Farmington Bank Community Foundation awarded $140.500 in grants under its Health & Human Services – Basic Needs Grant Cycle. These programs provide emergency safety net services to household experiencing housing, food, or other essential insecurities.
Bread for Life Funding will be used for operational expenses for the soup kitchen, meal delivery program (including homebound citizens, seniors living in subsidized housing, and homeless individuals and families placed at Southington hotels and motels by the State of CT), and the Children’s Summer Lunch Program.
Community Health Network of Connecticut Foundation, Inc Cooking Matters- Participants learn to shop smarter, use nutrition information to make healthier choices, and cook delicious, affordable meals. Cooking Matters also equips families to stretch their food dollars and link up with public nutrition programs like SNAP (food stamps) and WIC.
Connecticut Foodshare – Mobile Food Distribution in Hartford County, CT -This “pantry on wheels” program dispatches trucks into underserved neighborhoods, distributing food to assist those in need who lack direct proximity to a supermarket or food pantry or may not have a vehicle or the physical means to access resources outside of their neighborhood.
Covenant to Care for Children, Inc – Basic essential goods responds to the urgent needs of families who are at-risk of losing their children, or those being reunified with their children and mandated by the state to have tangible goods such as beds, cribs, clothing, and other essential household items to create a safe and healthy home environment.
Diaper Bank of Connecticut – Diaper Distribution Network Support – Providing diapers to families with infants and toddlers who do not qualify for government assistance.
End Hunger Connecticut!, Inc SNAP Outreach supports efforts to fight food insecurity by increasing awareness of critical food assistance programming and drive potentially eligible residents to EHC!’s SNAP Call Center to receive free assistance with SNAP applications, redeterminations, technical support, and more.
Friendship Service Center, Inc.- The Tomasso Community Kitchen feeds the FSC Shelter and Transitional Living participants, as well as hundreds of New Britain community members who have been relying upon the program for a warm lunch since 1968.
General Federation of Women’s Clubs Newington/Wethersfield – Monthly supplemental weekend food for the families of school age children in Newington who are food insecure.
Healing Meals Foundation Corporation – Healthy Meals Program offer 12 weeks of meals to people and their families impacted by serious health crisis. The organic meals are designed to promote healing and good health.
Mercy Housing and Shelter Corp – St. Elizabeth House supports people who are economically disadvantaged, homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness by offering transitional housing and the Friendship Center Day Shelter and meals program.
New Britain ROOTS – The ROOTS Market Express operates as a delivery service for individuals 60 years old or older with an emphasis on low to moderate income households. Market Express provides healthy, locally grown produce delivered directly from the farmers market each week.
Operation Fuel Inc. – Emergency Energy Assistance that helps offset oil, gas and electric bills for income qualified families.
Plainville Community Food Pantry, Inc. – The pantry distributes food to clients bi-weekly, school supplies in the fall and holiday baskets for Plainville residents
Services for the Elderly of Farmington – Support for Meals on Wheels, Medical Equipment, Congregate Meals, Friendly Shopping, Medical Transportation, “Forget-Me-Not”, and our free A.A.R.P. Tax Assistance Program.
South Park Inn, Inc. – South Park provides emergency shelter and 3 meals per day for their clients. The provision of healthy food reduces the incidence of obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes among the population they serve.
Tabernacle Christian Church Inc. – Giving Back Food Pantry provides weekly food to household with food insecurity. Last year CT Foodshare calculated that the pantry distributed more than 140 tons of food.
Urban Alliance – Is working withnetwork partners and other organizations, such as Midwest Foodbank to utilize our network of over 200 community partners and allies (including churches and local schools) to create centers for food and resource distribution throughout the year.
Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness – Continuation of CCEH’s work engaging towns in the Greater Hartford region to take action to end homelessness. The end goal of this project is that every town will take these actions to create greater capacity for homeless services, address regional service gaps, and ultimately reduce and end homelessness.
Malta House – Support for Malta House’s first permanent clinic to be opened in Asylum Hill neighborhood. The addition of this clinic allows the mobile medical van to serve another neighborhood.