Farmington Bank Community Foundation awarded $113,000 in grants under its Economic Empowerment and Sustainability – Workforce Development and Self Sufficiency Grant Cycle
Grantees included:
YWCA New Britain– Economic Empowerment through School Readiness Support; Provision of quality, sliding scale, School Readiness childcare services that includes a COVID compliant a hybrid-learning model.
United Way of West Central Connecticut, Inc. – Walsh Summer Work Experience Program; A seven-week summer workforce development program for Bristol youth age sixteen and up. The program combines work experience with a curriculum of job skills, financial literacy and social learning.
Tunxis Community College Foundation Inc. – Launch Your Leadership Journey; A program is designed to build and enhance leadership skills for female students enrolled in community college, who may otherwise not have the opportunity or the means to develop these skills.
Trinity College – Dream Camp at Trinity College; A tuition free afterschool program and five-week summer camp for Hartford children that includes educational and recreational programming.
The Open Hearth Association – The Working Man’s Center (WMC); A job-centered training initiative focused on helping The Open Hearth’s clients end the cycle of homelessness. The WMC provides direct job placement for clients through partnerships with local businesses and our own social enterprise venture: Open Hearth Works.
Our Piece of the Pie – OPP in Communities: Empowering Youth for a Lifetime of Success; OPP in Communities addresses critical issues of access and opportunity available to Hartford youth ages 14-24. through social-emotional, youth development, academic, and workforce readiness supports.
Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford – Adult Literacy and Job Training; Program designed to improve the language, digital and math literacy competencies of low literate adults living or working in Greater Hartford.
Literacy Volunteers of Central Connecticut – Workforce Development and Education; Provision of literacy education to increase self-sufficiency, helping students secure employment, advance in career opportunities, and obtain financial literacy.
KNOX, Inc. – Green Jobs Apprenticeships; Hands-on green jobs, landscaping, and professional skills training to underserved Hartford young adults.
Human Resources Agency of New Britain, Inc. – Early Childhood Career Path for Parents of Young Children; Integration of career education and employment services with intensive simultaneous case management services to engage parents of young children in career pathways that focus on Early Childhood Education (ECE).
Hartford Youth Scholars – The Collegiate Academy, Scholar Success High School & College; A comprehensive middle school through college graduation academic training and personal and professional counseling for Hartford students.
Hartford Promise, Inc. – Hartford Promise Integrated College Success Model; A model that combines Reaching Back and Reaching Forward programming, that connects Promise Scholars to key resources, supports, services, and relationships both in high school and at the colleges they attend.
Greater New Britain Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Inc. – Career Readiness; A middle school through high school afterschool and summer program that provides academic training with career exploration, part time employment and financial literacy.
Goodwin University, Inc. – Goodwin Bookkeeping Clerk Program; Series of workshops to teach the fundamentals of accounting and bookkeeping. Participants work with ledgers, journals, financial statements, and fine-tune their skills in inventory accounting and can sit for the Certified Bookkeeping Credential.
Fresh Start Pallet Products, Inc. – FSPP; Expansion into a second production line for the Fresh Start Academy training program.
Forge City Works, Inc. – Culinary Job Training; Hands-on kitchen training and culinary customer service training that includes a paid experience in a real business setting.
Charter Oak State College Foundation, Inc. – Intent on Improving Tomorrow for Parents; Expansion of the Our Women in Transition Program to include parents, single or married, moms or dads, with an emphasis on our minority population. Program includes tuition assistance, technology and coaching.
Career Resources, Inc. – STRIVE Hartford; STRIVE provides an intensive, attitudinal workplace preparation training to residents of Hartford and the greater Hartford area resulting in job seekers securing employment and job retention that improves their lives through the dignity of work.
American School for the Deaf – Transition Services Vocational Education Programming; Services for students graduating high schools but not going on to secondary education. Includes visiting job sites and career fairs, and meeting speakers from a variety of fields.