HOPE
The Corkboard

A bulletin board for Rhode Islanders doing it hard. Pin up what you know. Read what others left. No login, no judgment, no inspirational quotes about sunsets.

The board · Issue No. 1

Pin something up.

A warm shower you found. A pantry that's actually open. A win. A warning. A drawing. Something true. Adults only in the sense that we won't sugar-coat it for you.

Pin a note

Tip, warning, art, or a small good thing. We read every one.

From the editor

Why this board exists

The state built good help and then hid it in eleven phone trees. Here, the people using it just tell each other the truth. Read it on the wall instead of finding out the hard way.

— Editor
The money · plainly

What support buys

No bank account yet. Goes through a personal GoFundMe. One guy, one laptop.

$1,200 — become a real nonprofit
$700 — a year of hosting + the AI
$600 — native Spanish review
$500 — printed cards for no-phone folks
$500 — calling every listing to verify
$3,500 — the whole list

❤ Support
$10 is a lot · $100 is a fortune · not yet tax-deductible
Tip · verified-ish

Showers at the Cranston Y are warm again

Whatever was broken got fixed. Go before 10am, the towels run out. Front desk won't hassle you about a membership if you say you're just there for the shower.

— M., Cranston
Warning

The Tuesday meal on Broad moved

Same good people, new room. It's the side door now, not the front. Don't stand at the front like I did for twenty minutes feeling like a fool.

— anonymous, Providence
Art
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"Anchor, not anchor"

Drew this on a napkin at the library. An anchor keeps you steady. An anchor also drags you down. Depends which end you're holding. That's the whole thing, isn't it.

— D., a bench near the river
Small good thing

Got my ID back today

Took four months and three offices. OpenDoors did the part nobody else would. If you're stuck on documents, that's the door. Don't wait as long as I did.

— R., Pawtucket
Tip

EBT really does work at Subway

I didn't believe the app either. It's real. Restaurant Meals Program. First hot lunch in a week. Felt like getting away with something. You're not — it's yours.

— T., Woonsocket
Notice

Coat drop, Saturday, no questions

Church basement on Pine. They put the coats on a rack outside so nobody has to ask anybody for anything. Take what fits. Leave what you don't need for the next person.

— posted for a friend