CHARITABLE WORKS
Thanks for all the non-profits who applied for a 2024 grant by our deadline of 6/30/23. Please expect to hear back from us in October.
Throughout 2023, NRIBR will be supporting Friends of Animals in Need (FAN assists pet owners facing financial challenges keep their pets by providing foods and other resources to avoid the surrender, abandonment, or the euthanizing of their pet) and the Blackstone Valley Advocacy Center (which advocates for and provides domestic and sexual assault services designed to educate the community, connect local authorities to victims, and they provide translation services for Latino victims). You can make a donation via the “PayPal Donate” button below.
At our 102nd Annual Meeting on 10/5/22, the Board presented a $12,000 check to Meals on Wheels of RI.
At our 101st Annual Meeting on 9/30/21, the Board presented checks in the amounts of $3,000 each to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Northern RI and the Blackstone Valley Emergency Food Center.






BOARD DELIVERS BACKPACKS TO WOONSOCKET HEAD START
On September 22, 2015, the Northern Rhode Island Board of REALTORS® presented 190 Backpacks to Woonsocket Head Start. A Backpack Drive was held during a Charity Bowl Fundraising Event. The Northern Rhode Island Board of REALTORS® Charitable Works Committee Chair, Debby Smith coordinated with City of Woonsocket Director of Human Resources, Linda Plays, to determine the amount of backpacks needed for the children of the Woonsocket Head Start program. In attendance for the delivery of the backpacks were: NRIBR Chief Executive Officer Donna Andrews, Charitable Works Committee members – Debby Smith and Pete Dufresne, 2015 NRIBR President Ryan Antrop, NRIBR Director and also a Councilman of Woonsocket Garrett Mancieri, Wonnsocket Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt, Director of HR for City of Woonsocket Linda Plays and Executive Director of Head Start Mary Var.