The Connecticut Community Foundation is accepting applications for programs that provide vital supports for long-term success, such as educational equity, youth development, job training, economic security, and affordable housing.
Donor Name: Connecticut Community Foundation
State: Connecticut
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/08/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This grant area seeks to explore solutions across generations and systems, helping to create favorable conditions for residents of our communities to thrive. The Foundation’s focus on equitable opportunity is based upon research into the deep educational and economic disparities that exist in region.
Funding Information
The average Building Equitable Opportunity grant award is between $5,000 and $15,000.
The approach focuses on
- Supporting programs, advocacy, and system change efforts that build equitable pathways out of poverty and to economic mobility.
- Promoting access to quality culturally responsive education, especially focused on Waterbury where there are significant disparities by race and income.
- Supporting the development of jobs and career pathways with livable wages.
- Promoting opportunities to build assets for BIPOC families that have been left behind in traditional banking systems.
- Targeting education interventions that support BIPOC students and include youth and parent voice in decision-making.
Efforts they 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.
Eligibility Criteria
To apply for funding, an organization must:
- Be a not-for-profit organization recognized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or a municipal entity seeking a grant for public purposes. Organizations may also have a nonprofit fiscal sponsor if they do not have their own nonprofit status.
- Have a board that is representative of the community, of which a majority are neither employees nor relatives of employees.
For more information, visit CCF.
