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2003 Competitive Grants

2003 Competitive Grants Approved by the Board of Directors Recipient & Purpose Amount Focus Area(s) Brainerd Memorial Library, Haddam - to catalog the Library's historical and genealogical collections. $2,770 Heritage Enhancement Center for the Arts, Wesleyan - to support the Green Street Arts Center Family Series, a series of Saturday arts and culture workshops. $1,500 Arts Chester Land Trust, Inc. - to create a nature trail adjacent to the Chester elementary school grounds for the study of environmental sciences and natural habitats. $1,500 Environment Children in Placement Connecticut - to provide trained volunteers to serve as guardians ad litem for abused and neglected children in Juvenile Court in Middletown. $2,000 Human Needs Children's Home of Cromwell - to fund group therapy for disadvantaged children. $1,000 Human Needs Clinton Historical Society - to produce a DVD presentation on the history of Clinton. $1,600 Heritage Enhancement Community Health Center - to support the HomeRoom Program, an after-school homework assistance and enrichment program for children from low-income Middletown families. $2,000 Neighborhood Enhancement Connecticut River Museum - to fund an exhibition which pairs photographs of Essex from 1880-1910 with current photographs of the same scenes to stimulate public discourse on the changing landscape and contemporary land use and development issues facing the town. $5,100 Heritage Enhancement, Environment East Hampton Ambulance Association - to help purchase a generator for its new ambulance headquarters. $1,800 Safer Communities Estuary Council of Senior Clubs - to provide transportation for seniors who are unable to get to medical and other appointments. $2,000 Human Needs FISH-Friends In Service Here - to support free rides to medical appointments. $500 Human Needs Haddam Historical Society - to update the Society's website to include a virtual tour of the Thankful Arnold House and other historical information about Haddam. $2,000 Heritage Enhancement Ivoryton Library Association - to create a photographic documentation of the three Essex villages as they exist today which will also be displayed in juxtaposition with photographs of the past and will provide a historical record of the present. $4,710 Heritage Enhancement Ivoryton Playhouse Foundation - to support its productions of plays which complement school curriculums for area middle and high school students. $5,000 Arts Literacy Volunteers Valley Shore - to update its brochures and public relations materials. $2,500 Human Needs Maritime Education Network - to prepare middle and high school students for the workforce through a collaborative wooden boat building project. $2,000 Work Force Development Middlesex Land Trust - to update maps and develop promotional materials for dissemination at three flagship preserves. $2,000 Environment Middletown Public Schools - to fund performances of a mini-opera which teaches elementary school children proper health, nutrition and fitness. $1,400 Arts Northern Middlesex Habitat for Humanity - to defray the cost of new construction of a home in East Hampton. $1,000 Human Needs North End Action Team (NEAT) - to cover operational expenses of grassroots community outreach in Middletown's North End. $1,000 Neighborhood Enhancement Russell Library - to fund presentations on researching the genealogy of European populations that settled in the Middletown area. $500 Heritage Enhancement Russell Library - to fund the Spanish language facilitator position for the library's Bi-lingual Story Time. $750 Arts Tri-Town Youth Services - to subsidize the cost of mental health counseling and materials for Chester, Deep River and Essex youth and their families. $3,400 Human Needs Vista Vocational & Life Skills Center - to update its health, nutrition and wellness programming for adults with disabilities. $500 Human Needs Wind Over Wings - to support education programs on good stewardship of the environment featuring birds of prey. $1,000 Environment Subtotal $49,530

2003 Women & Girls Competitive Grants Approved by the Board of Directors Recipient & Purpose Amount Focus Area(s) East Haddam Youth & Family Services - to fund a journaling program for young girls. $1,500 Women & Girls East Hampton Youth and Family Services - to cover the expenses of the final week of a summer enrichment program for young girls ages 10 to 14. $1,000 Women & Girls Estuary Council of Senior Clubs - to cover the cost of computer instruction for older women looking for work in an office environment. $630 Women & Girls, Lower Middlesex County Middletown Parks & Recreation - to defray the cost of a girls flag football program in six Middletown neighborhoods. $1,000 Women & Girls, Neighborhood Enchancement North End Action Team (NEAT) - in support of a new young women's group in the North End of Middletown. $1,000 Women & Girls Rushford Center - to fund a summer program for 25 Middletown middle school girls. Funds for these grants were raised by the Fund for Women and Girls Committee. $1,000 Women & Girls Women & Girls Total $6,130   2003 Competitive Grants Approved $55,660

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