Last week (4/20/2017) in Philanthropy Class it was time to make our final decisions of who would be getting the Providence College MAD Board Grant. To start off the class each group gave a short presentation of their individual site visits of the finalists for the grant. We then gave recommendations of which organizations we thought deserved the grant whether it was full funding or partial funding. Our group is usually in agreement about making board decisions; however, this week there was a little bit more arguing than usual because many students felt so passionately about the different organizations that we visited. It took us over two hours to come to an agreement, but eventually we were able to come to a compromise and we agreed that we will be funding the following organizations:

Sojourner House --- $5,000

McCauley Village --- $5,000

House of Hope --- $4,000

RI Community Food bank --- $2,000

Day One --- $2,000

We are excited to be able to fund 5 of our organizations, and we will host them her at PC at our special event on Thursday May 4th where we will present them their checks. 

Today the class took a trip to the United Way of Providence. We were able to meet and talk with the current CEO of the organization. We discussed things like catalytic change and what constitutes it. He also told us the story of how the united way organization changed its way from just helping out their 50 “partner agencies” to helping out smaller groups that will make more of an impact in the community. Our class then went through all of the submitted proposals and decided which ones deserve sight visits and which ones are to be removed.