Community Foundation for Greater New Haven offers grants for immigrant, ex-inmate groups Community Foundation for Greater New Haven offers grants for immigrant, ex-inmate groups

NEW HAVEN >> The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven has announced two special grants for organizations working with immigrants or formerly incarcerated individuals and their families.

“The Community Foundation has a long history of supporting immigration integration and re-entry work in New Haven.

The goal of the foundation’s immigrant integration strategy is that immigrants, including undocumented immigrants in Greater New Haven achieve greater social, civic and economic participation and success thereby becoming more fully integrated members of a more welcoming community.

Thanks to the generosity of three generations of donors, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven awarded more than $22 million in grants and distributions in 2014 from an endowment of more than $460 million and composed of hundreds of individually named funds.

The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven‘s 20-town service area includes: Ansonia, Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, Derby, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Milford, New Haven, North Branford, North Haven, Orange, Oxford, Seymour, Shelton, Wallingford, West Haven and Woodbridge.