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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: Youth Development, PreK-12 Education, Underserved Students, Job/Career Training, Connecticut
Deadline: Oct. 15, 2024
“This grant area aims to provide vital supports for long-term success, such as educational equity, youth development, job training, economic security, and affordable housing. Building Equitable Opportunity seeks to explore solutions across generations and systems, helping to create favorable conditions for residents of our communities to thrive.
Efforts we support include:
- Initiatives that improve the quality of the pre-k and k-12 experience for students and build pathways to higher education
- Interventions that address disparities for Black and Latinx students, low-income students, children with disabilities, justice-involved individuals, and other marginalized populations
- Programs that substantially build the long-term assets and economic resiliency/mobility of area residents (such as financial education and planning, adult literacy, job and skills training, etc.)
- Efforts addressing systems and policy affecting critical issues such as education, access to quality childcare, career pathways, availability of affordable housing, etc.”
Funder: Connecticut Community Foundation
Eligibility: “We support 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations and organizations with a fiscal sponsor who support communities living in 21 towns within Greater Waterbury and Litchfield Hills. We will consider requests from charitable programs that have a 501(c)(3) organization serving as a fiscal sponsor. The organization serving as the fiscal sponsor must demonstrate solid fiscal and administrative capability.”
Amount: $5,000 – $15,000
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