2025 Grants & Initiatives

Arts, Culture and Heritage

We believe that when the Foundation supports arts, culture and heritage programs, we not only enhance the quality of life for all residents in those communities, but also invest in the long-term economic vitality and well-being of the Greater New Britain area.

  • $5,000 to CT Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra to support the staff position focused on community building and development

  • $50,000 to New Britain Museum of American Art for the Education and Outreach program

  • $2,500 to CONCORA to support the 2025 Summer Festival and 2025-2026 Main Street Concert Series

  • $10,000 to New Britain Youth Museum for a bridge grant to help support expansion of Education Programs

Community & Economic Development

We believe that supporting community and economic development efforts adds to the strength and stability of neighborhoods and the citizens that live within them.

  • $14,668 to Career Resources to add the STRIVE preparedness program to the Entry Point Employment Program to New Britain.

  • $5,000 to the New Britain Housing Authority to support acoustic upgrades needed at the Center for Excellence,

  • $7,500 to Futures, Inc. to support employment transportation for individuals with disabilities.

  • $3,500 to Sustainable CT to support the Fellowship program which helps municipalities implement sustainability actions that increase the quality of life for all residents
  • $3,500 to Ready CT to support the Integrated K-12 Career Pathway & Work-based Learning Programming at New Britain High School
  • $15,000 to New Britain Roots to support the Growing Green Leaders program
  • $5,000 to Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) for the Building Family Income and Wealth through Financial Opportunity Centers (FOCs) in partnership with HRA
  • 5,000 to Junior Achievement to support the Pathways to Careers program in Berlin and New Britain

Education

  • $5,000 to CT Invention Convention for “Innovate Greater New Britain: A Community Invention Education Outreach Program.”
  • $7,500 to the CT Science Center to support STEM Programming for New Britain students.
  • $25,000 to the Consolidated School District of New Britain to support the Summer Enrichment Experience (SEE) for 400 students to maintain academic skills and prevent

Health & Human Services

We believe that having access to services that help maintain or improve health, or which help citizens gain access to basic human services, is fundamental to quality of life.

  • 15,000 to the Community Health Center

    to support the Improving Maternal Outcomes Now program.

  • $15,000 to Connecticut Foodshare to support mobile pantry food distribution in Berlin, New Britain, Plainville and Southington.
  • $3,000 to the Connecticut Institute for the Blind. d/b/a Oak Hill to support Adaptive Recreation for residents of Oak Hill’s Plainville and Southington Homes
  • $3,000 to Friends of Southington Animals for an outdoor enclosure project
  • $10,000 to Giving Back Food Pantry to address food insecurity
  • $20,500 to The Hospital of Central CT for the Neighborhood Health program that improves access to quality healthcare for underserved populations
  • $15,000 to Literacy Volunteers of Central CT to support the Literacy for Self-Sufficiency Program.
  • $10,000 to Operation Fuel to provide emergency energy assistance to residents in Berlin, New Britain, Plainville and Southington.
  • $10,000 to the Plainville Community Food Pantry to support the Intervention, Outreach and Referral Program.
  • $18,000 to Prudence Crandall Center to support the Emergency Shelter Staffing Stability and Responsiveness project.
  • $15,000 to Qplus to support the Southington Weekly LGBTQ+ Youth Group.
  • 10,000 to Senior Transportation Services to help meet the growing need for transportation services in Berlin, New Britain, Plainville and Southington.

  • $3,500 to Autism Families to support the Leisure Explorers program

  • $10,000 to the World Wide Youth Network for ParaDYM PRIDE (Professionalism, Research, Innovation, Determination, Excellence)

  • $18,000 to VetFuel for #PardonMe: providing barrier removal & restorative justice to Connecticut’s veteran households
  • $7,500 to Vale Co-Op for the Beyond the Bell program
  • $2,500 to the University of CT for the Self-Measured Blood Pressure (SMBP) and education for at-risk pregnant women
  • $20,000 to the Salvation Army to support the Pathways of Hope program in New Britain
  • $3,500 to PARC for Saturday Bowling for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities
  • $10,000 to New Life II for housing at the Re-Entry Welcome Center
  • 7,500 to the New Britain Youth Prevention Council for “Your Dose” podcasts on substance abuse, mental health and life experiences that provides support, encouragement and information to young adults and their families.
  • $10,000 to New Britain Teen Pregnancy Prevention (Pathways/Senderos) to support the Family Engagement program
  • $15,000 to New Britain Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to support the prehospital blood program and ventilator purchase.
  • $10,320 to The Hospital for Special Care to purchase portable ventilators to benefit inpatients.
  • $7,500 to Girls With Voices to support the Girl Talk program.
  • $3,500 to Gilead Services for facility enhancements in the kitchen of Farrell Treatment Center
  • $5,675 to Family Forward Advocacy CT to support attainment of the Special Education Advocacy Certificate in order to expand services and income for the organization
  • $3,500 to the CT Foundation for Dental Research for a free dental clinic in New Britain that will serve 1400-1700 residents.
  • $5,000 to the CT Breast Health Initiative to support the search for an Executive Director
  • $3,000 to Community Solutions Inc for pro-social activities and incentives for teenage girls involved in the justice system and residing at LISA, Inc. in Plainville
  • $30,000 to the City of New Britain to support the Building Hope Together Homelessness Prevention and Security Deposit Program.
  • $15,000 to CCARC for Creative Independence: Art and Empowerment for Young Adults with IDD.
  • $20,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of New Britain to support afterschool programming
  • $15,000 to Best Buddies CT for the Friendship and Leadership Development Program for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)
  • $2,500 to Adelbrook to support community experiences for those in community-based residences

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Community Initiatives

The CFGNB is proactive with a portion of its grant making in order to seek out, create and support projects and initiatives that focus on the broader community as well as the non-profits that serve the community. By being strategic and investing resources in this manner, the foundation fulfills its community leadership goal of defining challenges and investing in solutions.

  • $5,500 from Community Initiatives to Bread for Life for year 5 for support of the Southington Honey Company, an innovative social enterprise to diversify the organization’s funding stream and provide transitional training and employment to BFL clients.

First Years First

We believe that preparing the children of Berlin, New Britain, Plainville and Southington for success in school and in life by enhancing their early childhood development education experience is fundamental to any meaningful expression of the Foundation’s mission.

  • $40,000 matching grant to the Southington Public Schools to support the Southington Family Resource Network for programming from September 2024 through summer 2025.

  • $25,000 grant to the YWCA New Britain to support year three of the Early Childhood Incubator Project that trains and supports under-employed women in early childhood development and business management skills so they can launch their early childcare business.

  • $50,000 from First Years First to Berlin Public Schools to support the first year of bringing full day preschool to Berlin.

  • $20,000 from First Years First to Read to Grow to expand early literacy opportunities in the CFGNB service area through the Books for Kids, Books for Babies follow-up & NICU programs.
  • $40,000 From First Years First to Literacy Volunteers of Central Connecticut to support programming for parents and their young children at the Central Connecticut Family Literacy Center.
  • $15,000 to the Consolidated School District of New Britain to support continued implementation of the Pyramid Model, a conceptual framework of evidence-based practices for promoting young children’s healthy social and emotional development, for children birth to five in New Britain’s School Readiness Programs.

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