2005 GRANT AWARDS |
Grantee | $ Amount | Program Description |
Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness, Inc.
(Farmington) | 10,000 | To translate and print copies of "Know Your Rights: A Handbook for Patients with Chronic Illnes" into Spanish. |
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
(New Haven) | 75,000 over three years | To raise awareness and address health disparities among African-American women through the Theta Epsilon Omega Health Challenge initiative. |
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
(Hartford) | 10,000 | To support the first Annual Step Off Classic, a competition to promote health and fitness among Hartford families and youth to be held on May 6, 2006. |
American Red Cross of Southeast Fairfield County
(Bridgeport) | 9,820 | To provide Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) and training to reduce ethnic and racial disparities in African-American and Hispanic senior citizens in Bridgeport’s Safe Seniors Safe Centers Program. |
Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition
(Bridgeport) | 150,000 over three years | To support general operations. |
Bridgeport Hospital Foundation, ChildFIRST
(Bridgeport) | 100,000 over four years | To identify and treat emotional and behavioral problems among very young children through a family-based approach. |
Bridgeport Oral Health Collaborative
(Bridgeport) | 40,000 over two years | Supplemental grant to support strategic planning of a comprehensive oral health care system among HUSKY children in Bridgeport. |
Bridgeport ORBIT Oral Health Collaborative
(Bridgeport) | 30,000 over 18 months | To improve prenatal and age-one dental visits and systems integration. |
Center for Children's Advocacy, Inc.
(Hartford) | 125,000 over two years | To support general operations. |
Central AHEC, Inc.
(Hartford) | 5,500 | To support Making Strides in LEP, a forum that addresses limited English proficiency and its impact on health care and policy to be held on April 6, 2005. |
Central AHEC, Inc.
(Hartford) | 10,000 | To support the Foreign-born Health Professionals and Connecticut Workforce Diversity Projects. |
Child Guidance Center of Mid-Fairfield County
(Norwalk) | 50,000 | To support the Comprehensive Outpatient Latino Mental Health Program for Children and Families; designed to eliminate language and cultural barriers to access. |
Christian Activities Council
(Hartford) | 1,500 | To support the Vine & Albany Streets Taskforce Community Block Party held on August 27, 2005.
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Christian Community Action
(Hartford) | 50,000 | To support grassroots leadership in health advocacy. |
Citizens for Economic Opportunity
(Farmington) | 10,000 | To support the research and documentation of employer-sponsored health coverage. |
Community Foundation of Greater New Britain
(New Britain) | 36,500 | To act as fiscal agent for the Connecticut Health Foundation’s Leadership Fellows Program. |
Community Health Center, Inc.
(Middletown) | 140,000 | To support the Opportunity Knocks Oral Health Collaborative, to increase access to oral health care services for HUSKY enrolled and eligible children from birth to age 5. |
Connecticut Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, Inc.
(Wilton) | 70,000 | Building capacity grant to support strategic planning and provide general operational support. |
Connecticut Center for Patient Safety
(Statewide) | 5,450 | To support the center’s second annual panel on error prevention and patient safety held on March 3, 2005. |
Connecticut Center for Patient Safety
(Statewide) | 3,500 | To support general operations. |
Connecticut Food Bank
(East Haven) | 42,000 | To provide food and other assistance to more than 650 food assistance programs in six of the state’s eight counties, including Fairfield, Litchfield, Middlesex, New Haven, New London and Windham. |
Connecticut Oral Health Initiative
(Hartford) | 130,000 | To support general operations, and an assessment. |
Council on Foundations
(Washington, D.C.) | 14,640 | To provide partnership support to this nationwide foundation association. |
Danbury Oral Health Collaborative
(Danbury) | 50,000 | To improve prenatal and age-one dental visits and systems integration. |
End Hunger Connecticut
(Farmington) | 2,000 | To conduct an assessment of the health status of children with the University of Connecticut. |
Environment and Human Health, Inc.
(North Haven) | 64,000 | To increase public knowledge about the risk factors for breast cancer and information about screening opportunities. |
Family Medicine Education Consortium (Middletown) | 10,000 | To support the National Oral Health Curriculum Initiative of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. |
FAVOR, Inc.
(Rocky Hill) | 113,127 | To support general operations. |
Foodshare
(Bloomfield) | 21,000 | To support more than 300 community kitchens, emergency shelters, food pantries and other anti-hunger programs in Hartford and Tolland counties. |
Grantmakers in Health
(Washington, D.C.) | 5,000 | To support The Art & Science of Health Grantmaking conference to be held on September 26-27, 2005. |
Grantmakers in Health
(Washington,
D. C.) | 4,000 | To provide partnership support to this nationwide grant-making association. |
Greater Danbury Family Focus Project
(Brookfield) | 50,000 over 18 months | To improve treatment and service planning for children with severe emotional health issues. |
Greater Hartford Interfaith Coalition for Equity
(Hartford) | 10,000 | To support the regional forum, Challenging the Structures of Racism in Public Education, Healthcare, and Immigration, to be held on November 10, 2005. |
Hartford Behavioral Health
(Hartford) | 9,713 | To support a pharmacy expansion program. |
Hartford Health Disparities Collaborative
(Hartford) | 10,000 | To support the City of Hartford’s Healthy Community Initiative. |
Health Leadership Fellows Program
(Statewide) | 10,000 | To support employers of the fellows selected to participate in one-year development program. |
Hispanic Health Council, Inc.
(Hartford) | 27,350 | To support a feasibility study on the establishment of a Latino Policy Institute. |
Isaiah Ministry 58 Covenant Soup Kitchen
(Willimantic) | 7,000 | To provide food in a safe environment to local residents. |
Lao Association of Connecticut
(Bridgeport/New
Britain) | 75,000 over three years | To improve the health status of racial and ethnic members through community-selected, culturally specific health promotion and risk reduction strategies. |
LEARN
(Old Lyme
and New London) | 150,000 | To increase maternal and early childhood oral health, and the utilization of nutrition and exercise for children through proven, evidence-based practices. |
Lower Naugatuck Valley System of Care Collaborative
(Derby) | 50,000 | To improve treatment and service planning for children with severe emotional health issues. |
Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation
(Mashantucket) | 75,000 over three years | To improve the health status of racial and ethnic members in southeast Connecticut through culturally specific health promotion and risk reduction strategies designed to strengthen families and enhance parenting skills. |
Middletown School Readiness Council
(Middletown) | 150,000 | To support a Funder’s Collaborative to increase maternal and early childhood oral health, and the utilization of nutrition and exercise for children through proven, evidence-based practices. |
Naugatuck Valley Project, Inc.
(Waterbury) | 70,000 over 18 months | To support research and documentation of healthcare access services among immigrants with Limited English Proficiency, and review medical interpretation services of local hospitals. |
New Britain Police Department
(New Britain) | 5,000 | To support the annual Triad Senior event, Health, Safety, Fraud and Wellness Expo, to be held on October 27, 2005. |
New Britain Oral Health Collaborative
(New Britain) | 50,000 | To improve the data management system, and implementation of an integrated system of care for the proposed In-School Dental Program. |
New Haven Family Alliance - We WIN
(New Haven) | 160,000 | To develop a sustainability plan for its comprehensive fitness program. |
New Haven Oral Health Collaborative
(New Haven) | 40,000 over two years | Supplemental grant to support strategic planning of a comprehensive oral health care system among HUSKY children in New Haven. |
New Haven Public Schools
(New Haven) | 85,000 | To integrate physical activity into academic settings aimed at decreasing childhood obesity. |
Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters
(Hartford) | 100,000 over two years | To support a mentoring program for 250 greater Hartford youth of incarcerated parent(s). |
Operation Fuel, Inc.
(Bloomfield) | 70,000 | To help low-income working families pay for fuel and utility costs. |
Proyecto El Parto
(New London) | 10,000 | To provide culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate prenatal education to Spanish-speaking women. |
Southeast Mental Health System of Care Collaborative
(Old Lyme) | 50,000 | To improve treatment and service planning for children with severe emotional health issues. |
Southern Connecticut State University
(New Haven) | 104,947 | To pilot a scholarship program for five historically underrepresented students in the Masters in Public Health Program. |
The Community Foundation of Greater New Haven
(New Haven) | 180,000 | To partially support evaluation of the Healthy Start Program, which also received a four-year, $3.6 million federal grant. |
The Donaghue Foundation
(Hartford) | 75,000 | To fund an evidence-based research project designed to encourage weight loss among African-American women in Hartford. |
The Foundation for Educational Advancement, Inc.
(Farmington) | 10,000 | To support the Connecticut Coalition for the Elimination of Childhood Lead Poisoning. |
The New Covenant House of Hospitality
(Stamford) | 10,000 | To support the Soup Kitchen program that provides free medical services to the homeless. |
The Northwest Caring Connection
(Torrington) | 50,000 | To improve treatment and service planning for children with severe emotional health issues. |
True Colors
(Hartford) | 9,800 | To support the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual, Questioning (LGBTQ) youth conference to be held on March 2005. |
United Action Connecticut
(Hartford) | 33,000 | To raise awareness of racial and ethnic health disparities among people living in eastern and central Connecticut through community forums, advocacy and policy. |
URU-The Right To Be, Inc.
(West Haven) | 10,000 | To support the educational component of the oral hygiene initiative. |
Visiting Nurses Association of Central Connecticut, Inc.
(New Britain) | 49,130 | To provide support and education to high-risk pregnant women and new mothers. |
Waterbury Family Focus Partnership
(Waterbury) | 50,000 over 18 months | To improve treatment and service planning for children with severe emotional health issues. |
Waterbury Oral Health Collaborative
(Waterbury) | 50,000 | To improve the system of care for the prenatal and age-one dental visit at two Women, Infant and Children (WIC) sites through oral health education of WIC staff, assessment of access and an on-site mobile program. |
TOTAL | $3,283,977 | |
