Newport, Rhode Island In 2014, the East Bay Community Action Program, in collaboration with Newport Public Schools, conducted a feasibility study to evaluate the potential for repurposing the closed George H. Triplett School located on 435 Broadway in Newport, RI, into a preschool center offering pre-k and Head Start programming. This was spurred by the
Woonsocket, Rhode Island The Hope Street School, a landmark of Woonsocket’s Constitution Hill neighborhood and a building on the National Register of Historic Places, had been closed since 1977 when NeighborWorks Blackstone River Valley (NWBRV), a non-profit community development corporation, proposed to renovate and revive the vacant and deteriorating space. In collaboration with neighborhood residents
Providence, Rhode Island The former Althea Street School and Asa Messer Annex, closed in 2012, was a dilapidated, unsafe eyesore in the West End of Providence. With a need to expand their services and a willing partner in the City of Providence who shared a vision for increasing access to quality early education programming, Children’s
