Organization |
Purpose |
Description |
Paid in 2010 |
American Cancer Society |
Patient Navigator Program |
To connect newly diagnosed cancer patients to treatment, resources, and support systems. |
$25,000 |
ASPIRA of Connecticut |
Literacy Enrichment Program |
To provide reading and writing tutoring to English Language Learners in the middle schools by AmeriCorps volunteers. |
$25,000 |
Boys & Girls Club of New Britain |
SMART Girls Program |
To provide a teen pregnancy prevention curriculum for girls and for general youth program support. |
$42,900 |
Brass City Harvest |
Community Food System |
To set up an urban food system to supply lower income Waterbury families with fresh produce. |
$24,000 |
The Bridge Family Center, Inc. |
Positive Youth Development Program |
To support after-school enrichment programs, peer mediation, home visits, and therapeutic/support groups for at-risk West Hartford elementary students. |
$24,300 |
Capital Workforce Partners |
Summer Youth Employment |
To provide New Britain youth with summer work experience and job training. |
$50,000 |
CCARC |
Consultant Expenses |
To underwrite the costs of a consultant to streamline its business practices and align its executive and program functions with the goals of their strategic plan. |
$25,000 |
Central Connecticut Senior Health Services, Inc. |
Capital Grant |
To establish comprehensive wellness program for seniors in adult day care at the new Mulberry Gardens Adult Cay Care Center at Marion Heights. |
$25,000 |
The Children's Home |
Summer Program |
To provide New Britain youth with summer work experience and job training. |
$9,000 |
Children's Law Center of Connecticut |
Truancy Intervention Project |
To match attorney volunteers with truant students to address the causes of truancy and reduce juvenile court petitions. |
$18,805 |
Children's Law Center of Connecticut |
Legal Representation Program |
To provide legal representation for New Britain children involved in family court disputes. |
$50,000 |
Christian Fellowship Center |
Food Program |
To provide a pantry and soup kitchen for people in the Greater Bristol area. |
$7,500 |
City Slickers |
Riding Program |
To support an after-school program for at-risk youth including riding instruction, counseling, and pre-vocational training on a horse farm. |
$10,000 |
Community Health Center |
Family Wellness Program |
Education workshops in health for families with children birth to 5 years of age in order to prepare them for school. |
$15,329 |
CONCORA |
Season Performances |
To underwrite a holiday concert and also a winter festival. |
$20,000 |
Connecticut Association for Human Services |
EarnBenefits Program |
To support the efforts to automate the eligibility pre-screenings for multiple state benefits programs for low-wage earners. |
$8,750 |
Connecticut Humanities Council |
Book Voyagers Program |
To support a children's reading program placing professional storytellers and discussion leaders at participating libraries. |
$20,000 |
Connecticut Junior Republic |
Summer Youth Program |
To provide a summer employment and vocational training program. |
$26,550 |
Connecticut Pre-Engineering Program |
STEM Program |
To support after-school programs in science, technology, engineering, and math in New Britain and Waterbury schools. |
$50,000 |
Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra Inc |
Children and Community Concerts |
To support an educational concert series for New Britain elementary school children and the orchestra's performance season. |
$22,500 |
First Tee of Connecticut |
Group Golf Lessons |
The promote character development and life skills training for Waterbury inner city youth through the game of golf. |
$14,130 |
First Tee of Connecticut |
Agency Support |
To support the agency’s capacity-building efforts. |
$30,000 |
FoodShare, Inc. |
Food Delivery |
To defray the cost of food delivery to various sites in New Britain and other ASF towns. |
$40,000 |
Gifts of Love |
Food Program |
To support the agency's food program for children and families experiencing temporary financial crisis. |
$10,000 |
Governor's Prevention Partnership |
CT Mentoring Program |
To provide support and training of mentors in Waterbury. |
$10,000 |
Granville Academy of Waterbury |
Academic Enrichment Program |
To teach youth the value of education and support them to graduate from high school and continue on to college. |
$15,000 |
Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries |
Food Program |
To underwrite the cost of providing 3 meals per day in their soup kitchen for residents in the Greater Waterbury area. |
$10,000 |
The Hospital of Central Connecticut |
Medical-Legal Partnership Project |
This is a 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 |
Hospital for Special Care |
Capital Grant |
To support the expansion of the neuromuscular outpatient center. |
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Human Resources Agency |
Food and Resource Center |
To operate a center for distribution of food and case management services at Osgood Avenue, in the northwest area of the city. |
$10,000 |
Human Resources Agency |
Financial Literacy Youth Project |
To provide a comprehensive financial literacy program to low-income high school students at New Britain High School and E.C. Goodwin. |
$35,000 |
Junior Achievement |
Education Program |
To educate children in the areas of financial literacy and workforce preparedness through project-based learning activities. |
$50,000 |
Klingberg Family Centers, Inc. |
Extended Day Treatment Program |
To provide behavioral health therapy and counseling for children and their families. |
$25,000 |
Literacy Volunteers of Central Connecticut Inc |
Family Literacy Program |
To provide literacy and parenting instruction to low literate parents so they can help their children succeed in school. |
$15,000 |
Mayor's Plan to End Homelessness |
Homelessness Prevention Program |
To provide short-term financial assistance to families who are at-risk, or are already homeless. |
$30,000 |
Neighborhood Housing Services of Wtby |
Homeownership Education and Loss Prevention Program |
To provide financial and homeownership education and foreclosure assistance to low/moderate income residents of Greater Waterbury. |
$10,000 |
New Britain Museum of American Art |
Community Outreach & Education Program |
To support outreach and educational programming, especially for low-income families that includes free admission Saturday mornings. |
$50,000 |
New Britain Symphony Society |
Young People's Concert |
A one-time concert and music appreciation program for elementary school students |
$10,500 |
OddFellows Playhouse |
Children's Troupe Program |
To support an after-school program that works with at-risk middle school youth using the arts as the focal point. |
$5,400 |
Operation Fuel, Inc. |
Energy Assistance Program |
To provide emergency energy assistance to residents of New Britain and Waterbury, who do not qualify for government subsidies. |
$50,000 |
Opportunities Industrialization Center |
New Britain Youth Network |
To support collaborative efforts to raise funds to expand after-school programs and services in New Britain. |
$25,000 |
Opportunities Industrialization Center |
Hardware City Bicycles Program |
To support an after-school program that works with a very hard to reach, at-risk boys using bike racing and a bike shop as the focal point. |
$46,000 |
Palace Theater |
Educational Program |
To support an after-school theater education program designed to foster racial and gender tolerance and reduce bullying. |
$22,500 |
Plainville ARC |
Camp Trumbull |
To provide summer camp for special needs children and respite for their parents. |
$18,000 |
Plainville Community Food Pantry |
Backpack Program |
To provide children with clothing and school supplies they need for a positive start to the school year. |
$15,000 |
Queen Ann Nzinga Center |
Children's Community Arts Program |
To provide a children's creative arts education program focused on African-American culture for children from the Greater New Britain area. |
$7,500 |
Shakesperience Productions, Inc |
Curricular Enhancement Program |
To enhance the language arts curriculum for New Britain and Waterbury schools using interactive workshops and live theatrical productions. |
$27,000 |
St. Vincent DePaul Society |
Soup Kitchen and Pantry Program |
To provide hot meals and bagged groceries for needy persons and families in Waterbury. |
$15,000 |
Susan B. Anthony Project |
Rebuilding Lives Program |
To provide Torrington area battered women and their children with crisis intervention services. |
$25,000 |
Trinity On Main |
Community Arts & Performance Center |
To support implementation of the agency’s new business model and plan. |
$42,000 |
United Way of Central and Northeastern CT |
Workforce Solutions Cooperative |
To support an initiative focused on workforce development for the Greater Hartford region. The funds will be used for projects that benefit New Britain. |
$25,000 |
VNA Health At Home, Inc. |
Community Wellness Program |
To provide a community health screening and immunization program for low income residents of Greater Waterbury. |
$16,200 |
Waterbury Youth Services, Inc. |
Youth Programs |
To provide after-school youth development programs for the highest risk children across the city of Waterbury. |
$40,500 |
YWCA of New Britain |
Capital Grant |
To expand and renovate the main building and the child care center. |
$230,000 |
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Grants and contributions up to $5,000 |
$62,250 |
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Subtotal |
$1,561,614 |
New Britain After-School Initiative For Middle School Youth
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Paid in 2010 |
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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 |
$119,942 |
Klingberg Family Centers, Inc. |
After-School Program Grant |
To expand programming to at-risk students from Slade Middle School, incorporating academic support, counseling, life-skills training, and pre-vocational learning experiences. |
$43,002 |
Opportunities Industrialization Center |
After-School Program Grant |
To expand the Moving Mountains Academy, an academic support program for at-risk youth that focuses on transitioning into high school, leadership development, and cultural activities. |
$130,500 |
YMCA of New Britain Berlin |
After-School Program Grant |
To expand their existing programs, focusing on social and physical development through leadership training, community service projects and recreation. |
$33,273 |
YWCA of New Britain |
After-School Program Grant |
To expand the scope and impact of STRIVE, a youth development and leadership program specifically for girls. |
$122,500 |
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Subtotal |
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$449,217 |
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Scholarship & Summer Internships |
$617,602 |
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Sponsorships |
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$70,075 |
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Total Contributions: |
$2,698,508 |
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