2020 IMPACT FFC GRANTEES
All Our Kin
Grant Awarded: $100,000 Impact FFC Grant
and $11,000 General Operating Grant
Danbury, CT
Mission: To train, support, and sustain community child care providers to ensure that children and families have the foundation they need to succeed in school and in life. Through their programs, child care professionals succeed as business owners; working parents find stable, high-quality care for their children; and children gain an educational foundation that lays the groundwork for achievement in school and beyond.
Project Funded: Expanding the Supply, Quality and Sustainability of Family Child Care in Danbury will significantly expand All Our Kin’s programming in Danbury - bolstering the reach of existing programs and launching additional programs - thus transforming opportunities for approximately 125 family child care (FCC) educators and, in turn, more than 600 children and families on an annual basis. The program will support 32 educators in obtaining licensure, creating new high-quality, affordable child care spaces for as many as 120 children; engage nine educators in Educational Coaching; offer 12 sessions of professional development opportunities; and offer one iteration of our 10-session, 30-hour Business Series to 15 educators.
Career Resources, Inc.
Grant Awarded: $100,000 Impact FFC Grant
and $11,000 General Operating Grant
Bridgeport, CT
Mission: To provide youth and adults with the skills to support and significantly improve the family unit through employment to ensure economic opportunity in the communities they serve. Career Resources longevity and success securing employment for low income, multi-barriered populations, lies in its desire for excellence, use of best practices and understanding the need for integrated services to wholly support individuals and employers.
Project Funded: Entry Point Staffing will be a first-of its-kind temporary staffing agency, in Fairfield County, providing returning citizens who are on parole with a portal to access work experience through temporary employment opportunities while also delivering local employers a pre-screened labor pool of work-ready adults.
2020 IMPACT FFC 5-YEAR ANNIVERSARY GRANT
In celebration of five years of giving, Impact FFC created a Five-Year Anniversary Grant of $50,000. The opportunity to apply for the grant was offered to all past Impact FFC Grant Finalists. The grant was to provide restricted funds to enhance, expand or strengthen existing programs, services and organizational capacity that advances the nonprofit organization's core mission.
Building One Community
Grant Awarded: $50,000
Impact FFC 5-Year Anniversary Grant Winner
Stamford, CT
Mission: Building One Community's (B1C) mission is to advance the successful integration of immigrants and their families. Since its inception, B1C has helped more than 10,400 adult immigrant residents originating from 102 countries who speak 37 languages with programs that offer a sense of belonging in their new community, improved English language and job skills leading to new or better jobs, citizenship preparation classes, immigration-related legal advice/representation, unpaid wages recovery, access to food pantries and healthcare, and for those with children in the Stamford Public Schools, the opportunity to develop both deeper understanding of the school system and the skills needed to support their children’s academic success.
Project Funded: Building One Community will use the 5 Year Anniversary Grant to invest in staff development to better serve its growing population through education, employment and empowerment. The Grant will fund intensive executive coaching and professional development on all levels, critical to strengthening B1C’s diverse staff of various nationalities, languages and experiences so that the organization can efficiently and effectively provide the crucial services their clients need to assimilate into their community in the broader Stamford area.
