Updated 12/27/2011
Organization |
Purpose |
Description |
Awarded |
American School for the Deaf |
Early Childhood Intervention Program |
To support their overall early childhood intervention programs for deaf and hard-of-hearing children. |
$15,000 |
Boys & Girls Club of New Britain |
SMART Girls Program |
To provide a curriculum-based teen pregnancy and substance abuse prevention program for New Britain girls. |
$42,900 |
Brass City Harvest |
Community Food Program |
To support a community food system to supply needy Waterbury residents with fresh produce and to teach youth about food production. |
$27,000 |
The Bridge Family Center, Inc. |
Positive Youth Development Program |
To provide a variety of social services to West Hartford at-risk elementary school children and their families. |
$25,000 |
Capital Workforce Partners |
Summer Youth Employment |
To provide New Britain youth with summer work experience and job training. |
$50,000 |
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. |
$20,405 |
Children's Law Center of Connecticut |
Legal Representation Program |
To provide an attorney for children involved in high conflict custody or visitation cases in the New Britain and Waterbury Judicial Districts. |
$65,000 |
Circle of Care |
Emergency Fund |
To provide financial support for families experiencing financial hardships while their children are undergoing cancer treatments. |
$10,000 |
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 |
CONCORA |
Season Performances |
To support a series of four concerts including one held at South Church in New Britain in February 2012. |
$20,000 |
| Connecticut Community Care | Transition Care Intervention Program | To coordinate post-hospital services for chronically ill individuals . | $19,574 |
| 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. | $10,000 |
| Connecticut Community Foundation | Memorial Donation | Donation to the Matthew Kenney Scholarship Fund. | $10,000 |
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 with a pilot program for summer 2011. |
$60,000 |
Connecticut Radio Information System |
Program Support |
To produce and broadcast readings from daily newspapers, magazines and books to individuals with visual disabilities. |
$20,000 |
Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra Inc |
Children and Community Concerts |
To support their performance season in partnership with the New Britain Symphony, and to conduct a school-based music educational series. |
$40,000 |
Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund |
STEM Expo |
To help underwrite a day-long expo for 7th grade girls exploring Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). |
$6,000 |
Consolidated School District of New Britain |
Academy of Health Professions |
To support the implementation of this new heath career curriculum at New Britain High School, the first in the state to introduce health science courses to 10th graders. |
$40,000 |
First Tee of Connecticut |
Youth Golf Program |
To provide youth development and life skills program around the game of golf. |
$16,000 |
| FoodShare, Inc. | Food Delivery Program | To coordinate food delivery to various sites in New Britain and other ASF towns. | $40,000 |
Granville Academy of Waterbury |
Academic Enrichment Program |
Tutoring and mentoring to help youth graduate from high school and go on to higher education. |
$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 |
Horizons, Inc. |
Academic Enrichment Program |
For families who have an adult child with a developmental disability, providing respite care for clients at the day camp in Windham. |
$7,616 |
| The Hospital of Central Connecticut | Medical-Legal Partnership Project | To fund 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 |
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 |
| Human Resources Agency | Osgood Resource Center | To operate a center for distribution of food and case management services on Osgood Avenue, in the northwest area of the city. | $10,000 |
Junior Achievement |
Education Program |
To educate children in the areas of financial literacy and workforce preparedness through project-based learning activities in the classroom. |
$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 |
Middlesex United Way |
Homelessness Prevention Program |
To provide emergency services to families who are at-risk, or are already homeless. |
$10,000 |
Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury |
Home Ownership 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 |
For children's programming, including art classes and school group visits. Also outreach to make the museum more accessible to families, including free admission Saturday mornings. |
$50,000 |
New Britain Youth Museum at Hungerford Park |
Summer STEM Program |
To provide a summer STEM program with an environmental theme for sixth grade students from Berlin, New Britain, Newington, Rocky Hill and Southington. |
$15,495 |
New Britain Youth Theatre |
Arts Education Program |
To provide in-school and after school performing arts, literacy based theater program in 4 elementary and one middle school in New Britain. |
$12,500 |
| 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. | $6,000 |
| Operation Fuel | 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 |
Hardware City Bicycles Program |
To support an after-school program that works with hard to reach, at-risk boys using bike racing and a bike shop as the focal point. |
$55,000 |
| Palace Theater | Arts Education Program | To support an after-school theater education program designed to foster social commentary and performance art concepts to enhance language and promote theater. | $25,000 |
Pathways/Senderos |
Capital Grant | To purchase a 15 passenger van in order to transport youth to and from the program, as well as field trips and other occasions. | $36,540 |
Plainville ARC |
Camp Trumbull |
To provide summer camp for special needs children and respite for their parents. |
$15,000 |
Plainville Community Food Pantry |
Backpack Program |
To provide children of families who are in economic need with school supplies throughout the school year. |
$15,000 |
Queen Ann Nzinga Center |
Children's Community Arts Program |
To provide a 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. |
$30,000 |
South Congregational Church |
Music Series |
To underwrite the cost of three community performances at South Church in New Britain. |
$6,000 |
St. Vincent DePaul Mission of Waterbury |
Shelter Program |
To provide housing for needy persons and families in Waterbury. |
$20,000 |
Susan B. Anthony Project |
Rebuilding Lives Program |
To provide emergency shelter, transitional housing and client support services to women and their children who are victims of domestic violence. |
$25,000 |
The Cromwell Children's Home |
Summer Program 2011 |
To provide day camp, supervised work experiences, and overnight camping for residents and community-based clients based on their developmental levels. |
$10,000 |
United Way of Central and Northeastern CT |
Summer Literacy Program |
To provide a summer program for low performing students at Smalley Academy. |
$20,000 |
| United Way of Central and Northeastern CT | Workforce Solutions | 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 | Community Wellness Project | To provide a community health screening and immunization program for low income residents of Greater Waterbury. | $20,000 |
Waterbury Hospital |
Diabetes Management Program |
To provide clinical case management, focused care, and education to diabetes patients to prevent hospitalizations and avert preventable negative diabetic-related outcomes. |
$49,500 |
Waterbury Youth Services, Inc. |
Linking Academics to Life Program |
To provide after-school youth development programs for the highest risk children across the city of Waterbury. |
$45,000 |
Wellmore |
Merger support |
To underwrite costs incurred to complete a merger between Wellpath and the Morris Foundation. |
$60,000 |
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Grants and contributions up to $5,000 |
$64,000 |
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Subtotal |
$1,448,580 |
New Britain After-School Initiative For Middle School Youth
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Paid in |
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City of New Britain |
After-School Program Grant |
To improve and expand the Exercise the Right Choice programs that provides project-based learning activities that include leadership development, recreation, and homework help |
$115,000 |
Klingberg Family Centers, Inc. |
After-School Program Grant |
To expand programming for at-risk students incorporating academic support, counseling, life-skills training, and pre-vocational learning experiences. |
$55,532 |
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. |
$118,000 |
YWCA of New Britain |
After-School Program Grant |
To expand the scope and impact of STRIVE, a youth development and leadership program specifically for middle-school age girls. |
$113,000 |
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Subtotal |
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$401,532 |
| Payment on Capital Grants Previously Approved | $417,500 |
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Scholarship & Summer Internships |
$667,448 |
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Sponsorships |
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$113,700 |
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Total Contributions: |
$3,051,260 |
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