| R 308 |
| 2024 -- H 8290 Enacted 05/21/2024 |
| H O U S E R E S O L U T I O N |
| PROCLAIMING MAY 21, 2024, TO BE "COX IMPACT DAY" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND |
Introduced By: Representatives Kennedy, Shekarchi, Blazejewski, Place, Costantino, Tanzi, McNamara, Ackerman, Ajello, and Shallcross Smith |
| Date Introduced: May 21, 2024 |
| WHEREAS, Cox Communications is committed to creating meaningful moments of |
| human connection through technology. As the largest private broadband company in America, |
| Cox operates fiber-powered networks in more than 30 States, providing connections and |
| advanced managed IT and cloud services for nearly 7 million homes and businesses nationwide, |
| and are dedicated to empowering others to build a better future and celebrate diverse products, |
| people, suppliers, communities and the characteristic that make each one unique; and |
| WHEREAS, Cox Communications is the largest division of Cox Enterprises, a family- |
| owned business founded in 1898 by Governor James M. Cox; and |
| WHEREAS, Since 2001, Cox employees and business partners have invested in Cox |
| Charities, a charitable giving initiative of Cox Communications. Cox Charities has invested |
| millions of dollars in grants and in-kind support to organizations providing S.T.E.A.M. [Science, |
| Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math] enrichment programs to youth throughout the |
| Northeast Region; and |
| WHEREAS, Cox believes in community action through giving and loves the position |
| they hold as a contributing member of the community–their business, their employees and their |
| customers. This compels Cox to provide support with monetary, media and premium gift |
| contributions that provide goodwill to organizations and causes in need and strengthens the |
| social, economic and educational infrastructure of our community; and |
| WHEREAS, Cox demonstrates what they firmly believe by their focused areas of giving |
| concentrating their support in, but not limited to, the following key areas: Environment -- Cox |
| supports organizations and initiatives that encourage environmental sustainability and |
| conservation; Civic and Community -- Cox supports charitable and community organizations that |
| make a positive difference in the communities they serve; Youth & Education -- Cox supports |
| programs targeted toward providing children the essentials they need to grow up into self- |
| supporting and contributing members of society. Realizing the importance of education, Cox |
| supports initiatives that enhance educational efforts, particularly at the K-12 level; Diversity -- |
| Cox supports organizations that directly support the many facets of the richly diverse |
| communities they serve; and Technology -- Cox supports initiatives that enhance technology |
| curriculum for children, particularly at the K-12 level; and |
| WHEREAS, The 2024 Rhode Island recipients of Cox Charities grants are: The Boys & |
| Girls Clubs of Newport County Total Teen Explorers; The Boys & Girls Clubs of Northern |
| Rhode Island; The Boys and Girls Clubs of Providence; Manton Avenue Project; Winners Circle |
| XR Academy, Inc.; Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England; STEAM Box; The Empowerment |
| Factory; The Ocean Community YMCA; Boys & Girls Club of Warwick; Cape Verdean |
| American Community Development; Eastern Rhode Island Conservation District; and |
| Riverzedge Arts Projects, Inc.; now, therefore be it |
| RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island hereby |
| proclaims May 21 of 2024, to be "Cox Impact Day" in the State of Rhode Island and offers our |
| sincerest congratulations to all of the 2024 Cox Charities Grant Recipients, and thanks Cox for its |
| philanthropic efforts in Rhode Island; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
| transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to Mr. Stephen Iannazzi, Director, Government |
| Affairs, Cox Communications, and Ms. Rosie Fernandez, Manager of Community Relations for |
| Cox Communications East. |
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