Category: Gather RI News

Would you like to be an essential pillar of the founding of a high-profile nonprofit that is dedicated to feminist values and community building? Gather RI seeks a powerhouse Executive Director to lead its launch. This role should be inhabited by someone who is comfortable doing the work needed on the ground to run a…

Gather RI has announced its seven Founding Board Members. In alphabetical order they are: Marisa Albanese, Manager External Affairs at Rhode Island Energy, Marcela Betancur, Executive Director of Latino Policy Institute, Dana Borrelli-Murray, MA, CEO of Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England, Touba Ghadessi, PhD, Provost at RISD, Sara Gilkenson, MA, Diversity Director at Supreme…

Gather RI is seeking to commission approximately 35 Rhode Island artists to create original portraits for its inaugural show, Founders & Inventors: Women Who Created Our World, which will open in mid-2025 in conjunction with the launch of our new facility. The Dirt Palace, a beloved feminist art collective based in Providence, has been enlisted to help…

Nearly 100 women and gender expansive people will run for office across Rhode Island in 2024, and each will need a qualified campaign manager to help them succeed. Enter ‘Help Her Run’, a non-partisan training series developed by Gather RI. After producing a successful trial in the fall of 2023, Gather RI partnered with Women’s…

After months of preparation, Gather RI’s building design consultant Charlotte Breed Handy of CBH Architect appeared before Providence’s Historic District Commission (HDC) in June 2023 to present our plans for the building at 189 Broadway. The original building was a simple, one-story cinderblock from the early 1960s which housed Tally’s, a religious supply shop. Gather…