The Visiting Nurse Association of South Central Connecticut was recently awarded a $27,500 grant from the First Niagara Foundation to provide home health care to Greater New Haven’s underinsured and uninsured for fiscal 2014. A portion of the grant ($7,500) will be used for the 2014 Nightingale Awards for Excellence in Nursing Program hosted by the VNA/SCC which honors area nurses and provides scholarships to students in the five area schools of nursing.
Home health care visits include nursing care, rehabilitative therapies, wound care, and social work. The funding from First Niagara will enable the VNA/SCC to provide over 150 home care visits to those who would otherwise lack necessary treatment.
Capital Workforce Partners announces $274K grant
The Brandeis Center for Youth and Communities recently received a $2.5 million grant from the Walmart Foundation to reach 1,200 vulnerable youth in seven communities, including Hartford. The grant will support summer programs that employ, educate, and support young people as well as efforts to create a national dialogue on enhancing youth employability.
Hartford’s $274,000 grant will support competency-based summer jobs that integrate work and learning for 200 teens. Capital Workforce Partners was selected to administer the program, along with Our Piece of the Pie.
Farmington Bank awards $10K grant to New Horizons Village
Residents of New Horizons Village, an accessible living community for adults with physical disabilities, recently received a new van thanks in large part to a $10,000 contribution from Farmington Bank Community Foundation. New Horizons operates seven vans daily. Each van averages 1,524 miles monthly transporting residents around the community. Half the fleet of vans has in excess of 200,000 miles. The new van will allow New Horizons to assist residents with non-emergency medical transportation, particularly individuals that have critical medical appointments. The van will benefit both New Horizons Village residents as well as the residents of Cherry Brook Health Care Center, a not-for-profit skilled nursing facility in Canton.
YMCA of Greater Hartford receives $25K in grants from Travelers
The YMCA of Greater Hartford has received $25,000 in grants from the Travelers Foundation to support two youth and teen programs: the Wilson-Gray YMCA’s Achievers program, which supports the personal and academic development of youth and their families; and the Downtown YMCA’s Footlights Program, a performing arts program that inspires youth from Hartford to excel and discover their talents through the arts.
YMCA Achievers fosters academic success and career development for youth in grades five through 12. The program emphasizes the significance of post-secondary education and increases youths’ sense of self-worth.
The Footlights program is accessed by over 40 children from Hartford from 18 different middle and high schools, as well as special populations from DCF and other organizations. Participants attend classes in hip-hop, drill, Caribbean and African dance and drum, voice, choir, art, drumming, and drama. Kids also participate in workshops that are conducted by area artists and community leaders.
Leadership Greater Hartford awarded three grants
Leadership Greater Hartford has been awarded a $30,000 grant for its Third Age Initiative program by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. The Third Age Initiative is a yearlong program that develops, engages, and connects older adults in the community. Nearly 300 older adults have participated in the Third Age Initiative, now in its 12th year.
In addition, Travelers awarded a $25,000 grant to Leadership Greater Hartford for its Common Ground and Summer Nexus youth leadership programs. Common Ground is a 15-week program offered each spring that engages high school students from the Greater Hartford area for training in leadership, diversity awareness and community problem solving. Summer Nexus is a weeklong leadership program for urban and suburban youth, grades 10 to 12, that fosters connections and community involvement through interactive workshops and service learning activities.
Hartford’s Center for Latino Progress receives $25K Walmart grant
The Center for Latino Progress has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation to support its E- Workplace Basic Skills Program, which builds language skills of participants while also improving their reading, arithmetic, interpersonal and informational skills. The grant will enable the Center, which is based in Hartford, to continue its holistic approach to teaching those who are undereducated, unemployed, and underemployed, and those who are often limited by their English proficiency.
