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- National Grid Foundation Awards $100,000 Donation to Diocesan ‘Keep the Heat On’ Program
  
  January 25
  
  Representatives of the National Grid Foundation visited the Diocese of Providence in January to present a $100,000 donation to Bishop Thomas J. Tobin to support “Keep the Heat On,” the diocesan emergency heating assistance program. This year marks the organization’s fifth major donation to “Keep the Heat On” since 2014, when the foundation began an annual tradition of supporting diocesan efforts to provide emergency heating assistance to families and individuals in need throughout Rhode Island. The contribution also marks an increase from last year’s $80,000 donation. PHOTO: LAUREN CLEM.
- Keep the Heat On Begins 13th Season of Helping Families in Need
  
  November 23
  
  The Diocese of Providence kicked off the 13th annual “Keep the Heat On” campaign, beginning another winter of providing emergency heating assistance to families in need. Bishop Tobin launched “Keep the Heat On” in 2005 as a way of providing heating and utility assistance to Rhode Island families who have exhausted all other forms of public and private aid. Since its beginning, the program has contributed more than $2.65 million in heating assistance to approximately 12,000 households throughout the state. (PHOTO: LAUREN CLEM.)
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“If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it? So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”
- James 2:15-17
How to Apply

The Keep the Heat On program is funded by the Catholic Charity Appeal of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence and generous individuals.

For emergency assistance, please call (401) 421-7833 x 207.

For detailed information or to donate, please visit the Keep the Heat On program website (see Links section).
Community Impact
- Since being launched in 2005, Keep the Heat On has expended more than raised more than $2.5 million in assistance.
- Keep the Heat On has provided assistance to more than 11,700 Rhode Island households.