2024 Grantees
Abilis
Abilis provides support for people with developmental disabilities to build able lives and strong communities. Funding for Abilis will support Project SEARCH, an internship to employment program offering real-life work experience.
All Our Kin
All Our Kin provides business coaching and mentorship opportunities to home-based family child care educators. Our grant will help support 135 family child care educators, increasing access to care for nearly 500 local children.
Americares Free Clinics
Americares Free Clinics provides free high-quality health care to low-income, uninsured residents. Our funding supports the general operating expenses of the Stamford and Norwalk clinics.
Boys & Girls Club of Stamford
Boys and Girls Club Stamford empowers over 500 Stamford youth by providing an environment to develop productive, caring, and responsible citizens. The organization focuses on children's academic success, character, and healthy lifestyles. Our grant will provide intensive academic support in core subjects and English language skills.
Building One Community
The mission of Building One Community - The Center for Immigrant Opportunity is to advance the successful integration of immigrants and their families. Our funding supports its Workforce Development Program which helps prepare immigrants for living wage work and a path towards self-sufficiency.
The Carver
Carver provides before- and after-school programs led by certified teachers to equip learners and ensure timely K-12 grade transitions. Carver offers more than 50 school and summer programs to underserved Norwalk students through year-round programming that promotes equity and helps close achievement gaps.
Child Guidance Center of Southern CT
Child Guidance Center of Southern CT is dedicated to improving the mental and behavioral health of children and teens. Our grant supports their Mobile Crisis program, providing immediate crisis stabilization, assessment, ongoing treatment, and case management for youth experiencing serious psychiatric symptoms or reactions to traumatic events.
Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County
Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County (CLC) provides comprehensive early childhood education. CLC prepares children from low and moderate income families for kindergarten and helps to close the opportunity gap. CLC operates six Stamford preschools that serve more than 800 children.
Domestic Violence Crisis Center
Domestic Violence Crisis Center's (DVCC) mission is to prevent and eliminate domestic violence by educating communities and supporting individuals in building safer lives. Last year, DVCC provided trauma-informed counseling to 594 clients and its prevention education programs reached more than 10,000 adults and youth.
DOMUS
Domus builds loving relationships with young people facing adversity. Our grant supports Domus’ school engagement program, which helps disengaged students acquire the social and emotional skills, attitudes, and habits needed to succeed in school and beyond. Domus’ family advocates serve more than 390 high school youth.
Family & Children's Agency
Family & Children's Agency (FCA) is a leading human service provider in Fairfield County whose mission is to build better lives and to strengthen our community. TCF funding supports FCA's ASPIRE program which aims to close the opportunity gap in Norwalk through after-school programming for 140 6-12th grade students.
Family Centers
Family Centers (FC) provides quality health, education, and human service programs to help residents overcome barriers to self-sufficiency and success. TCF funding supports Family Centers' School Based Health Centers (SBHCs), located at seven schools in Stamford, that deliver high-quality medical, dental, and mental health services to underserved students.
Filling In the Blanks
The mission of Filling in the Blanks is to fight childhood hunger by providing children in need with meals on the weekends, bridging the gap when they are not receiving nutrition from their schools or camps. Funds will be used to provide Weekend Meal bags.
Food Rescue
Food Rescue is dedicated to eliminating hunger and food waste. The organization engages volunteers and food donors through its proprietary app to transfer nutritious excess food to social service agencies. Our funding supports staffing to help their expansion efforts in Stamford, Norwalk and Darien.
Future 5
Future 5 connects motivated, under-resourced students in Stamford to the people and resources they need to achieve their educational, career, and life goals. Funds will support its College Access and Support program that helps students get into and stay in college. Last year, Future 5 served 360 Stamford youth.
Horizons at CT State Norwalk
Horizons at CT State Norwalk works to advance educational equity for Norwalk students. TCF helps fund Horizons’ 6-week, full day, tuition-free summer program that includes academic instruction, enrichment opportunities, and social emotional education for 142 Norwalk students.
Horizons at New Canaan Country School
Horizons at New Canaan Country School works to ensure underserved Stamford and Norwalk students graduate from high school prepared for college/career. TCF supports Horizons’ summer program for 288 youth in grades K-9 with academic, cultural, and athletic enrichment that helps prevent the summer slide.
Human Services Council
Human Services Council fosters programs that educate, safeguard, and empower people. TCF funds will be used for the expansion of School-Based Health Clinics (SBHCs) in Norwalk. SBHCs address barriers to healthcare (medical & behavioral) for children in low-income, high-risk communities.
Inspirica
Inspirica strives to end homelessness and housing insecurity by helping individuals and families achieve stability through support services and affordable housing. Inspirica addresses the root causes of housing insecurity by providing job training and case management.
INTEMPO
INTEMPO enriches the lives of low-income children predominantly from immigrant backgrounds and from communities underrepresented in the arts, by providing classical and multicultural music education. TCF funding supports Intempo’s after-school music program for 199 students.
Kids In Crisis
Kids In Crisis's (KIC) mission is to build healthy communities where children and families thrive through prevention, counseling, and 24/7 crisis services. The Teen Talk program provides confidential counseling to help students prevent and/or manage crises. TCF funds the Teen Talk counselor at Norwalk High School and, this year, TCF raised additional funds to enable KIC to place a Teen Talk Counselor at Middlesex Middle School, starting in fall of 2024.
Laurel House
Laurel House helps individuals and families achieve and sustain mental health to lead fulfilling lives. TCF’s funds will go towards Laurel House’s Supported Education (SEd) program to help with successful transitions to post-secondary education, vocational certification or achievement of a GED.
Liberation Programs
Liberation Programs' mission is to provide prevention, treatment, and recovery services to help individuals impacted by substance use. Our grant will support the Mobile Outreach Program in Stamford and Norwalk. The mobile vans provide services for those needing immediate care, harm reduction, overdose reversal, and connections to care.
Mid Fairfield Community Care Center
Mid Fairfield Community Care Center’s mission is to ensure equitable access to mental/ behavioral health and wraparound community support services. The organization provides trauma-focused, culturally responsive child and adolescent mental health care. TCF’s grant supports their Outpatient Children's Clinic.
New Covenant Center
New Covenant Center operates the largest soup kitchen and food pantry in Stamford and offers other supportive services, which together aim to reduce food and economic insecurity. TCF funds support its food and nutrition programs, as well as funding for case managers.
Open Doors
Open Doors is the largest homeless service provider in Norwalk. Through homeless services, housing stability programs, prevention, and street outreach efforts, Open Doors guides people in the cycle of homelessness toward housing stability.
Pacific House
Pacific House’s mission is to prevent homelessness or, should homelessness occur, provide emergency shelter and support services to assist homeless individuals access stable housing. Our funds support the Emergency Shelter, which is the only local shelter for homeless adult men and young adults.
Person to Person
Person to Person (P2P) strives to meet both the immediate and long-term needs of the low-income population in the Norwalk-Stamford metro area. Our grant helps P2P provide nutritious groceries, quality clothing, and assistance with rent or other emergency finances.
Saint Joseph Parenting Center
Saint Joseph Parenting Center (SJPC) works to strengthen families, especially those that have a higher risk of abuse or neglect. Their goal is to protect and improve the lives of children by educating and supporting parents. TCF funds support SJPC’s General Parenting Program.
Senior Nutrition Program
Senior Nutrition Program addresses the nutritional and social needs of homebound seniors and the disabled through Meals on Wheels. Through this service, they deliver daily nutritious meals to approximately 280 homebound clients and offer up to seven days of meals.
SilverSource
SilverSource provides a safety net for low-income, low-resource seniors, addressing their financial and medical emergencies. TCF’s grant is for SilverSource’s Individual Assistance Program which provides services to Stamford area seniors experiencing economic hardship.
Stamford Cradle to Career
Stamford Cradle to Career's mission is to collectively align community resources to ensure equity and excellence in education, for every child in Stamford. TCF’s grant supports the Stamford Summer Literacy Initiative (SSLI) program which provides professional development and supplies to embed literacy in summer camps in Stamford to reduce summer learning loss.
STAR Inc., Lighting the Way
STAR serves individuals who have intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and provides support services to their families. Our grant helps participants with IDD to take part in programs that expand their experiences, promote health and wellness, build self-esteem and learn new skills.
Stamford Peace
Stamford Peace’s Beyond Limits Academic strives to develop academic confidence in Stamford area youth by providing high-quality, subsidized tutoring in math and science to over 200 4th-10th grade students.
The Darien Depot
The Depot supports Darien's youth by giving them opportunities to connect, grow, and give back. The Depot serves more than 350 middle school and high school youth with both daily drop-ins and scheduled activities.
The Rowan Center
The Rowan Center counsels and advocates for victims and survivors as they process their experiences of sexual violence and provides community education to prevent sexual violence in the future. TCF’s grant helps support The Rowan Center’s sexual violence prevention education for Darien students.