Round 1-2011: Grants by Category

Arts & Culture

  • Hunt Hill Farm Trust: New Talent Arts Initiative - $10,000 to offer professional opportunities to young artists. Students learn the business of art, such as screening and pricing their artwork, preparing for exhibitions and performances, and marketing via e-mail, direct mail and in person.

Education
 

  • Family Services of Greater Waterbury: Autism Equipment - $5,000 to provide assistive technology equipment for children with Autism.


Employment & Career Advancement

  • Community Culinary School of NW CT: Culinary Program - $15,000 to support program/staffing costs for four full sessions of training for unemployed and underemployed with the goal of expanding the earned-income catering effort.
     
  • Literacy Volunteers of Greater Waterbury: Workforce Readiness Program - $4,950 to provide an updated Workforce Readiness program for halfway house residents and adults enrolled in Literacy Volunteers classes.
     
  • Marrakech: Waterbury Work/Learn Center – up to $2,500 for equipment/technology for use by students.
     
  • Naugatuck Valley Project: Career Ladder Program (Year 2) - $8,000 to support NVP’s community organizing staff as they work with and help develop the leadership, community-building, and organizing skills of low-income immigrant residents in the Valley’s poorest communities to win health care sector jobs and a career ladder.


Environment

  • Housatonic Valley Association: Greenprint Online Mapping Program - $15,768 to establish an interactive online mapping service/hub that directs land trusts, land owners, municipal land-use commissions and professionals to data and services they need to make effective and informed decisions. 

 

  • Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition: Municipal Outreach & Convocation - $16,000 for an education and technical assistance program for town leaders on watershed management and water policy support to individual towns. 

 

  • Shepaug River Association: Shepaug River Streamwalk - $5,000 to collect data and monitor water quality indicators in Shepaug tributaries using USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service model.

Health Care

  • Connecticut Foundation for Dental Outreach: Mission of Mercy Dental Event - $10,000 to provide free dental care to uninsured or underinsured individuals. Local partner StayWell screened patients for public insurance eligibility and provided information for obtaining a medical or dental provider.  
     

Families

  • Catholic Charities: Waterbury Family Center (Year 3) - $38,750 to operate a hub of service in Waterbury’s North End providing neighborhood residents access to social services, parent training, preschool and adult literacy.
     
  • CT Association for Human Services: Earned Benefits Online (Year 2) - $10,000 to improve access to services by low-wage residents: a powerful strategy for promoting job stability and economic advancement among low-wage workers. 
     

Nonprofit Assistance

  • Central Naugatuck Valley Help, Inc.: Billing Office - $6,422 for consultant to assess and recommend process and equipment needed to create billing office for Medicare and Medicaid claims.
     
  • Connecticut Forest & Park Association as fiduciary for Connecticut Land Conservation Council: Land Trust Challenge Grant Fund – up to $12,300 to strengthen the governance, planning and operations of land trusts.
     
  • Families in Crisis: Marketing Plan - $5,000 for implementation of marketing plan.
     
  • New Opportunities, Inc.: Community Based Organizations Capacity Building – $5,625 to assist in developing a management services assistance program. NOI will offer small nonprofits back office services.
     
  • Palace Theater Group, Inc.: Fund Development Model – $12,500 to assist in creating a fund development model and plan including planned giving and major gifts campaign.
     

Pathways Seniors Initiative

  • Town of Bethlehem: Outreach Program - $750. To pilot one outreach session to connect seniors to the CHOICES program and other information sources.
     
  • Central Naugatuck Regional Action Council (fiduciary: Family Intervention Center): Senior Sessions- up to $2,000. Workshops to raise awareness of unintentional interactions between medicine and alcohol, promote safe storage and provide referral resources for services and information.
     
  • Community Caring in Bridgewater: Senior Safety Review and Assistance - $4,500. To reach an additional 30 senior households for energy and safety audits and connect them to information and services.
     
  • Lutheran Home of Southbury: Tribury Interfaith Community Outreach to Isolated Seniors- Neighbor to Neighbor Program $17,000. To establish an outreach program connecting isolated seniors and senior volunteers through partnerships with faith communities and social service agencies modeled on successful Robert Wood Johnson initiative. Communities served include Southbury, Woodbury, and Middlebury.
     
  • New Opportunities, Inc.: Elder Enhancement - Money Management- $9,000 to expand this program, which provides one-on-one financial literacy assistance to seniors to seven new communities: New Milford, Bridgewater, Litchfield, Washington, Morris, Goshen and Warren.
     
  • New Milford Visiting Nurse Association, Inc.: Senior Health Promotion - $4,000. To offer health assessment visits to 28 isolated seniors and then connect them to other services.
     
  • Oxford Senior Center: MySeniorCenter Program - $6,500. Software to increase efficiency and reduce staff time while allowing the Center to more accurately track number of seniors using their services by individual and program as well as enhance electronic communications.
     
  • Pomperaug District Department of Health: Live Well Chronic Disease Self-Management Program - $3,000 to pilot one, six-week workshop for seniors and their caregivers using this evidence-based approach developed at Stanford University. Each six-week session will include pre-assessment, education, goal-setting, action plans, and post-assessment.
     
  • VNA Northwest, Inc.: Identification/Outreach to Isolated Seniors - $4,500. To offer health assessment visits to 25-30 isolated seniors and then connect them to other services.
     
  • Western CT Area Agency on Aging: CHOICES Expansion - $50,000. Funding will expand capacity to reach out to centers, public housing and other providers to connect seniors. Includes individual home visits to seniors in Waterbury identified through outreach process.

 

Youth Programs
 

  • Brass City Harvest (joint request with Children’s Community School): Urban Nutrition Program - $15,000 to allow students of the Children’s Community School to participate in an integrated urban agriculture program that will seek to motivate positive behaviors in diet, nutrition, and physical activity.
     
  • Church of Christ Congregational (Goshen): Village Mountain Mission Project - $3,000 for a mission trip to build housing for impoverished villagers in the Dominican Republic. (Priscilla S. Whittemore Travel Fund)
     
  • Woodland Regional High School Chamber Choir: Woodland to Wales 2011 - $3,000 to support a concert tour which continues to build connections between Woodland students and their UK peers in Wales. (Priscilla S. Whittemore Travel Fund)