ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate-income families, with over 150,000 member families organized into 750 neighborhood chapters in more than 60 cities across the country. ACORN was founded by Chief Organizer Wade Rathke in 1970. The RI branch has been providing services for three years and aims to improve neighborhoods throughout RI through grassroots mobilization. Suite: 220
PH: 401-780-0500
Fax: 401-780-0826
Email: riacorn@acorn.org
Website: www.acorn.org
▲Top Acorn Housing Corporation (AHC) was established by The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in 1986 to build and preserve housing assets. Since its inception, AHC has assisted over 45,000 families to become first time homeowners, and has rehabilitated over 850 vacant and abandoned housing units. Virtually all of ACORN Housing's work takes place in areas that have been seriously disinvested and forgotten. AHC works in low and very low-income neighborhoods where over 90% of the residents are African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and/or recent immigrants from Central America or the West Indies. Suite: 224
PH: 401-780-0509
Fax: 401-780-0548
Email: ahcrilcpr@acorn.org
Website: www.acornhousing.org
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▲Top Computec Servicios, Inc. is a Hispanic owned and operated computer repair and PC specialist small business. Suite: 250
PH: 401-461-6321
Contact: Wilfred Charinos
▲Top Destiny House, Inc. provides transitional services for families in crisis from domestic violence. Suite: 330
PH: 401-270-5320
Contact: Eleanor C. Brown-McSwain
▲Top Education Station/Sylvan was established in 1993 to provide low-income families access to Sylvan Learning Centers supplemental education and tutoring services. Sylvan Education Solutions reaches more than 55, 000 students over 900 schools throughout the country. As more is demanded of our schools and the performance of their students, Sylvan Education Solutions also helps districts remain in compliance with relevant state and federal remain in compliance with relevant state and federal regulations. The results are students with improved skills, greater self-confidence, and better grades; more effective teachers; and higher-performing and higher-rated schools. Suite: 352
PH: 401-467-5992
Fax: 401-467-2518
Contact: Christine Hayes
Elizabeth's Jewelry, a jewelry carding business Suite: 330
PH: 401-270-5320
Contact: Nilda Elizabeth Sanchez and ManuelCarpio
▲Top Family Housing Development Corp. Suite: 132
PH: 401-451-7236
Contact: James Truslow
▲Top Habitat for Humanity- Habitat in Providence is organized as a nonprofit corporation directed by an all-volunteer Board of Directors and a three person administrative staff. Habitat Providence mirrors the goals of Habitat for Humanity International by working to eliminate poverty housing in this state by building homes and by collaborating with other community based organizations dedicated to improving housing conditions in the city; and by strengthening the communities. Habitat Providence also supports the development of new Habitat affiliates in other parts of the state. Suite: 333, 335
PH: 401-831-5424
Fax: 401-861-5448
Contact: Herman deKoe
Website: http://www.habitatprovidence.org
▲Top Harrison Law Associates provides services in the general practice of law; including personal injury, wrongful termination, business/contract disputes, landlord/tenant and civil rights. Suites: 100 and 105
PH: 401-467-2000
Fax: 401-467-2001
Email: casby@casbyharrison.com
Contact: Casby Harrison III, Esq.
▲Top International Gallery for Heritage & Culture
An arts & community organization. Suite: 403
PH: 401-781-6507
Fax: 401-
Email: igallery@mindspring.com website: www.theinternationalgallery.org Contact: Linda Avant-Deishinni and Munir D. Mohammed
Liberian Community Association of RI Suite: 123, 136
PH: 401-780-6718
Contact: Mator Kpangbai
▲Top Michael J. Gadoury, ESQ. Law Offices, specializing in personal injury, SSI and disability law. Suite: 237
PH: 401-453-3301
Contact: Michael J. Gadoury
▲Top Nice and Neat Cleaning Services provides professional services and free estimates to residential and commercial locations. They perform quality work with reliable teams to provide professional cleaning services. Nice and Neat is fully bonded and insured and accepts major credit cards; Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and Diners Club International. Suite: 121
PH: 401-467-8788
Fax: 401-467-8786
Email: Niceandneat@verizon.net
Contact: Sylvia Bernal
▲Top Pokanoket Wampanoag Federation Suite: 334
Contact: Harry Edmonds PH: 401-434-5393
▲Top Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM) Suite: 331
Contact: Kohei Ishihara
PH: 401-226-3207
Email:
▲Top Quisqueya in Action is a Dominican cultural non-profit organization that organizes the annual Dominican Festival of RI, attended by 30,000 people and held in Roger Williams Park. Founded in 1987, they offer programs ranging from youth leadership development, a cultural arts program, to the Miss Dominican Republic Pageant. Their objective is to promote the Dominican culture and traditional values along with personal growth, education and youth leadership in the community. Suite: 241, 243
PH: 401-941-2749
Email: quisqueyaenaccion@hotmail.com
Contact: Juan Troncoso
▲Top RI Casting, Studio One provides full-service casting resources for film, corporate video, commercial, television, print and promotions. Suite: 130
PH: 508-336-8247
Websites: www.choicejobsusa.com
www.Studio1castingservice.com
Contact: Pat McCarthy
▲Top Senator Juan Pichardo, (D) represents District 2 in Providence. Elected in November of 2002, Senator Pichardo holds regular open office hours at his Algonquin House office. Suite: 324
PH: 401-222-4278
Email: sen-pichardo@rilin.state.ri.us
Website: www.juanpichardo.com
▲Top SER -Jobs for Progress, Inc. has been conducting welfare to work programs for the Department of Human services since 1992. The goal of the SER Work Experience Program is to assess, enroll, and place welfare recipients into unsubsidized employment. This program, and many of SERs programs, target Limited English speaking participants. As a private, non-profit corporation, SER is headed by a voluntary Board of Directors representative of various sectors of the communities served. Suite: 320
PH: 401-785-3190
Fax: 401-785-3282
Email: SER4@mindspring.com
Contact: Lisa Dreyer
▲Top Sylvan Education Solutions: (see Education STation/Sylvan) Venroj Packaging, INc, a carding business. Suite: 402
PH: 401-286-6680
Fax: 401-
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