In 1998, Mt. Hope residents teamed up with Community Police Officers George Pereira and Jeff Ferreira to open the Mt. Hope Learning Center in a small storefront Community Police facility on Camp Street. Their goal was to create an accessible, safe and nurturing place for residents of Mt. Hope to learn valuable skills and enrich their lives.
The Mt. Hope Learning Center, having received its 501 (c)(3) non-profit incorporation, applied for and received Community Development Block Grant funds and purchased the site at 140 Cypress Street. The Learning Center quickly outgrew its limited space and in 2003 took over the full use of the building.
Partnerships & Collaborations include:
- The Billy Taylor House
- Books Are Wings
- Brown University
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Providence
- Camp Street Community Ministries
- C.A.T.C.H
- Central Congregational Church
- CHOICES, Inc.
- Commission on Prejudice & Bias
- Community Health Innovations of Rhode Island (CHI-RI)
- Cox Communications
- Dorcas Place
- Everett Co. Stage & School
- East Side/Mt. Hope YMCA
- Hope High School
- I Am That Girl
- Marianne’s Bookshelf
- Martin Luther King Elementary School
- The Miriam Hospital
- Moses Brown School
- Mt. Hope Community Baptist Church
- Mt. Hope Neighborhood Association
- Nathan Bishop Middle School: P.A.S.A
- Parent Leadership Training Initiative
- The Peace Flag Project
- Providence Public Library
- RI Black Heritage Society
- Providence Dept. of Recreation
- Rhode Island Dept. of Education
- Rhode Island Dept. of Health
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Roger Williams Park Zoo
- Talk Works
- United Way
- University of Rhode Island
- Vincent Brown Recreational Center
- The Wheeler School
- YMCA of Greater Providence