Grants

Grants Awarded in 2021

Education $21,500,000

50CAN

Amount
$680,000
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

LEAD (Latinos for Educational Advocacy and Diversity)

50CAN

Amount
$200,000
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

ConnCAN

Achievement First

Amount
$4,500,000
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

General Operating Support

Columbia University

Amount
$247,500
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

Building Student-Oriented Education Systems from the Family Out: Guides and Tools for Families and for a Reoriented Education Ecosystem

Columbia University

Amount
$50,500
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

Supporting and Spreading Education System Transformation

ExpandED Schools

Amount
$200,000
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

Pathways Fellowship

Horizons Bridgeport

Amount
$25,000
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

General Operating Support

Jumoke Academy

Amount
$212,000
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

Getting to Great

Jumoke Academy

Amount
$550,000
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

General Operating Support

KIPP Foundation

Amount
$300,000
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

Post-Secondary Success Partnership

Sacred Heart University

Amount
$115,000
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

Practice-Based Teaching – Professional Development Phase II

Teach For America

Amount
$350,000
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

Teach For America – Connecticut

Teach For America

Amount
$400,000
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

Teach For America – New York

TEACH.Org

Amount
$275,000
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

General Operating Support

TEACH.Org

Amount
$455,000
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

TEACH Connecticut

Texas Tech University

Amount
$300,000
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

US PREP – Teacher Preparation Transformation – Year 3

The Seattle Foundation

Amount
$50,000
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

Resource Equity Funders Collaborative

Tides Center

Amount
$125,000
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

100Kin10

Uncommon Schools

Amount
$300,000
Category
Education
Grants Awarded in
2021

General Operating Support

Scholarships $73,082

Scholarship Cohort 1

Amount
$73,082
Category
Scholarships
Grants Awarded in
2021

C1 2020-21 Scholarship

Danbury Area $850,000

City of Danbury

Amount
$75,000
Category
Danbury Area
Grants Awarded in
2021

Department of Elderly Services – Elmwood Hall Senior Center

CityCenter Danbury

Amount
$30,000
Category
Danbury Area
Grants Awarded in
2021

Senior Food Security: Farmers’ Market & Senior Diners’ Club

Connecticut Community Care

Amount
$120,000
Category
Danbury Area
Grants Awarded in
2021

Enhanced Housing and Care Management Programs

Jericho Partnership

Amount
$20,000
Category
Danbury Area
Grants Awarded in
2021

Food Security Resources

Regional YMCA of Western Connecticut

Amount
$55,000
Category
Danbury Area
Grants Awarded in
2021

Senior Health and Wellness Programming ($30,000) and Education and Youth Advocacy Programming ($25,000)

The Community Action Agency of Western CT

Amount
$50,000
Category
Danbury Area
Grants Awarded in
2021

Community Food Rescue

The Salvation Army

Amount
$35,000
Category
Danbury Area
Grants Awarded in
2021

Community Emergency Assistance Program

Land Conservation $1,950,000

Aspetuck Land Trust

Amount
$25,000
Category
Land Conservation
Grants Awarded in
2021

BELT: Aspetuck and Monroe Land Trusts Merger

Avalonia Land Conservancy

Amount
$50,000
Category
Land Conservation
Grants Awarded in
2021

BELT: Merger between Avalonia Land Conservancy and East Lyme Land Trust

Scenic Hudson

Amount
$500,000
Category
Land Conservation
Grants Awarded in
2021

General Operating Support

Trust for Public Land

Amount
$175,000
Category
Land Conservation
Grants Awarded in
2021

Trust for Public Land – Connecticut

Westchester Land Trust

Amount
$100,000
Category
Land Conservation
Grants Awarded in
2021

General Operating Support

Medicine $1,150,000

Campership $450,000

Change Summer

Amount
$50,000
Category
Campership
Grants Awarded in
2021

General Operating Support

Fresh Air Fund

Amount
$50,000
Category
Campership
Grants Awarded in
2021

Camperships and Family Wellness Program

Girl Scouts of Connecticut

Amount
$100,000
Category
Campership
Grants Awarded in
2021

Camperships, Outdoor Programs, and Facility Enhancements

Journalism $600,000

Chalkbeat

Amount
$50,000
Category
Journalism
Grants Awarded in
2021

Chalkbeat New York

ProPublica

Amount
$75,000
Category
Journalism
Grants Awarded in
2021

General Operating Support

Retro Report

Amount
$50,000
Category
Journalism
Grants Awarded in
2021

General Operating Support

WNET

Amount
$75,000
Category
Journalism
Grants Awarded in
2021

NJ Spotlight News

Discretionary $250,000

Community Initiatives

Amount
$10,000
Category
Discretionary
Grants Awarded in
2021

Media-Data Research Consortium

GLSEN

Amount
$10,000
Category
Discretionary
Grants Awarded in
2021

General Operating Support

Good Food Institute

Amount
$3,000
Category
Discretionary
Grants Awarded in
2021

General Operating Support

Highlands Current

Amount
$5,000
Category
Discretionary
Grants Awarded in
2021

General Operating Support

Manitoga

Amount
$5,000
Category
Discretionary
Grants Awarded in
2021

General Operating Support

Partners in Health

Amount
$47,000
Category
Discretionary
Grants Awarded in
2021

Sierra Leone Maternal Center of Excellence

St. Joseph Church

Amount
$15,000
Category
Discretionary
Grants Awarded in
2021

Carmen Lucia Buck Religious Education Building Renovation

Woodbury Senior Center

Amount
$10,000
Category
Discretionary
Grants Awarded in
2021

Woodbury Senior Center Projects

Family Projects $605,999

ABRAS

Amount
$84,411
Category
Family Projects
Grants Awarded in
2021

General Operating Support

Total: $27,429,081