Grant Dollars at Work

Gifts to The Community Foundation have a lasting impact on this generation, and ones to come.  Below are some examples of grants in action:

The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven is helping to secure a brighter future for local adults with autism and the last rose farm in New England. Through a $75,000 three year grant, it is supporting Ability Beyond Disability’s Roses for Autism program, which started as an idea from Jim Lyman, whose son is Autistic. Lyman turned to his college friend, Tom Pinchbeck, with a thought on how to salvage Pinchbeck’s Rose Farm which was struggling against global competition. Learn more


For the past ten years, the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven has been at the forefront of involving parents in their children’s educational and cultural development through its support of Parents and Communities for Kids (PACK). Learn more


With urging from his wife Ilene, Robert Saulsbury transferred his father’s private foundation to The Community Foundation in 2001. The reason? To ensure the continued growth of the scholarship bearing his father’s name. Today, the Curtis M. Saulsbury Scholarship Fund provides young people, such as rising Jazz star Christian Sands, the opportunity to obtain an education in music. Learn more


In what began as a kernal of an idea a decade ago, New Haven Reads is now a thriving Book Bank and tutoring program with data to prove it thanks to a grant from funds created by donors such as Donald & Charlotte Wing. In fact, students have reportedly gone from Ds to As ... Learn more



By the time the Board of Long Wharf Theatre (LWT) celebrated its 20th birthday in 1985, it had established a national reputation and was an important force in the regional theater movement. But the Theatre needed stronger financial footing and its leaders turned to The Community Foundation to create an endowment ... Learn More

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