Five Jamestown projects recently received funding from the R.I. Foundation’s Newport County Fund.

Since being established at the Foundation in 2002, the Newport County Fund has awarded more than $1.7 million to nonprofit organizations working in all six communities of Newport County.

Funded projects include:

• Island Moving Company, $8,000 for continued support of creative movement classes for second and third-grade students in Jamestown, Newport, Middletown, Portsmouth, Tiverton and Little Compton.

• The Jamestown Arts Center, $5,000 for support of a part-time executive director on a contractual basis to focus on organizational development planning for the Jamestown Arts Center.

• The Jamestown Community Chorus, $1,757 for the 2010-2011 Jamestown Community Piano concert series.

• The Jamestown School Department, $6,000 to establish a collaborative reading and learning partnership between students at the Lawn School in Jamestown and Thompson Middle School in Newport using Mawi Asgedom’s “The Code: The 5 Secrets of Teen Success” to promote tolerance, respect and the value of personal action in initiating community change.

• Bridges, Inc., $8,920 to create a pilot project music therapy program for clients at Bridges and two sister agencies in Newport County to achieve non-musical, therapeutic treatment goals prescribed by a boardcertifi ed music therapist.