2021 IMPACT FFC GRANTEES
Hall Neighborhood House
Grant Awarded: $100,000 Impact FFC Core Mission Grant
Bridgeport, CT
Mission: Provide comprehensive services that educate, enrich and empower residents of all ages on the East Side of Bridgeport and surrounding community. Driven by core principles that everyone deserves a safe place, a viable, caring community, high quality educational opportunity, and the support that nurtures wellbeing and stability, HNH provides, supplements, and connects residents of the East Side to resources and services that meet those principles.
Project Funded: HNH will build a fully operational dental clinic on-site. This addition will complete the second phase of a 4-pronged approach, which includes the opening of a community health center on site in collaboration with university and health care partners, to address the physical and mental health needs of residents of the East Side Neighborhood of Bridgeport. HNH is now able to service the primary health care needs of infants, toddlers, youth, seniors and their families in the place where they currently access educational, social-emotional, nutritional supports and recreational opportunities.
INTEMPO
Grant Awarded: $100,000 Impact FFC Core Mission Grant
Stamford, CT
Mission: Provide high-quality classical and intercultural music education to low-income children predominantly from immigrant or first-generation backgrounds and from communities underrepresented in the arts, helping them build critical emotional, cognitive, and behavioral skills, and empowering them to leverage these skills to achieve life success. INTEMPO’s accessible, relevant, and inclusive bilingual (English/Spanish) programs break down barriers that keep children from participating in music education, support their musical interests, and reverse negative patterns that hold back children from realizing their potential.
Project Funded: INTEMPO will provide a choral- and instrumental-music program designed to address the arts, language, and social-emotional needs of children who are learning to speak English. This program will more than double INTEMPO’s reach to 425 students, allowing them to advance the educational equity of underserved children from immigrant backgrounds—a central tenet of the organization’s mission. The program will be run at two elementary schools and one middle school, which have the largest new arrivals/English Language Learners populations and the greatest need for these services.
