WCGMF Grants: 2001

• Community Engagement and Parental Involvement Grants
• Director's Discretionary Grants
• Discovery Community Grants
• Levin Fund Grants
• Membership Grants
• Policy Research and Advocacy Grants
• School Change Grants
• Totals

Community Engagement and Parental Involvement Grants

$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.

Director's Discretionary Grants

$2,000	Artspace
$2,500	ASPIRA
$750	Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition / Family Services Woodfield
$5,000	Bridgeport Public Education Fund
$100	Child Care Action Campaign
$2,500	Child Guidance Center of Greater Bridgeport
$500	Christian Community Action
$750	CityKids @ Safe Space of New Haven
$3,000	Connecticut Association of Boards of Education / Association of Educational Foundations
$1,000	Connecticut Center for School Change General Support
$5,000	Connecticut Council for Philanthropy
$5,000	Connecticut Head Start State Collaboration
$5,000	Connecticut School Readiness Council Network
$2,500	E Magazine
$1,000	Family Foundation of North America / Alliance for Children and Families
$2,500	Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families
$500	Greater New England Alliance of Black School Educators
$500	Highville Charter School
$500	Hill Cooperative Youth Services / Montessori in the Hill
$1,000	Independent Sector
$2,000	Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility
$1,000	National Funding Collaborative on Violence Prevention
$1,000	National Storytelling Membership Association
$1,000	New Haven Public Schools/Reading is Fundamental
$5,000	New Haven Symphony Orchestra
$1,000	Peace Games
$1,000	Sacred Heart Kindergarten & Nursery School Playground
$2,500	The Center for First Amendment Rights
$2,000	The Center for the Advancement of Youth, Family & Community Services
$1,500	The Children’s Mission of St. Paul and St. James
$2,500	The Storytelling Institute
$5,000	United Way of Greater New Haven
$2,500	United Way of Northern Fairfield County / Danbury Children First Parent Training
$5,000	Weston Woods Institute / Connecticut Literacy Caravans
$400	Windham Public Schools
$5,000	WSHU National Public Radio

Discovery Community Grants

Ansonia	Valley United Way/Healthy Valley [Community info]
Bloomfield	Capitol Region Education Council [Community info]
Branford	The Branford Community Foundation [Community info]
Bridgeport	Bridgeport Public Education Fund [Community info]
Bristol	United Way of West Central Connecticut [Community info]
Brooklyn	United Services [Community info]
Chaplin	EASTCONN Regional Education Service Center [Community info]
Connecticut Charter Schools Network	Connecticut Charter Schools Network
Danbury	United Way of Northern Fairfield County / Danbury Children First [Community info]
East Hartford	East Hartford Community Project Company [Community info]
East Haven	Area Cooperative Educational Services [Community info]
Enfield	St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church [Community info]
Greenwich	United Way of Greenwich [Community info]
Griswold	EASTCONN [Community info]
Groton	United Way of Southeastern Connecticut [Community info]
Hamden	Area Cooperative Educational Services [Community info]
Hartford	Capitol Region Education Council [Community info]
Killingly, Plainfield, Putnam	Women’s Center of Northeastern Connecticut [Community info]
Manchester	Manchester Early Learning Center [Community info]
Mansfield	EASTCONN [Community info]
Meriden	United Way of Meriden [Community info]
Middletown	United Way of Middlesex County [Community info]
Milford	United Way of Milford [Community info]
Naugatuck	United Way of Naugatuck and Beacon Falls [Community info]
New Britain	New Britain Foundation for Public Giving [Community info]
New Haven	Community Foundation for Greater New Haven [Community info]
New London	LEARN Regional Education Service Center [Community info]
Norwalk	United Way of Norwalk & Wilton [Community info]
Norwich	United Community & Family Services [Community info]
Plymouth	United Way of West Central Connecticut [Community info]
Shelton	Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley [Community info]
Southington	United Way of Southington [Community info]
Stafford	First United Methodist Church [Community info]
Stamford	Stamford School Readiness Foundation [Community info]
Stratford	Stratford Library Association [Community info]
Thompson	The Thompson Ecumenical Empowerment Group [Community info]
Vernon	Hockanum Valley Child Care Center [Community info]
Wallingford	The Quinnipiac Chamber of Commerce Trust [Community info]
Waterbury	United Way of the Central Naugatuck Valley [Community info]
West Hartford	The Bridge Family Center [Community info]
West Haven	Area Cooperative Education Services [Community info]
Winchester	Winsted Area Child Care Center [Community info]
Windham	Windham Regional Community Council [Community info]
Windsor	Friends of Northwest Park [Community info]

Levin Fund Grants

$500	Benjamin Jepson School
$1,000	Burns Family Resource Center
$1,000	Clinton Avenue School
$1,000	Davis Street Interdistrict Magnet School PTO
$680	Edward J. Morley Elementary School
$800	Farm Hill Elementary School
$600	Garde Arts Center / Parent Toddler Play Troupe
$1,000	Mary R. Tisko PTA / Parent Lending Library
$750	Meriden Children First Initiative / People Empowering People
$700	Metacomet Elementary School/Empowering Families Through Partnership with the School Community
$1,000	Mitchell College Children’s Learning Center
$902	Student Parenting & Family Services / Celotto Center Reading Program
$725	The Riverfront Children’s Center “Reading Night”

Membership Grants

$5,400	Connecticut Council for Philanthropy
$11,190	Council on Foundations
$100	Family Support America
$5,000	Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families
$500	Grantmakers for Education
$3,762	Independent Sector
$2,000	Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility
$4,300	New York Regional Association of Grantmakers
$2,750	The Foundation Center
$500	The Philanthropy Roundtable

Policy Research and Advocacy Grants

$90,000	Children First Legacy Evaluation / Center for Assessment and Policy Development
To continue the evaluation of the Memorial Fund’s Children First Initiative following the close of its legacy phase.
$135,600	Community Conversations About Education / League of Women Voters of Connecticut Educational Fund
To support the League and its in-state partners in promoting civil dialogue on education issues, and to help more communities find common ground between the public and educators on which to build an action agenda.
$10,000	Connecticut Council for Philanthropy
Support for the Connecticut Giving Project, which aims to increase giving and volunteering throughout the state.
$133,350	Early Care and Education in Connecticut: Building the Constituency / Connecticut Voices for Children
To expand public information, advocacy, community outreach and citizen mobilization efforts aimed at improving Connecticut’s system of supports for young children.
$25,000	From Policy to Practice IV / Connecticut Association for Human Services
To organize an education policy leadership briefing and provide an opportunity for state and local officials to become better informed on the education topic selected by representatives of the group.
$77,500	Great Kids Connecticut Phase II / Connecticut State Library
To create an informational web site which is responsive to the needs of parents, caregivers and health care professionals of young children.
$10,000	International Festival of Arts and Ideas
To support "Mayday, 1970: Memory and History", part of a series of public discussions on educational issues.
$40,000	National Funding Collaborative on Violence Prevention
To sustain national public information, media and advocacy efforts promoting the prevention of violence in local communities and nationally.
$76,000	Parent Information & Advocacy Initiative/Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition (BCAC)
To continue activities in the areas of parent information, advocacy and empowerment with a new focus on class size and the education capital plan.
$20,000	Shared Steps: Collaborating for Early Childhood Education / Connecticut Association for Human Services
To provide support through Shared Steps to a collaborative of child care providers and other professionals and to help maintain the Child Care Fax and E-Mail Alert Network.
$35,000	The Social State of Connecticut / Fordham (University) Institute for Innovation in Social Policy
In cooperation with the Connecticut state legislature, to continue a trend analysis of the state’s social well-being and to publish the Social Health Index through 2001.

School Change Grants

$800,000	Connecticut Center for School Change
For the Center’s efforts to improve student achievement by improving instructional leadership at the district and school levels. The Center is a former initiative and strong partner of the Memorial Fund.
$22,500	Connecticut Charter Schools Network
To expand the Network’s capacity for sharing resources, expertise, external professional development opportunities, and parental involvement across the state’s charter schools.

Totals