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Community Learning Center Municipal Grant Program

The Community Learning Center (CLC) Municipal Grant Program provides $81.7 million in grants to all eligible municipalities to invest in multipurpose community facility projects that directly and jointly enable work, education, and health monitoring. Under this program eligible municipalities receive CPF funds to construct or rehabilitate multipurpose community facilities. The community learning centers will be accessible to all Rhode Islanders.  

Eighteen municipalities are building 21 Community Learning Centers across the State of Rhode Island. 

Six neighboring municipalities are partnering to build four shared projects: Glocester - Foster (2); Hopkinton - Richmond; Newport - Middletown.

Fifteen projects are fully funded by CPF; Six projects are fully funded by CPF and at least one other source.

CPF Community Learning Centers

CLC project locations

Select a project for additional details:

Project CPF Award Project CPF Award
Barrington: Bay Springs Community Center $1,365,591 Lincoln: Lincoln Learning Center $2,000,000
Bristol: Rogers Free Library $1,971,967 Newport - Middletown: Florence Gray Center $7,527,554
Central Falls: El Centro $8,985,198 North Providence: North Providence Community Center $3,160,894
Charlestown: Cross Mills Public Library $654,597 Providence: Davey Lopes Recreation Center $8,661,128
Coventry: Coventry Community Learning Center $4,595,708 Providence: Elmwood Community Center $3,273,872
Cumberland: Wellness Hub at Amaral Building & Heritage Park $3,118,159 Providence: Joslin Recreation Center $4,265,000
East Greenwich: Swift Community Center $1,596,800 Smithfield: East Smithfield Neighborhood Center $2,477,323
East Providence: East Providence Community Center $10,493,659 South Kingstown: Peace Dale Library $2,893,891
Glocester - Foster: Harmony Library $768,988 Westerly: Tower Street Community Center $3,531,655
Glocester - Foster: Manton Library $261,259 Woonsocket: Multipurpose Center at Cass Park $6,990,500
Hopkinton - Richmond: Hopkinton Regional Community Center $3,126,385    
TOTAL CPF-CLC FUNDS AWARDED: $81,720,128

Community Learning Center Municipal Transaction Log