Community Foundation of Greater New Britain Concludes 2008 With Total Grant and Scholarship Awards Exceeding $820,000
Fourth-Quarter Grants Total More Than $220,000
(December 11, 2008) With the awarding of $222,754 in fourth-quarter grants and scholarships, the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain has concluded its 2008 grantmaking year, having awarded $821,124 to a variety of nonprofit programs, organizations, initiatives and deserving scholarship students throughout Berlin, New Britain, Plainville and Southington.
The Foundation has four fund categories: discretionary, donor advised, designated and scholarship. Discretionary funds are awarded at the discretion of the Foundation’s board of directors; donor advised funds are established by an individual, family, company or organization with that party playing an active role in the grant-awarding process; scholarship funds are also established by an individual party and tailored to that party’s personal wishes; designated funds, too, are established by an individual party and benefit one or more specific charities.
The Foundation awards grants on a quarterly basis and each year distributes upwards of $1 million to nonprofit agencies and organizations in its service area. Funding traditionally supports a wide variety of Berlin, New Britain, Plainville and/or Southington-based programs and initiatives in arts and humanities, community and economic development, early childhood development, education and health and human services.
Fourth-quarter grants were awarded in the discretionary, donor advised and scholarship categories. Fourth-quarter 2008 grants by category include:
Discretionary Grants ($190,790)
• Prudence Crandall Center (area wide), $50,000. From the Alix W. Stanley Discretionary and Georgia Knapp Thomson Funds, for a one-time seed grant to support a new assistant director position overseeing the Center’s programs and services at its new Rose Hill facility.
• Opportunities Industrialization Center (New Britain), $30,000. From the Alix W. Stanley Discretionary and Jeanette Elizabeth Westlake Memorial Funds, to support the Center’s efforts to assume management of Bicycling Enthusiasms, a program that trains youth in advanced bicycle repair. The Center’s goal is to transform Bicycling Enthusiasms into a per-vocational program with defined outcomes.
• Central Connecticut Senior Health Services (New Britain and Southington), $20,000. From the Johnstone Vance Memorial and Ev and Ethel Herre Memorial Funds, to begin a cognitive fitness program for senior citizens at the Jerome Home in New Britain and Mulberry Gardens in Southington.
• New Britain Food Security Collaborative (New Britain), $20,000. From the Alix W. Stanley Discretionary and Johnstone Vance Memorial Funds, to support start-up costs associated with a new food pantry at the Osgood Pool House that will be known as the New Britain Food and Resource Center.
• Plainville Community Food Pantry (Plainville), $20,000. From the Alix W. Stanley Discretionary and Anna T. Deutsch Funds, for food and other services.
• Children’s Law Center of Connecticut (area wide), $15,000. From the William T. Livingston Memorial, J. Edward and Justine B. Melson, Marshall A. Pease Memorial, Vic and Jane Darnell, Walter H. Dickman, Ronald and Alice Gilrain, Andrews-Hicks Memorial, Ted and Nancy Johnson, Joseph A. Mlynarski, M.D., Memorial, and Robert A. and Phyllis T. Mugford Funds, to train volunteers for the Center’s Families in Transition program, a parenting education and mediation program serving low-income families involved with high-conflict custody and visitation court cases.
• Opportunities Industrialization Center (New Britain), $15,000. From the Alix W. Stanley Discretionary Fund, to support the New Britain Internship Program, a collaborative high school employment initiative among OIC, New Britain High School and the New Britain Chamber of Commerce.
• YWCA of New Britain (New Britain), $15,000. From the Alix W. Stanley Discretionary, Spencer P. Torrell, Andrews-Hicks Memorial and Con Fed Charitable Funds, to support the salary of a housing employment liaison for New Britain’s 10-year Plan to End Homelessness. The YWCA serves as the plan’s fiduciary agent.
• S.T.E.P.S. (Southington’s Town-Wide Effort to Promote Success), $5,000. From the Alix W. Stanley Discretionary Fund, to hire a grant writer to complete a Drug-Free Communities federal grant application that could bring $125,000 per year for five years to Southington.
• Central Connecticut Senior Health Services (New Britain and Southington), $790. From the Margaret (Rau) and Rudolf Kloiber Memorial Fund, a Field of Interest Fund serving the needs of the visually impaired, to purchase task lighting and lamps for use by residents participating in the low-vision programs of the Jerome Home, Arbor Rose, Erwin Home (all in New Britain) and Southington Care Center.
Donor Advised Grants ($24,864)
• Boys and Girls Club of New Britain. From the New Britain Day Nursery Fund, for children’s needs.
• Consolidated School District of New Britain. From the Schaller Auto World Fund, to support the “Home-Made Learning” program, a pilot program at Chamberlain Elementary School providing basic school supplies to all first graders.
• Friends of New Britain P.A.L. Raiders. From the Ericson, Scalise & Mangan, P.C. Fund, to support the new Friends of New Britain P.A.L. Raiders Fund.
• Friendship Service Center, New Britain. From the New Britain Day Nursery Fund, for emergency needs.
• Klingberg Family Centers, New Britain. From the New Britain Day Nursery Fund, for children’s needs.
• Literacy Volunteers of Central Connecticut. From the Catalyst and Alix W. Stanley Discretionary Funds, to support the Women’s Literacy Project helping low-literate women develop basic life skills.
• Manes & Motions, New Britain. From the New Britain Day Nursery Fund, for children’s needs.
• M.O.M.S. Program (Mothers Offering Mothers Support), at the Hospital of Central Connecticut. From the New Britain Day Nursery Fund, for children’s needs.
• New Britain Food Security Collaborative, New Britain. From the Round Table and Rathgeber Family Funds, to support the New Britain Food and Resource Center at Osgood Pool House.
• New Britain Symphony. From the New Britain Day Nursery Fund, for the Children’s Concert.
• Pathways Senderos/Greater New Britain Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program. From the New Britain Day Nursery Fund, for children’s needs.
• Prudence Crandall Center, New Britain. From the New Britain Day Nursery Fund, for children’s needs.
• Salvation Army of New Britain. From the New Britain Day Nursery Fund, for children’s needs.
• Spanish Speaking Center, New Britain. From the New Britain Day Nursery Fund, for children’s needs.
• Warm the Children, New Britain. From the New Britain Day Nursery Fund, for purchase of clothing for New Britain children.
• YMCA of Berlin. From the New Britain Day Nursery Fund, for children’s needs.
• YMCA of New Britain. From the New Britain Day Nursery Fund, for children’s needs.
• YWCA of New Britain. From the New Britain Day Nursery Fund, for children’s needs.
• YPI, Inc. From the Bombaci Family Fund. YPI is a co-educational children’s summer camp for the creative arts at the University of Bridgeport.
Scholarships ($7,100)
Fourth-quarter 2008 Foundation scholarship grants were awarded to: Sacha Kelly, Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, and Dr. Sibani Sengupta, Connecticut Department of Higher Education ARC Program, who were each awarded the Alma Exley Scholarship; and Sally Nelson Strange, University of Connecticut, who received the Dr. Lorraine G. Spranzo Scholarship. For a listing of additional 2008 Foundation scholarship recipients, please visit www.cfgnb.org, click on News and Publications and see the July 17, 2008 scholarships news release, and the October 6, 2008 third-quarter grants and scholarships news release.
Established in 1941, the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain connects donors who care with causes that matter in Berlin, New Britain, Plainville and Southington. For more information on the Foundation, please call (860) 229-6018 or visit www.cfgnb.org.
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