A Community of Expanding Opportunity in Which All
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A COMMUNITY OF EXPANDING OPPORTUNITY IN WHICH ALL PEOPLE SHARE A SENSE OF COMMON DESTINY AND HAVE THE SUPPORT AND OPPORTUNITY CONNECTIONS NEEDED TO BUILD FOR ALL SUCCESSFUL LIVES. REIMAGINING THE FUTURE OF GREATER NEW HAVEN: OUR PLAN AND CALL TO COMMUNITY 2019/20 REPORT TO OUR COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITY 2019/20 REPORT TO OUR COMMUNITY FOR ALL Leadership ........................................................................ 4 IN 2020 AND BEYOND Highlights .......................................................................... 6 Funds of The Community Foundation ............................................12 Organization Funds ...............................................................28 Donors to Foundation Funds ......................................................30 Gifts in Memory & in Honor ......................................................39 Grants & Distributions ........................................................... 40 Professional Advisor Partners .....................................................54 Nettie J. Dayton Circle ............................................................56 Volunteers ........................................................................58 Investments ...................................................................... 60 Financials .........................................................................61 Professional Staff .................................................................62 Board of Directors Khalilah L. Brown-Dean, Chair Maysa Akbar Joseph Gordon Fernando Muñiz June 5, 2020 Flemming L. Norcott Jr., R oxanne J. Coady Carlton Highsmith Marcella Nuñez-Smith Vice Chair Dear Friends: Kellyann Day Terry H. Jones Gregory J. Pepe At the end of 2019, The Community Foundation adopted a the growth sectors of tomorrow. We are focusing on support new five-year strategic plan, including new vision and mission for entrepreneurs, especially women and people of color, and statements. In three words, the plan’s title summarizes its on building a more equitable local system of entrepreneurial central idea: opportunity for all. In 2020, so much has changed, support. We are focusing on ensuring that growth does not both from the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic in our result in housing displacement. We are committed to our community and from the rising chorus of voices demanding traditional role of supporting the local nonprofit sector in greater racial equity and justice. The importance and the providing people with the support and connections they urgency of the strategies that we put in place last year have need to build successful lives. And we are undertaking all of been magnified by the events of the last several months. our work with a deepened commitment to greater equity as indispensable to progress, both for The Foundation in For philanthropy in Greater New Haven, as for business achieving our goals and for our community more broadly. and government, COVID-19 is a crisis like no other. Social isolation is altering — perhaps permanently — how We believe that creatingopportunity for all requires that we connect with one another, while unemployment at local nonprofits, businesses, major institutions, donors, Depression-era levels is redefining vulnerability in our elected officials, neighborhood leaders and area residents society and stretching the public and private safety net work together in new ways toward shared goals and beyond its breaking point. The path of recovery is highly shared accountability. In doing our part, The Foundation uncertain, but one thing is clear: as a community, we are will be listening more broadly to and collaborating more not going back to the way things were before COVID-19. deeply with the people of Greater New Haven. Foundation Leadership The devastating health and economic impacts of COVID-19 The Foundation is optimistic for other important reasons fall disproportionately on people of color, widening the as well. The creativity, resilience and innovation shown racial and ethnic disparities that have increasingly come to by our nonprofit sector in responding to the challenges define our society over the last two decades. No matter how of COVID-19 constitute yet another chapter in its long, measured — rates of hospitalization and death, access to proud history of service. Facing some of their toughest testing and care, unemployment, undocumented immigrants challenges ever, our nonprofits continue to inspire. ineligible for public support, businesses receiving Small Business Administration loans, or young people with the Furthermore, our community’s generosity has been a bright connectivity to truly learn through remote schooling — beacon amidst the gloom of COVID-19. After receiving more than the COVID-19 data in our community tell a terrible tale of $35 million in new gifts and charitable transfers in 2019, one of inequality defined by race, ethnicity, citizenship and zip the highest annual totals in The Foundation’s 92-year history, code. These data tell us that our pre-COVID approaches to 2020 has continued to showcase our community’s deep sense advancing racial equity have proven to be inadequate. of caring. The Great Give 2020 was by far our most successful ever, raising $3.6 million last month from more than 16,000 As we write this, longstanding racial inequities and injustices donors to benefit almost 400 local nonprofits. In addition, are boiling over into protest and violence in cities across The Foundation’s COVID-19 Community Fund, established in America following the tragic murder of an African-American partnership with United Way of Greater New Haven, raised man by a white police officer in Minneapolis. Our country and approximately $2.7 million in six weeks in March and April. our community have reached a moment of reckoning with the structural racism that is so deeply embedded in our society. With this support as well as additional Foundation funds, The Foundation will facilitate or directly provide more than $10 million At this time of daunting challenges, the stakes could not to local nonprofits in the first three months of the COVID-19 OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL FOR OPPORTUNITY be higher. So much about the future of our community — crisis. In addition to these grants, The Foundation is also working whether we can become a cohesive whole, recover what with public and private partners to establish a $1.5 million loan has been lost, and move forward to a new time of greater fund for small minority-owned and women-owned businesses. opportunity — will depend on how we respond now. R ather than being deterred by COVID-19 or feeling helpless The Foundation’s 2020-24 strategic plan is anchored in the face of persistent inequity, The Foundation is pursuing in our enduring belief that if our community works with strengthened determination our vision of Greater New together effectively, Greater New Haven can be a place of Haven as a community of opportunity for all. By working expanding opportunity for all in the coming decade. together, drawing on our deep reserves of resilience and generosity, building on our economic strengths, and making Attracted by New Haven’s urban life style and amenities, people greater equity a defining element of our common vision, we have been moving both to downtown and to the neighborhoods believe that our community can make COVID-19 a departure in recent years at a pace not seen in our lifetimes. Our region’s point for reimagining the future of Greater New Haven. biomedical economy — including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, medical research and biotechnology — continues its strong Please join us in this vitally important work. growth and is well-positioned to create much-needed new jobs and to be a driver of Connecticut’s economic progress. Our plan is all about how this growth can create opportunity for Khalilah L. Brown-Dean, Ph.D. William W. Ginsberg all. We are focusing on education and skill-building for jobs in Chair President and Chief Executive 4 CFGNH.ORG/REPORT2019-20 F OUNDATION LEADERSHIP 5 Highlights Pursuit of inclusive economic The Great Give® 2019 Donor briefing series Creating a future Social activist and former Beautifying neighborhoods opportunity is paramount rallies the community shed light on vital of opportunity congressman Gutiérrez and supporting leaders for the 10th time community issues challenges Latinx Community The new Canal Boathouse at Long Wharf Nearly 12,000 individual donors Companies choose to locate in Community members gathered Former U.S. Congressman Luis Vicente For years, the corner of Hazel Street was the setting for the Foundation’s from Greater New Haven and Connecticut based on the skills of its on September 25 for learning and Gutiérrez headlined the Progreso Latino and Shelton Avenue in New Haven’s Annual Meeting. Foundation leaders workforce. Students need an education Fund’s Forum in October and urged Newhallville neighborhood was an beyond participated in the 36-hour collaborating on ideas for creating challenged our community to put our that will empower them to adapt to inclusive economic growth. The the crowd to get involved with the infamous blighted vacant lot known resources, talent and resolve to work online giving event held May 1-2. a rapidly evolving economy. These Convening opened with a spoken political process by helping with voter as “the mudhole.” Now, it is an inviting to create opportunity for everyone. The $1.8 million raised for more and other points were discussed word performance, imagining a registration efforts. Gutiérrez