Navigant Credit Union Charitable Foundation awards nearly $320K in grants supporting 17 local nonprofits
Foundation’s recent wave of grant funding is in addition to nearly $520,000 in philanthropic donations made by Navigant Credit Union in 2024
SMITHFIELD, RI (June 5, 2024) — The Navigant Credit Union Charitable Foundation has completed its latest round of grant funding, awarding a total of $320,000 in high-impact grants to support 17 locally based nonprofit organizations.
A 501(c)3 charity officially established in 2017, the Navigant Credit Union Charitable Foundation is dedicated to making significant and impactful financial contributions to support Rhode Island-based organizations focused on education, social services, arts & culture, public health and civic duty. Since it began awarding grants in 2022, the Foundation has disbursed nearly $1.2 million in support of more than 50 organizations.
“As a proud, born-and-bred Rhode Island institution, Navigant Credit Union is invested in contributing in any way we can to making our home state a better place to live, work, start a business and raise a family,” said Navigant Credit Union President / CEO Kathy Orovitz. “Our Foundation has given us an opportunity to enhance our longstanding commitment to giving back to the communities we serve with larger more impactful grants that make an immediate, positive impact on our neighbors. We’re pleased to support these 17 incredible organizations, and we thank their leaders, staff members and volunteers for the work they do every day.”
Awardees in the latest round of Navigant Credit Union Charitable Foundation funding include:
- Camp Ruggles (North Scituate)
- Central Falls Housing Authority (Central Falls)
- Gloria Gemma Foundation (Pawtucket)
- Higher Ground International (Providence)
- Historic Metcalf Franklin Farm Preservation Association (Cumberland)
- Little Sisters of the Poor (Pawtucket)
- Meeting Street (Providence)
- North Smithfield Fire & Rescue (North Smithfield)
- Pawtucket Business Development Corporation (Pawtucket)
- PCF Development (Pawtucket)
- Rhode Island Boy Scouts, Narragansett Council Urban Scouting (Central Falls/Pawtucket/Providence)
- Rhode Island Philharmonic (Providence)
- Sojourner House (Providence)
- St. Mary’s Church Food Pantry (Warren)
- St. Patrick’s Church Food Pantry (Harrisville)
- Wood River Health Services (Hope Valley)
- YWCA Woonsocket (Woonsocket)
In addition to the Foundation’s recent activity, Navigant Credit Union has contributed nearly $520,000 in support of more than 230 organizations in 2024. In total, between Foundation grants and direct financial support, Navigant Credit Union has contributed more than $840,000 in philanthropic support to the communities it serves this year.
“Thanks to the trust our members all across Rhode Island place in our team year after year, the financial state of Navigant Credit Union is strong, and we have been fortunate to have had the opportunity to grow – strategically and exponentially – over the last several years,” Orovitz said. “Our consistent, year-over-year success has allowed us to invest more and more in the betterment of the state our employees, members and friends call home.”
The Navigant Credit Union Charitable Foundation is currently accepting grant applications from eligible non-profit organizations for its next round of funding. Applications close September 30, 2024. Learn more at www.NCUfoundation.org.
About Navigant Credit Union
Based in Smithfield, R.I., Navigant Credit Union is the longest-operating member-owned credit union in Rhode Island. Since its founding in 1915, Navigant Credit Union has been dedicated to providing its members with unparalleled financial products and services while working every day to improve the financial well-being of the families, businesses, and communities it serves across Rhode Island. With more than $3.7 billion in assets, more than 150,000 members and 25 physical branch locations, Navigant Credit Union is the oldest and largest credit union in Rhode Island and among the state’s strongest and most trusted financial institutions.
Earning a five-star rating, Navigant Credit Union was listed as one of America’s best regional banks and credit unions by Newsweek in 2024. It is consistently ranked as one of Rhode Island’s Best Place to Work by Providence Business News and was rated the state’s top credit union and mortgage lender in 2022 and 2023 by the Providence Journal Readers’ Choice Awards.
Navigant Credit Union is federally insured by the NCUA.
Visit www.navigantcu.org to learn more.
