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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