Housing Affinity Group - February
The Housing Funder Network convenes funders interested in or investing in addressing homelessness and affordable housing to discuss current and emerging issues, best practices, and opportunities for collaboration.
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The Housing Funder Network convenes funders interested in or investing in addressing homelessness and affordable housing to discuss current and emerging issues, best practices, and opportunities for collaboration.
Join the CT Council for Philanthropy and its Housing Affinity Group to deepen your understanding of the current housing challenges in Connecticut alongside the landscape of solutions that philanthropy can support.
HARTFORD, CT -- Partnership for Strong Communities in Hartford recently received a $5,000 grant from Chelsea Groton Foundation to support the operations of HOMEConnecticut.
NORWALK, CT -- Fairfield County’s Community Foundation (FCCF) announces its partnership in the establishment of Fairfield County’s Center for Housing Opportunity (FCCHO), funded through the generous spirit and commitment of JPMorgan Chase & Co. to cultivate thriving neighborhoods, with an investment of $450,000. Their commitment will catalyze action with results to create housing stability for all Fairfield County residents.
HARTFORD, CT -- Nearly $1 million in federal support for food, emergency shelters, and homeless prevention services has been awarded to 25 non-profits and municipalities in Hartford County, according to United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut.
Partnership for Strong Communities and HomeConnecticut present this webinar on learning what you can do to change Connecticut's zoning laws and create a more equitable future.
MARKETWIDE, CT— The Liberty Bank Foundation has approved $263,050 in grants to nonprofit organizations serving Liberty Bank’s market area and surrounding towns to support programs that will provide early childhood education, affordable housing, and basic human needs.
HARTFORD, CT -- The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has awarded $220,000 over three years to the Christian Activities Council in collaboration with Open Communities Alliance to support the “Empowering Choice” project that provides technical, bilingual legal and relocation information and assistance to residents affected by HUD contract terminations.
CONNECTICUT -- The Liberty Bank Foundation has approved $241,500 in grants to nonprofit organizations serving Liberty Bank’s market area and surrounding towns to support programs that will provide early childhood education, affordable housing, and basic human needs.
ROCKY HILL, CT -- According to the 2018 ALICE Report for Connecticut, 40% of households in our state have income which falls below what is needed to pay for basic necessities of housing, food, child care, health care, technology, and transportation.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Understanding that stable homes provide an important platform for individual success and thriving communities, nine of the nation’s largest private foundations, including The Melville Charitable Trust, have joined forces to create the Funders for Housing and Opportunity collaborative with the goal of ensuring individuals and families across America who spend more than half of their income on rent -- or have no homes at all -- will be able to afford safe, stable rentals in thriving communities. Together, Funders for Housing and Opportunity will commit grant dollars that will be used to catalyze systemic change; $4.9 million has already been committed to four grantees over the next three years.
WASHINGTON, CD -- Nine foundations, including The Melville Charitable Trust, have pooled about $10 million to build a three-year public-advocacy campaign to ensure Americans have secure, affordable places to live. The collaboration includes several foundations that haven’t previously concentrated on housing, such as the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The new coalition, called Funders for Housing and Opportunity, today announced $4.9 million in three-year grants to four coalitions and projects, each of will mount public-awareness campaigns to call attention to housing issues.
WASHINGTON, DC -- The increasingly desperate affordable housing crisis has led nine U.S. foundations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and The Melville Charitable Trust to announce on Tuesday that they are launching a partnership to tackle systemic problems in the housing market. The aim: to ensure that the more than 11 million families across the country that spend more than half of their paycheck on rent and those who are homeless have access to safe, affordable housing. The partnership, called Funders For Housing and Opportunity, has divided an initial $4.9 million in grant money between four nonprofits that tackle housing insecurity. This first tranche of money is aimed “mostly in the area of policy, advocacy and organizing,” said Susan Thomas, senior program officer at Melville Charitable Trust and chair of Funders for Housing and Opportunity.
New Haven, CT, - The Greater New Haven NAACP and The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven will hold a press conference on this Wednesday February 14, 2018 to announce a partnership for a new homeownership initiative.
The leadership and members of the Greater New Haven Branch of the NAACP along with the leadership of The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven is holding a press conference to announce a new partnership to improve opportunities for urban homebuyers.
BRITOL, CT -- On December 2, For Goodness Sake was awarded an $11,562 grant from The Broad View Fund at Main Street Community Foundation. The grant will support a strategic planning process for growing the organization.
HARTFORD, CT -- Erin Fletcher had been renting nearby and was employed at a local nonprofit when she saw a house being renovated by Northside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance in the Asylum Hill neighborhood.
CROMWELL, CT -- The Middlesex Habitat for Humanity of CT is one of three winners of Liberty Bank Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Grant competition. It will receive a grant of $20,000 to fund expanded operations.
HARTFORD, CT -- In an effort to support initiatives that provide families with access to quality housing, the Hartford Foundation has awarded a three-year, $240,000 General Operating Support grant to Hartford Habitat for Humanity.