Economic Empowerment and Sustainability: Workforce Development and Educational Attainment Grants

Overview

Focus & Areas of Giving

Farmington Bank Community Foundation will help create opportunities for a better life by focusing on economic opportunities, health, and basic needs. We all succeed when families have a safe and healthy home, food on the table, and jobs that pay a living wage. These changes have benefits that ripple out to the community, by improving the lives of our neighbors. This adds to the strength and stability of neighborhoods and the citizens that live there.

Our grantmaking will be targeted to two strategic areas with emphasis on people of low-to-moderate income. We strive to ensure residents have access to employment training and education, health services, healthy nutrition, stable housing, and safety net services.

Economic Empowerment and Sustainability

To foster pathways from poverty to prosperity for individuals and families in our communities, and to encourage diverse and robust neighborhood and community economies.

Requests to support workforce development, enhance or improve opportunities for quality employment and career prospects. Work that increases a households financial security/self sufficiency through adult education, completion of secondary education or school readiness.

Workforce Development and Educational Attainment

The Foundation will consider requests to support job training and employment programming as well requests related to educational attainment that better prepares residents for a career (high school or GED completion, adult education, degree/certificate completion).

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* Programs must primarily serve residents in one or more of the following towns of Hartford County CT:

* Avon, Berlin, Bloomfield, Bristol, Burlington
* Canton, Farmington, Hartford, Newington, New Britain
* Plainville, Rocky Hill, Simsbury, Southington
* West Hartford and Wethersfield

* Organizations must be tax exempt under IRS section 501(c)(3).
* Religious institutions are not eligible, except for non-sectarian activities that benefit the community at-large.

Ineligibility

* Endowment funds are not eligible. 
* Individuals are not eligible
* The Foundation will not accept requests for event sponsorships or other marketing initiatives, even if those events benefit a non-profit organization.
* A full list of activities and purposes which the Foundation will not fund are below.

* Animal causes
* Beauty contests
* Capital campaigns, annual appeals and operational fund raising campaigns.
* Debt reduction
* Disease specific organizations and activities
* Endowment Funds
* Feasibility studies
* Fundraisers including dinners, galas, golf tournaments, road races etc.
* Individuals
* Individual schools in a public school system
* Medical equipment, patient treatment funds, etc.
* Municipal entities
* Traditional Nursery Schools
* Organizations that discriminate service based on race, religion, etc.
* Organizations serving a limited constituency
* PAC’s
* Parent Teacher Organizations or Associations
* Political, labor or fraternal organizations
* Private Foundations
* Private schools and colleges
* Private scholarships
* Public School Districts and Public Schools (including Charter & Magnet Schools)
* Theater, dance and music programs that focus primarily on the arts rather than youth development
* Religious organizations, unless supporting non-sectarian broad based community issues
* Sports, athletic events, or programs
* Student trips/tours(including transportation and conference costs)
* Television, radio, film, video, book productions
* Team sponsorships
* Third parties raising funds for a charity
* Yearbook Ads