Farmington Bank Community Foundation awarded $170,500 in grants through its first quarterly grant cycle to support Economic Empowerment and Sustainability. This round of grants was focused on access to job training and educational opportunities that support enhanced career prospects and lifetime earnings (such as GED, degree, or credential attainment).
Grants awarded are listed below:
Aurora Foundation for Women & Girls – Matching grant to support the Hartford Public Library’s Barriers Can’t Stop Us Program which supports college retention for immigrant women.
Bristol Boy & Girls Club Association – For Careers for Cambridge Park, a career exploration program for youth at the Cambridge Park club.
Career Resources, Inc. – For STRIVE Hartford, career competency training co-located at the Greater Hartford Reentry Center.
Compass Youth Collaborative – For COMPASS Peacebuilders, which connects (or reconnect) Hartford youth to education and training opportunities and other supports.
Forge City Works, Inc. – For culinary job training including hands-on kitchen training and customer service for residents with barriers to employment.
Fresh Start Pallet Products, Inc. – For the Fresh Start Academy, a partnership with Capital Workforce Partners that supports job training in carpentry.
Greater New Britain Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Inc.- For Pathways to Success in Higher Education which builds off of the Pathways Senderos youth programming to support young people through their transition to college.
Hartford Promise, Inc. – For the Integrated College Success Model which combines scholarship funds with outreach and support services for Hartford students pursing secondary education.
Hartford Youth Scholars – For the Collegiate Academy, High School & College Scholar Success which supports the academic attainment, personal achievement, and professional development of Hartford students, ages 7th grade through college senior.
Hartford’s Camp Courant – For 2022 Camp Courant Camperships.Human Resources Agency of New Britain– For summer youth employment internships for New Britain youth.
Junior Achievement of Southwest New England, Inc. – For Jr. Apprentice; a year-long program for students at Weaver High School with financial literacy, work readiness classes, and paid internships.
KNOX, Inc. – For Green Jobs Apprenticeships which provides work experience, technical skills, and certifications in the green industry to Hartford residents.
Literacy Volunteers of Central Connecticut – For Literacy for Economic Self-Sufficiency, expanding economic opportunities for adult students by helping them learn to speak, read, and write English to gain employment, improve wages, and gain financial literacy skills.
Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford – For adult literacy and job training; improving the language, digital and math literacy competencies of low literate adults living or working in Greater Hartford.
Opportunities Industrialization Center – For the StemLinx Enhancement, a STEM skills development program. FBCF funding will support the development of an accompanying computer lab.
Our Piece of the Pie – To support Hartford youth in education and employment through a combination of youth-focused, relationship-centered programming and academic and workforce training.
The Open Hearth Association – For the Working Man’s Center (WMC); a job-centered training initiative focused on helping clients end the cycle of homelessness.
Trinity College – For free camperships at Trinity Dream Camp.
United Way of West Central Connecticut, Inc. – For the Walsh Summer Work Experience Program; a seven-week summer workforce development program for Bristol youth.
Women’s League Child Development Center – For the STEAM Lab which provides toddlers and preschoolers play based experiences exploring Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math.
YWCA Hartford Region Inc. – For YW Career Women Hartford, an individualized career pathways program designed to provide support low-income BIPOC women pursuing an Associate’s Degree.