Farmington Bank Community Foundation awarded $156,500 in grants to support workforce development and educational attainment.
Grantees included:
Bristol Works, Inc. – To provide workforce development training programs in Manufacturing, Healthcare, IT, and Early Childhood Education to anyone who lives or works in Bristol or surrounding towns.
Capital Workforce Partners, Inc. – To support a collaborative of service providers, employers, and private philanthropy in their effort to replicate the Eastern Connecticut Transportation Consortium (ECTC) Rides for Jobs program to meet the needs of Greater Hartford. Funding will support a consultant that will engage in a collaborative process to move the collaborative to implementation.
CCSU Foundation, Inc. – To provide stipends for student interships to level the playing field so that low-income students can realistically consider internships over other forms of employment (that may not further their career).
Charter Oak State College Foundation – To support Parents Intent on Tomorrow (PiiT), n intentional resource with an objective of providing higher educational degree completion opportunity to parents at or near poverty, single or married, moms or dads, with an emphasis on parents of color.
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 the Junior Leadership Program which helps to develop basic skills in leadership, problem-solving and communication while also offering networking, mentorships, finance, entrepreneurship, resume writing and interviewing, job shadowing and internships on and off site.
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.
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.
United Way of West Central Connecticut, Inc. – For the Walsh Summer Work Experience Program; a seven-week summer workforce development program for Bristol youth.
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.