East Hartford mental health and addiction services nonprofit InterCommunity recently received a $5,000 grant from Farmington Bank to fund education programs that help clients learn more about how to prevent cardiovascular disease, and education on nutrition and exercise. Pictured, from left, are: Kevin Kickery, VP business development officer at Farmington Bank, Kimberly Beauregard, InterCommunity CEO, and Chris Traczyk, executive director of the Farmington Bank Foundation.
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The Travelers Foundation has awarded The Center for Latino Progress with $25,000 for the support of LOGROS, a youth career and college readiness program. LOGROS combines curriculums, services, and activities that provide youth with a well-rounded foundation and view of what it means to be prepared to enter the workforce and embark on a college experience.
The grant will allow the implementation of the program’s new culturally sensitive college readiness curriculum and give youth the opportunity to travel to national conferences and meet their peers across the nation.
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With resources from its Partnership Program, Foodshare has worked with Hartford’s House of Bread to help them buy 13 steam table pans and covers to prepare and store food. In the past year, Foodshare provided 29,150 pounds of food to House of Bread to feed individuals and families experiencing food insecurity in Hartford.
Foodshare’s Partnership Program was created to expand the work of local food-pantry, community-kitchen, and shelter partners in areas critical to the Bloomfield nonprofit’s goal of ending hunger in the region.
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The Visiting Nurse Association of South Central Connecticut was awarded two separate grants recently to help fund its mission. First, the VNA received a $20,000 grant from the Katharine Matthies Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee to support its Medical Social Work Program at Spooner House in Shelton.
The Medical Social Work Program is a triage, referral and treatment system designed to help people care for themselves at home.
The VNA also was awarded a $10,000 grant from the First Niagara Foundation, the charitable entity of First Niagara Bank.
That grant will help provide over 100 home healthcare visits to Greater New Haven’s underinsured and uninsured for the fiscal year 2015.
Home healthcare visits include nursing care, rehabilitative therapies, wound care, and social work.
