PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Three Providence schools will receive grants totaling $50,000 from Brown University's Fund for the Education of the Children of Providence.
Sophia Academy, a private school that serves urban girls, was awarded $10,000 for its Girl Tech - Technology in Action program.
Inspiring Minds, a non-profit that supports academic enrichment in young students, will receive $20,000 for its Intensive Intervention Initiative, a program to help students in pre-kindergarten through third grade become proficient in reading and math.
The Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program (UCAP), an alternative secondary school, was awarded $20,000 to purchase computers and audio-visual equipment.
Created in 2007, the fund is an endowment established in response to recommendations from the University's Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. The University has raised $1,550,500 and has awarded nearly $300,000 to 11 elementary, middle, and high schools, the Providence school district, and a nonprofit organization working in an elementary school.
The grants have ranged from approximately $1,000 to $118,000, and have supported areas ranging from library acquisitions and music instruction to reading intervention and violence prevention curriculum.