JANUARY Action Alert:

Oil and other deliverable fuels customers in RI are only getting $400 LIHEAP grants from the federal government. Please call your US Senators and Legislators to ask them to push for more LIHEAP funding.

Click here to read Arthur Delaney's article from the Huffington Post.

Congressional contact info:


Senator Reed
1000 Chapel View Blvd
Suite 290
Cranston, RI 02920
401-943-3100
  
Senator Whitehouse
170 Westminster Street
Suite 1100
Providence, RI 02903
401-453-5294

 

Congressman Cicilline
1070 Main Street
Suite 300
Pawtucket, RI 02860
401-729-5608

Congressman Langevin
300 Centerville Rd.
Suite 200
Warwick, RI 02886
401-737-2982 

 



UPCOMING MEETINGS:
ALL ARE WELCOME


Leadership Committee
Saturday, Feb 4
10am @ Wiley Center

Blackstone Valley Chapter
Tuesday, Feb 7
6pm @ Wiley Center

Aquidneck Chapter
Weds, Feb 15
10am @ Senior Center
1 Park Holm, Newport

Providence Chapter
Weds, Feb 15
6pm @ St Michael's Rectory
239 Oxford St, Providence

West Bay Chapter
Thursday, Feb 23
6pm @ First Cong. Church
715 Oakland Beach Ave Warwick





The George Wiley Center is a statewide group actively committed to local community organizing for the purpose of creating social and economic justice through changes in public policy.


Protected National Grid Electric and Gas customers in RI are being threatened with utility shutoffs during the winter moratorium and bullied into making new payment arrangements without review from the Division of Public Utilities, as required by law.  

Don't be another victim!

Call us at the Wiley Center or attend our next meeting to learn your rights and protections before you enter into any new payment plans with National Grid.

Check out our utilities page for more details on the 2012 LIHEAP year and shutoff protections.

Call us at (401) 728-5555 for more information.




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A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED IN OUR QUIZ BOWL FUNDRAISER AND A BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO RUBICON II FOR TAKING HOME THE COVETED
"BRIGHTEST BULB" AWARD!!
Click here for more
SAVE THE DATE: 
September 28, 2012
QB III
more info to follow
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Governor Chafee signs "Henry Shelton Act" into law.  
Click here for more info
 


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About Us!

For 30 years, The George Wiley Center has been a non-profit, 501(c)3 grassroots agency that 
organizes members of the low-income community to advocate for systematic changes aimed at alleviating problems associated with poverty. Our mission is “to build a community that addresses human needs and redresses injustices.” We have a special focus on food and energy insecurity issues in Rhode Island. Through outreach and recruitment in low-income neighborhoods, we are able to mobilize members of the community impacted by poverty to fight for changes public policy using a variety of direct action, lobbying and non-violent tactics aimed at getting policy makers and law makers to implement solutions that are proven to work.

Named after Rhode Island native and national civil rights activist, George Alvin Wiley, the George Wiley Center coordinates the Rhode Island Campaign to Eliminate Childhood Poverty, whose volunteer members speak from personal experience and use a variety of grassroots lobbying and non-violent protest tactics to create changes in local government and private institutions that will help eliminate poverty in their lives and in the lives of others.

The work of the George Wiley Center is based on the belief that each person in our community is endowed with innate dignity and worth. Each deserves a decent home, adequate clothing and nutritious food, the essential resources for intellectual and emotional development. These goals are achieved through community education and awareness and community organization and development.

We are committed to forming cooperative alliances with church, business, labor and community groups and to bringing those directly impacted by poverty into leadership roles as community change agents. Our agency holds open (free & public) membership meetings in numerous locations around Rhode Island.

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