SHARP (Smith Hill Advocacy & Resource Partnerships)

At A Glance

Location: 

Providence, Rhode Island

Primary Issue Area:

  • Living Economies

Active since:

2019

Core volunteers:

5

Our Purpose

Our purposThe people of Smith Hill and supporting communities have unified to to empower ourselves by reclaiming our neighborhoods through our own grassroots efforts.Our goal is to focus on solving problems that impact our community and implementing solutions by utilizing ourselves and our aligning resources as a committed and powerful workforce.It is our belief  that a “can do” workforce consisting of community members and its supporters is both powerful and cannot be ignored. What We DoWe enable a process of building power by: Involving Smith Hill and surrounding communities in identifying the problems we share and the solutions to those problems, Working together with other resource partners to make those solutions possible, Engaging with all Stakeholders through negotiation, influence, and support,Encourage accountability from ourselves as well as our community resources,