Tiverton Animal Welfare Groups Awarded $12K in Grants from Rhode Island Foundation

Image via West Place Animal Sanctuary Facebook page

Two animal welfare groups were awarded a total of $12,000 in grants by the Rhode Island Foundation.

The Rhode Island Foundation offers grants to organizations that fight for important community issues. The foundation looks is to help these organizations across the state to reach their potential through leadership, fundraising and grantmaking activities, including two Tiverton organizations that focus on animal welfare.

Placing Paws received a $4,000 grant and West Place Animal Sanctuary was awarded $8,000.

Placing Paws will use the grant to offer pet adoption and the spaying and neutering of stray animals and West Place Animal Sanctuary will offer enhanced nutrition and specialized medical care to injured and disabled animals.

The RI Foundation awarded $34.8 million in grants in 2014, which is the most in the organization’s 98-years of existence. The organization said local organizations received a total of almost $600,000.

Other local organizations that received grants include: the Boys and Girls Club of Newport County, the YMCA of Newport County, the East Bay Community Action Program, Child and Family Services of Newport County and the Newport County Community Mental Health Center.

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