Viola Davis is pouring $1.2 million into the Rhode Island community that helped raise her. The EGOT winner and her husband, actor Julius Tennon, made the donation through their Davis-Tennon Foundation to build a new community hub in Central Falls—the same city where Davis once faced crushing poverty, hunger, and unstable housing.
According to The Boston Globe, the Mary Alice Davis Family Engagement Center, named for Davis’ mother, will put a wide range of services under one roof. The facility will include an expanded food pantry, a parent resource center, workforce development and financial literacy programs, educational workshops, meeting space for nonprofits, and the foundation’s permanent headquarters. Its current food pantry already serves roughly 3,000 people every month.
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