learn more about brown's economic impact on providence and rhode island
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BROWN UN IVERS ITY
Global Excellence, Local Impact
Global Excellence, Local Impact Brown University is internationally renowned for
innovative education, multi-disciplinary research, and
community service. Throughout Brown’s 250 years, the
City of Providence has been an integral partner. The
future success of Providence and Brown are intertwined.
An ANCHOR of Providence
• $8.2 million: amount per year that
Brown pays to the City in voluntary
payments and property taxes.
• 1,325: Brown employees live
in Providence.
• $200 million: amount Brown has
invested in the Jewelry District in the
last decade, including buying property
and improving the public sphere.
• 1,000: number of Brown faculty, staff and students working
and studying in the Jewelry District every day.
• $215 million: amount of public-private partnership invested
for the renovation of South Street Landing, which will house
136,000 square feet of Brown office space, and a nursing school
for Rhode Island College and University of Rhode Island.
• $1 million: amount Brown has invested in public realm
improvements to Thayer Street, including sidewalk repair,
tree planting, and trash/ graffiti removal.
TOTAL
$3.0+$5.2=$8.2million
PROPERTY TAXES
VOLUNTARY PAYMENTS
Engine for EMPLOYMENT, Ideas and Innovation • 4,462: number of Brown employees, ranking 7th in the
Providence Business News list of largest RI employers
in 2014.
• 8,000: number of RI jobs per year that Brown generates
though direct payroll employees, purchasing, construction,
student spending, and visitor spending.
• $164 million: amount per year that Brown attracts and
spends on scientific research and development, making
Brown the leading scientific center in RI.
• 30: Number of Brown faculty, student and alumni-founded
companies in RI.
LUNA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. makes Premama pre- and post-natal nutrition. Founded by Brown alumnus Dan Aziz, Premama launched after winning the 2011 Rhode Island Business Plan Competition. Now headquartered in downtown Providence, Premama is sold at CVS, Target, Amazon and other retailers.
A RHODE ISLAND Institution
• $2.55 million: amount Brown Dining Services spends
annually on local food, supporting RI farmers and
preserving farmland.
• $135 million: amount of goods and services that
Brown buys annually from Rhode Island companies.
• $5.6 million: financial aid for RI students at Brown.
• $500,000: amount the student-run Brown Market
Shares program invested in the local food economy
in just two years, bringing local produce to campus and
supporting Rhode Island farmers.
40,000GALLONS RHODY FRESH MILK
5,200POUNDS NARRAGANSETT CREAMERY CHEESE + YOGURT
Each year Brown purchases
+
Brown Keeps Rhode Island HEALTHY• $50 million: Brown School of Public Health funds devoted
to improving health, from pre-natal care to addiction studies
to Alzheimer’s research.
• 13%: number of practicing physicians in RI who are
graduates of Brown’s Alpert Medical School.
• 31%: Alpert Medical School-sponsored medical residents
who stay in RI.
• 43%: number of all RI physicians who are affiliated with
Alpert Medical School.
43%RI PHYSICIANS AFFILIATED WITH ALPERT MEDICAL SCHOOL
Brown SUPPORTS the Providence Public Schools• $300,000: college scholarships and grants allocated thus
far to Providence public school students from Brown’s Fund
for the Education of the Children of Providence.
• 420+: Brown undergraduate student volunteers in Providence public schools
• 65,000+: Brown student volunteer hours of direct service
• 17: Providence public school partners
• 5,000+: public school student program participants
43%RI PHYSICIANS AFFILIATED WITH ALPERT MEDICAL SCHOOL
Through Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment (BRYTE), Brown students tutor children whose families have recently moved to Providence from Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.
COLLEGE HILL
DOWNCITY
JEWELRY DISTRICT
FOX POINT
0’ 200’ 400’
PROVIDENCE RIVER
Moshassuck River
CAMPUS FOOTPRINT IN PROVIDENCE.
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