2011 Grant Awards
2011 Grant Awards: Education
The Fund for Greater Hartford committed over $700,000 to the Greater Hartford community in 2011. The vast majority of grants were in our four major priority areas. Education grants totaled $195,500, with most going for educational enhancements, and our largest grant going to support the Achievement First charter school in Hartford.
EDUCATION: To help insure that children and families have access to educational opportunity at all levels
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Achieve Hartford |
To help this organization better advocate for educational excellence by enhancing their ability t0 disseminate a weekly electronic publication to 1,300 stakeholders |
10,000 |
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Achievement First, Inc. |
operating support for the exciting Achievement First Hartford Academy, a charter elementary school (now expanding to middle) that is showing great results on CMTs and great support from the community and Hartford Public Schools |
$20,000 |
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The Children’s Museum |
for the purchase of a new planetarium program suitable for Grade 3, and free admission to see it to any students from Priority School Districts |
8,000 |
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Connecticut |
for hands-on programs for 250 aspiring scientists among the middle and high school populations in Greater Hartford |
$5,000 |
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Connecticut Public Broadcasting |
for the Media Lab: Producers of the Future Academy. an educational service that provides inner-city, at-risk youth with an enriching experience during after school and out-of-school hour |
$10,000 |
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Connecticut Radio |
to initiate a ground-breaking program involving radio-reading for children who have visual or physical disabilities |
$5,000 |
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Connecticut Storytelling |
support for the Start with Stories Program, which targets pre-K-third grade; they are reaching 800 students and 32 teachers in classrooms at the University of Hartford Magnet School, in Mayberry and Langford Schools in East Hartford, and in Kennelly School in Hartford, introducing them to the basic literacy skills: listening, speaking, visualizing, reading, and writing |
$5,000 |
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ConnectiKids |
general operating support for this organization that provides academic tutoring (through trained and supported volunteers) and enrichment programming for students from West Middle School in Asylum Hill in Hartford |
$8,000 |
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Connecticut Center for |
support for the Parents SEE (Parents Supporting Educational Excellence) Program which trains parents how to better advocate for their children in the pursuit of educational reform; 2011 efforts will reach out to parents in Bloomfield, East Hartford, Hartford, Middletown, and Windsor |
$5.000 |
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Goodwin College |
Goodwin College has instituted the Connecticut River Academy, a public inter-district magnet high school for students in greater Hartford; here they may take college courses, demystifying the college experience and making it more likely that these students will go on to high education; our support was for the after-school program to help the students who may be struggling with the curriculum |
$8,000 |
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Grace Academy |
support for this new independent middle school for girls in Hartford; Grace Academy focuses on students who need an extra hand if they are to succeed academically |
$10,000 |
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Greater Hartford Interfaith Coalition for Equity |
to support expansion of GHICEJ’s programs at Noah Webster School, working on tutoring K-5 students (in math and reading) and parent engagement with 75 tutors, and at Rawson School, a newer effort engaging 28 tutors working with 1st and 2nd graders |
$10,000 |
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Hartford Community Schools |
for the development of a community school at Clark Elementary School in Hartford |
$15,000 |
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Judy Dworin Performance Project |
for the Moving Matters! Residency Program at Parkville Community School, and Burr Elementary School, both in Hartford, where a teaching artist participates in a 12-week program, helping the children to read a book, write a narrative based on enacting the book through dance, and then develop a performance piece; a culminating performance at the Koeppel Community Center at Trinity |
$10,000 |
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Literacy Volunteers of Central Connecticut |
for the Central Connecticut Family Literacy Center and other family literacy programs being run by this New Britain-based organization |
$10,000 |
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Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford |
general operating support for this organization fighting illiteracy throughout Greater Hartford |
$10,000 |
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Mark Twain House |
support for the Mark Twain House Free Visit Program for students in East Hartford, Hartford, and New Britain designed for children in grades 3 through 12. |
$5,000 |
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Mental Health Association of Connecticut |
for the Kids on the Block puppet program, designed for children in grades K-6, and focusing on a wide array of mental health issues, with Bullying being the most widely requested program; our support is for their presentations in Hartford and Middletown Schools |
$7,500 |
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Middlesex Community College Foundation |
for the College/Career Exposure Project, a new collaborative project in Middletown, between Middlesex Community College, Wesleyan University, Middletown Public Schools, and Liberty Bank; this program will work with 150 6th-8th graders annually, to encourage them to consider college in their future plans |
$5,000 |
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New England Air Museum |
for Project SOAR, an educational outreach program focused on building students’ skills in science and history; our support went to Project SOAR programming in Middletown schools |
$5,000 |
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Read to Grow |
to support their efforts in Greater Hartford to encourage new mothers to read to their babies through outreach at hospitals and follow-up appointments at medical clinics |
$5,000 |
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Teach for America |
to support efforts to bring 30-35 new teachers to Hartford; Hartford Public Schools have strongly supported this organization and believe that the quality teachers it provides are an important part of the school reform efforts in Harford |
$10,000 |
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University of Hartford |
to support Educational Main Street, a far-reaching initiative to students of many ages in Hartford |
$10,000 |