Grant Details

The Brown Rudnick Center for Public Interest's mission is to bring the energy and interests of Brown Rudnick volunteers together with opportunities and resources to create positive social change. To maximize its effect, the Foundation Directors chose to focus on inner-city education in Boston, Providence, Hartford, New York, Washington DC. and London. The foundation supports two types of grants:

1. Community Grant - The purposes of the Community Grant Program are to simultaneously (a) encourage those involved broadly with the Brown Rudnick Center for the Public Interest to actively think about the educational needs in the communities of Boston, Hartford, New York City, Providence and Washington, D.C.; (b) recognize, encourage and collaborate with the front-line workers within the educational system who often do not have a voice in funding decisions; and (c) provide funding to assist with small, concrete projects or needs which will make an improvement in inner city education in Boston, Hartford, New York City, Providence and Washington, D.C. within a year of the grant award.
2. Relationship Grants - These annual grants seek to improve inner-city education by forming a relationship with a non-profit organization that optimally includes providing financial support, pro bono legal representation and volunteer time. Grantees are selected annually based upon a rigorous review of grant applications. These grants have helped to launch, sustain and grow dozens of successful programs and organizations during the past ten years.