WCGMF Grants: Community Engagement and Parental Involvement Grants

• 2001
• 2000

2001

$38,300	Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition (BCAC)
To continue BCAC’s activities in the areas of parent information, advocacy and empowerment with a new focus on teacher recruitment and retention.
$53,000	Children First Dissemination Project/Child & Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut
To publish a manual of successful practices in the following four areas: family support; parent engagement and leadership; family literacy; and transition from community to school; and to share the information with other communities in Connecticut and other states.
$60,000	Danbury Children First / United Way of Northern Fairfield County
To support the continuation of Danbury Children First activities in early care and education.
$10,000	Emergency Funding for the World Trade Center Disaster / United Way of New York City
Emergency funding to help the United Way of New York respond to the needs created by the World Trade Center disaster on September 11, 2001.
$50,000	Hispanics in Philanthropy
To match grants to the National Funders’ Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities aimed at strengthening Latino non-profit organizations in Connecticut.
$100,000	Parent Trust Fund/Children’s Trust Fund & United Way of Connecticut
To support the Parent Trust Fund, a public-private trust created to bolster quality parent engagement, consumer education and leadership activity across the state.
$30,000	The Waterbury Foundation/After-School Program Collaboration
For a third year of a project aimed at helping community youth service providers to coordinate and assess after-school programs for K-8 grade students in five Waterbury neighborhoods.

2000

$15,000	All Our Kin
To provide legal and administrative support to help participants start their own family day care within the community.
$89,700	Children First Initiative Dissemination Project Child & Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, Inc.
To publish a manual of successful practices in the following four areas: Family Support, Parent Engagement and Leadership, Family Literacy and Transition from Community to School.
$30,000	Collaboration and Evaluation of After-School Programs / The Waterbury Foundation
For the second year of a project aimed at helping community youth service providers to coordinate and assess after school programs for K-8 grade students in five Waterbury neighborhoods.
$10,000	Danbury Children First Initiative
To support collaborative planning and action on issues affecting early childhood care and education and young children.
$24,300	Neighborhood Schools Collaborative Process Institute for Educational Innovation
To continue the creation of an enriched educational and neighborhood environment for children in ten public and private, elementary and middle schools in the Fair Haven section of New Haven, by adding an eleventh school and developing a long-term sustainability plan.
$65,000	Youth As Resources Regional Youth / Adult Substance Abuse Project
To develop and position children as leaders of real change to solve community problems placing emphasis on the problem of interpersonal conflict and violence.
$65,000	Youth As Resources / Promote the Peace Center for Youth as Resources
For expansion of a Bridgeport program that involves K-8 students in designing and running community service projects aimed at improving their classrooms, schools and neighborhoods.