Grants Awarded in 2023

Collective Giving in 2023

  • Staff Fund

  • Trustee Fund

Special Funds in 2023

Area of Greatest Need

  • CT Rebound–Waterbury: CT Rebound Skills: $5,000 to help inner-city youth in Waterbury access college scholarships through basketball, and to provide exposure and assistance in improving their health through regular workouts. 99% of student participants are low-income students from Waterbury public middle and high schools.
  • Mental Health Connecticut (West Hartford): Independence Center Food & Meal Programs: $5,000 to provide, in their community center (Independence Center) based in downtown Waterbury, essential cooking and hygiene skills, purchase food for their pantry, support the IC kitchen, and deliver nutritious meals to individuals with mental health conditions in Waterbury.
  • Northwest Regional Workforce Investment Board’s HomeWorks program $7,200: By providing short-term rental subsidies, along with supportive services that include employment training, financial literacy education, life skills training and flexible funds assistance, this program is designed to address the factors that have contributed to a person’s homelessness. The intent is to create a safe environment for residents to be able to focus on the job training and employment aspect of the program while the barriers of homelessness are mitigated, allowing them to move towards self-sufficiency.
  • Operation Fuel: Emergency Energy Assistance for Waterbury and Surrounding Communities – $5,736 to provide emergency energy assistance grants to low- and moderate-income families living in Greater Waterbury/ Litchfield.
  • Waterbury Youth Services $10,000 – to install a new temperature maintenance unit in the medical exam room of Waterbury Youth Services’ Child Advocacy Center to provide a warm and inviting experience for clients who are often victims of traumatic abuse.
  • Western CT Area Agency on Aging: Expanding Evidence-Based Health Programs in Waterbury (Year 7): $7,250 to support three free six-week evidence-based Live Well workshops in Waterbury for chronic disease management such as diabetes, chronic pain, arthritis, and hypertension. These workshops are taught by diverse leaders who provide older adults with tools needed to help manage multiple chronic conditions.

Arts and Culture

  • Afro Caribbean Cultural Center (Waterbury): 2nd Annual Bombazo and Barrio Arts Festival – $10,000 to support a festival that highlights Afro Caribbean cultures. The celebration unites Afro-Latinx vendors, artists, and Puerto Rican Bomba music, and food. The event will be held August 12, on the front lawn of the Silas Bronson Library.
  • After School Arts Program (Washington): ASAP! & Children’s Community School Partnership Programming – $7,500 to provide year-long arts-infused educational programming that aligns with school curricula for the Children’s Community School in Waterbury.
  • Arts & Culture Collaborative of the Waterbury Region (Waterbury) Fiscal Sponsor: Greater Waterbury Chamber of Commerce Foundation: Operating Support & Strategic Re-Assessment – $7,500 to support core operations including staff time, overhead costs, marketing, programming, strategic planning, and data collection that will allow better service to members and the community. It will also help address the evolving environment and needs of the arts community.
  • Arts for Learning CT (Hamden): Express Yourself: After School Arts Learning at FJ Kingsbury School – $7,500 to serve as-yet unfulfilled need at Kingsbury school: engaging after-school programs that provide positive out-of-school experiences for students and reinforce Social and Emotional Learning growth that is a focus of in-school classes and programs. This program will provide after-school programming to students at Kingsbury Elementary over the course of 12 weeks, three times weekly, throughout fall 2023.
  • Ball & Socket Arts, Inc. (Cheshire): Ball & Socket Arts 2023 Artcade: Support for 3 Artist Commissions and Accompanying Free Public Events – $15,000 to commission three exceptional BIPOC New England artists to create large-scale murals. These pieces of vital public art will be on view to the public 24/7 on-site and accompanied by free events and workshops.
  • Building Legacy And Community (BLAC) (Waterbury) – Fiscal Sponsor, NHS Waterbury: Annual Juneteenth Celebration – $15,000 to support the Annual Juneteenth Celebration, which has become Waterbury’s largest celebration of Black culture. The Celebration brings Black vendors, entertainers, artists, dancers, musicians, and community organizations together to acknowledge a community that is often underrepresented.
  • City Youth Theater (Waterbury): Youth Theater Programs – $5,349 to offer a summer and after school theater workshop series, classes, and programs for Waterbury youth.
  • Landmark Community Theater (Thomaston): Reboot 2! Performing Arts Education for Children and Teens – $6,000 to support Landmark’s provision of low-cost, high-value arts education programs (including Spring & Fall youth classes and productions, a youth summer camp, teen production, and monthly activities).
  • Marrakech (Woodbridge, Waterbury office): Art Classes & Exhibit for 10 Marrakech Individuals at Southington Community Cultural Arts (SoCCA) – $5,000 to allow ten Marrakech individuals (transported from Waterbury’s Oak Tree Facility) to attend 2 separate 12-week sessions at Southington Community Cultural Arts (SoCCA); one session for adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) and one for youth involved in the foster care system. This will culminate in an art exhibition.
  • Newbury Musical Theater (Southbury): Production of Fiddler on the Roof – $5,000 to support a community theater production of Fiddler on the Roof: a show about antisemitism in Czarist Russia and how the people hold onto their traditions in the face of oppression. The production is being coordinated with 85th anniversary of Southbury Saying No to the Nazis.
  • Northwest CT Arts Council (Torrington): Staff Support for Long Term Strategic Planning – $7,500 for operational funding that will support the creation of a long-term strategic plan (5 years), which will deeply re-examine the organization’s goals & priorities and develop metrics for documenting progress. Funding would support a listening tour to connect with a range of stakeholders in the arts community.
  • Palace Theater (Waterbury): CommUNITY Series at the Palace Theater – $7,500 to support the Palace Theater’s new CommUNITY Series.This series consists of interactive events designed (with close community participation) to gather diverse presenters and audiences, many of whom have not been involved in the theater’s prior activities, with the goal of creating a stronger community.
  • Pilobolus (Washington CT): Pilobolus @ Play: Creative Partnership with Brass City Charter School – Expression Through Dance – $5,000 to allow Pilobolus’s Education Director to bring the nonprofit’s unique teaching style to 5th graders at Brass City Charter School. Students will create an original dance to be performed for the school population, parents, and community members at workshop’s end.
  • Productions for Change: Homelessness Documentary and Nonprofit Outreach Videos – $2,500 to partner with numerous local nonprofit agencies to produce a documentary on homelessness in CT, while providing useful promotional videos for these nonprofits to showcase their services to the public.
  • Shakesperience Productions (Waterbury): Waterbury Interactive: Our City, Our Neighborhoods (Year 10) – $15,000 (of $18,000 request) to support Neighborhoods: an inter-generational humanities and arts program focused on creating communication and viewing the human condition through storytelling. Historical interludes and oral histories come together with slide shows, video, musical accompaniment, food, and other technologies.
  • Waterbury Pride NAACP Youth Council (Waterbury) (Fiscal Sponsor: Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury): Find Your Light Multicultural Dance and Black History – $12,500 to support an accessible and equitable dance program for the youth of Waterbury. The dance program will be taught by BIPOC instructors, will be 3 times less expensive than existing options, and will provide deeper cultural context for its students.
  • Waterbury Symphony Orchestra (Waterbury): BRAVO Waterbury! 2023 Summer Program – $10,000 to support the BRAVO Waterbury! summer program, offered at the Children’s Community School. BRAVO Waterbury! is a high-quality program focusing on music learning for and engagement by under-served and marginalized children.
  • Woodbury-Bethlehem Community Music Foundation (Woodbury): WBCMF Inter-district Interactive Student Music Workshop – $3,000 to support an inclusive interactive workshop for a diverse student population (coming from Waterbury, Watertown, Middlebury, Southbury, Bethlehem, and Woodbury) which covers musicianship, performance, practicing, etc.; introduces a variety of musical genres and styles; and develops active listening by introducing music as story.

Building Equitable Opportunity

  • 50CAN, Inc. (AKA ConnCAN): (Hartford): Elevating Parent Voices to Improve Equity for Multilingual Learners – $15,000 to engage and activate Greater Waterbury residents to solve persistent problems in education, focusing primarily on district-level implementation of the recently passed Multilingual Learners’ Bill of Rights.
  • Be (A) Part (Waterbury) – Fiscal Sponsor: Moving With Health Oriented Physical Education (H.O.P.E.): The Be(A)Part High School Academy – $5,000 to provide students at Waterbury’s Wallace Middle School (WMS) and Early College High School (ECHS) at Crosby High School with college-and-career-ready skills training by a dynamic and diverse team of college students and BAP staff along with the support of educators, professionals, and community advocates.
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of CT (Hartford): Waterbury Community-Based Mentoring – $8,250 to provide one-to-one mentoring between at-risk children/youth, aged 6-18, and volunteer mentors. Pairs meet for 6-10 hours each month to participate in enriching activities and conversations aiming to improve social-emotional and academic outcomes for youth.
  • Brass City Gamers Tournament (Waterbury) Esports Curriculum Development Project – $10,000 – to create a curriculum to integrate into the Waterbury Public School (WPS) afterschool program. After results are gathered, documented, and analyzed, BCG will work on a version of the curriculum for students of WPS and the Waterbury homeschoolers population.
  • Career Resources, Inc. (Bridgeport): STRIVE Waterbury Program – $10,000 to support an intensive workforce readiness training program for returning citizens and other system-impacted individuals in the Greater Waterbury area. The program focuses on soft skills training and is integrated into CRI’s WE RISE Together statewide initiative.
  • Center for Children’s Advocacy (Hartford): Waterbury Children Youth & Advocacy Project – $4,000 to promote equitable opportunity for low-income children and youth and BIPOC children and youth by deploying CCA’s legal services and systemic reform advocacy to reduce barriers to education and employability.
  • Children’s Law Center of CT (Hartford): Legal Representation Program – $8,000 to provide high-quality legal advocacy to indigent children whose parents are embroiled in high-conflict family court disputes. These cases are among the most contentious the courts see. CLC provides a voice for children where they otherwise would not have one.
  • Community Partners in Action (Hartford): Waterbury Reentry Welcome Center – $10,000 to continue support and expansion of the Waterbury Reentry Welcome Center, which assists people returning to the community upon their release from prison. The Center serves as a hub for coordinating referrals and services from many community partners in the Waterbury area.
  • Connecticut Fair Housing Center (Hartford): Connecticut Fair Housing Center Greater Waterbury Education & Outreach Initiative – $10,000 to support a fair housing education and outreach initiative to ensure Greater Waterbury residents understand fair housing rights, how to advocate for them, and how to seek legal aid if they experience housing discrimination.
  • Connecticut Institute for Refugees & Immigrants (Bridgeport): Waterbury Immigration Legal Services – $20,000 to provide family reunification, naturalization, adjustment of status, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals applications and renewals, visas for victims of domestic violence, asylum application/appeals, and removal defense for Waterbury area immigrants.
  • Connecticut Voices for Children (New Haven): Affordable Housing & Eviction Mitigation Advocacy – $10,000 to employ a 3-prong strategy to protect and support tenants. Voices will advocate for more affordable housing through both carrots and sticks, increased renter protections and more targeted tax credits because income is inextricably linked to housing and the inability to pay for it.
  • Girl Scouts of Connecticut, Inc. (Hartford): Making Girl Scouting Accessible in Waterbury – $10,000 to develop staff-led Girl Scout Troops in Waterbury to ensure accessibility for every girl in the community interested in joining. This will be accomplished through partnerships with other youth-serving organizations located in Waterbury.
  • Goodwill Of Western & Northern Connecticut Inc (Bridgeport): Goodwill Career Services – $15,000 to prepare individuals at the Waterbury center for employment through workshops and training/certification initiatives, as well supporting them to secure employment with job application assistance and other forms of interview prep.
  • Higher Heights Youth Empowerment Programs Inc (New Haven): College Access Program – Middle School – $25,000 to empower, encourage, and equip under-represented college-bound students in CT to pursue post-secondary education. Since 2004, Higher Heights Youth Empowerment Programs, Inc. has helped advance high school graduation and college enrollment rates amongst Greater New Haven students, with a 100% high school graduation rate and 95% college enrollment rate over 15 years (with 90% of students coming from low-income backgrounds and 85% of students being first-generation). HH is now positioned to expand its local reach to impact Waterbury (and beyond).
  • Junior Achievement of SW New England (Hartford): JA Project Tomorrows – $12,000 to offer dynamic financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship programs to over 1,500 WPS students and provide tools for students to strive for financial success and fulfilling careers.
  • Literacy Volunteers on the Green (New Milford): Literacy Programs for English Language Learners – $6,000 to support the literacy needs of adults through either English language instruction to immigrants or basic skills remediation in reading, writing, and math for the English speaker placing at a low literacy level. The goal is to lessen economic insecurity of families.
  • Local Initiatives Support Corporation CT (Hartford): Building Family Income and Wealth through Financial Opportunity Centers – $20,000 to help individuals with low-to-moderate incomes focus on the financial bottom line. Part of an 18-year LISC National program with 130+ locations, Financial Opportunity Centers (FOCs) provide three integrated services: employment coaching, financial coaching, and benefits access.
  • Naugatuck YMCA (Naugatuck): Filling the Gap of Childcare Professionals – $10,000 to provide youth development, job training and career opportunity through hands-on learning for the high school youth in the Naugatuck community. A licensed childcare center in the high school will include a curriculum for the youth to explore a career in childcare.
  • NEST (Waterbury): – Homeownership Education & Loss Prevention Program (HELPP) – $10,000 to provide comprehensive housing counseling services to low-income individuals and families, assisting them in achieving financial stability and securing affordable housing options in the current challenging economic climate.
  • Police Activity League (Waterbury): PAL Homework Haven – $10,000 to support an afterschool program designed to help elementary school children. Students come to PAL to complete their homework, have a healthy snack, participate in a physical activity, and other special programs.
  • Reach Out & Read, Inc. (Boston, MA): Greater Waterbury Rx for Success – $10,000 to help provide a full year of RoR’s evidence-based early literacy intervention for 7,850 of Greater Waterbury’s children, helping families discover the profound bonding experience of reading aloud together.
  • Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs (Hartford), for Equality Connecticut: QUEST Leadership Academy – $20,000 to help cultivate a new generation of local LGBTQ+ leaders through training, coaching, and mobilization.
  • St. Vincent DePaul (Waterbury): Culinary Job Training Program – $15,000 to provide culinary job training for individuals facing high barriers to employment and ensure the opportunity for a living wage that will enhance their economic well-being. In addition to food preparation training, participants will receive job-readiness skills and employment.
  • University Of Bridgeport Inc (Bridgeport): STEM on Wheels Bus – $5,000 to offer mobile STEM education to K-12 students, engaging children in hydrospace, aerospace, and life sciences, utilizing cutting-edge technology not found in most classrooms.
  • University of CT Foundation, Inc. (Storrs): Hands-on STEM for Waterbury Students – $10,000 to allow UConn-Waterbury undergraduate students, with the mentorship of Allied Health Sciences faculty and community health educators, to seek to create and host STEM/health interactive learning activities for seventh grade students in the Waterbury Public School (WPS) District.
  • Waterbury Youth Services, Inc. (Waterbury): Linking Academics to Life – $10,000 to offer a 14-year-old free, high impact, evidence based, college, career, and life readiness after- school program for Waterbury’s middle/high school youth, the majority of whom are African American/Black and Hispanic/Latinx and almost all are from low-income families.
  • Westover School (Middlebury): Westover Summer Camp – $9,750 to support scholarships for students from underserved communities to attend Westover Summer Camp. This is an educational camp that provides transformative summer learning experiences for young girls. It offers two week-long sessions for girls ages ten to fourteen who are entering grades 6-9.
  • Winning Ways (New Haven): The Winning Circle Series presents: Financial Literacy Sessions – $7,000 to improve participants’ financial literacy knowledge and provide confidence with debt management, proper behaviors for investing, saving, and how to handle bills. Participants are offered safe, affordable checking accounts from a local bank (Thomaston Savings Bank).
  • Women’s Business Development Council (Fairfield): Small Business Development, Technical Assistance, and Microgrants: Waterbury Expansion Project – $20,000 to assist The Women’s Business Development Council as it opens a permanent office in downtown Waterbury in June 2023. WBDC will offer technical assistance, counseling, workshops, courses, and expand its microgrant programs to serve Waterbury-based small businesses and childcare providers.

Grassroots Leadership

  • Finding Me Program (Fiscal Sponsor: Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury): Afterschool Program – $7,000 to support afterschool programming for Waterbury youth focused on mentorship and career development.
  • Gladiator Productions (Fiscal Sponsor: Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury): Old School Unity Festival – $5,000 to support the annual Unity Festival that will take place at Lakewood Park on September 9, 2023. The Festival is free of charge and offers Waterbury residents an evening of music, dance and food. This will be the fourth year of the Festival, which has steadily grown each year. The group is expecting 2,000 – 2,500 attendees in 2023.
  • Leadership Greater Waterbury (Fiscal Sponsor: Waterbury Chamber of Commerce): Library Expansion for Children’s Community School (CCS) – $6,500 to support the purchase of new books for the Children’s Community School Library, which recently expanded classes through 8th
  • Make Over 2710 (Waterbury): Dream Warrior Program – $6,370 to run a summer youth tutoring and mentoring program at the North End Recreation Center.
  • North End Cooperative Market (Fiscal Sponsor: Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury): Co-Op Feasibility Study – $8,000 to support working with a consultant on a feasibility study for a Cooperative Market in the North End of Waterbury.
  • Salsa Softball League (Waterbury): 2023 Season – $14,000 to support the reformation of the Salsa Softball League, which will serve 150 participants through the summer.
  • Woman’s Choice Charitable Association (Prospect): Fatherhood Support Engagement – $4,300 to convene fathers and fathers-to-be to engage in a community conversation about their experiences and what services and resources they wish they had access to during pregnancy.

Health and Environmental Justice

  • All Corners Farm, Inc. (Cheshire): Waterbury North and East Charitable CSA: $5,000 to support a charitable CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program in which families in the North and East End of Waterbury will receive weekly deliveries of fresh, organically grown produce at no cost to them from late April through November, with supplemental deliveries of pantry overages and dry goods.
  • American Red Cross – CT and Rhode Island Region (Southbury): Disaster Cycle Services Including Home Fire- $8,000 to fund the direct and indirect expense of providing disaster relief, disaster recovery services, and home fire smoke alarm installations for people living in CCF’s region.
  • Andrew Avenue Elementary School (Naugatuck): Andrew Avenue Garden Club- $500 to run a school garden from March-October and engage students in outdoor learning about locally grown food, community service, financial literacy, self-reliance, and confidence.
  • Ann’s Place (Danbury): Maintain and Expand Services for Health Equity Initiative Cancer Clients: $6,000 to support existing clients and increase outreach and usage of the program in Greater Waterbury to reduce discrepancies of access to mental health and cancer support services for people of color, for those who are financially unstable, and for those who identify as LGBTQ+.
  • Brass City Harvest (Waterbury): Brass City Sustainable Agriculture– $10,616 to address required expansion and rejuvenation of Brass City Harvest’s North Farm and Mill Street Garden.
  • Brian Gibbons Homeless Outreach Program (Waterbury): BGHOP Funding- $10,000 to support a full-time executive director for the program, who would assist with the direct/in-person homeless case management services and basic needs distribution.
  • Circle of Care for Families of Children with Cancer (Wilton): Lifeline Emergency Fund: $5,000 to support income unstable and financially burdened families in the Foundation’s region with children, adolescents, and young adults up to age 26 who are facing pediatric cancer treatment and financial hardships associated with a cancer diagnosis.
  • Connecticut Foodshare (Wallingford): Equitable Hunger Solutions: $5,000 to support the continued access to healthy and nutritious food to Connecticut’s most vulnerable populations specifically in the Connecticut Community Foundation’s 21-town catchment area.
  • Connecticut Land Conservation Council (Middletown): 2024 Community Conversation Initiative: Building Partnerships to Address Community Needs: $8,000 to support engaging Waterbury region social service groups and land trusts in discussions and experiential field events and offer implementation grants to build partnerships, create accessible, inclusive outdoor experiences, and address other local needs.
  • Connecticut Partnership for Children, Inc. (Naugatuck): Family Resource Center: $19,455 to support the family resource center which serves as a one stop shop for food security, diaper bank, basic needs, and educational programing for families. CPC supports all clients with resources for housing, basic needs, food, and safety equipment.
  • Connecticut Rebound (Waterbury): CT Rebound Skills: $5,000 to support inner-city youth in Waterbury in accessing college and scholarships through basketball exposure and assistance in improving their health through regular workouts.
  • Covenant to Care for Children (Hartford): Basic Critical Essential Goods for Children– $8,000 to provide required basic essential goods (beds, cribs, car seats, etc.) to keep 28 children and their families intact.
  • Food Rescue US Inc. (Stamford): Food Rescue US-Northwest CT– $12,000 to support efforts to increase impact and increase the number of food rescues completed by 10% or 177 rescues.
  • Gaylord Hospital (Wallingford): Music Therapy Program for Patients Recovering from life-altering Illness or Injury- $7,500 to support the healing and soothing therapeutic effects of music for patients requiring long-term intensive rehabilitation.
  • Greater Waterbury Health Partnership (Waterbury): Community Health Worker Health Education and Outreach Series- $15,000 to work with partner sites in Waterbury and utilize GWHP Community Health Workers to build trust, targeted chronic disease education, health access outreach, and preventative empowerment of residents.
  • Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries (Waterbury): The Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries, Inc. Feeding Program: $12,000 to support two feeding programs—the Soup Kitchen and the Food pantry—which provide over 450,000 meals to the Waterbury community.
  • Greenwoods Counseling Referrals, Inc. (Litchfield): LGBTQ+ Cultural Competency Training for Greenwoods’ Mental Health Clinicians – $2,000 to fund LGBTQ+ Cultural Competency Training for Greenwoods’ 11 on-staff clinicians, 3 community outreach workers, and 6 administrative staff, and at least 80 providers of Greenwoods’ Provider Network Clinicians May 2023-April 2024.
  • Hidden Acres Therapeutic Riding Center (Naugatuck): The Community Garden Program– $1,800 to provide fresh, healthy ingredients for the Naugatuck Valley Soup Kitchen to prepare health meals to be delivered three times per week in Naugatuck.
  • Let’s Go Youth United, Inc. (Waterbury): CT LET’S GO: $5,000 to support a collaborative 5k event for the youth, “Race for Change”, which aims to foster unity, empathy, healthy initiatives, and positive change within Waterbury.
  • Madre Latina Organization, Inc. (Waterbury): Health on Wheels (HW) Program- $18,000 to continue educating the Latino community and connecting families to health-related services, including mental health.
  • Mental Health Connecticut (West Hartford): IC Food and Meal Programs: $5,000 to support the provision of essential cooking and hygiene skills, purchase food for our pantry, support the IC kitchen, and deliver nutritious meals to individuals with mental health conditions in Waterbury and the surrounding towns between January and July 2024.
  • Naugatuck Valley Project (Waterbury): NVP Tenant Organizing and Cooperative Development Project: $10,000 to support NVP Housing Committee efforts in tenant union organizing and long-term mixed income cooperative housing development work based on the NVP Brookside Cooperative model.
  • Naugatuck Valley Soup Kitchen (Naugatuck): Meal Delivery– $1,500 to purchase groceries for an ongoing meal delivery program.
  • Naugatuck YMCA (Naugatuck): Fast Response Intercom System: $12,000 to support the implementation of a Fast Response Intercom System which can provide communications for members and residents to the leadership team and welcome center in the event of an emergency.
  • Rivers Alliance of Connecticut (Litchfield): Water justice for Greater Waterbury: $10,000 to support empowering community members with useful information about water safety, including resources about drinking water, sewer services, and conditions of the waters that they recreate and rely on as a source of food.
  • Soul Friends, Inc. (Wallingford): Horses Inspire! Program at Hillside Equestrian Center in Wolcott- $8,084 to offer a trauma and attachment informed clinical equine facilitated psychotherapy program for children, families, veterans, and first responders.
  • Staywell Health Care, Inc. (Waterbury): Tools for Equitable Access to Health Care– $15,000 to provide a healthcare home for uninsured patients with all the needed supplies and point of care testing required for accurate diagnosis and treatment, particularly RSV, COVID, and strep.
  • The Connecticut Association of School Based Health Centers, Inc. (Hartford): Health Equity for All: $5,000 to support advocacy, networking, and educational opportunities during the establishment and expansion of School Based Health Centers (SBHC) in Waterbury Public Schools.
  • Tommy Fund (New Haven): Tommy Fund for Families- $12,000 to help supply emotional, financial, and medical support to childhood cancer patients from CCF’s 21 town region, who actively receive treatment.
  • Tourette Association of America, Inc. (Bayside, NY): TicFreelyCT Awareness Campaign: $5,000 to support increased awareness in the Greater Waterbury area and Litchfield Hills to support the numerous children and adults living with Tourette Syndrome, Tic Disorders, and co-occurring conditions.
  • Women’s Choice Charitable Association (Prospect): Community Doula Program – $20,000 to provide free and low-cost pregnancy and postpartum services to (primarily) black women in the Waterbury area.

Lois Livingston McMillen Fund

  • Center for Empowerment and Education (Danbury): Support for Women/Children Victims of Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault: $8,000 to support services for victims of domestic violence, including emergency shelter, counseling, crisis intervention, victim advocacy services, hotline services, safety planning and criminal justice/civil legal services in New Milford, Bridgewater, Washington and Roxbury.
  • Hidden Acres Therapeutic Riding (Naugatuck): Women and Girls Power to Heal – $5,000 to provide equine-assisted therapy for women and girls who have experienced trauma, physical, sexual and emotional abuse.
  • Love 146 (New Haven): CT Survivor Care Program – $9,247 to provide long-term services, rapid responses, one-time interventions, safety planning, and referral services related to human trafficking.
  • Safe Haven (Waterbury): Safer Communities Greater Waterbury – $10,000 to support crisis intervention and long-term services for victims and survivors of domestic abuse in Greater Waterbury and the Litchfield Hills.
  • Vincent DePaul Mission of Waterbury (Waterbury): Women’s Day Program – $10,000 to support extended shelter stays for single women between the cold months of October 2023 – April 2024.
  • Susan B. Anthony Project, Inc. (Torrington): Rebuilding Lives Program – $7,000 to support crisis and support services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, transitioning them from crisis and dependency to safety, empowerment, self-sufficiency, and independence.
  • Waterbury Youth Services (Waterbury): Child Advocacy Center Bridge Program – $5,000 to support the Child Advocacy Center, an evidence-based trauma treatment mental health intervention for child victims ages 7-17.

Pathways for Older Adults

  • Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association, Inc. (Southington): $7,000 to provide dementia-related programs to underserved constituents, with a focus on reaching Black and Latino constituents, and promote their 24/7 Helpline services.
  • Bantam Cinema & Arts Center, Inc. (Bantam): Discounted Current Matinee Films for Older Adults at Bantam Cinema & Arts Center: $500 to support offering early matinees (1PM) once a month at a discounted ticket price for older adults. Mature patrons have expressed a desire to be off the road before dark, especially in the winter months.
  • Beacon Falls Public Library (Beacon Falls): Crafted Connections: $1,450 to support a series of four monthly arts and crafts events over the course of four months, with each session lasting approximately two hours, which are facilitated by experienced presenters specializing in art and craft activities suitable for older adults.
  • Brass City Harvest (Waterbury): Brass City Cooks! Senior Nutrition and Healthy Cooking Program – $5,550 to expand the popular, and socialization-centric, nutrition and cooking class at 8 senior sites in Waterbury and Woodbury.
  • Bridgewater Library Association/Burnham Library (Bridgewater): Memory Kits and Caregiver Support Project – $2,000 to enable the library to provide resources, services, and programs for people living with dementia and their care partners.
  • Charles Rietdyke Senior Center of Wolcott (Wolcott): Staying Active Through Exercise: $14,970 to continue offering their older adult population a well-balanced and challenging fitness program to enable them to live independently and be able to perform daily living activities for as long as possible and educate them how to attain their best possible health through exercise.
  • Chesprocott Health District (Cheshire): Matter of Balance Program – $1,500 to increase health, wellness, and confidence among older adults by offering the program, designed to reduce the fear of falling and improve activity levels among community-dwelling older adults.
  • Goshen Community Care, Inc. (Goshen): Senior Gatherings: $5,000 to continue providing 10 monthly luncheons to approx. 50 older adults of Goshen’s senior population and include an informational educational segment of interest to the group as well as guest speakers when available.
  • Healing Hoofbeats of CT (Bethlehem): Sensory Friendly Farm: $2,400 to support offering Animal Healers (goats and miniature ponies) accompanied by a Licensed Clinician once a month to twelve unique nursing homes and assisted living facilities free of cost so that older adults may enjoy the benefits of Animal and Equine Supported Psychotherapy.
  • Hearth Homes of Waterbury, Inc. (Waterbury): Chair Yoga Exercise Class for Seniors: $2,340 to support the provision of chair yoga classes for low-income senior citizens.
  • Hidden Acres Therapeutic Riding Center (Naugatuck): Equine-Assisted Wellness Program: Older Adults – $6,000 to offer a therapeutic farm environment to older adults, where they can engage in sensory-rich interactions with horses, goats, and nature.
  • Homefront, Inc. (Stamford): Greater Waterbury & Naugatuck Valley Home Revitalization for Low-Income: $9,500 to support he Greater Waterbury & Naugatuck Valley Home Revitalization initiative, which would make three homes safer and healthier for older adults through the delivery of substantive repairs at no cost to them.
  • Housatonic Habitat for Humanity (Constituent Town): Aging in Place: $7,000 to support offering the “Aging in Place” program for residents living in the Foundation’s 21-town region. This is a volunteer driven initiative dedicated to assisting older adults and low-income veterans with essential home repairs and accessibility modifications.
  • Mattatuck Museum (Waterbury): Senior Wellness @ The MATT: $7,500 to support to the continued cultural enrichment opportunities and wellness programs for Waterbury’s older adult members through its program, “Senior Wellness @ The MATT,” which consists of weekly Tai Chi classes as well as chair yoga, taught by certified instructors.
  • Naugatuck Senior Center (Naugatuck): Naugatuck Senior Wellness Day – $2,753 to provide free health and wellness screenings and health care information to older adults and disabled persons.
  • Naugatuck YMCA (Naugatuck): Senior Exercise and Wellbeing – $10,000 to provide evidence-based exercise classes, active older adult classes, and social interaction for the older adults in the community.
  • New Opportunities, Inc. (Waterbury): Chef on Site – $6,500 to provide a well-balanced restaurant-style meal to meet the nutritional needs and desires of a growing diverse older population while enhancing programming and services offered by the Southbury and Woodbury Senior Centers.
  • NWCT Adult Day Center, Inc. (Litchfield): Weekly movement and exercise program for older adults with dementia and/or mobility issues: $5,000 to support a program that is conducted by a trained and experienced dance therapist/mental health professional and combines exercise, wellness, and a dance therapy approaches to aid in the physical, cognitive, and emotional wellbeing of older adults with dementia and/or mobility issues.
  • Olive Senior Center (Waterbury): Funding for Personnel and Program Activities – $8,728 to assist Mt. Olive with salaries for its staffing, provide starter funds for a new project: Senior Urban Gardening, and assist with transportation costs for an annual outing in the summer.
  • Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UConn Waterbury (OLLI) (Waterbury): The Greening of Waterbury-From Planting to Harvest: $4,000 to support the community garden coordinated and maintained by OLLI at UConn volunteers, which donates all produce to food banks in the Greater Waterbury region and supports the increasing need to feed food insecure residents in the Greater Waterbury.
  • Pilobolus (Washington): Connecting with Balance 2024: $4,400 to support the expansion of the Connecting with Balance program which promotes increased balance, strength, and social engagement- in five local Connecticut communities with spring and fall 8-week sessions. The organization will also train local Teaching Artists, allowing us to offer more sessions of this program.
  • Rebuilding Together Litchfield County Inc. (Litchfield): Rebuild Day 24: $7,000 to support the event on April 27, 2024, where an anticipated 50 volunteers will complete home repairs, such as roofs, window replacements, handicap-accessible ramp and walk-in shower, necessary electrical and plumbing repairs, and a deck replacement for emergency egress.
  • Southington-Cheshire Community YMCA’s (Cheshire): Matter of Balance Program Support: $3,000 to support the Cheshire YMCA in running several Matter of Balance class sessions in 2024 and ensure that they have the resources necessary to meet the community’s need for slip and fall prevention education.
  • St. Margaret Willow Plaza NRZ (Waterbury): Willow Plaza Senior Programs: $8,000 to offer programming, senior trips and education for our seniors in both the English speaking and Spanish speaking sessions as well as combining both groups for events to encourage community building between the two.
  • Town of Bethlehem (Bethlehem): Senior Nutrition and Engagement Initiative: $1,850 to support offering engagement opportunities that can bring a sense of community to the town’s older adults by incorporating food to connect.
  • Town of New Milford Senior Center (New Milford): New Milford Senior Center Community Open House: $1,000 to support an open house during National Older Americans Month to showcase its programs and services for those over 60. Local elder service professionals will provide information about their services. Attendees can sample food served in the congregate meal program.
  • UR Community Cares, Inc. (Manchester): UR Community Cares – $5,000 to connect local volunteers with older adults who need home-based help with tasks like housework, yard work, local transportation, and companionship at no charge.
  • Voice of Art, The (Cheshire): Therapeutic Art Program for Older Adults – $2,500 to provide older adults in the Litchfield community with free therapeutic art programs in various media to boost their mental/emotional health conditions and foster self-healing through the creative art process.
  • Warren, Town of (Warren): Warren Social Services Community Engagement Project – $2,719 to engage seniors in social activities for positive self-care practices as well as to encourage physical and emotional wellbeing.
  • Washington Senior Center (Washington): Senior Body, Mind and Wellness – $1,500 to support 4 weekly exercise and wellness classes, Tai Chi, Yoga, Strength & Balance, and Zumba.
  • Western CT Area Agency on Aging (Waterbury): Expanding Evidence-based Health Programs in Waterbury Year 7: $31,720 to provide Waterbury older adults with evidence-based Live Well workshops for diabetes, chronic disease and chronic pain that are taught by diverse leaders who provide older adults with tools needed to help manage multiple chronic conditions, including diabetes, chronic pain, arthritis, and hypertension.
  • Wheels Program of New Milford (New Milford): Wheels Phone Bill Assistance: $2,000 to support providing donation-based rides for older adults to non-emergency medical appointments and to assist with the phone system which facilitates communication with clients and volunteers daily.
  • Woodbury Senior Community Center (Woodbury): Ping Pong for Parkinson’s Program – $1,800 to cover the cost of paying a physical therapist to oversee the new evidence-informed Ping Pong program for people with Parkinson’s Disease and other neurological disorders.
  • Yoga4Change (Hamden): Yoga 4 Healthy Aging – $11,500 to expand access to evidence-informed, chair yoga programming for older adults in Greater Waterbury. High-quality, specially trained instructors will provide weekly classes in partnership with established agencies to create connection, increase mobility and boost coping confidence.

Pride in the Hills Advised Fund

  • Afro-Caribbean Cultural Center (Waterbury): Greater Waterbury PRIDE (ACCC acting as Fiscal Agent) – $9,000 to support Waterbury CT PRIDE – a coalition of LGBTQ community members and organizations that already plan and host PRIDE events throughout the year – to coalesce around the same week to maximize exposure and attendance of LGBTQ events and a City Wide “PRIDE WEEK”.
  • Greenwoods Counseling Referrals, Inc. (Litchfield): Litchfield County LGBTQIA+ Coalition & Cultural Competency Training – $7,060 to support web presence, marketing, and event support costs for the Litchfield County LGBTQIA+ Coalition. The Coalition will serve as a centralized hub for LGBTQIA+ culturally competent health resources and social events across the county. Funding will also support LGBTQ+ Cultural Competency Training for Greenwoods’ 11 on-staff clinicians, 3 community outreach workers, and 6 administrative staff, and at least 80 providers of Greenwoods’ Provider Network Clinicians over the next year.
  • Merryall Community Center (New Milford): Merryall Pride 2023 – $3,940 to feature three Merryall Pride concerts on the first three consecutive Saturday evenings in June. All concerts will be presented at Merryall Center.
  • Naugatuck YMCA (Naugatuck): P.R.I.S.M.: $7,160 to support P.R.I.S.M. (Pride and Respect for Identity and Sexuality Mission), a family support/ advocacy group and membership for youth in the LGBTQ+ community. The group provides guest speakers, peer support, and advocacy planning. The group hosts the Festival of Rainbows, Naugatuck’s Pride event.
  • New Milford Youth Agency: LGBTQIA + Allies – $5,000 to continue to provide a safe haven for youth to come, free of judgment, and share their lives with one another. NMYA will host its 3rd annual Pride Prom, design its 3rd billboard for Pride Month in June, and have family style dinners every other Wednesday.
  • Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs (Hartford), for Equality Connecticut: QUEST Leadership Academy – $10,000 request to cultivate a new generation of local LGBTQ+ leaders in Greater Waterbury through training, coaching, and mobilization.
  • Waterbury Youth Services (Waterbury): PROUD! LGBTQIA+ Social and Peer Youth Group – $5,600 to support a program for middle and high school LGBTQIA+ identified and questioning youth that provides a safe and supportive place to discuss topics they feel are relevant to their experiences and identities.

Saunders Fund for the Sick and Infirm of Naugatuck

  • Easterseals Rehabilitation Center of Greater Waterbury, Inc. (Waterbury): Accessible Hearing care for Naugatuck Residents– $7,500 to support low-income Naugatuck residents with financial assistance, so that they can access audiologic treatment and hearing aids.
  • Hidden Acres Therapeutic Riding Center (Naugatuck): Therapeutic Riding, Carriage Driving, & Unmounted Equine & Nature Wellness Programs for Naugatuck Residents – $23,753 to proactively respond to the healthcare needs of Naugatuck’s youth, adults and seniors through the benefits of therapeutic riding, equine-assisted activities and nature.
  • Human Resources Development Agency (Naugatuck): Medical Transportation Socialization – $31,747 to serve Naugatuck residents with a minibus service to transport them to medical appointments during the afternoon hours.
  • Jane Doe No More (Naugatuck): Survivors Speak Program – $4,000 to provide trauma-informed training and support for survivors of sexual crimes, and to support work with survivors that addresses their physical, psychological and emotional needs through team building, health and wellness events, and interactive bonding events.
  • Naugatuck Board of Education (Naugatuck): Naugy Grows – $25,000 to support the implementation of a “Farm to School Coordinator” in Naugatuck schools, who would measure and maximize affordable nutritional quality in the Child Nutrition Services Program, while expanding and implementing farm-to-school and nutrition wellness for all students.
  • Naugatuck YMCA (Naugatuck): Livestrong at the Naugatuck YMCA – $10,000 to continue offering Livestrong, an evidence-based program that helps cancer survivors reclaim their health and wellbeing following a cancer diagnosis.

Southbury Community Trust Fund

  • Give Local Greater Waterbury & Litchfield Hills (Waterbury): Give Local 2024—$17,500 for support of a 36-hour online giving event that encourages community giving to local nonprofits. SCTF support will specifically benefit Southbury nonprofits.
  • Greater Waterbury YMCA (Waterbury): YMCA Camp Oakasha Scholarships—$5,000 to provide financial assistance in the form of scholarships to families in need to attend YMCA Camp Oakasha.
  • Newbury Musical Theater Company (Southbury): Production of Fiddler on the Roof—$5,000 to support a community theater production of Fiddler on the Roof – a show about antisemitism in Czarist Russia and how the people hold onto their traditions in the face of this oppression. Newbury is coordinating this production with the 85th anniversary of Southbury Saying No to the Nazis.
  • PHS Gradnite, Inc (Southbury): PHS Gradnite 2023—$5,000 for PHS Gradnite, an all-night celebration on graduation night that is alcohol and drug free with the intention to keep all graduates in a safe environment.
  • Safe Haven of Greater Waterbury (Waterbury): Safer Communities Southbury—$5,000 to provide comprehensive services for individuals who have experienced or are experiencing domestic violence and/or sexual violence who live in Southbury and surrounding towns. Services will be provided by trained and certified staff from Safe Haven’s satellite office in Southbury.
  • SMART, Inc. (Southbury and Middlebury Acting Responsibly Together): Outreach and Educational Program Initiatives—$15,000 to create a multifaceted infrastructure to implement preventative measures & offer educational opportunities in the schools & communities to: decrease risky behaviors & substance use in youth, increase awareness & promote positive decision making, & to support stronger, better-informed communities.
  • Southbury Ambulance Association (Southbury): Purchase of New Radio Package for Ambulance A3—$6,500 to provide a 20,000+ person community with EMS response utilizing clear and enhanced communications with state-of-the-art radios.
  • Sustainable Southbury Inc.: Sustainable Southbury School Lunchroom Waste Reduction Pilot—$9,000 to add a new component to Sustainable Southbury’s waste reduction program, which currently includes residential and business tracks. This will start the school track by piloting a lunchroom waste reduction effort to reduce food and single-use plastic waste, recycling what cannot be reduced.
  • Southbury Garden Club (Southbury) / (under Federated Garden Clubs of CT): Pollinator Pathway Garden & Outdoor Classroom at Southbury Town Hall—$1,907 to support a planned pollinator pathway garden through a joint effort by the Southbury Garden Club, Southbury Land Trust, Sustainable Southbury and the Town of Southbury. The garden will be located at the Town Hall on land provided by the town, will be accessible to all and include educational material.
  • United Church of Christ, Southbury: The Hive—Community Room—$3,000 to support an open-to-all safe space designed for youth and teens to gather. The request would help to round out this educational and recreational offering for the youth of Southbury.
  • Whiskers Pet Rescue (Southbury): Senior Cat Forever Foster (65+)—$6,000 to provide senior cats over age 12 to senior citizens over 65 at no charge. Whiskers will provide all food & medical care for the life of the animal. $6000 would assist with the special diet food that most senior cats require.
  • YMCA of Greater Waterbury (Waterbury): YMCA Camp Oakasha Scholarships—$5,000 to provide financial assistance to attend YMCA Camp Oakasha, in the form of scholarships for families in need.

Strengthening Nonprofits

  • Arts & Culture Collaborative of the Waterbury Region (Waterbury): Strategic Re-Assessment – $10,000 to undertake a planning process designed to assess, activate, and re-adjust critical aspects of ACC’s strategic plan, specifically those goals that seek to broaden inclusion and participation throughout the region with a keen focus on diversity, equity, and collaboration.
  • Building Legacy and Community (Waterbury): Strengthening Nonprofits -$4,070 to fund the purchase of several pieces of hardware and software that are critical to an organization’s development, including laptop, phone, email address.
  • Cheshire Community Food Pantry (Cheshire): Volunteer Technology Workstation Upgrade – $3,160 to fund the purchase of three new computers to replace outdated stations. The new workstations will complete the turn to digital workflows for the pantry, ensuring that they are properly capturing data that is required by food bank partners.
  • Connecticut Community Empowerment Foundation (Cheshire): Website Upgrade – $12,000 to fund the building of a new website that allows visitors to connect with and understand the organization’s mission. This program-driven website will feature program resources and encourage community involvement through donating, volunteering, networking with future employers, and attending community social events.
  • Connecticut Renaissance (Shelton): Connecticut Renaissance Emergency Response-Automated External Defibrillation – $5,806 to fund the purchase of automated external defibrillators (AED) for each of their 12 locations in the state. AEDs would provide a safety net in case any clients or staff should experience sudden cardiac arrest.
  • DOE.LIVE (Waterbury): 2024 Event Management School – $6,500 to send two members of the organization to the 4-Day Event Management School at Oglebay, which is designed around the concept of bringing new and mid-career industry professionals together with some of the most highly respected and experienced professionals in the field, for a comprehensive educational and networking opportunity that will cover the critical basics of successful event management and then put students in an applied-knowledge project environment to test and further what they have learned.
  • Malta House (Waterbury): Strategic Planning – $20,000 to fund work with a consultant to help develop a strategic plan, which will determine the top priorities for the organization over the next 3-5 years.
  • Naugatuck Historical Society (Waterbury): Strengthening Our Nonprofit – $2,000 to hire a consultant to work on board development, specifically setting strategic priorities and roles and responsibilities. NHS has identified a consultant fit and wishes to work with Joshua Borenstein of Odessey Solutions.
  • Naugatuck YMCA (Naugatuck): Naugatuck YMCA Website – $15,000 to support the development of a new website for the organization. The current site is outdated and difficult to navigate for users. Need was identified during the organization’s strategic planning process community conversations as individuals indicated they were not fully aware of all YMCA services available. The new site will also allow for mobile accessibility.
  • New Opportunities, Inc. (Waterbury): Fundraising Capacity Project – $1,500 to purchase access to the foundation prospecting tool Candid FDO Professional, a comprehensive fundraising database. As grant funding continues to become more competitive, the database will help NOI identify new funds and opportunities to assist in programming and operations.
  • Pilobolus, Inc. (Washington Depot): Grant Writing Continuing Education – $2,740 to fund grant writing training for the organization’s Development Director and Development Associate through the Grantsmanship Center, a 50-year-old organization that has a track record of offering high-quality fundraising and grant writing instruction.
  • Safe Haven of Greater Waterbury (Waterbury): Re-design of Performance Management System – $3,000 to contract with Accounting Resources Inc, to review, design and launch a new employee performance review and management system.
  • Save Girls on FYRE (Waterbury): Strategic Planning – $14,400 to support contracting with a consultant from Ramiz-Hall, a firm out of Hartford, to facilitate a planning session in early 2024.
  • Staywell Health Care, Inc. (Waterbury): Strategic Planning – $10,000 to support the development of a Strategic Facility Plan that will inform future renovations to maximize existing facility resources in good stewardship. The plan will be built with a focus on increasing health equity, improving quality health outcomes and improving revenue generation.
  • Thomaston Historical Society (Thomaston): Digital Conversion Project – $3,500 to fund the purchase of new technology to digitize the organization’s collection. Digitization will ensure the preservation of the historical society’s materials and help them reach audiences in new manners.
  • Waterbury Empowers the People to Act (WEPA) (Waterbury): Undoing Racism Training – $9,000 to support contracting with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) to host their signature workshop, Undoing Racism in Spring 2024 for Campaign School students and alumni. Undoing Racism is a three-day in-person workshop for organizers, activists, advocates and other change agents to explore how we have been racialized, socialized, and conditioned to think about race and racism. It is an intensive, interactive experience designed to challenge participants to analyze themselves and the structures of power and privilege that hinder social equity and prepares them to be effective organizers for justice.
  • Waterbury Land Bank Authority (Waterbury): Strengthening Strategic Plan – $6,460 to fund several organizational development initiatives, including training and professional development opportunities, software and license fees that will build efficiencies and increase effectiveness.
  • Waterbury Promise (Waterbury): Fundraising Consultant – $10,000 to contract with an experienced fundraising consultant who can provide grant prospecting and writing services to help Waterbury Promise secure major grant awards that will allow Waterbury Promise to keep pace with exponential growth in terms of the number of scholars served and scholarships awarded.
  • Waterbury Symphony Orchestra (Waterbury): Development and Management Consultant – $10,000 to support the extension of work with consultant Douglas Bibbey who has been assisting the organization over the past year on strategy, fund development and program development. Funding would extend the consultant’s commitment to the organization to March 2024.

Waterbury Black Giving Circle

  • Bridge to Success was awarded $2,500, in partnership with Black Women United, and Helping Hands, Inc., to address the increasing long-term impact of the allostatic load on Black women resulting in high rates of morbidity, especially among those dealing with major life transitions and diagnosed with different forms of cancer.
  • North End Coop was awarded $6,000 to launch a fall harvest festival that will introduce the food co-op to the community by launching a membership drive, connecting with local businesses, and providing resources to families.
  • Waterbury Strong was awarded $3,000, to support the Waterbury Black Business Network with funding for speakers, venues, and other expenses.
  • Women’s Choice Charitable Association—which offers doula services and other assistance related to pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum care, and breastfeeding, with a particular focus on promoting positive outcomes for Black birthers—was awarded $5,000, to support its work.

Whittemore Travel Scholarship Fund for Youth

  • Naugatuck High School (Naugatuck): Historical Black Colleges and Universities Tour and Civil Rights Trail Trip – $20,000 to support a college tour for 15 students from Naugatuck’s Black Student Union. Students will be joined by counterparts from Ansonia High School and Hartford Public High School, allowing them to process the college journey and the historical significance of the Civil Rights Trail with fellow CT students.
  • Waterbury Pride NAACP Youth Council (Waterbury): NAACP National Conference – $3,000 to support travel to the NAACP National Conference in Boston for up to 8-10 youth council members.

Women’s Fund

  • Madre Latina (Waterbury): Changemakers Youth Program: $8,401 to support the organization’s Latino youth leadership and empowerment program, which provides positive health messages, promotes the development of self-esteem, and develops advocacy and leadership skills in Latinas ages 9 to 14.
  • Save Girls on FYER (Waterbury): SGOF Leadership Academy & Liberation Program – $12,000 to provide a safe environment for powerful enrichment and development programs that shape the lives of girls of color and to continue to provide training in youth advocacy and cover topics that provide character-building skills.
  • Women’s Choice Charitable Association (Waterbury): Community Doula Program – $10,000 to provide free and low-cost pregnancy support services, especially for Black mothers who live in Waterbury.

Women’s Giving Circle

  • Boys and Girls Club of Greater Waterbury was awarded $2,440 for its Leadership Summit which will be in partnership with LiveGirl and is designed to encourage members to achieve positive outcomes in the priority areas of academic success, good character and citizenship, and healthy lifestyles that lead them to great futures.
  • New Milford Hospital was awarded $5,000 to offer free breast care patient navigation services to all patients with an abnormal breast finding regardless of final diagnosis (malignant or benign) or socio-economic status.
  • Greenwoods Counseling Referrals was awarded $5,000 for affordable mental health care and addiction treatment for women in Litchfield County.
  • Malta House was awarded $5,000 towards improving access to women’s healthcare through patient navigation at the Malta House in Waterbury.
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England was awarded $5,000 to purchase a second ultrasound machine at the Waterbury Health Center.
  • Thy Eagle’s Nest, Inc. in Wolcott, was awarded $5,000 for their program “Empowering Women Through Positivity,” which focuses on improving the well-being of women living in poverty by helping them identify problems and gain opportunities to reach their full potential.
  • Women’s Choice Charitable Association (Waterbury) was awarded $5,000 for their Community Doula Program that helps Black families access perinatal support.