Our Coalition Partners (partial listing)
 Fund for Community Progress: We are a founding member of the Fund for Community Progress, a fund raising agency with an endowment owned by 26 Rhode Island grass roots agencies. 100% of any donations made to the George Wiley Center through the Fund comes to us and helps build the endowment, only IF the George Wiley Center is designated on your contribution. |
| Campaign for Rhode Island Priorities: A broad-based group of more than 40 organizations who believe that good government ensures investments in services and programs that support our most vulnerable people. |
| People's Power & Light: People's Discount Heating Oil Service is a buying cooperative that saves retail customers money on their oil bill. If you heat your home with oil, please check out the program and be sure to select “OTHER” and fill in “George Wiley Center” on application the form so that we receive credit for your membership. |
| Rhode Island Jobs With Justice: A coalition of labor unions, community organizations, and faith-based groups fighting for workers’ rights and economic justice in Rhode Island. |
| Roger Williams Pro Bono Collaborative: Utility-Shut-Off Project (Funded by Rhode Island Foundation): Partners — Motley Rice LLC, George Wiley Center, Roger Williams University Professor Carl Bogus, and two Roger Williams University School Of Law students. The Pro Bono Collaborative project team — Wiley Center staff, Attorney Robert McConnell of Motley Rice, and law students Lindsay Scharpf and Ben Gworek — in consultation with John Howat of the National Consumer Law Center and under attorney McConnell's supervision, the law students researched and helped draft legislation designed to prevent mass utility shut-offs when the winter moratorium lifts. Rather than continue a crisis management approach that puts our most vulnerable populations at risk, this legislation will set payments levels for basic utility service that are affordable for low-income families and will save the costs of residential utility consumer shut-offs for those persons making payments on their bills. Now, low-income people who make payments and still fall short are doubly punished by poverty and deprivation of essential public services. |