Organization |
Purpose |
Description |
Approved in 2007 |
Paid in 2007 |
Best Buddies |
High School Project |
To foster friendships between students with intellectual disabilities and their non-disabled peers. |
25,000 |
25,000 |
Boys & Girls Club of New Britain, Inc. |
SMART Girls Program |
To provide a teen pregnancy prevention curriculum for girls, and for general youth program support. |
45,000 |
45,000 |
Bridge Family Center, Inc. |
Positive Youth Development Program |
To support the after-school enrichment programs for West Hartford elementary schools, including peer mediation, home visits and therapeutic/support groups |
25,000 |
25,000 |
Bristol Hospital |
Maternal/Child Health Initiative |
To offer group parenting education programs and a specialized support program for families with children with severe conduct disorders. |
30,500 |
30,500 |
Capital Workforce Partners |
Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness |
To support the implementation of the Mayor's Work Plan to End Homelessness, an on-going project involving over 30 community leaders in New Britain. |
15,000 |
15,000 |
Capital Workforce Partners |
LIFE Program |
To provide a long-term employment program for low wage workers in order to help them upgrade their skills. |
25,000 |
25,000 |
Capital Workforce Partners |
Summer Youth Employment Program |
To provide youth in New Britain with work experience during the summer. |
49,500 |
49,500 |
Capitol Region Education Council |
Center for Creative Youth |
To send artistically talented high school students from ASF towns to a 5 week pre-college residential program at Wesleyan University . |
16,000 |
16,000 |
Children's Home |
Capital Grant |
To renovate and expand the existing building to provide more residential living space. |
|
75,000 |
Children's Home |
Summer Program |
To provide a traditional summer camp experience, including arts and crafts, sports, music education, and field trips for residents of the Children's Home during the summer. |
10,000 |
10,000 |
Children's Law Center of CT |
Legal Representation Program |
To provide legal representation for children involved in family court disputes. |
56,000 |
56,000 |
City Slickers |
Riding Program |
To support an after-school program providing riding instruction, counseling, and pre-vocational training on a horse farm. |
15,000 |
15,000 |
Community Foundation of Greater New Britain |
Discovery Initiative |
To expand and improve the quality of early childhood education pre-school programs in New Britain . |
30,000 |
30,000 |
Community Mental Health Affiliates |
Capital Grant |
Re-location from Avon to New Britain, in renovated space adjacent to the Hospital of Central Connecticut. |
50,000 |
50,000 |
Connecticut Bar Association |
Law Education and Truancy Program |
Towards renovations for a new residential facility for the Alliance Treatment Center in New Britain . |
15,000 |
15,000 |
Connecticut Counseling Centers |
Pregnant Addicts Care Program |
To provide pregnant women with prenatal care, patient education, nutrition, substance abuse, and/or mental health treatment, and post-partum care. |
10,000 |
10,000 |
Connecticut Humanities Council |
Book Voyagers Program |
To support a library-based reading program for children ages 6-12 placeing professional storytellers and discussion leaders in participating libraries. |
25,000 |
25,000 |
Connecticut Junior Republic |
Summer Program |
To provide a ten week summer employment program utilizing a work-based learning model integrating vocational skills training and educational opportunities. |
18,000 |
18,000 |
Connecticut Pre-Engineering Program |
STEM Program and Admin. Support |
To provide advanced mathematics, science, technology and engineering teaching for select New Britain middle and high school students in the summer and after-school. |
50,000 |
50,000 |
Connecticut Radio Information System |
Wall Street Journal Reading Program |
To underwrite the Business Journal program for visually impared listeners. |
15,000 |
15,000 |
Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra |
Children and Community Concerts |
To support educational concerts in New Britain including three opera performances, 2 operas geared towards youth, and 8 children's concerts. |
28,000 |
28,000 |
Everybody Wins! Connecticut, Inc. |
Literacy Program |
To expand two reading enrichment programs using volunteers. |
20,000 |
20,000 |
First Tee of Connecticut |
In-School and Group Golf Lessons |
To promote character development and life skills training for inner city youth through the game of golf. |
13,642 |
13,642 |
First Tee of Connecticut |
Agency support |
To support a new development director position to build capacity for the agency. |
30,000 |
30,000 |
FoodShare, Inc. |
Food Delivery Program |
To defray the cost of food delivery to 169 sites in ASF towns with 31 sites in New Britain. |
40,000 |
40,000 |
Friendship Center |
Bicycling Enthusiasms Program |
To help underwrite the costs of its food delivery program in ASF towns. |
28,000 |
28,000 |
Friendship Center |
Capital Grant - Phase I |
To renovate two buildings on Arch Street in New Britain to create 8-12 units of supportive housing and to expand the Bicycle Enthusiasms retail shop and youth development program facilities. |
|
125,000 |
Friendship Center |
Capital Grant - Phase II |
To renovate two buildings on Arch Street in New Britain to create 8-12 units of supportive housing and to expand the Bicycle Enthusiasms retail shop and youth development program facilities. |
250,000 |
|
Gifts of Love |
Basic Needs Program |
To help meet the basic needs of individuals and families experiencing temporary financial crises by providing food, clothing, household items, and furniture. |
10,000 |
10,000 |
Granville Academy of Waterbury |
Academic Enrichment Program |
To support an after-school program that promotes higher education for minority students. |
15,000 |
15,000 |
Greater New Britain Arts Alliance |
Joint Advertising Program |
To continue joint marketing efforts for their 34 member organizations. |
17,316 |
17,316 |
Habitat for Humanity - Hartford Area |
Capital Grant |
To build new homes in New Britain , part of a nationwide affordable housing program. |
75,000 |
75,000 |
Hebron Interfaith Human Services |
Outreach Program |
To provide social services for individuals and families. |
10,000 |
10,000 |
The Hospital of Central Connecticut |
Medical-Legal Partnership Project |
To support a new partnership that will provide access to medical-legal advocacy in an effort to improve basic health care services to low income children and their families. |
25,000 |
25,000 |
The Hospital of Central Connecticut |
Easy Breathing Program |
To screen New Britain area children for asthma and provide an individualized disease management plan for those identified with the disease. |
75,000 |
75,000 |
The Hospital of Central Connecticut |
Capital Grant |
To fund expansion of the hospital's emergency department. |
250,000 |
125,000 |
Housing Authority of the City of New Britain |
Options and Choices After-School Program |
To support after-school programs for youth at the Oval Grove Housing Development, including a job-search and employment training program for parents. |
48,000 |
48,000 |
Human Resources Agency |
Capital Grant |
To renovate the agency's facility into a state-of-the-art Early Childhood Education Center . |
|
100,000 |
Literacy Volunteers of Central Connecticut, Inc. |
Family Literacy Program |
To provide literacy skills education to non-English speaking adults in the Greater New Britain region and to help with merger costs. |
15,000 |
15,000 |
Loyola Development Corporation |
Riverdale Village/South End Revitalization Project |
To support the development of a targeted plan to replace blighted and vacant structures in a revitlization area in downtown Waterbury. |
30,500 |
30,500 |
Neighborhood Housing Services of New Britain, Inc. |
Capital Grant |
To support handicap access additions in a new four unit rental housing construction. |
52,000 |
52,000 |
New Britain Museum of American Art |
Community Outreach & Education Program |
To support the museum's community outreach and education effort, primarily with children and families in the Latino and African American communities. |
50,000 |
50,000 |
New Britain Museum of American Art |
Capital Grant |
To fund the American Savings Foundation Education Center at the museum’s new facility. Total grant of $750,000 over 5 years. |
|
110,000 |
New Britain Public Library |
Capital Grant |
To repair and refurbish the main parking lot and upgrade it to make it handicap accessible. |
|
20,000 |
New Britain Youth Museum at Hungerford Park |
Facilities Upgrade and Admin. Support |
To provide a 1:1 match towards a state grant to develop a marketing plan for the museum, and to expand the Summer Enrichment Program. |
22,000 |
22,000 |
Oddfellows Playhouse |
Children's Troupe Program |
To provide a free after-school performance arts program for at risk youth living in low-income neighborhoods. |
7,500 |
7,500 |
Operation Fuel |
Energy Assistance Program |
To provide emergency home heating fuel assistance to area residents who do not qualify for government aide. |
50,000 |
50,000 |
Palace Theater |
Educational Program |
To support an educational program integrating elements of the Civil Rights Movement and current civil rights issues with dramatic exercises and dance. |
31,000 |
31,000 |
Plainville ARC |
Camp Trumbull |
To offer children with developmental disabilities educational and recreational activities, as well as field trips. |
20,000 |
20,000 |
Plainville Community Food Pantry |
Backpack Program |
To provide children with new backpacks, socks, underwear, lunchboxes, study supplies, and gift certificates for new shoes. |
15,000 |
15,000 |
Shakesperience Productions |
Curricular Enhancement Program |
To enhance the language arts curriculum for Waterbury and New Britain schools through interactive theater performances. |
25,000 |
25,000 |
Susan B. Anthony Project |
Rebuilding Lives Program |
To provide battered women and their children with crisis intervention services. |
25,000 |
25,000 |
Town of Prospect |
Capital Grant |
To build a skate park on Route 69 in Prospect in memory of Matthew Kenney |
10,000 |
5,000 |
Trinity-On-Main |
Capital Grant |
To support phase I of the restoration project of the building's tower and roof. |
200,000 |
200,000 |
VNA Health At Home, Inc. |
Community Wellness Program |
To support a community-wide health screening and immunization program for low income residents of the Greater Waterbury area. |
15,000 |
15,000 |
Waterbury Hospital |
Diabetes Management Program- |
To fund a bi-lingual nurse practitioner to continue case management support for a growing roster of diabetes patients citywide. |
49,041 |
49,041 |
Windham Area Interfaith Ministry |
Basic Needs Projects |
To provide household goods and fresh produce for low-income residents living in Windham county. |
15,000 |
15,000 |
YMCA of Greater Waterbury |
Capital Grant |
To renovate the West Main Street chidcare center in order to provide new programming opportunities for children and families, add a parent resource room and literacy library, computer labs and other facilities. |
100,000 |
|
YMCA of New Britain-Berlin |
Capital Grant |
To install a database management system designed to improve customer services, increase agency efficiency, reduce costs, and improve data collection and evaluation capacity. |
60,000 |
60,000 |
YWCA of New Britain |
Capital Grant |
To install a database management system designed to improve customer services, increase agency efficiency, reduce costs, and improve data collection and evaluation capacity. |
20,000 |
20,000 |
|
|
Grants and contributions $5.000 or less |
80,200 |
80,200 |
Subtotal |
|
|
2,352,199 |
2,302,199 |
New Britain After-School Initiative For Middle School Youth |
Approved for 2007-2008 School Year |
Paid in 2007 |
||
City of New Britain |
After-School Program Grant |
To improve and expand the "Exercise the Right Choice" programs that provide project-based learning activities that include leadership development, recreation, and homework help. |
up to 100,000 |
88,270 |
Klingberg Family Centers |
After-School Program Grant |
To develop and implement a new program for at-risk students from Slade Middle School, incorporating academic support, counseling, life-skills training, and pre-vocational learning experiences. |
up to $25,000 |
55,691 |
Opportunities Industrialization Center |
After-School Program Grant |
To expand the Moving Mountains Academy , an academic support program for at-risk youth that focuses on parent involvement, leadership development, and cultural activities. Year one and year two of potential multi-year program support. |
up to 150,000 |
146,000 |
YMCA of New Britain-Berlin |
After-School Program Grant |
To expand their existing programs, focusing on education, social development, leadership training, personal growth and responsibility, and service to others. Year two of potential multi-year program support. |
up to 150,000 |
152,500 |
YWCA of New Britain |
After-School Program Grant |
To expand and improve the scope and impact of STRIVE, a youth development and leadership program for girls. Year one and year two of potential multi-year program support. |
up to 150,000 |
155,400 |
Subtotal |
|
|
up to 575,000 |
597,861 |
|
|
|
|
|
Scholarship & Summer Internships |
633,982 |
592,684 |
||
|
|
|
|
|
Sponsorships |
|
|
88,861 |
88,861 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total Contributions: |
3,388,612 |
3,581,604 |
||