Farmington Bank Community Foundation awarded $165,000 in grants under its Economic Empowerment and Sustainability – Workforce Development and Self Sufficiency Grant Cycle
Grantees included:
Career Resources, Inc. – STRIVE; provides intensive attitudinal workplace preparation, utilizing a 5-Pillar Model: Job Readiness Training; Occupational Skills Training; Case Management; Job Placement; and Job Retention, Advancement and Follow-up.
Compass Youth Collaborative – COMPASS Peacebuilders; connecting with young people and start building trusting relationships in order to connect (or reconnect) them to education and training opportunities and other supports.
Forge City Works, Inc. – Culinary Job Training; hands-on kitchen training with culinary customer service component for residents with barriers to employment (incarceration, homelessness, poverty, Opportunity Youth status).
Fresh Start Pallet Products, Inc. – Job Training; support the development of new business line, training in construction, which doubles the size of our training program.
Greater New Britain Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Inc.- Career Readiness; prepares participants for jobs and successful careers with financial literacy education on saving, finding loans and scholarships, and avoiding fraud and financial scams.
Hartford Promise, Inc. -Hartford Promise Integrated College Success Model; an Integrated College Success Model combines scholarship funds with needed outreach and support services for Hartford students pursing secondary education.
Hartford Youth Scholars – The Collegiate Academy, Scholar Success High School & College; support the academic attainment, personal achievement, and professional development of 265 Hartford students, ages 7th grade through college senior.
Hartford’s Camp Courant – 2022 Camp Courant Camperships; funding for Camp Courant free summer day camp program for up to 900 Hartford youth.
Jumpstart for Young children – Early Education Workforce Development; to build a diverse pipeline of future early childhood educators and, simultaneously, advance equitable learning outcomes for preschool children in underserved Hartford County communities.
Junior Achievement of Southwest New England, Inc. – Jr. Apprentice; an innovative year-long program for 20 students at Weaver High School in Hartford with financial literacy and work readiness classes and paid internships in industries projected to have future job growth and financial stability.
KNOX, Inc. – Green Jobs Apprenticeships; providing green jobs and professional skills training to 39 underserved Hartford young adults. Participants gain work experience, technical skills, and certifications in the green industry.
Literacy Volunteers of Central Connecticut – Literacy for Economic Self-Sufficiency Program; expanding economic opportunities for adult students helping them learn to speak, read, and write English to gain employment, improve wages, and gain financial literacy skills.
Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford – Adult Literacy and Job Training; improving the language, digital and math literacy competencies of 500-525 low literate adults living or working in Greater Hartford.
Opportunities Industrialization Center – FO’REAL (Fostering Opportunities to reach Educational and Employment Aspiration for Life); an economic empowerment program designed to prepare youth and young adults for the world of work and self-sufficiency utilizing the Career Competency System.
Our Piece of the Pie – Supporting Hartford Youth for success in education and employment; combination of youth-focused, relationship-centered programming with academic and workforce training.
The Arc of the Farmington Valley Inc, FAVARH –Project Search; a yearlong work readiness program supporting young adults with IDD through classroom and multiple hands on internships.
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.
Trinity College – Dream Camp; a five-week summer camp, serving up to 170 children, and an after-school program, serving up to 70 children; both are tuition free.
United Way of West Central Connecticut, Inc. – Walsh Summer Work Experience Program; a seven-week summer workforce development program for twenty-five (25) Bristol youth age sixteen and up.
Women’s League Child Development Center – Early Childhood Education STEAM Lab; creation of a STEAM lab for toddlers and preschoolers that will allow them rich play based experiences exploring Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math.
YWCA Hartford Region Inc. – YW Career Women (YWCW); an individualized, career pathways program, designed to provide support and motivation for low-income BIPOC women pursuing an Associate Degree.
Aurora Foundation for Women & Girls – FBCF is providing a matching grant to Aurora Foundation to support college retention and programs that assist college students to complete their degree.
Bristol Preschool Childcare Center Inc – Child care preschool program that targets LMI families in Bristol
Hartford Food System – Hartford Harvest Farm Share; a member of HFPG Social Enterprise Accelerator Program launching a Community Supported Agriculture farm share program for Hartford residents. The CSA program enables several small farmers to sell produce built on a 18 week contract. Participants can purchase a full half or weekly share. LMI residents may qualify for a subsidy.