Annual Spring Planting Grants

May 2024: Bloom Rhode Island has awarded a total of $135,165 for creating, planting and maintaining decorative and flowering gardens in publicly visible spaces in five Rhode Island cities: Central Falls, East Providence, Pawtucket, Providence, and Woonsocket. 

The grant program promotes the beautification of publicly visible spaces in urban areas, ranging from pocket parks to sidewalks. Grantees in this inaugural award cycle include schools, libraries, nonprofits, and other community groups. The majority of grantees are including native plants in their schemes. All will complete the intended work in 2024. Some of the 27 awarded organizations include: 

Community Libraries of Providence (Providence)
A grant to hire a landscape architect to plan a revamp of the grounds around Knight Memorial Library of Providence, in honor of the Library’s centennial. 

The Learning Community (Central Falls)
A grant for plantings, irrigation, and design consultation for school grounds visible to the public along Broad Street and Lincoln Avenue in Central Falls. 

Roots 2Empower (Pawtucket)
A grant for decorative and flowering plant materials to enhance a guerrilla garden on Sherman Street in Pawtucket. 

Good Neighbors (East Providence)
A grant to create a pick-your-own-flower garden for clients of Good Neighbors Food Pantry in East Providence. 

PACE-RI (Woonsocket)
A grant to create and install a beautiful, hardy, and welcoming garden with a variety of native bushes, shrubs, and flowering plants outside PACE’s adult day care and health center in Woonsocket. 

Similar grants, were awarded to projects run by Groundwork Rhode Island (in Central Falls), Ocean State Montessori School (in East Providence), The Empowerment Factory (in Pawtucket), Daggett Farm and Gazebo Project (in Pawtucket), and 18 Providence-based organizations: Elmwood Neighbors in partnership with Amos House; Higher Ground International; Nuestro Mundo Public Charter School; Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council; SWAP, Inc; Roger Williams Park Conservancy; Children’s Friend and Service; Garden Time, Inc.; ONE Neighborhood Builders; Public Shop & Gallery; Trinity Square Together; Wild Lives; Providence Public Library; earf: community supported abundance; Crossroads Rhode Island; 15 Minute Field Trips; Community Health Innovations of Rhode Island; and Dirt Palace. 

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Got questions? Contact Programs Manager Kevin Essington at Programs@BloomRhodeIsland.org