Since its establishment in 2003, The Cornwall Foundation has made more than $240,000 in grants, and its total annual award budget has risen to $27,000 per year. In the past five years, The Cornwall Foundation has awarded the following grants:
2022 (through July)
The Cornwall Association, for its Cornwall Bears project
Greenwoods Counselling, to provide mental health services
Camp Mohawk, for scholarships for Cornwall girls
Cornwall Consolidated School, for a warming cabinet to permit participation in a federally funded hot lunch program
The Little Guild, to fund one-on-one dog training for people adopting pets and other members of the community
2021
The Cornwall Association, for its Barnyard Animals project
The Housatonic Youth Services Bureau
The United Church of Christ, as additional funding for its purchase of a generator to serve hot meals during power outages
The Cornwall Food & Fuel Fund
The Little Guild, for the tent at the Great Country Mutt Show
The United Church of Christ, to replace the windows in the day room used by many Cornwall community organizations
2020
The Cornwall Food and Fuel Bank, to meet increased demand resulting from the Covid-19 outbreak
The Cornwall Historical Society, to update its exhibit storage facilities
The Grumbling Gryphons Traveling Children’s Theater, for a laptop needed to conduct drama workshops and performances for children virtually, as required by the Covid-19 outbreak
Housatonic Youth Service Bureau, for equipment for mental health telemedicine services and telemedicine group support services that it had initiated in response to the Covid-19 outbreak
United Church of Christ’s Deacon’s Fund/Minister’s Discretionary Fund, to cover increased assistance needed as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak
YMCA Camp Mohawk, for scholarships for Cornwall children attending the co-ed day camp initiated in response to the Covid-19 outbreak
The Cornwall Historical Society, to create a new website
The United Church of Christ’s Storm Meal Program, for a generator for the parish house kitchen to permit distribution of cooked meals during power outages
The West Cornwall Library Association, for a refrigerator and improvements for an indoor, year-round farmers’ market in West Cornwall
The Cornwall Association, to update the CornwallCT.org website
2019
The Civic Life Project
The Cornwall Association, to update and improve the Town’s website
The Cornwall Library, for a lecture series
The Cornwall Consolidated School, to fund SmartStart
The Cornwall Consolidated School, for a yoga program
The Food & Fuel Fund, to support collaborative projects with the Cornwall Consolidated School, The Volunteer Fire Department, and the Food Pantry
The Little Guild, for the tent for the Great Country Mutt Show
Next Festival for Emerging Artists, for a music education program at the Cornwall Consolidated School and a free concert at Music Mountain
Special Olympics of Connecticut
The Town of Cornwall, for an air quality monitoring device to monitor the effect of the Cricket Valley power plant
The United Church of Christ, for the medical equipment program
2018
The Cornwall Agricultural Commission, for a beekeeping workshop
The Cornwall Chronicle, for work on its website
The Cornwall Consolidated School, for a class trip
The Cornwall Historical Society, for textile conservation
The Grumbling Gryphons Children’s Theater, to clean and repair costumes
The Housatonic Youth Services Bureau
The Little Guild, for a new heating system
Next Festival for Emerging Artists, for a music education program at the Cornwall Consolidated School and a free concert at Music Mountain
Special Olympics of Connecticut
2017
The Chore Service
The Cornwall Consolidated School
The Cornwall Historical Society/The Cornwall Library, for new recording equipment
The Housatonic Youth Services Bureau
The Little Guild, for a socialization room
Next Festival for Emerging Artists, for a music education program at the Cornwall Consolidated School and a free concert at Music Mountain
The United Church of Christ’s medical equipment program
If you have questions about the Cornwall Foundation, please contact the Foundation’s President, Rob Lacy, via the contact form below.