TRAILBLAZERS IN OUR COMMUNITY
The Hartford Yard Goats Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing social and educational opportunities for youth in our surrounding communities. The Yard Goats Foundation aims to enable our young people to participate, learn and contribute to their community through experiential opportunities and programming. These various experiences support the mission of the foundation, and often take place at Dunkin' Park in our Charter Oak Community Center, in conjunction with the Hartford Yard Goats Baseball Club. The Yard Goats Foundation is also dedicated to benefiting charities in the community by supporting great causes, and building partnerships with other non-profit organizations, in effort to assist them in being successful in their individual missions.
Our Mission
To transform the lives of thousands of Hartford students through an Integrated College Success Model that provides the financial resources, support services, & key relationships that lead to college success & economic mobility.
MORE THAN A SCHOLARSHIP
We work to strengthen Hartford’s college going culture, increase student expectations, increase the number of Hartford students going to and graduating from college, and add to a larger, more qualified, local work force. Our ambitious goals are to expand the educational opportunities for the children of Hartford, and in doing so transform the lives of Hartford families and the city of Hartford.
Our History
Since 1978, Charter Oak Health Center, Inc., a federally qualified, freestanding, Joint Commission-accredited, nonprofit community health center – has continuously provided community-based primary health care to residents in the greater Hartford area. We have grown from a small organization operating out of an apartment building to the 60,000 square foot building our patients now call their medical home.
Our Mission
Charter Oak Health Center promotes healthier communities by providing quality, safe, patient-centered health care services in medically underserved areas, regardless of ability to pay.
Our Vision
To be a nationally recognized health and wellness corridor known for comprehensive patient-centered services, it’s highly qualified and dedicated team of health professionals, state of the art technology and collaborative partnerships.
National Conference for Community and Justice
Mission: The National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) is a human relations organization that promotes inclusion and acceptance by providing education and advocacy while building communities that are respectful and just for all.
Celebrating the diversity of races, religions, cultures, genders, abilities & sexual orientations.
About Camp Anytown: NCCJ ANYTOWN begins when a diverse group of high school students come together for a weeklong residential experience. Through interactive games, workshops, and discussions, delegates explore topics like prejudice, discrimination, and bias. Delegates create a model for an ideal community based on respect, understanding, and inclusivity, in which members not just tolerate, but celebrate each other's differences.
The YMCA of Greater Hartford in 2023 served over 65,000 children and families, including nearly 10,000 youth, in personal development and educational programs.
The YMCA:
is the largest provider of Youth Development programs in Connecticut, serving close to 24,000 children;
is the largest provider of day and residential camping in the Capital Region with over 15,000 children participating each summer;
teaches the holistic values of sports through year-round, non-competitive, character-building youth sports programs with over 5,000 participants annually;
improved health of more than 25,000 people of all ages through health and wellness education;
addresses the link between obesity and unhealthy lifestyles with cardiovascular disease, stroke, juvenile diabetes, high blood pressure, and cholesterol now present more often in children; and
provides aquatics programming to more than 3,000 individuals.
ABOUT THE YMCA OF GREATER HARTFORD
The YMCA of Greater Hartford is a charitable association open to all and committed to helping people develop their fullest potential in spirit, mind and body. This commitment is reinforced by our belief in living out universal values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility.
Our vision: Belong to Something Greater
Passionate about strengthening our communities by positively impacting the lives of every person.
Committed to Serving Communities
The YMCA of Greater Hartford consists of 10 branches and two resident camps providing programs and services in 52 towns in Hartford, Tolland and Wyndham counties.
The Sheff Movement is a coalition of parents, students, educators, and community members working to assure access to quality integrated education for every child in the Hartford region. Our coalition has an extensive track record of success illustrative of its past, present, and future capacity to effect change. A deep commitment to this work is our greatest strength. We have been meeting monthly for approximately 20 years (among other things), demonstrating a sustained community commitment to actualizing Sheff v. O'Neill's vision of quality integrated education.
Quality Education: Academic excellence, skilled, committed professionals, culturally relevant instruction, a safe and healthy environment, ample resources, and a diverse student body and educators who look like them are all hallmarks of a quality educational institution. We believe that such factors should be the standard for all schools.
Integrated Education: By learning together, children learn to respect and value people whose racial, cultural, and socio-economic characteristics differ from their own. By learning together, they prepare themselves to understand and thrive in an increasingly diverse and integrated world. Extensive research shows that cross-racial and cross-class learning environments have beneficial effects on all aspects of a child’s educational experience, in contrast to the detrimental effects of segregation for children of all backgrounds. We believe that integration is vital to quality education, and to the
dismantling of structural racism.
Equal Access: We believe that all children deserve access to quality integrated education, opening up a range of opportunities – social, economic, educational – regardless of the town they live in.
Mission:
To level the playing field for all women in business & beyond by equipping them with the skills, confidence, and network to be tomorrow’s leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs.
Women’s role representation decreases up the ladder of leadership positions…
Women are:
58% of the workforce
35% of senior leadership positions
17% of all executive officers
8% Fortune 1000 CEOs
*No wonder only ⅓ of young women see themselves as leaders.*
By creating the next generation leaders—no matter their background—and a strong network that will serve them in both the corporate and public sectors, we can change these statistics.
Hartford School Garden Council
Who we are:
A volunteer led community resource working to promote, build and sustain flourishing edible school gardens at every Hartford public school.
What we do:
1. Help schools build, expand, and maintain gardens.
2. Advocate for and support the development of garden-integrated curriculum.
3. Assist classroom teachers with garden-related activities.
To volunteer at a school garden, contact Alice Gold at Alicergold@gmail.com or (860) 670-2080.