Farmington Bank Community Foundation awarded $119,000 in grants under its Economic Empowerment and Sustainability – Entrepreneurship, Financial Literacy and Housing Grant Cycle. These programs provide ta and resources to start up business, improve financial management of household budgets and generate more affordable housing options
Catholic Charities Inc. – Archdiocese of Hartford – Financial Stability Initiative offers extremely low-income, previously unemployed, and underemployed individuals a bundled, integrated approach to employment, financial coaching and entrepreneurial services grounded in a participant-centered, two-generation approach.
Chrysalis Center Inc. – Community Supportive Housing provides housing and case management services which support 530 individuals and families coming from homelessness. Staff ensures clients’ basic needs and mental health are supported, so they remain economically stable and housed.
Farmington Community Chest – Community Chest Cares matches Farmington citizens in need of critical household repairs and upgrades with area contractors and handypersons to conduct the projects. Farmington Community Chest provides funding for materials and labor for the projects.
Girls With Impact – Support of NextGen Connecticut programming that educates up to 20 young women with our modern, digital business and leadership curriculum over one year.
Hands On Hartford – Shared Kitchen Program helps clients develop the capacity to create, manage, and grow their start-up culinary businesses. Our licensed commercial kitchen provides our participants with the proper space and equipment to prepare, test, and produce their products and to store their supplies.
HEDCO, Inc. – Internship program will support two interns majoring in graphic/website design, communications, or marketing, from local colleges who will provide small business support in the organization’s Business Resource Center and work alongside other HEDCO departments.
International Hartford – generating minority business ownership, creating opportunities for entrepreneurs and jobs for residents. The goal is to recirculate consumer dollars and business profits in the city’s neighborhoods.
Jewish Family Services of Greater Hartford Comprehensive Community Supports, a program that provides a full scope of services for low-to-moderate income clients including case management, skilled volunteer one-on-one supports and a community safety net, connecting clients with the rich resources we have in our community.
Local Initiatives Support Corporation – Providing financial and technical assistance to community development corporations, and other community organizations to revitalize neighborhoods, build wealth for low- and moderate-income (LMI) families, and produce quality housing affordable to LMI residents in communities throughout Connecticut.
Social Enterprise Trust, Inc. – Hartford Culinary Collaborative, a 7-member entity that supports food-based startups, ReSET provides backbone support for the Collaborative through the Food Catalyst. They offer a Food Incubator to grow the skills and capacity of moderate-income individuals who have the idea and recipe(s) for a food business, but not the entrepreneurial know-how; and a Digital Marketing Mastermind for food businesses to develop fully functional websites with ordering capacity.
The Village for Families & Children – Financial Opportunity Center provides financial literacy education, benefits assessment, and job readiness support, through workshops and one-on-one coaching. Families learn to protect and maximize income, reduce debt, create budgets, manage credit, build assets, and pursue careers. If needed, we assist clients to secure stable housing.
United Way of Central & Northeastern CT – “United For ALICE” is an umbrella term that describes UW’s goal of improving the financial stability and economic conditions of low-income households through direct services and partnerships with public and non-profit organizations. Economic mobility services provide low to moderate income (LMI) individuals with access to services that focus on increasing household income and improving financial capability to achieve financial goals.
YWCA New Britain – Childcare Business Incubator, the project will support individuals who will be trained in the operation of their own family childcare business; supported in the establishment of that business for a period of years; and trained in preparation to successfully and independently move to an independent location once their tenure in this project is completed.
CT Community Nonprofit Alliance, Inc. – Support of ConnectiCorps an AmeriCorps program that facilitates nonprofits engaged in food insecurity or antipoverty services in building their organizational capacity through increased volunteerism. The purpose is to identify meaningful opportunities for volunteers so that paid staff can focus on mission-critical work.