Established in 1928, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the US and remains the largest grantmaker in South Central Connecticut. Our dedicated staff work with donors to build an endowment that inspires, supports, informs, listens to and collaborates with the people and organizations of Greater New Haven to build an ever more connected, inclusive, equitable and philanthropic community. We serve: **Donors & Advisors – By working with The Foundation, donors can have a lasting impact through a knowledgeable partner by creating a personalized charitable fund, enabling them to support the nonprofits that matter most to them, now and in perpetuity. Donors maximize their investments by using The Foundation’s expertise in managing funds and strategies to identify and meet community needs and opportunities. Throughout the year, The Foundation holds community-wide convenings and disseminates informational briefs on a wide range of topics of importance to Greater New Haven's residents. The Foundation also works with professional advisors in helping to identify and offer solutions for their clients to make strategic philanthropic decisions. ** Connecticut Nonprofits – To strengthen the capacity of nonprofits in Greater New Haven, The Foundation distributes millions in grants, provides resources, workshops and education on best practices, and encourages community giving to local nonprofits through giveGreater.org and The Great Give. **Students – The Community Foundation administers scholarship funds for promising students and supports access to quality education and New Haven Promise to help area youth thrive. Where we serve: Ansonia, Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, Derby, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Milford, New Haven, North Branford, North Haven, Orange, Oxford, Seymour, Shelton, Wallingford, West Haven and Woodbridge.

The Heron Foundation was created in 1992 to help people and communities help themselves out of poverty. Today, the foundation is focused on building a better economy in the United States, one in which reliable employment and income are available to every willing worker or household. The New York-based foundation aims to deploy the full balance of its endowment towards that mission, and invests all of its assets through a single capital deployment office, removing the traditional foundation’s operating distinction between investments and grant-making. Our enterprise-first, tax-status agnostic approach allows the foundation to seek investment opportunities in both nonprofit and for-profit enterprises that increase and maintain reliable employment, advance innovations that help low income communities and workers be economically resilient, and contribute to society in a way that leaves everyone better off. The foundation’s capital is most commonly used to support an enterprise’s growth, or to support a change of business model that improves, preserves, or sustains an enterprise to increase employment and livelihood for people in the community.

Offering demand-driven employment solutions in South Central CT. COVID-19 UPDATE: Helping Essential Employers post and fill openings at: https://www.workforcealliance.biz/recruiting-and-hiring/ Online Jobseeker Resources at: https://www.workforcealliance.biz/american-job-centers/ Home of Skill Up for Manufacturing, the Health Careers Advancement Project, ITXpress, Hospitality Careers Initiative, Project CEO and Next Steps for Ex-Offenders. Resuming As Soon As Possible: One-on-one job seeker consultations, recruitment and hiring events, public workshops and community partners on-site at 4 American Job Centers in New Haven, Meriden, Middletown and Hamden. Learn more at http://www.workforcealliance.biz Equal Opportunity programs. Auxiliary aids and services available to individuals with disabilities.There is never a fee for jobseekers or employers.

SeriousFun Children's Network, founded by actor and philanthropist Paul Newman, is a global community of 30 independently managed and financed camps and programs serving children with serious illnesses and their families – always free of charge. The purposefully designed programs foster independence, resilience and personal growth, helping children to see beyond the limits of their medical conditions and experience all that life has to offer. Since 1988, the Network has served more than 864,000 children and family members worldwide.

United Way fights for the health, education and financial stability of every person in every community. We recruit people and organizations that bring the passion, expertise and resources needed to get things done. LIVE UNITED® is a call to action for everyone to become part of the change. United Way of Long Island is part of a worldwide network spanning across 41 countries and territories, including more than 1,200 local organizations in the U.S. For more information about United Way of Long Island, please visit: www.unitedwayli.org.

Save the Sound leads environmental action in your region. We fight climate change, save endangered lands, protect the Sound and its rivers, and work with nature to restore ecosystems. What makes us unique among regional nonprofits is the breadth of our toolkit and results. We work in many ways, from legislative advocacy and legal action to engineering, environmental monitoring, and hands-on volunteer efforts. Together, we restore and protect all that impacts the Long Island Sound region’s environment, from rivers and shorelines to wetlands and forests, from the air we breathe to the waters of the Sound itself. For more than 40 years we’ve been ensuring people and wildlife can enjoy the healthy, clean, and thriving environment they deserve—today and for generations to come.

As of July 1, 2016 Community Capital Fund, Connecticut Housing Investment Fund and the Greater New Haven Community Loan Fund have merged to form Capital for Change, Inc. Capital for Change brings together our 50+ years of knowledge and experience as Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI’s) to create a combined organization that offers a wide array of lending funding and service options. C4C is about engaged, practical and unpretentious partnership. We invest in communities for the benefit of low and moderate income people and families. Our team is savvy about local conditions, values its long-standing network of allies, and cares deeply about creating opportunity and about urban revitalization.

The Peconic Land Trust, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was established in 1983 by John v.H. Halsey and a small group of local residents to ensure the protection of Long Island’s working farms, natural lands, and heritage. Since 1983, the Trust has worked diligently with landowners, communities, municipalities, and partner organizations to protect over 13,000 acres of land, conserving more working farms on Long Island than any other private conservation organization, and securing millions of dollars from the public and private sector for land protection.

Smithtown Gospel Tabernacle is a Non-Denominational church located at 1 Higbie Dr, Smithtown, New York, United States.

United Way fights for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in greater New Haven. We bring people and organizations together to create solutions to our region's most pressing challenges. We tackle issues that cannot be solved by any one group working alone. We help people live their best possible lives. Join the fight at uwgnh.org.

About Special Olympics Connecticut Special Olympics Connecticut provides year-round sports training and competitions for more than 10,000 athletes of all ages with intellectual disabilities and Unified Sports® partners - their teammates without disabilities. Through the joy of sport, the Special Olympics movement transforms lives and communities throughout the state and in 172 countries around the world by promoting good health and fitness and inspiring inclusion and respect for people of all abilities, on and off the playing field. (www.soct.org) Partner Sponsors: Adams Hometown Markets/IGA Hometown Supermarkets, Dream Ride, Enterprise, ESPN, Eversource Energy, The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation, Law Enforcement Torch Run, NBC and Telemundo Connecticut, Webster Bank, Raytheon Technologies, and WWE. Year-Round Suppliers: Adams Hometown Markets/IGA Hometown Supermarkets, Campus Customs, The Coca-Cola Company, Connecticut Portable Storage/PODS, Marcus Communications, State of Connecticut Judicial Branch Community Service, and WORX.

Fairfield County’s Community Foundation is partnering with our community to create a county where every person has an equitable opportunity to thrive. We work closely with community organizations, nonprofits, businesses and philanthropists to address challenges and identify opportunities to create a stronger, more vibrant community. Informed by three decades of partnering with and serving our community, we have awarded more than $390 million in grants to nonprofits in Fairfield County and beyond.