Through the Hasbro Children’s Fund Gifts of Hope, local community grants are awarded in the areas where Hasbro employees live and work.

These regions include the State of Rhode Island, Springfield, Massachusetts, and Renton, Washington.

2008 Local grant Recipients:

• Adoption Rhode Island               
• American Red Cross       
• Angels on Horseback
• ARK Institute
• Arts Corps
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of King & Pierce Counties
• Big Sisters of Rhode Island
• Birthday Wishes of Massachusetts
• Birthday Wishes of Rhode Island
• Blackstone Valley Advocacy Center
• Blackstone Valley Community Action
• Bristol Good Neighbors
• Center for Human Development
• City Year
• Comprehensive Community Action
• Connecting Children and Families
• Crossroads Rhode Island
• Day One
• Diabetes Foundation of Rhode Island
• Douglas A Thom Center
• Dunn Institute
• East Bay Community Action
• Easter Seals MA
• Education Partnership
• Family Services of Rhode Island
• FRIENDS Way
• Girl Scouts of Rhode Island
• Gray House
• Horizons for Homeless Children
• House of Hope
• Institute of International Sports
• Institute on the Study & Practice of Nonviolence
• John Hope Settlement House
• Johnnycake Center
• Joslin Community Center
• Kent Center
• Kindering Center
• KIDS First
• Lifelong AIDS Alliance
• Lucy’s Hearth
• Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange
• Meeting Street
• Open Pantry
• Page Ahead
• Potter Burns Elementary School   
• Prevent Child Abuse Rhode Island
• proAbility
• Project New Urban Arts
• Providence After School Alliance
• Providence Center
• Providence In Town Churches
• Rhode Island Autism Project
• Rhode Island Community Food Bank
• Rhode Island Foster Parents Association
• Rhode Island Kids Count
• Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra
• Rhode Island Zoological Society
• Riverzedge
• Ronald McDonald House of Providence
• Sibling Connections
• Salvation Army of Rhode Island
• Salvation Army of Renton
• Save the Bay
• South Providence Neighborhood Ministry
• Special Olympics of Rhode Island
• Springfield Family Support Program
• Springfield Library & Museums
• Starlight Foundation
• Stavros Center
• St. Edward’s Food and Wellness Center
• St. Joseph’s Health Services
• St. Mary St. James’ Food Pantry
• St. Matthew-Trinity Church
• Treehouse
• Trinity Repertory Company
• Trudeau Center
• United Way of Rhode Island
• United Way of Springfield
• University of Rhode Island Foundation
• Urban League of Rhode Island
• Vision House
• Washington Park Citizens Association
• World Association for Children
• Year Up
• YMCA of Greater Seattle
• YMCA of Greater Springfield
• Youth Pride
• Youth Rally

Community Partners - Spotlights

In 2006, the Hasbro Children’s Fund established a 3-year partnership with Angel Flight Northeast. Angel Flight NE is a charitable organization that provides air transportation in private aircrafts by more than 1,100 volunteer pilots so that children and adults may access life saving medical care, free of charge. Angel Flight is available to patients and families of patients whose financial resources do not permit them to travel by other means to get the necessary diagnosis or treatment. Emergency flights are also available and are reserved for persons who need to visit critically ill or injured family members, for patients needing organ transplants, or for organ donations.

With Hasbro’s support, Angel Flight established the "Hasbro Helping Wings" program. This program provides Angel Flight with the necessary manpower for mission coordination. Mission coordination is a labor-intensive process requiring coordinators to be on call 24/7 and working with 80 to 120 flight plans each week. Each child taking an Angel Flight receives a toy to bring them a bit of comfort during their journey. Hasbro also provides toys and games for Santa Flights, which send toys to children who need them most during the holidays.

 

In 2006, the Hasbro Children’s Fund established a 3-year partnership with The Bradford L. Dunn Institute (“Dunn”). Dunn’s mission is to provide direct support for students, disseminate proven teaching practices, increase community awareness about learning differences, serve as a local resource for information and programs, and assist schools with creating effective models for teaching students with learning differences. Hasbro’s grant is supporting the expansion of the Schools Attuned program, which trains 30 facilitators and 375 teachers over the course of three years, impacting 20,000 children each year.

The program, Hasbro Center for Teaching Excellence New England, serves teachers in grades K-12 in both public and private schools. It was established to ensure that children with “all kinds of minds” experience success in school and in life by:

• Providing research-based professional development programs to teachers on a school-wide basis
• Offering follow-up services on site to participating schools to help ensure their successful implementation of the program(s) and build their internal capacity (e.g. help them establish mentoring and student teacher programs, develop a team of internal trainers, and set up best practice sharing forums)
• Partnering with higher education to ensure that new teachers are entering the field with a foundation in these critical skills
• Engaging parents through training, a resource center and help with school placement

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