| Organization | Purpose | Description | Approved in 2004 |
Paid in 2004
|
| American School for the Deaf | Early Childhood Intervention Program | A reading program that provides training to hearing-normal parents so they can read to their deaf preschool children and help them develop early communication skills. |
$20,000.00
|
$20,000.00
|
| AmeriCares Foundation, Inc. | HomeFront Program | To support a one-day community-based program that helps homeowners who are physically or financially unable to maintain their homes. |
$10,000.00
|
$10,000.00
|
| ASPIRA of Connecticut | After School Club | To continue support of the New Britain after-school drop-out prevention and positive youth development program and to establish a new program in Waterbury. |
$25,000.00
|
$25,000.00
|
| Berlin High School | Berlin Upbeat | A school-based intervention program that promotes positive youth development by getting students involved in community activities. |
$10,000.00
|
$10,000.00
|
| Boys & Girls Club of New Britain, Inc. | Program Improvement and Expansion | Matching funds to expand and improve services to youth and to open a new site at Oval Grove housing project. |
$75,000.00
|
$75,000.00
|
| The Bridge Family Center, Inc. | Positive Youth Development | To support the after-school enrichment programs for West Hartford elementary schools, including peer mediation, home visits and therapeutic/support groups. |
$25,000.00
|
$25,000.00 |
| Bristol Hospital | Parents Alone Raising Kids (PARK) | To address the needs of single parents, both mothers and fathers, by providing support groups and parent education. |
$25,737.00
|
$25,737.00
|
| Camp Horizons | Capital Grant | To renovate 2 cabins to accommodate overnight campers with special needs including physical disabilities. |
$18,600.00
|
$18,600.00
|
| Capitol Region Education Council | Center for Creative Youth | To help underwrite tuitions for high school students from ASF towns to attend a 5 week pre-college residential program at Wesleyan University. |
$10,000.00
|
$10,000.00
|
| Central Connecticut ARC, Inc. | Capital Grant | To build a new client education and training headquarters building in New Britain. Total grant of $500,000 over 5 years. |
$100,000.00
|
|
| Central Connecticut State University | Endowed Chair in Banking and Finance | This professorship will spearhead a new business school program that specializes in training students in banking and finance. Total grant $1,000,000 over 5 years. |
$325,000.00
|
|
| Central Naugatuck Valley Help Inc. | Capital Grant | To replace windows at their Waterbury site. This is a substance abuse and mental health residential center. |
$20,000.00
|
$20,000.00
|
| Children's Home | Summer Program 2004 | Recreational and educational activities for residents of the Children's Home. |
$7,000.00
|
$7,000.00
|
| Children's Law Center of CT | Legal Representation Program 2004-05 | To provide free legal representation and advocacy for children ages 0-18 involved in high conflict divorce and custody cases in family court in the New Britain judicial district. |
$40,000.00
|
$40,000.00
|
| Community Foundation of Greater New Britain | Discovery Initiative 2004 | To provide funding for a multi-agency and community effort to expand and improve early childhood education in New Britain. Part of a statewide initiative. |
$25,000.00
|
$25,000.00
|
| Community Foundation of Greater New Britain | Grantsmanship Match | To pay for half the cost of grantwriting training for 23 community based organizations. |
$8,500.00
|
$8,500.00
|
| Community Partners in Action | ECHO Program 2004-05 | To provide intensive direct services to first time youth offenders who attend New Britain High School, in order to prevent future criminal activity and to help them succeed in school. |
$35,000.00
|
$35,000.00
|
| Connecticut Community Foundation | Motheread/Fatheread Program | To support the first year of a five-year family literacy initiative in Waterbury. |
$22,452.00
|
$22,452.00
|
| Connecticut Golf Foundation | First Tee Golf Program 2004 | To promote character development and life skills training through the game of golf for inner city youth. |
$12,000.00
|
$12,000.00
|
| Connecticut Junior Republic | CJR Invitational Golf Benefit 2004 | Funding is designated specifically to the agency’s Waterbury facility, which provides treatment for youth who have been involved in the court system. |
$15,000.00
|
$15,000.00
|
| Connecticut Radio Information System | Wall Street Journal Reading Program 2005 | To underwrite the Business Journal program, designed for radio listeners who are unable to read printed material due to a visual, physical or learning disability. |
$9,000.00
|
$9,000.00
|
| Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra | Children and Community Concerts 2004-05 | To support 4 community concerts and 7 children's educational concerts in New Britain public schools. |
$20,000.00
|
$20,000.00
|
| Consolidated School District of New Britain | Capital Grant | To help fund a community playscape located at DiLoreto School. |
$10,000.00
|
$10,000.00
|
| CT Pre-Engineering Program | After School Program 2004-05 | Mathematics, science, technology and engineering academic enrichment program for students in New Britain middle schools and high school. |
$25,245.00
|
$25,245.00
|
| Environmental Learning Centers of CT, Inc. | CT Wildlife Series 2004-05 | To provide a hands-on curriculum-based science education enrichment program to 6 elementary schools in the Waterbury area. |
$17,000.00
|
$17,000.00
|
| Equistrides Therapeutic Riding Center Inc. | Therapeutic Riding Program 2004-05 | Therapeutic horseback riding and related activities for children and adults diagnosed with severe physical, emotional and cognitive disabilities. |
$10,000.00
|
$10,000.00
|
| Family Service of Central Connecticut, Inc. | Young Parents Program 2004-05 | To support intensive case management for teen mothers to help them develop living skills and stay in school. |
$12,000.00
|
$12,000.00
|
| Farmington Library | Capital Grant | Toward the campaign for redesign, expansion and renovation of the town library. Total grant of $50,000 over 5 years |
$10,000.00
|
|
| FoodShare, Inc. | Food Delivery Program 2004-05 | To help underwrite the costs of its food delivery program to ASF towns. |
$30,000.00
|
$30,000.00
|
| Gifts of Love | Administration | Emergency unrestricted grant to support the agency's recovery from a devastating fire. |
$15,000.00
|
$15,000.00
|
| Greater New Britain Community Development Corp | Cooperative Housing Project 2004-05 | To continue support for the Walnut Hill Cooperative Housing project which is renovating three buildings in the Arch St. area NRZ into limited equity cooperative housing for low to moderate income people. |
$25,000.00
|
$25,000.00
|
| Harold Leever Regional Cancer Center | Outpatient Cancer Center | Toward the campaign for the new cancer center in Waterbury. Total grant of $250,000 over 5 years. |
$50,000.00
|
|
| Hebron Interfaith Human Services | Outreach Program | To help support the director and for operating costs. |
$15,000.00
|
$15,000.00
|
| Hill-Stead Museum | Capital Grant | Restoration of historic buildings, access roads, and other facilities. Funds will be matched by a State grant. |
$25,000.00
|
|
| Hole in the Wall Theater | Capital Grant | To aid renovation of new theater space in downtown New Britain. |
$15,000.00
|
$15,000.00
|
| Human Resources Agency | Summer Youth Program Enhancement | To provide work experience and academic programs for New Britain youth. |
$54,463.00
|
$54,463.00
|
| Interval House, Inc. | Children's Education Program | Public school-based violence and abuse prevention and intervention program. |
$25,000.00
|
$25,000.00
|
| Junior Achievement | Our Nation Program | A program for 5th grade classes in New Britain that teaches the fundamentals of the business world, focusing on education and career exploration. |
$15,000.00
|
$15,000.00
|
| KidSafe CT | Home-Based Parent Aide Education Program 2004 | To train volunteers to work as parent aides to work with families to prevent child abuse and neglect. |
$15,000.00
|
$15,000.00
|
| Klingberg Family Centers, Inc. | Capital Grant | Support to the capital campaign for a new school building. Total grant of $250,000 over 5 years. |
$50,000.00
|
|
| NAACP of New Britain | Once a Man, Twice a Child Program 2005 | To target minority boys in grades 3 to 6 who are below academic grade level and provide them with academic and cultural enrichment and mentoring. |
$25,000.00
|
$25,000.00
|
| Neighborhood Housing Services of New Britain, Inc. | Lead Remediation Initiative | To help support a new HUD-funded lead remediation initiative. |
$20,000.00
|
$20,000.00
|
| New Britain General Hospital | Capital Grant | To fund the American Savings Foundation Radiation Oncology Treatment Center. Total grant of $1,000,000 over 5 years. |
$200,000.00
|
|
| New Britain Museum of American Art | Community Outreach & Education Program 2004-05 | To support the museum's major community outreach and education effort primarily with the Latino and African American communities to involve them in the museum's arts educational programs. |
$50,000.00
|
$50,000.00
|
| 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. |
$150,000.00
|
|
| New Britain Public Library | Homework Center 2004-05 | To offer after-school homework help and one-to-one tutoring services to students in New Britain in all subjects, including English as a Second Language. |
$7,700.00
|
$7,700.00
|
| North End Action Team Inc. | To hire a director | Matching grant to partially fund a full-time director. |
$7,500.00
|
$7,500.00
|
| Operation Fuel, Inc | Energy Assistance Program 2004-05 | Emergency assistance to provide home heating fuel to area residents who do not qualify for government aide. |
$30,000.00
|
$30,000.00
|
| Opportunities Industrialization Center | Summer Program 2004 | To support a recreational summer program for youth at two federal housing projects in New Britain. |
$26,000.00
|
$26,000.00
|
| Opportunities Industrialization Center | Opening Doors Enhancement | To support a partnership among 3 agencies to provide New Britain residents with employment services including English as a second language, job training and job search. |
$20,000.00
|
$20,000.00
|
| Opportunities Industrialization Center | Moving Mountains Program | To support a program that helps prepare at-risk middle school students for the academic and social transition to high school. |
$15,000.00
|
$15,000.00
|
| Pathways/Senderos Center | Capacity Building | To fund a strategic plan that will evaluate the potential for program expansion to increase the number of children served. |
$27,500.00
|
$27,500.00
|
| Plainville ARC | Camp Trumbull | To pay for tuition for an 8 week summer program for school aged children with disabilities ages 5 to 21. |
$14,700.00
|
$14,700.00
|
| Plainville Community Food Pantry | Backpack Program | To support an 8 week summer program for school aged children with disabilities. |
$10,000.00
|
$10,000.00
|
| Polish American Foundation of CT | Administrative support | To provide administrative support for the agency. |
$20,000.00
|
$20,000.00
|
| Shakesperience Productions, Inc | Curriculum Enhancement Program | To support a language arts enrichment program for elementary and middle schools in Waterbury. |
$15,000.00
|
$15,000.00
|
| The Shoreline Soup Kitchens | Food distribution | To support food distribution for families in need. |
$11,000.00
|
$11,000.00
|
| Susan B. Anthony Project | Community Education Project | To work with students and adults on comprehensive prevention and education in the areas of family and dating violence, sexual assault, bullying and conflict resolution. |
$20,000.00
|
$20,000.00
|
| Time for Life | Resource Center | To support educational services for children with cancer and their families. |
$6,000.00
|
$6,000.00
|
| Trinity on Main | Capital Grant | Towards purchase of the former church building which is being converted to a community performing arts center.. |
$50,000.00
|
$50,000.00
|
| VIBE Athletics | Training and Learning Center | To help support a new after school education resource center for youth in downtown New Britain. |
$25,000.00
|
$25,000.00
|
| VNA Health At Home, Inc. | Community Wellness and Outreach Program | To support a community wide health program for low income residents of the Greater Waterbury area. |
$10,000.00
|
$10,000.00
|
| Waterbury Hospital | Diabetes Management Program | Matching funds for a federal grant designed to implement a diabetes disease management program for uninsured and underserved populations in Waterbury. |
$39,000.00
|
$39,000.00
|
| Waterbury Youth Services, Inc. | YouthNet | To support the Waterbury YouthNet collaborative enhancing after-school opportunities for youth. |
$41,000.00
|
$41,000.00
|
| YMCA of Greater Waterbury | Capital Grant | Challenge grant for building renovations. |
$125,000.00
|
$125,000.00
|
| YMCA of New Britain-Berlin | Capital Grant | Toward their campaign to renovate and improve the building and facilities. Total grant of $100,000 over 2 years. |
$50,000.00
|
|
| Youth & Family Services Haddam/Killingworth | Summer Program 2004 | To provide a comprehensive summer experience for youth ages 11 to 18 for six weeks, involving them in positive youth development activities. |
$16,433.00
|
$16,433.00
|
| Youth & Family Services Haddam/Killingworth | Youth Development Programs 2004 | To support a youth development and prevention program for teens. |
$15,085.00
|
$15,085.00
|
| YWCA of the Hartford Region | Money Conference for Women | To support a free one-day conference for women on financial literacy and financial planning, with outreach to women for the Greater Hartford area. |
$25,000.00
|
$25,000.00
|
| YWCA of New Britain | STRIVE Program 2004-05 | An intensive youth development and teen pregnancy and drop out prevention program for 65 at-risk middle school girls. |
$30,000.00
|
$30,000.00
|
| YWCA of New Britain | Capital Grant | To construct a universally-accessable community playground. |
$25,000.00
|
$25,000.00
|
| Various Small Contributions | Awards of $5,000 or less. |
$195,699.00
|
$123,993.00
|
|
| Total |
$1,639,614.00
|
$2,527,908.00
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