The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education will award $6 million in grants, the charity announced today, providing grants to 43 local Fairfield County programs. The charity announced its plans to dissolve and to distribute its considerable assets earlier this year.
“We wish we could have gone back and given funds to everyone we have supported over the years – about 200 grantees over 30 years,” said Executive Director
Karen Barry Schwarz, “but that was not feasible. We looked at those grantees that we regularly supported over the last 10 years or so and chose carefully from a large group of proposals. We’re delighted that our donors’ funds will be doing good in Fairfield County for many years to come, and in some cases, in perpetuity.”
Pictured left:Kolbe Cathedral High School celebrates receiving a scholarship endowment of $500,000 from The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education. Pictured here, left to right: Jane Lafond, rising Kolbe Cathedral High School senior; Dick Matteis, Board Member, The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education; Camille Figluizzi, Kolbe Cathedral Principal; Pam Pagnani, Board Member, The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education; Eudell Mason, rising Kolbe Cathedral High School senior.
The Fairfield County programs that will each receive a portion of the $6 million in funds from The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education in its dissolution include the following:
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All Saints Catholic School Bridgeport Caribe Youth Leaders Bridgeport Neighborhoods Together Bridgeport Rescue Mission Building One Community Cardinal Shehan Center Caroline House Carver Foundation of Norwalk Catholic Academy of Bridgeport Catholic Academy of Stamford Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Immigration Services Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Morning Glory Kitchen Center for Family Justice |
Circle of Care for Families of Children with Cancer
Domestic Violence Crisis Center Domus Foundation Emerge Family ReEntry Foundations in Education Future 5 HomeFront Homes with Hope Inspirica Junior Achievement of Greater Fairfield County Kids in Crisis Kolbe Cathedral High School Malta House Mercy Learning Center |
New Covenant Center Open Door Shelter Pacific House Person-to-Person Sacred Heart University Shelter of the Cross/Renewal House Shepherds St. Catherine Center for Special Needs St. Joseph Parenting Center Stamford Public Education Foundation Sterling House Community Center Thomas Merton Center Tiny Miracles Foundation Today’s Students Tomorrow’s Teachers Women’s Center of Greater Danbury |
In a closing statement to donors, Executive Director Karen Barry Schwarz added, “For almost three decades, The Inner-City Foundation, with your help, has helped to feed the hungry, house the homeless, and educate those living in poverty in Fairfield County, granting $38 million to 200 local programs over the last 30 years. It has been our distinct honor, and our mission, to help families in need, helping to construct with them a path to a better future. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for supporting us, and our friends in need, over all these years. We hope you will continue the good work we began together.”
