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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Amos House and the Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket will each receive $200,000 from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation on Friday.

The grants will be awarded through the bank's Neighborhood Excellence Initiative, which has committed more than $20 million this year to help nonprofits sustain their good work.

The event will be held at 9 a.m. in the Black Box Theater at the Met School, 325 Public St., Providence.

Amos House, based in Providence, serves men and women who are hungry, homeless and in crisis by providing them with food, shelter and social services.

The Boys & Girls Club offers sports, fitness and health and life skills to more than 4,000 children in Pawtucket.

The bank will also honor its 2009 Rhode Island Local Heroes, who will each receive $5,000 for the charirty of their choice.

They are: the Rev. Ernest Ward of the Second Free Will Baptist Church; Robin Ancowitz of the American Red Cross, Rhode Island; Eleanor Brown-McSwain of Destiny House; Nondas Hurst Voll of the Institute for the Study and Practice of Non-Violence; and William Twaddell of the International Institute of Rhode Island.

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