Committee earmark policy. The changes were instituted to further increase transparency and reduce funding levels for earmarks, building on reforms brought about in the last Congress. As of FY10, Members of Congress will be required to post information on their earmark requests on their websites at the time the request is made explaining the purpose of the earmark and why it is a valuable use of taxpayer funds.
The following is a list is in accordance with that requirement and shows items requested to the House Appropriations Committee as of March 22, 2010. This list may be amended at anytime and items may be added after the March 22, 2010 date. Please contact Kimber Colton or George Zainyeh in my office for any questions.
Ad Council Public Service Advertising Campaign
The Ad Council
1203 19th Street
Washington, DC 20036
Requested Amount: $800,000
The Ad Council, in partnership with SAMHSA, proposes to extend its public service advertising (PSA) campaign to prevent and reduce the rates of teen suicide. The campaign, which includes TV, radio, internet, newspaper, magazine and web banner PSA’s, will launch in March 2010. Unfortunately, SAMHSA has very limited funding and the further campaign outreach will be limited following the launch. This funding would extend the campaign for an additional 1-3 years to create new PSAs, secure additional media, maintain media distribution, and increase social media partnerships. This use of funds will serve an important mental health and public service cause.
Advancing Economic Opportunity and Job Creation for Aquidneck Island
The Aquidneck Island Planning Commission (AIPC)
437 Broadway
Newport, RI 02840
Requested Amount: $308,000
These projects aim to improve the economic conditions and create jobs for the taxpayers on Aquidneck Island and in the State of Rhode Island. By streamlining municipal services and lowering the overall tax impact on local residents there is a greater ability for investment and job creation.
ALS Therapy Development Institute Gulf War Research Program
ALS Therapy Development Institute
215 First Street
2nd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02142
Requested Amount: $4,800,000
Several government sponsored studies have concluded that veterans of the first Gulf War can develop the fatal neurodegenerative disease known as ALS twice as frequently as the general population. ALS Therapy Development Institute’s research will offer hope for a broader understanding and recovery from ALS to so many men and women who have served in the armed forces can better cope with this disease.
At-Risk Educational Outreach Program
The Light Foundation
P.O. Box 748
Greenville, Ohio 45331
Requested Amount: $250,000
The funding will go to the Light Foundation which promotes responsibility and hard work among America’s youth. The Light Foundation has educated students at Woonsocket Middle School on financial literacy through in-class, semester-long courses and programs for at risk youth. Due to the success of both programs, The Light Foundation would like to expand these opportunities to a greater number of youth in Rhode Island by working with eight to ten additional school districts.
Autism Center for Excellence
The Autism Project
1516 Atwood Avenue
Johnston, RI 02919
Requested Amount: $1,088,978
This funding for the Autism Center for Excellence will provide comprehensive services to children and families throughout the state. The program is designed to offer a unique approach, providing a full continuum of care for children and young adults with autism and asbergers. This use of funds would serve a vital community service.
Bay Street Area Sewer Design
Town of Tiverton, RI
343 Highland Rd
Tiverton, RI 02878
Requested Amount: $207,000
This project will design sewers for the Bay Street area of Tiverton, RI. This is an area of Town that currently has substandard & failing septic systems. The project will benefit 103 properties in the Bay Street area. Failing and substandard septic systems in the area contribute to the pollution in Mt. Hope Bay and ultimately Narragansett Bay and the Sakonnet River. Replacing these substandard and failing spetic systems with a sewer system will help clean up these resources which in turn will benefit the entire State.
Best Buddies Empowerment for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Best Buddies International
150 Midway Road, Suite 155
Cranston, RI 02920
Requested Amount: $10,000,000
This project will strengthen Best Buddies inclusion programs nationwide, educate youth with intellectual disabilities via the Best Buddies E-Buddies Program, expand leadership development programs, and provide for Best Buddies Leadership Training. This use of funds will benefit 18,750 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities as well as their families, peers, colleagues, and teachers.
Blackstone Bikeway
Rhode Island Department of Transportation
Two Capitol Hill
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $7,000,000
This project would construct 3.5 miles of bikeway in North Smithfield and Woonsocket . The project would include construction of sections of on-road and off-road facilities, which would spur connections to the public library, the future Woonsocket Middle School Complex, and several bridges. This bikeway would provide a safe, efficient, and continuous facility that encourages bicycle riding as an alternate means of transportation.
Blackstone Valley River Rescue Initiative
Blackstone Valley River Rescue Committee
555 High Street
Cumberland, RI 02864
Requested Amount: $48,919.64
This funding will provide river rescue equipment for a regional rescue team that responds to emergencies in and along the Blackstone River. This use of funds would serve an important community safety purpose.
Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury Mitigation Research
Brown University
38 Brown Street
Providence, RI 02912
Requested Amount: $12,500,000
This project is intended to better understand blast-induced TBI, which is little understood, develop protective gear that will have more resistance to both blunt impact and blast-induced TBI and create standards to better measure the effectiveness of protective gear for active duty military personnel. DoD studies show that over 50 percent of servicemembers in Iraq will experience some form of traumatic brain injury. Efforts to study this condition will improve medical outcomes for the Armed Forces and enhance the quality of life for our soldiers and Marines.
Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket Expansion Project
Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket
One Moeller Place Pawtucket, RI 02860
Requested Amount: $2,000,000
This project would add a gym/wellness center for teen members to the Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket, which would reduce obesity. It would also renovate current Club education, visual and performing arts, and technology program areas. This would encourage the development of relationships that address violence prevention, gang resistance, and education and career preparation.
Boys Town New England
58 Flanagan Road
Portsmouth, RI 02871
Requested Amount: $175,000
This funding will increase the number of at-risk boys and girls served in the New England area to greatly reduce the need for further out-of-home placement, including residential and foster care and/or correctional or prison facility. This funding will enable Boys Town to expand their work locally and nationally.
Bridge Replacements
Rhode Island Department of Transportation
Two Capitol Hill
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $10,000,000
This project would rehabilitate and replace 16 medium-sized, structurally deficient bridges that are located throughout Rhode Island . Without the additional funding to address this need, rehabilitation and replacement of these structurally deficient bridges would continue to be delayed and their condition would continue to deteriorate.
Bridge to Prosperity Program
The Pawtucket Foundation
67 Park Place
Pawtucket, RI 02862
Requested Amount: $389,300
This program will provide resources for public/private partnership to provide technical planning expertise, economic development planning, marketing resources and GIS decision-making capabilities that do not currently exist in the region. This use of funds offer important economic development.
Bright Futures Initiative for At-Risk Youth
Bright Futures Initiative for At-Risk Youth
514 Blackstone Street
Woonsocket, RI 02865
Requested Amount: $1,050,000
Funding is needed to expand upon a variety of youth programs from communities across the state that are comprehensive and multifaceted, build on the assets and strengths of young people, and assist them to define goals, complete school, and plan for the future. Such efforts will help reduce the dropout rate and help at risk youth in particular.
Bristol Warren After-School Music Program for All
Bristol Warren School District Performing Arts Department
199 Chestnut Street
Bristol, RI 02809
Requested Amount: $245,388
This funding will target at-risk, low-income youth, allowing them the opportunity to learn to play an instrument in a positive, supportive environment. This use of funds will serve the students and community by assisting with dropout prevention, fostering community engagement, and increased self-esteem.
Broad Street Corridor Plan and and Valley Fall/Lonsdale Master Plan Implementation
Town of Cumberland
411 Fairview Ave
Cumberland, RI 02864
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
This project would implement and staff (5-7 full time equivalent positions) a broad range of implementation projects and programs identified in the Broad Street Corridor in Lonsdale/Valley Falls Master Plans. Over the last 3 years the town of Cumberland, Cities of Pawtucket and Central Falls , and a number of state and nonprofit agencies have been working to revitalize Broad Street, a major urban corridor running through these three communities, including a micro-enterprise grant program.
Broadway Streetscape Improvements
City of Newport
43 Broadway
Newport, RI 02840
Requested Amount: $300,000
This project would make improvements to Broadway, one of the most heavily travelled streets in Newport . Broadway connects motorists with the waterfront, Cliff Walk, and Mansions, as well as downtown and Ocean Drive. Broadway is also used heavily by pedestrians.
Career Development, Employments and Job Training Center for Young Adults with Asperger's Syndrome and Others with Psycho-Social Problems
Groden Center Inc.
86 Mt. Hope Avenue
Providence, RI 02906
Requested Amount: $1,326,266
This project will develop an Employment Center for people with Asberger's Syndrome and other psychological issues with social and job skill training at its heart. Participants will be taught to interact effectively with their peers and their employers and teachers as well as manage their own behavioral challenges. Also, participants will be matched with appropriate job training and linked to employment opportunities. This use of funds will serve the Asperger's Syndrome community and will
Caroline Pryce Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer Act
Curesearch National Childhood Cancer Foundation
4600 East West Highway
Bethesda, MD 20814
Requested Amount: $30,000,000
As authorized in the Caroline Pryce Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer Act (PL-110-285), the funding will be used to support programs of research excellence in pediatric cancer. It will be used to enhance and expand infrastructure to track and locate patients to facilitate the study of the epidemiology of pediatric cancer through a nationwide registry of actual occurrences of pediatric cancer known as the Childhood Cancer Research Network (CCRN). This use of funds will improve childhood cancer research and provide informational services to patients and families affected by childhood cancer.
Castings for Improved Defense Readiness
American Metalcasting Consortium
Trident Research Center
5300 International Boulevard
Charleston, SC 29418
Requested Amount: $4,500,000
Castings for Improved Defense Readiness will inject castings expertise into the defense supply centers to cut lead times, reduce backorders, and ensure cost effective, reliable cast components. This project will streamline efficiency and result in significant savings for the taxpayer. It will also quantify the benefits of high performance matrix composite components, which have shown promise in holding up against abrasive and stressing conditions like those in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Child Abuse Training Programs for Judicial Personnel and Practicioners
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ)
1041 N. Virginia Street, 3rd Floor
Reno, Nevada 89557
Requested Amount: $3,000,000
This project, with funding from OJJDP, will improve outcomes for abused and neglected children and their families. NCJFCJ Model Courts serve as both advocates of change and models for change in child protection cases. The project actively assists courts to effectively implement the Adoption and Safe Families Act, the Fostering Connections Act, the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, and the Indian Child Welfare Act, along with other significant federal laws governing child welfare practice, and Title IV-E audits of states, the federal Child and Family Service Reviews.
City of Central Falls
580 Broad Street
Central Falls, RI 02863
Requested Amount: $250,000
This would provide open space and necessary infrastructure to a city park system serving a resident population consisting of over 70% minority families, with over 50% of these families below the median income level.
City Year Rhode Island High School Dropout Prevention Programs
City Year Rhode Island
77 Eddy Street, 2nd Floor
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $200,000
This funding will expand the capacity of City Year’s comprehensive, school-based strategy to improve the conditions that lead to student success and increase the graduation rate. This serves a very important education purpose for Providence and the State.
Collaboration-Enhancing Research Core Facility Improvements in Providence, RI
Brown University
38 Brown Street, Box 1920
Providence, RI 02912
Requested Amount: $4,000,000
This project will enhance the Structural Biology/Rational Drug Design, NextGeneration DNA Sequencing and the RI Bio-Bank and allow RI to remain competitive in the national biomedical research arena. This use of funds will benefit Rhode Island and national biomedical research.
Combat Wound Initiative
Walter Reed Medical Center
6900 Georgia Ave NW, Room 5C27B
Washington, DC 20009
Requested Amount: $8,000,000
This program aims to provide the center of gravity and fundamental proving ground for emerging wound care technologies and treatment, provide core lab capability through affiliated laboratories and develop a human biospecimen repository for translational research investigations that will benefit military personnel, veterans and civilians.
Construction of a New Tockwotton Home in East Providence
Tockwotton Home
75 East Street
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $3,132,939
This project will fund construction of a new skilled nursing and assisted living facility for Tockwotton Home. The new facility will represent a significant expansion of this successful long-term care organization and will address the compelling need for the organization to expand the types of services and clientele currently served. This use of funds will benefit Rhode Island's seniors by providing the first nursing home in RI built from the ground up based on resident-centered care practices.
Deerfield Recreation Improvements
Town of Smithfield
64 Farnum Pike
Smithfield, RI 02917
Requested Amount: $725,000
The project involves implementation of plan improvements at Deerfield Park to address the recognized need for baseball/softball fields and multipurpose fields for both adult and youth recreation. The proposed fields would be irrigated and would have other associated amenities including pathways, paved parking and landscaping.
Department of History Curriculum Development Project
Providence College
1 Cunningham Square
Providence, RI 02918
Requested Amount: $173,000
This funding will allow the Department of History at Providence College to develop a curriculum that will explore Congressman Fogary's political history and how this impacted the history of Rhode Island. This use of funds would allow over 460,000 items of the collection to be part of a curriculum that expands students' knowledge of our state and its history.
Drainage Improvements to Lincoln Downs Brook and Sewer & Drainage Separation to Warren Avenue and Former Geneva Sports Club at Givernor Notte Park
Town of North Providence
2000 Smith St
North Providence, RI 02904
Requested Amount: $2,900,000
The Town of North Providence has embarked on an infrastructure project to eliminate chronic flooding along the Lincoln Downs Brook. The project will include the reconstruction of the sewer main which includes piping, sewer manholes, wye-connections and laterals, proper tie-in to the interceptor manhole and pavement replacement. The town will be fined by the local environment agency unless this main is properly reconnected. The floodway improvements to Lincoln Downs Brook will serve 150 homes and 15 businesses along Mineral Spring Avenue. This flood condition has persisted for over 40 years and the investment in infrastructure will eliminate extensive personal property damages, will not disrupt business operations and emergency vehicles will not be encumbered. The entire Town Community will benefit from the proposed use.
Dundery Brook Greenway Trail
The Nature Conservancy
159 Waterman Street
Providence, RI 02906
Requested Amount: $500,000
The Dundery Brook Greenway Trail in Little Compton is a joint effort of the Town and its school with local conservation groups to encourage schoolchildren, the broader community, and visitors, to build a better appreciation of the area’s natural heritage and freshwater resources.
East Bay Community Action Program (EBCAP) Community Based Dental Program
East Bay Community Action Program
19 Broadway
Newport, RI 02840
Requested Amount: $114,328
This funding will support the implementation of an electronic health record, which will allow the dental clinic and its satellite sites to integrate oral health care into the overall health care delivered by the agency. This use of funds will benefit the Community Dental Practice's patients who are uninsured, Medicaid recipients, and high risk populations.
Easton’s Point Stormwater Quality Improvements
Town of Middletown
350 East Main Rd.
Middletown, RI 02842
Requested Amount: $1,500,000
The Rhode Island tourism industry benefits a great deal from Middletown's beaches and marine environment. This project would invest federal government dollars towards the protection of those resources, which would in turn have a great impact on the economic growth and stability of the region. More specifically, Easton's Beach in Newport and Atlantic Beach in Middletown would benefit greatly from an investment in the storm water infrastructure of the surrounding drainage area. These beaches have faced countless beach closures over the years due to the water quality following common storm events. Addressing this problem will benefit all local residents, Rhode Islanders and visitors, as well as area businesses.
Education through Exploration
The JASON Project—National Geographic Society
44983 Knoll Square
Ashburn, VA 20147
Requested Amount: $2,500,000 (NOAA)
This funding is requested for the JASON Project, a nonprofit subsidiary of National Geographic Society founded by Dr. Robert Ballard. This is required to continue the education and exploration activities funded by NOAA under a 5-year Environmental Literacy Grant awarded in 2007. JASON will utilize funding to work with NOAA, NASA, National Geographic, the US Department of Energy and others on the development and distribution of standards-based science curriculum for middle school students to inspire and motivate them to pursue science careers and education. These activities will be conducted in Rhode Island and nationwide.
Emergency Operations Center at Rhode Island College
RIC Foundation
600 Mount Pleasant Avenue
Providence, RI 02908
Requested Amount: $680,000
This funding is for an Emergency Operations Center to be housed in Rhode Island College’s main administration building, Dennis J. Roberts Hall. RIC needs a centralized Emergency Operations Center (EOC) where decision makers could gather, obtain, and analyze information, plan, and communicate actions in the event of natural or man-made disasters. This would offer a needed level of security and preparedness that does not exist currently and serve an important community safety function.
Energy Efficient Facilities
The Providence Center
528 North Main Street
Providence, RI 02904
Requested Amount: $585,000
This project would implement the facilities improvement plan to improve energy efficiency, reduce The Providence Center's carbon footprint, and generate substantial savings that will be used to provide additional care for the clients they serve. The Providence Center is the largest provider of mental health and substance abuse services in the state of Rhode Isand.
Energy Recovery Project
Pawtucket Water Supply Board
85 Branch St.
Pawtucket, RI 02860
Requested Amount: $220,000
The Energy Recovery Project will consist of the installation of a turbine on the water line between the 5MG water tank and water treatment plant located at 85 Branch St. This project would benefit all rate payers by reducing the amount of money spent on electricity. Project would also be a national benefit by demonstrating how utilities can make use of energy recovery opportunities.
Expanding the Possibilities, An Academic and Recreation Center for our Urban Youth
The Fund for UCAP for the Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program (UCAP)
75 Carpenter Street
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $500,000
The $3.5 million Expanding the Possibilities project will result in a first-class urban campus for Rhode Island’s at-risk students. The funding will purchase and renovate two adjoining properties to create a new wing that will house a science lab, a recreation center/gymnasium with an exercise and weight room, an art studio, and additional classrooms and meeting spaces.
Family to Family Health Information Center
RI Parent Information Network (RIPIN)
1210 Pontiac Avenue
Cranston, RI 02920
Requested Amount: $586,562
This funding is to help families of children and youth with special health care needs and the professionals caring for them by providing information, education, advocacy and peer support throughout the state. This use of funds will serve the special health care needs community.
Festival Pier Redevelopment
Pawtucket Department of Planning and Redevelopment
175 Main St
Pawtucket, RI 02860
Requested Amount: $100,000
This project will fund the re-use of this site as riverfront recreation and open space. Cleanup of Festival Pier will transform the existing concrete site into a greener, healthier, more hospitable recreation site, and transform a contaminated, underutilized former state pier into waterfront access on the Narragansett Bay for Pawtucket residents.
Fish Passage and Recreational Enhancements to the Lower Blackstone River
Blackstone River Watershed River Council/Friends of the Blackstone
87 Orchard Dr.
Cumberland, RI 02864
Requested Amount: $755,000
The Blackstone River Watershed Council/Friends of the Blackstone is requesting funding for a project to restore access for anadromous fish species to historical migratory routes and spawning habitat and to provide recreational boating passage around existing defunct dams to enhance the recreational opportunities available on the Blackstone River. This fish/boat passage structure has the potential to become a unique demonstration project for other states to follow in addressing fish and recreational concerns on rivers throughout the U.S. This funding will support a project that will have beneficial ecological, economical and social impacts.
Fort Adams Mule Barn Renovation, Rehabilitation and Restoration
Sail Newport Inc
40 Fort Adams Dr
Newport, RI 02840
Requested Amount: $500,000
This project would enable an underutilized building of historical significance formerly owned by the U.S Government to be used for public access to the water through the public sailing programs of Sail Newport, as well as other non-profit organizations such as the Newport Irish History Museum and Newport Rugby Club, all of which benefit the national public.
Fox Point Hurricane Barrier
Army Corps
696 Virginia Rd.
Concord, MA 02771
Requested Amount: $500,000
This project would be used to repair the Fox Point HUrricane Barrier. The Barrier provides critical flood protection to the state capital and has prevented loss of life and propoerty time and again since its construction in 1966.
Full Service Community School Wrap Around Program
The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center
325 Public Street
Providence, RI 02905
Requested Amount: $513,200 (FY 2011); $1,539,600(3 years)
Federal funding will provide critical support for the enhancement and advancement of services, increase the population and families served, and support the potential dissemination of the model to Full Service Community Schools throughout the country. The four main goals are to increase academic success of students, expand Health and Mental Health Services and expand Career Pathways program and improve Family Literacy skills and Self-Sufficiency. This funding would an important community educational goal.
Genetic Improvement of Switchgrass for Use as a Source for Biofuels
University of Rhode Island
35 Campus Avenue
Kingston, RI 02881
Requested Amount: $1,500,000
This project would continue and extend a project currently in process for genetic improvements of switchgrass and bioenergy. This would provide a necessary alternative to foreign oil.
Girl Scouts Beyond Bars
Girl Scouts of the USA
420 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10018-2798
Requested Amount: $1,500,000
This funding for Girl Scouts Beyond Bars (GSBB) will provide girls with opportunities to visit their incarcerated mothers to take part in a mother/daughter Girl Scout activities. Through GSBB, mothers lead troop meetings and develop skills in leadership, conflict resolution and parenting, all of which are critical to their success in family life and employment after incarceration. Girls and their mothers also have facilitated discussions about family life, violence and drug abuse prevention. This is a vital community service.
Higher Education Consortium for Rhode Island Entrepreneurship
Johnson and Wales University
8 Abbott Park Place
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $260,056
The Rhode Island Small Business Development Center will collaborate with Johnson and Wales University's Larry Friedman Center for International Entrepreneurship and other Rhode Island higher education institutions to both improve economic outcomes for the state's small business owners and offer hundreds of college students new experiential and entrepreneurship education opportunities.
I-95 Pawtucket River Bridge Replacement
Rhode Island Department of Transportation
Two Capitol Hill
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $30,000,000
This project would repair a major deficient bridge on the National Highway System, the I-95 Pawtucket River Bridge. This project would remove this bridge’s listing as a deficient bridge from the Rhode Island State Highway and Bridge System. Currently, the I-95 Pawtucket River Bridge is posted with an 18-ton weight limit. As a result, diversion of heavy vehicles is mandatory.
Implementing Enhancements to Existing Services
City of Newport
43 Broadway
Newport, RI 02840
Requested Amount: $362,697
The Newport Police Department Special Response Team (SRT) consists of specialized personnel and equipment responsible for providing enhanced tactical and protective services as appropriate. Funding would be used for upgrades to ballistic vests, helmets, counter-sniper rifle system, handguns and technology which would serve a vital local law enforcement purpose.
Implementing the Corridor Management Plan
John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission
1 Depot Square
Woonsocket, RI 02895
Requested Amount: $750,000
This request is for an appropriation under authorization already provided by Congress when it established, and subsequently reauthorized, the National Heritage Corridor and the Commission as its managing entity. Corridor programs and projects like this one benefit local residents, organizations and institutions, have been proven to have a positive economic impact as well as improve quality of life, create awareness nationally and internationally about the history of the Blackstone River Valley, and provide unique visitor experiences at a diverses range of historic, natural and recreational sites.
Improvements to the Lederer Theater Center
Trinity Repertory Co.
201 Washington St
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $680,000
This project will be used to support elements of the long-term capital improvement plan for the historic Lederer Theater Center to improve the building’s safety and public accessibility. Priorities this year include replacing the leaky roof and an installing an automatic door-opener to make the building ADA-comlpiant.
Increasing Access to Healthcare through Psychiatric Emergency Evaluation Center (PEEC)
Butler Hospital
345 Blackstone Boulevard
Providence, RI 02906
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
This funding will enable Butler Hospital to construct a two-story 35,080 square foot building that will house a 26-bed inpatient psychiatric unit and a Psychiatric Emergency Evaluation Center. This use of funds will increase access to emergency care and reduce wait times in Rhode Island emergency departments.
Infrastructure Upgrades for Roads and Drainage
Town of Bristol
10 Court Street
Bristol, RI 02809
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
This project would repair and upgrade existing drainage systems as well as reconstruct and repave local roads. Currently, the Town of Bristol is experiencing degradation of their older infrastructure of 25-35 years, which is causing significant negative impact to the roadways and drainage systems.
Innovative Carbon Dioxide Science and Technology Project
Brown University
38 Brown Street
Providence, RI 02912
Requested Amount: $2,500,000
This project would address the urgent need for groundbreaking research and development outcomes relating to the capture, sequestration, and reconversion of carbon dioxide. It would fund highly innovative research and development of carbon dioxide reduction technologies. It would also dramatically reduce the cost of carbon capture from both new and existing fossil fuel power plants and design and synthesize catalysts for a renewable-powered reactor that converts atmospheric CO2 into economically-valuable chemicals such as formic acid and methane.
Innovative Technologies for Advancing Aquaculture in the US
University of Rhode Island
35 Campus Ave
Kingston, RI 02881
Requested Amount: $3,398,000 for 3 years
This project would help Rhode Island take advantage of the increasing demand for seafood by developing a local aquaculture industry and capitalizing on strenghts in biomedical reasearch to develop products for the global aquaculture industry. With importation of seafood into the US reaching a value of $14.2 billion in 2008, if succesful this project could both reduce the national trade deficit and generate new high paying jobs in the fields of aquaculture and biotechnology.
Institute for Quality and Safety in Women and Infants Health - Equipment
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island
101 Dudley Street
Providence, RI 02905
Requested Amount: $199,000
The goal of this project is to create the first hospital-based medical stimulation center in the United States dedicated solely to improving care of women and newborns. The institute will provide a new prototype for assuring higher safety and quality standards in the health of women and newborns.
Introducing Pest-Resistant Hemlocks to the Nursery Industry
University of Rhode Island
35 Campus Avenue
Kingston, RI 02881
Requested Amount: $750,000
This project would introduce adelgid-resistant, or pest-resistant, hemlocks to the nursery industry, which are currently under enormous demand. This project would provide funding for the University of Rhode Island in developing plants that could eventually be grown by the hundreds of thousands for landscaping and reforestation throughout the Northeast. This would solve a major landscape problem for regional landscapers, and conservation and forestry industries.
Island Park Landfill Closure
Town of Portsmouth, RI
2200 East Main Rd
Portsmouth, RI 02871
Requested Amount: $2,100,000
Funds will be spent to place an impervious polyethylene sheet over the landfill and cover with two feet of soil. Project meets federal goal of cleaning up the environment. This project would comply with a RIDEM order to properly cap and close the landfill in order to prevent exposure to various pollutants within. This is an excellent example of how a former landfill can be re-used as a natural passive recreation area in the midst of a densely populated neighborhood.
Kickemuit River Storm Drain Analysis Phase 2
Kickemuit River Council (KRC)
90 Dexterdale Rd.
Providence, RI 02906
Requested Amount: $76,964
This project will help improve the water quality of the Kickemuit River and, ultimately, Mt. Hope Bay, and Narragansett Bay. There are 350 families living in Warren & Bristol that belong to the KRC, and there are many people who use the Kickemuit River for recreation and sustenance. The new bike path will bring others, as will the picnic area and kayak/canoe launch. The working class families of Warren & Bristol appreciate and cherish clean water.
Lifespan Chronic Disease Support Program
Rhode Island Hospital
593 Eddy Street
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $900,000
This project is designed to enable patients to more effectively manage their individual chronic disease, save on healthcare costs and lead healthier, more productive lives. The program will provide tools for patients to more effectively manage their personal healthcare and, specifically, mitigate the effects of chronic disease.
Lincoln Family Literacy Center
Town of Lincoln, Rhode Island
100 Old River Road
Lincoln, RI 02865
Requested Amount: $193,500
The Family Literacy Center is a community service that provides low and moderate income families access to outreach and family literacy support including books and activities at no cost. The goal is to increase the interaction between children and parents, transfer learning outside the classroom, and to increase parent support of children's learning experiences. This use of funds will enable the Center to serve more families and will help the area meet national literacy goals.
Lonsdale and Valley Falls Infrastructure Improvements
Town of Cumberland
45 Broad St
Cumberland, RI 02864
Requested Amount: $800,000
This project would fund "shovel-ready" drainage projects as part of a larger effort to revitalize the historic Cumberland neighborhoods of Lonsdale and Valley Falls . These neighborhoods suffer from high unemployment, high foreclosure rates, and deteriorating housing stock. Local infrastructure investments will help expedite efforts to revitalize the local community.
Lower Woonasquatucket River Dredge
Providence Parks Department
1000 Elmwood Ave
Providence, RI 02905
Requested Amount: $3,800,000
This project would construct a permanent sedimentation basin that would minimize future siltation of the River and allow the periodic maintenance removal of silt from the sedimentation basin. This would minimize future dredging of the Lower Woonsaquatucket River.
Maintenance, Rehabilitation, and Infrastructure Improvements for John E. Fogarty Center Buildings and Group Homes
John E. Fogarty Center
220 Woonasquatucket Avenue
North Providence, RI 02911
Requested Amount: $745,000
This project would internally renovate two existing facilities, allowing aging populations to be served. This project would enable the Center to deliver needed support to aging adults with disabilities. This would enrich their quality of life, foster independence, and minimize the number of individuals placed in expensive nursing home care.
Maritime Trades Community Development Project
Newport Chamber of Commerce
35 Valley Road
Middletown, RI 02842
Requested Amount: $200,000
The Maritime Trades Community Development Project would include construction, planning, and workforce training activities. The overall project not only benefits working families in Rhode Island, but also will continue to educate and train the state's youth in the areas of science and math and other STEM fields.
Max Reed Athletic Facility Redevelopment
Pawtucket Department of Planning and Redevelopment
175 Main St
Pawtucket, RI 02860
Requested Amount: $1,750,000
This project would be used to expand and replace the facility’s current track that does not meet the current standards for the RI Interscholastic League with a new one, using state of the art artificial surface treatment. It also replaces the existing football/soccer field with a more durable artificial surface. The complex is used by the city’s three high schools for all games and practices, as well as the physical education classes of two other of the city’s schools.
Medical Simulation and Bioengineering Laboratory
Rhode Island Hospital
593 Eddy Street
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $5,000,000 - $7,500,000
Building on the existing simulation center at Rhode Island Hospital, the Rhode Island Medical Simulation and Bioengineering Laboratory would be a multi-stakeholder simulation facility in the translational and personalized medicine center. This funding would provide training of health professionals at all levels, bioengineering, medical device design testing, medical robotics and other services.
Meeting Street/East Providence Kindergarten Success Project
Meeting Street School
1000 Eddy Street
Providence, RI 02905
Requested Amount: $1,396,406
This project will create an early childhood development center that would be available to all 3,100 children from East Providence under age five as well as provide prenatal services for pregnant women living in the city. This use of funds will serve a vital community need and will serve as a model for the greater Rhode Island community.
Mesh Mobile Data Network/Video Camera Surveillance Network/Interoperable Public Safety 800 MHz Radio/911 Center Security
City of Providence: Department of Public Safety Communications
1 Communications Place
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $1,205,000
These projects are to complete the buildout of the MESH mobile data network that connects all the public safety vehicles (Police, Fire, EMS) to the Computer Aided Dispatch System and NCIS systems. The last piece is to harden the Communications Dispatch/911 Center and install backup facilities at the Providence Emergency Management Agency. This use of funds would serve a vital community safety purpose.
National Center for Ecosystem Enterprise Development (CEED) at the University of Rhode Island
University of Rhode Island: Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
1 Greenhouse Road, Suite 204
Kingston, RI 02881
Requested Amount: $500,000
The National CEED will help create a new clean energy economy by developing business opportunities that are based on enhancing environmental assets at local, regional, and national levels. A central theme of the National CEED is to align profit motives of private enterprise with the protection and enhancement of our critical natural assets.
New England Healthy Initiative (Phase II)
Erna Yaffe Foundation
2 Regency Plaza, #912
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $400,000
This project is part of the Rhode Island based New England Coalition for Helth Promotion and Disease Prevention's 3-year project. The second phase is actively promoting population health literacy and facilitating development of policies and programs which address the spectrum of influences on health. Without a major population healht literacy campaign whose effectiveness is measured by key indicators, the burden of chronic diseases, injuries, and poor mental health can be expected to continue unabated.
Newport Cliffwalk Restoration
City of Newport/Rhode Island Department of Transportation
43 Broadway
Newport, RI 02840
Requested Amount: $4,200,000
This project would make infrastructure improvements on the Cliff Walk, a 3.5 mile stretch along the southeastern shoreline of Newport , a National Recreation Trail and a National Historic District. The city of Newport is also national and international tourist destination, with 4,000,000 visitors each year.
Nonviolence Streetworkers Program
Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence
9 Central Street
Providence, RI 02907
Requested Amount: $300,000
The program has been in operation since 2002, working to reduce youth violence, with a significant impact in the neighborhoods of Providence. The funding will expand the program even further serving an important community safety purpose.
North Broadway Reconstruction
City of East Providence
145 Taunton Ave
East Providence, RI 02914
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
This project would be used to make improvements to North Broadway, a roadway heavily traveled by commuters and commercial traffic as a link to the interstate system. The State Department of Transportation will be reconstructing a bridge along North Broadway with the intention to expand upon the State project to improve the roadway and sidewalk systems, north and south of the Ten Mile River Bridge Project.
Ocean Exploration and Science Education Initiative
Sea Research Foundation
55 Coogan Boulevard
Mystic, CT 06355
Requested Amount: $2,500,000
This funding will be used for Immersion Learning, a non-profit science education organization that brings science-based ocean adventures and discoveries to kids in classrooms, after-school settings, Community Youth Service Organizations (CYSOs) and informal learning arenas across the nation. Partnered with Dr. Ballard’s live ocean exploration satellite broadcasts, Immersion Learning helps youth understand the positive roles that science and technology play in their everyday lives. The Immersion program has demonstrated effectiveness in science learning and career awareness by providing critical educational, mentoring and job skills enrichment activities.
Ocean State Consortium of Advance Resources
Brown University
38 Brown St.
Providence, RI 02912
Requested Amount: $1,500,000
This funding will improve the quality of life, economic sustainability, and the innovative profile of the state of Rhode Island as key stakeholders throughout the state formed an innovation platform called the Ocean State Consortium of Advanced Resources (OSCAR). Initiated in July 2008, OSCAR is a novel statewide collaboration framework comprised of public and private partners across diverse fields, including world-class faculty, entrepreneurs, companies, service agencies, aimed at creating a statewide resource on the research components. This will serve an important economic development goal for the State.
Ocean State Finishing Site Restoration
City of Woonsocket
City Hall, 169 Main St. PO Box B
Woonsocket, RI 02895
Requested Amount: $1,635,000
The City of Woonsocket plans to demolish the existing building and reuse the site for the construction of a more efficient City of Woonsocket drinking water treatment plant. Due to the age and condition of the current water treatment plant, a new treatment plant is being proposed for the City. The Ocean State Finishing property is currently underutilized and underlain by potentially contaminated soil and groundwater. The demolition of the building, clean-up of the waste located in and surrounding the building, and the removal of contaminated soil would return the property to productive and beneficial use. The value of houses surrounding would be increased by the development of this property. Additionally, the City of Woonsocket would construct a new, more efficient drinking water treatment plant for the community at the site.
Office of Children, Youth and Learning (OCYL) Early Childhood Literacy Program
Town of Cumberland/OCYL
1464 Diamond Hill Road, Suite 2
Cumberland, RI 02864
Requested Amount: $376,380
The project's goal is to increase reading proficiency for children aged 4-6. The most recent data from RIDE shows that 66% of 4th grade students at BF Norton elementary school are not proficient at reading. The program is taught by teachers with Masters degrees in Early Childhood and Literacy as well as highly qualified and enthusiastic assistants. This use of funds will increase the student-teacher ratio to 6:1 and will improve children's reading skills.
Offshore Wind Energy Research and Education Initiative
University of Rhode Island
35 Campus Avenue
Kingston, RI 02881
Requested Amount: $1,500,000
This project would use Rhode Island ’s natural and human resources to create world-class research, development, manufacturing, installation, and maintenance capabilities for offshore energy production. Currently, the University of Rhode Island has outstanding ocean engineering and oceanography programs and is prepared to create top-notch graduate programs in offshore wind and marine renewable energy.
Our Military Kids
6861 Elm Street
Suite 2A
McLean, VA 22101
Requested Amount: $3,500,000
Our Military Kids provides assistance to the children offered in the form of grants to cover fees associated with tutoring, athletic, or fine arts programs. The intent is to ensure that these children have access to a range of activities that might otherwise be unavailable to them as a result of economic hardship caused by a parent’s deployment, recovery from severe injury, or because they live too far from a military installation to avail themselves of the many options provided there. Nationally, a recent survey has shown that 65% of all Guard and Reserve families utilizing the grant program live more than 30 miles from the nearest military base.
Paralympic Military Program
United States Olympic Committee
1 Olympic Plaza
Colorado Springs
Requested Amount: $10,000,000
The Paralympic Military Program uses sport activities as rehabilitation and transition support for injured U.S. military personnel and their families. Participation in sports and other physical activity improves physical, psychological and social quality of life for injured veterans. These ongoing sports program opportunities at medical treatment centers and Warrior Transition Units are being made available to approximately 10,000 injured service members.
Paving and Reconstruction of City Streets
City of Providence, RI 25 Dorrance St
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
The City of Providence , with a population of more than 180,000 residents and estimated day time population well in excess of 350,000 is responsible for the maintenance of 370 miles of paved streets. Current evaluations of the condition of city streets place the average condition at barely acceptable. This project makes necessary investment to fulfill the city’s obligations as a center for employment, commerce and entertainment and will create construction jobs.
Phoenix House Drug Treatment Initiative in Rhode Island
Phoenix House
131 Wayland Avenue
Providence, RI 02906
Requested Amount: $750,000
This project will effectively transform Phoenix House into a provider of behavioral health care to clients with acute co-occurring disorders and multiple life problems. The requested funds will allow Phoenix House to employ mental health and family counseling professionals on staff, increase psychiatric consultation and treatment, deliver intensive staff training, and deliver integrated behavioral health care and family programming. This serves a vital health and wellness goal in the community.
Planning and Development of Knowledge District
City of Providence
400 Westminster Street
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $3,000,000
This project is to continue the collaboration of the City of Providence, Brown University, the University of Rhode Island, Johnson and Wales University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island Hospital, Women and Infants Hospital and others, to lay the ground work for a cooperative venture to turn medical and life science research into business ventures to grow the Providence and Rhode Island economies and create jobs for residents of the state.
Police Connect
Cumberland Police Department
45 Broad Street
Cumberland, RI 02864
Requested Amount: $40,000
This project will enable the police station to receive equipment and technology upgrades. This funding would meet an important local law enforcement goal.
Pre-Development Work, Architectural Planning, and Revitalization of the Bristol Industrial Park
Town of Bristol
10 Court Street
Bristol, RI 02809
Requested Amount: $300,000
This project would create a detailed architectural and site design for revitalization of the 14-acre Bristol Industrial Park (former Kaiser Mill), which is currently blighted property in the heart of Bristol's low-moderate income census tract. This property has significant potential to be revitalized and returned to a prosperous economic driver for both the town and the state.
Preparing Students for Careers in Nursing and Nursing Education
Salve Regina University
100 Ochre Point Avenue
Newport, RI 02840
Requested Amount: $740,000
This funding will help alleviate the nursing shortage, the shortage of educators and also properly prepare students for the transition between nursing-student and practicing-nurse. Salve Regina plans to expand the O'Hare Academic Center into the University's Department of Nursing. This use of funds will address the national nursing shortage and will result in more qualified nurses, nursing educators, and improved patient care.
Preserving the Pawtucket Armory to Serve the Community
Pawtucket Armory Association
172 Exchange St
Pawtucket, RI 02860
Requested Amount: $476,000
The transformation of the Pawtucket Armory into a center for the arts and arts education is a driving force in Pawtucket's efforts to revitalize the downtown through the Arts. With the esteemed reputation of Armory Arts spreading throughout Rhode Island and beyond, Pawtucket is once again becoming a destination with a visible source of economic hope. For this reason, there are 73,000 Pawtucket citizens depending upon the continued success of the Armory project.
Project GOAL – Soccer For Success
Project GOAL, Inc.
79 Savoy Street
Providence, RI 02906
Requested Amount: $400,000
The Soccer for Success Initiative will fund pilot programs throughout Rhode Island utilizing the expertise of Project GOAL, to demonstrate the effectiveness of using soccer as a tool for keeping at-risk children and teenagers from joining gangs. This funding would meet an important community service and safety goal as well as improve health and wellness in our community.
Promenade Redevelopment and Neighborhood Markets
Providence Redevelopment Agency
400 Westminster St
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $1,900,000
The City of Providence has established a Redevelopment Area in The Promenade to expand and support an important jobs only district. Through this plan, the Providence Redevelopment Agency intends to assemble development parcels to support business expansion and to implement infrastructure improvements to support the revitalization of the area.
Providence Predictive Policing Initiative
Providence Police Department
325 Washington Street
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
Providence Predictive Policing Initiative funding will rely on real-time crime data analysis and cutting-edge crime-fighting information system technologies to create crime prevention strategies, assist in officer deployments, and assess crime strategy effectiveness. This serves an important local law enforcement goal.
Public Safety MDT Project
East Providence Fire/Police Department
740 Waterman Avenue
East Providence, RI 02914
Requested Amount: $183,600
This project allows for the sharing of real time data between police and fire departments during incidents. This provides for real time communications within mobile software, sharing of data base information stored by each department for identified hazards, allowing for all responders to operate safer and more efficiently. This use of funds would serve an important law enforcement purpose.
Public Education Campaign on the Paul Wellstone and Pete Comenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act
Faces and Voices of Recovery
1010 Vermont Ace, NW #708
Washington, DC 20005
Requested Amount: $750,000
This project will help maximize the effectiveness of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity law by educating the almost 150 million Americans that now have the right to non-discriminatory insurance coverage about their new rights and benefits under the law. Untreated mental illness and addiction costs over $550 billion annually.
Public Sewer Pump Station Renovations
Town of Lincoln
100 Old River Rd.
Lincoln, RI 02865
Requested Amount: $210,000
This project will overhaul the wetwells for four submersible pumping stations, replace the bubbler system controllers and pressure gauges at the five wetwell/drywell pumping stations, replace the damage water seal system at Angell Road South pumping station, and install new energy efficiency measures in all 33 pumping stations. This project will result in a more energy efficient sanitary sewer collection system, both from the overhaul of the wetwells which will work more efficiently without groudwater infiltration as well as from the savings from installing energy efficient lighting and more fuel efficient portable diesel generators. In the longer term, the project serves a compelling human need: the community's health and safety. Most pump stations have a number of problems that could lead to failure. Therefore, the failure of any pump station may cause public health and safety concerns.
Re-Focus on Our Future
Re-Focus, Inc.
45 Greenley Street
Providence, RI 02904
Requested Amount: $200,000
The project will expand opportunities for Re-Focus' current client base and address an emerging need, the current lack of day program options for developmentally disabled young adults as they "age out" of the R.I. educational system. All project activities are designed to refocus and build up on each participant's abilities rather than disabilities. This use of funds would serve an important community need.
Readiness Center at Middletown Armory
Rhode Island National Guard
Joint Forces Headquarters
645 New London Avenue
Cranston, RI 02920
Requested Amount: $3,646,000
A specially designed Readiness Center addition of permanent masonry type construction, with PVC membrane roof, concrete floors and mechanical and electrical equipment with emergency power generator backup will be constructed on the site. Physical security measures will be incorporated into design including maximum feasible standoff distance from roads, parking areas, and vehicle unloading areas, heavy landscaping, and bollards to prevent access when standoff distance cannot be maintained. In addition to the jobs created by this construction project, the Rhode Island National Guard will benefit from a long overdue overhaul of its outdated facilities.
Recovery High School
The Providence Center
528 North Main Street
Providence, RI 02904
Requested Amount: $550,000
The Providence Center is committed to launching Rhode Island's first recovery high school, to combat high rates of substance use and abuse among the high-school population. Funding will be used to hire staff, purchase equipment, reconfigure rooms and provide a dedicated stream of financial assistance. This use of funds will serve a vital community need.
Regional Emergency Communications Center
CCRI
1762 Louisquisset Pike
Lincoln, RI 02865
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
This project would create a regional 911 emergency call program for thirteen towns in the northwest corner of Rhode Island, located on the Lincoln Campus of the Community College of Rhode Island. The personnel working in the call center will be trained at the college in specialized course work designed to train operators for emergency efficiency. The towns will benefit from having a well trained group running a state-of-the-art communications facility, and reduce costs by sharing one dipatch center.
Rehabilitation and Construction of Newport Harbor Center and Ann Street Pier Facility
Newport County Chamber of Commerce
45 Valley Road
Newport, RI 02842
Requested Amount: $2,000,000
This project would rehabilitate and construct the Newport Harbor Center and Ann Street Pier Facility. This project would create a public marine oriented center at the combined building and dock facility, which would enhance physical public access to the harbor, generate revenue through self-sufficient operation, and anchor a public focal point that enhances economic development opportunities for local merchants.
Renovation
Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island
169 George Street
Pawtucket, RI 02860
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
Funding will be used to transform a 50,000 square foot building at 1085 North Main Street in Providence into a Center for Hospice Care. This use of funds will increase access and expand available resources to the state's growing elderly, diverse, and economically challenged population.
Renovations/Expansion/Upgrade and Staffing of the RITBA Emergency Command Center
Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority
1 East Shore Rd. PO Box 437
Jamestown, RI 02835
Requested Amount: $921,000
This major renovation of the RITBA Operations Center in the RITBA Administration Building would improve security and safe operation of the Newport Pell and Mount Hope Bridges. The renovated operations space will serve as a combined operations, security, and communications facility for RITBA.
Renovations of Bobby Hacket Theatre
Community College of Rhode Island
400 East Avenue
Warwick, RI 02886
Requested Amount: $500,000
The Community College of Rhode Island Foundation (CCRI) is in the midst of "IMAGINE: The Campaign for Endless Possibilities," its plan to strengthen the College's future. As part of this initiative, CCRI is raising $2.6 million to renovate the Bobby Hacket Theatre on the Knight Campus. This project will enable CCRI to begin renovating this community resource and fully implement its vision of providing top quality educational and entertainment events for the members of the CCRI family and the Rhode Island community. CCRI will use this money for new seating, lighting and sound system upgrades, improving handicap accessibility, and installing a projection system and sprinkler system as well as a new performance/presentation stage.
Restoration of Historic Harkins Hall
Providence College
549 River Ave
Providence, RI 02918
Requested Amount: $900,000
The project aims to restore structural integrity of Harkins Hall from irreversible deterioration and to avoid the loss of 51 administrative offices and classrooms occupied by some 1153 students and employees in the college's flagship building (first erected in 1917). Harkins Hall houses numerous classrooms (50%) and academic and administrative offices (50%). It is the home of the College's office of undergraduate admission and the School of Continuing Education, which exclusively focuses on meeting the needs of local adult learners. An average 8,000 people come through the building each day: undergraduate, graduate, and adult students; faculty and staff; prospective students and families; and other public visitors. The public uses this building for community adult education and graduate classes as well as public meeting space.
Restoration of the 1868 Newport Opera House
Newport Performing Arts Center
PO Box 234Fish
Newport, RI 02840
Request Amount: $250,000
This funding is for the Opera House opened in 1868 on historic Washington Square. The objective is to stabilize the building, to repair leaks and upgrade electrical systems and HVAC to avoid the cinema being closed for safety issues. In 2000 the theatre was purchased by Newport Performing Arts Center, a not for profit corporation with the mission of converting the cinema into a single stage performing arts center. Newport currently has no dedicated assembly space for live theater capable of accomodating more than 100 people. Live performances in a central space that is open year round will be an important tool in growing that number and ensuring that Newport does not fall behind other tourist venues. The Executive Director of the Newport Chamner of Commerce has called the project "the gamechanger" for the redevelopment of Wahington Square, the historic center of Newport, because so many other tourist attractions and restaurants would benefit from this restauration.
Restoration of Touro Synagogue
Touro Synagogue Foundation
85 Touro St
Newport, RI 02840
Requested Amount: $500,000
Touro Synagogue is the oldest synagogue remaining in the United States. Touro Synagogue was designated a National Historic site by Congress. Touro is also one of only twenty-nine historic sites affiliated with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Over its 245 years of existence, Touro has undergone three major restorations. Still outstanding to complete the project are the restoration of the original women's lounge and the recreation of the classroom where religious education was housed for generations of young Jews. Touro Synagogue receives over 25,000 visitors from across the country and the world each year. The restoration of the Synagogue allows them to experience the majesty and beauty of the space as intended in Colonial times. Completion of this project would allow that experience to include the entire facility.
Revitalization and Training Grant
A New Leaf Florist
135 Gano Street
Providence, RI 02906
Requested Amount: $100,000
This funding would make physical plant and necessary capital improvements for safety and business requirements and it would increase the number of clients served for trainings, transitional employment and supportive employment at A New Leaf. This use of funds would allow A New Leaf to provide supportive and transitional employment to people with mental health problems.
Rhode Island After-School and Summer Program Initiative
Rhode Island After-School Plus Alliance/United Way of Rhode Island
50 Valley Street
Providence, RI 02909
Requested Amount: $300,000
Funding will be used to provide direct service grants to high quality expanded learning programs, including after-school and summer programs, and to provide professional development, training, evaluation, and other capacity building to the programs through the work of the Rhode Island After-School Alliance. This funding would address an important community educational goal.
Rhode Island Disaster Assistance FEMA Match Change
State of Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency
645 New London Avenue
Cranston, RI 02920
This request will increase the federal match for emergency funding in Rhode Island to not less than 90 percent in response to the historic flooding in Rhode Island.
Rhode Island Harvest Kitchen
Farm Fresh Rhode Island
1005 Main Street, #1220
Pawtucket, RI 02860
Requested Amount: $92,168
Farm Fresh Rhode Island will create a value-added processing facility, which will serve as a job-training program for adjudicated youth, and a co-packing location for area farmers. Products will be sold at local stores, farmers markets and to area schools, hospitals and similar institutions. This project will nourish the local agriculture economy, contribute to farm viability, strengthen the rural communities of Rhode Island, and benefit adjudicated youth.
Rhode Island Nurse-Family Partnership Initiative
Rhode Island KIDS COUNT
One Union Station
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
The Rhode Island Nurse-Family Partnership Initiative works to launch and sustain the evidence-based Nurse-Family Partnership program for the first-time for multi-risk parents, in order to reduce child maltreatment and improve the health and development of high-risk parents and their young children. The Nurse-Family Partnership program will serve 100 first-time, low-income, multiple-risk families per year with the goal of eventually serving up to 700 parents per year.
Rhode Island School of Design
2 College St.
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $2,100,000
This project would support the first year of a multi-year project to redesign and renovate its Illustration Studies Building (ISB), home of RISD's Illustration Department. RISD is now developing a strategy to launch a major initiative to "green" its campus through the phased renovation of several college buildings in the center of Providence and adjacent College Hill. These buildings will serve as a national model of how historic urban structures can be retrofitted and operated for environmental efficiency, incorporating advanced technologies and innovated approaches developed by RISD faculty and students.
Roadmap for a Green Economy: Mobilizing to Foster an Energy Aware Culture: Energy Efficiency in Buildings
Rhode Island Green Building Council
2500 Post Road Warwick, RI 02886
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
This project would improve state buildings, create financial incentives for the private sector, and develop a communications program. It would also plan and execute a comprehensive education program for the financiers, property insurers appraisors, and real estate communities to address the need for more informed and responsive evaluation and financing of green buildings.
Save the Bay Marine Education Program
Save the Bay
100 Save the Bay Drive
Providence, RI 02905
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
This funding will enable Save The Bay to provide Narragansett Bay experiences to youth with limited economic and educational resources. The target audience for the Marine Education Program is middle school students with a specific focus on underserved children in Rhode Island’s urban areas. The program provides enhanced marine science education opportunities not offered at the local level and fosters a respect for the environment, economic, and recreational benefits of our nation’s water resources.
SEARCH Justice Information Sharing Technical Assistance Program
SEARCH
7311 Greenhaven Drive, Suite 145
Sacramento, CA 95831
Requested Amount: $500,000
This program funding will reduce crime and recidivism by providing direct assistance to state and local criminal justice agencies in the effective implementation of information sharing systems. It provides needed technical expertise and leverages scarce resources in economically challenging times. Most importantly, it contributes to the overall safety of our communities by making sure decisions made by our law enforcement, courts, correctional agencies and others are based on immediate access to timely, secure and accurate information. All of this is done with a fundamental focus on safeguarding privacy and civil liberties.
Segs for Vets
Disability Rights Advocates for Technology
500 Fox Ridge Road
St Louis, MO 63131
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
The Segs4Vets Program awards Segways to members of the United States Armed Forces who sustained severe injuries while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom, and whose injuries have resulted in permanent disability and difficulty walking. The program provides successful candidates with a universally designed mobility device, not yet available through their present benefit package, which provided for a more healthful psychological and physiological quality of life.
Self-Inerting Munitions to Prevent Illicit Reuse and Contamination of the Environment
University of Rhode Island
51 Lower College Rd
Kingston, RI 02881
Requested Amount: $3,000,000
This program will create a national test bed evaluation of small (less than 10lb) munitions (performance, stability, sensitivity) needed for development of advanced demilitarization technologies This project will emphasize the removal possible threats to our service member from improvised explosive ordinances. The creation of the test bed will service the Nation and leverage funding already invested by the US Government for improving explosive detection capabilities and forensics.
Self-Sustaining Economic Development via Technology Development & Commercialization
University of Rhode Island Research Foundation
75 Lower College Road, Suite 001
Kingston, RI 02881
Requested Amount: $1,001,000
This project seeks to support technical assistance and outreach for the creation and expansion of start-up, emerging and other small businesses based on new and advanced technologies. The URIF will establish a center to support university spin-offs and other small technology companies and provide money to foster the creation of these companies. This use of funds will serve an important economic purpose.
Sensors for Terrorist IED Network Defeat
University of Rhode Island
51 Lower College Rd
Kingston, RI 02881
Requested Amount: $4,500,000
The Joint IED Defeat Office lists standoff detection of IEDs and the defeat of IED fabrication networks as their two highest priorities. IED attacks have been responsible for most of the over 4,000 lives lost by US servicemen, including 12 Rhode Islanders, not to mention countless Iraqi civilians. This project will help our servicemembers detect and defeat IEDs which will result in lower casualty rates on the battlefield.
Small Business and Non-Profit Consulting Center
Providence College
549 River Street
Providence, RI 02918
Requested Amount: $200,000
This project would help forge important new partnerships between the Providence College School of Business, City of Providence, and the capital city's small business owners. These innovative and sustainable partnerships would strengthen and invigorate the economic climate of the city, provide invaluable experience for Providence College's MBA students, and could encourage talented and civic-minded graduate students to initiate and develop their careers in Providence.
SPEAK UP Hotline & Awareness Campaign Access Expansion
PAX/Real Solutions to Gun Violence
100 Wall Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10005
Requested Amount: $1,500,000
This funding will enable SPEAK UP for students to anonymously report weapon-related threats in their schools and communities. Currently, SPEAK UP is implemented at a community level, additional funding will allow PAX to make the SPEAK UP reporting system available to additional students with a focus on high risk communities and to tailor the messages and materials for maximum impact. This serves an important community safety and goal in the education context.
Special Olympics Rhode Island, Annual State Summer Games
Special Olympics Rhode Island
33 College Road, Building 31
Warwick, RI 02886
Requested Amount: $250,000
Special Olympics Rhode Island funding will be used for the Annual State Summer Games at the University of Rhode Island. Funding will assist in creating a quality event for over 2,700 athletes and 200 more citizens.
Steel Repairs and Protective Coating at the Newport/Pell Bridge
Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority
One East Shore Road, PO Box 437
Jamestown, RI 02835
Requested Amount: $10,000,000
This project would make steel repairs and provide coatings for the Newport/Pell Bridge necessary in order to maintain the structural integrity of the suspended span. It would benefit the millions of motorists who utilize the bridge for business and personal travel.
Submarine Payload Integration Laboratory
Naval Undersea Warfare Center
1176 Howell Street
Newport, RI 02841
Requested Amount: $11,180,000
This project constructs an addition contiguous to the Launcher Laboratory to provide critical combat operational support, engineering support, product development, logistics support and fleet training for existing and future U.S. Navy submarine launcher/platform systems at Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport. This project will enhance the Naval Undersea Warfare Center’s capability to work with local small business in Rhode Island which will help create jobs.
Submerged Munitions Research Program
University of Rhode Island
35 Campus Ave
Kingston, RI 02881
Requested Amount: $9,420,000
It is estimated that in excess of 10 million acres of ocean floor are impacted by submerged military munitions. Some of these munitions have recently washed ashore or have been brought to shore through beach replenishment and dredging activities resulting in serious public hazards and costly mitigation projects at beaches across the Eastern United States. The potential impact of submerged munitions on marine ecosystems, fisheries, tourism and recreation have yet to be calculated but it is clear that a management strategy that minimizes impacts to human health and the environment is needed. This program will provide the data required by US Army to better understand the risks of removing submerged military munitions and the risks of leaving them in place, with or without engineering controls.
Survive and Thrive Entrepreneurial Training to Small Businesses
Center for Women and Enterprise
132 George M. Cohan Boulevard
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $300,000
CWE proposes programs and services to specifically address the small business development needs of businesses with twenty or fewer employees during the current economic recession. Pairing classroom instruction with strategic follow-up, each classroom participant will be given multiple mentoring follow-up sessions with a consultant who specializes in the business owner's area of critical need.
Tanyard Brook Upgrade
Town of Bristol
10 Court St.
Bristol, RI 02809
Requested Amount: $2,000,000
The purpose of this project is to complete Phase 1 of an upgrade to a large drainage culvert and install a tidal floodgate at the outfall. This culvert, which is under capacity, creates significant flooding to neighborhoods and streets, including State Route 114, during rain storm events.The existing undersized culvert and location of the outfall below the tides of the harbor continue to create a flooding situation that impacts the residents of Bristol. The benefit of this project is reduced flooding and increased public health and safety. Reduction in flooding will also provide a benefit by reducing the flood insurance claims and costs to both residents and the insurance companies.
Technology Upgrade to Improve utilization of Homeless Management Information System
Crossroads Rhode Island
160 Broad Street
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $200,000
Crossroads primary goal is to alleviate homelessness in Rhode Island. This funding is for a technology upgrade that will improve Crossroads' ability to provide better service to clients while also improving ability to analyze usage, effectiveness and real costs programs. This use of funds will benefit the Rhode Island homeless community.
Ten Mile River, Providence, RI
Army Corps
696 Virginia Rd.
Concord, MA 02771
Requested Amount: funds available
This project would be used to complete the construction of environmental restoration measures along the Ten Mile River in Providence, RI , more specifically to complete the construction of fish passage facilities at the lowest three dams.
The Center for Forensics, Applied Networking, and Security (FANS)
Roger Williams University
One Old Ferry Road
Bristol, RI 02809
Requested Amount: $500,000
FANS recently denied a training request from the Department of Homeland Security because facilities were booked to capacity. Funding would greatly assist the University in building capacity to triple the size of the undergraduate degree program in Security Assurance Studies and to expand targeted training to meet the needs of private corporations and the military, including the development of new certificate programs.
The Latino College Access Coalition of Rhode Island
The College Planning Center of Rhode Island
560 Jefferson Boulevard
Warwick, RI 02886
Requested Amount: $150,000
This funding would provide bilingual Financial Aid workshops, college planning workshops, One-on-One counseling, college tours, informational sessions, comprehensive online tools, financial literacy presentations, SAT preparation and scholarship search resources, and more. This use of funds would serve all of Rhode Island's Latino community.
The Rhode Island Ambulatory Clinical Research Center (ACRC)
Rhode Island Hospital
593 Eddy Street
Providence, RI 02903
Requested Amount: $3,200,000
This funding will conduct Phase I, II, and III clinical trials to assess the safety and efficacy of therapeutics, diagnostics, medical devices and behavioral interventions. This use of funds would serve an important research center to the community.
The RI Third Eye YCW Project
Woonsocket Prevention Coalition
169 Main Street
Woonsocket, RI 02895
Requested Amount: $220,000
The RI Third Eye Youth Crime Watch Project has brought leadership and school safety training to over 50 schools and community sites, involving more than 3500 secondary school students in Rhode Island. Funding is required to hire a full time director and support person to serve sites, use part time youth and adults with experience in the program as trainers, and to focus on developing a strong, youth-led statewide organization. This use of funds would serve an important community safety purpose.
Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, Rhode Island
University of Rhode Island
35 Campus Avenue
Kingston, RI 02881
Requested Amount: $550,000
This project would help further develop a comprehensive research and outreach program aimed at stemming the public health impact of tick-borne diseases. Currently, this program is being developed by the University of Rhode Island ’s Center for Vector-Borne Disease and its TickEncounter Resource Center as a response to the continued emergence of Lyme disease, Babesiosis, and Human Anaplamosis.
Tiverton Bike Path
Town of Tiverton, RI 433 Highland Road
Tiverton, RI 02878
Requested Amount: $2,000,000
This project would complete the design and construction of the Tiverton off-road bike path. This bike path would provide an alternate mode of transportation to connect Tiverton to Newport and other towns in the county, via the new Sakonnet Bridge bike/walk lane.
Transforming Primary Care...Welcome Home!
Thundermist Health Center
450 Clinton Street
Woonsocket, RI 02895
Requested Amount: $936,000
This project will allow for the study of the costs and benefits of integrating the care provided in an advanced medical home with the care provided across the spectrum of vertical service delivery. Rhode Island will greatly benefit from this project as it will provide modeling on the financial consequences of the advanced medical home model on public payers.
Transportation Road Improvement
Town of North Providence
2000 Smith Street North Providence, RI 02904
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
The project would fix approximately four miles of designated roads in extremely poor condition by completely resurfacing these roads. This resurfacing would include pulling up old pavement, adjusting curbs, seting proper drainage and drains, and providing new traffic lines. This would improve road safety by reducing the amount of accidents. It would also improve road conditions during severe weather situations.
Urban Land Trust
Pawtucket Land Trust
67 Park Place
Pawtucket, RI 02862
Requested Amount: $1,131,300
As an Urban Land Trust, the organization works to preserve the infrastructure, density and historic integrity of Pawtucket's urban core and historic business district. The Land Trust uses its resources to ensure an appropriate development outcome for a transportation-oriented district that is necessary for sustained economic development.
USDA-RUS Circuit Ride Program
Atlantic States Rural Water & Wastewater Association
PMB #275 – 12 New London Turnpike
Norwich, CT 06360
Requested Amount: $15,490,000
This project would provide direct technical assistance to small and rural community water systems. This assistance would range from water infrastructure development, compliance, training, certification, operations, management, rates, disaster response, and public health protection – all necessary to encourage local responsibility and local solutions for protecting and enhancing water resources.
Veterans for Tomorrow
The Arc of Blackstone Valley
115 Manton Street
Pawtucket, RI 02861
Requested Amount: $791,962
This project will provide affordable veterans' housing and veterans' job training opportunities. This project proposes to develop a former historic mill in Providence, RI into twenty-three units of permanent housing and 4,000 square feet of programmatic space. This use of funds will benefit Rhode Island's veteran community.
Volunteer Family Support Service Exchange
Parent Support Network of Rhode Island
1395 Atwood Avenue, Suite 114
Johnston, RI 02919
Requested Amount: $200,000
This funding will increase the Volunteer Family Support Service Exchange Project from 170 volunteers to 500 volunteers. Volunteers will be recruited and trained to provide approximately 800 children, youth and their families with family support services such as mentoring, respite, parent aides and/or transportation. This use of funds will serve the emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges of Rhode Island children and families during this unprecedented economic crisis in Rhode Island.
Washington Ireland Program
620 F Street, N.W.
Suite 704
Washington, DC 20004
Requested Amount: $400,000
Washington Ireland Program is a six month leadership development program that seeks to nurture the next generation of Irish leaders in order to foster peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Created in response to "The Troubles" the program is a cross-community and cross-border initiative which recognizes that ending conflict must be followed by a sustained effort to build a sustainable and lasting peace. This project will enhance the U.S. relationship with its important ally and help to foster understanding of American government among Irish students.
Water Main Rehabilitation
City of East Providence
145 Taunton Ave
East Providence, RI 02914
Requested Amount: $1,000,000
The City plans to implement its Infrastructure Rehabilitation Plan to start upgrading its piping network to avoid future water contamination incidents. By systematically improving the water mains on a regular basis, the City will be able to reliably provide clean drinking water to all residents and businesses.
Water System Hydraulic Model/Asset Management Project
Pawtucket Water Supply Board
85 Branch St.
Pawtucket, RI 02860
Requested Amount: $200,000
The hydraulic model/asset management model project will consist of the development of both a hydraulic model and an asset management program for the PWSB. The hydraulic model/asset management program will benefit the American taxpayer because it will be a valuable resource when considering the implementation of regional water solutions. The PWSB is positioned to be the hub of a regional water supply and the hydraulic model will allow us to run scenarios that will predict both water flow and quality in possible combined systems.
West Side Master Plan; Redevelopment Weaver Cove, Phase 1
Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation
315 Iron Horse Way, Suite 101
Providence, RI 02908
Requested Amount: $9,500,000
This project would enhance public access to the shoreline area at Weaver Cove through public boat ramp improvements, and build a boardwalk on the shore connecting restaurants and retail shops, and create public parking for the area. This serves an important local economic development goal.
Woonsocket Local Protection Project
Army Corps
696 Virginia Rd.
Concord, MA 02771
Requested Amount: $300,000
For an operation and routine maintenance program authorized by section 2875 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2008 (PL 110-181, dated January 28, 2008.) This has an environmental benefit for local taxpayers.
Workforce and Small Business Development
Town of Bristol
10 Court Street
Bristol, RI 02809
Requested Amount: $300,000
This will benefit the Town of Bristol and the State of Rhode Island by providing a workforce development program in conjunction with small businesses within a redeveloped Bristol Industrial Park. The Bristol Industrial Park (formerly Kaiser Mill) is located within a low-moderate census tract.
Wounded Warrior Careers Demonstration
National Organization on Disability
5 East 86th Street
New York, NY 10028
Requested Amount: $4,800,000
This demonstration employs innovative practices, and includes a rigorous analytical component, to identify and disseminate best practices related to employment counseling and job placement that are critical to certain transitioning veterans. The careers demonstration program provides career-development services to severely wounded veterans, consistent with their needs, by employing a proactive, intensive, prolonged case management model in assisting certain veterans and their families in the caseload to explore career options; obtain education, skill, aptitude, and interest assessments; devise resumes and career plans; acquire additional education and training; engagement with prospective employers; enter into work of various kinds (full- or part-time, paid or volunteer, or self-employment as entrepreneurs or free agents); advance in that work once so engaged; and resolve obstacles through coordination with the Military Services and local, state and federal service providers and partners. Severely wounded warriors, particularly those with Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, are candidates for this demonstration program’s caseload. In addition to the benefits this project has to our veterans, our economy will reap the rewards of a better trained workforce.
Wounded Warrior Community and Business Connection Program Pilot Project
Enable America
79 Third Street
Newport, RI 02840
Requested Amount: $1,200,000
The program will provide support and services to wounded warriors at military installations and medical centers, VA hospitals, and surrounding communities in the region. This use of funds will maximize the support available to America's dedicated service members and their families.
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