Since 2004, Amos House (AH) has launched a thriving school lunch business and a private catering business. Both serve as a training ground for AH clients enrolled in ACE – the Amos Culinary Education Program – a culinary arts job-training program. SVPRI has been instrumental in developing and implementing the business plan, serving as a sounding board to help AH think through staffing, marketing and pricing. Among the accomplishments SVPRI has helped AH achieve:

• AH has graduated 189 men and women from the program, and 60 percent have secured food service jobs.

ArtTix provides back-office box office functions to over 80 member organizations of the Arts & Business Council of RI (A&BC RI) to provide greater visibility and easier accessibility to arts and cultural performances and events in the Rhode Island and southeastern New England regions.

The Maher Center provides services to over 500 people with disabilities, 
primarily those with developmental disabilities.They operate several social
enterprise programs, including custodial, laundry and food services, retail
horticulture and online crafts site.

The Rhode Island Family Life Center (RIFLC) is a one-stop nonprofit that provides services for formerly incarcerated individuals - preparing inmates for release, providing strong support during the post-release period and assisting families of offenders returning home through support and counseling that builds on individual and family strengths. In 2007, RIFLC piloted the "Green Team" - a program to beautify Providence's South Side, while providing transitional job opportunities to clients. Of the 16 participants, 85 percent were placed in jobs as a result of the program.

Rhode Island for Community & Justice (RICJ) is a social justice organization dedicated to fighting bias, bigotry and racism and promoting understanding and respect among all races, religions and cultures through advocacy, conflict resolution and education. The mission of the People's School is to advance nontraditional arts-based education towards economic opportunities for adults through an environment which promotes self-empowerment, cultural identity, social justice and shared power with resources.

The Cookie Place, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in 1982 to help
individuals with psychiatric disorders. They operate a Café, catering
business, bakery and an ORS training site for Serv Safe certification and
job placement. Now, they’re defining how to grow the cookie business
(from broader retail distribution) while improving operational standards to
handle the growth.

• The Steel Yard (TSY) focuses on educating the public, offering opportunities to artists, and preserving the industrial arts. In 2004, TSY launched Urban Furniture/Public Art (UFPA), a social enterprise to unite the educational and creative missions of TSY while contributing revenue to advance the organization’s mission. UFPA commissions individual artists to design and produce its products (rubbish barrels, benches, bicycle weathervanes, etc.), and markets them to municipalities, local business associations, real estate developers, architects and private parties.