Grateful for nonprofits

As a board member of Fairfield County’s Community Foundation and Stamford resident, I am writing to express our gratitude to 21 outstanding Stamford nonprofits for their work during the COVID-19 crisis.

Fairfield County’s Community Foundation’s COVID-19 Resiliency Fund awarded these Stamford nonprofits grant funding: Building One Community; Domestic Violence Crisis Center; Domus; Dovetail; SIP, Inc. (subsidiary of Charter Oak Communities); Exchange Club Parenting Skills Center; Family Centers, Inc.; Future 5; Housing Development Fund; Intempo; Laurel House, Inc.; Mill River Park Collaborative; New Neighborhoods, Inc.; Saint Joseph Parenting Center; Schoke Jewish Family Services; SilverSource, Inc.; SoundWaters; Stamford Health System; Stamford NAACP; Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County; Rowan Center; and Women’s Mentoring Network.

These Stamford organizations played important and distinct roles in Stamford’s response. They helped Stamford weather this challenging storm more smoothly and worked collaboratively with other partners.

The Community Foundation launched the Fairfield County COVID-19 Resiliency Fund on March 18 to support frontline nonprofits. Nearly $2.5 million has been raised from donors throughout Fairfield County, which were able to quickly deploy this funding to support nonprofits such as the aforementioned group of organizations. To date, more than $1.9 million has been distributed to 154 local nonprofit organizations, reaching more than 260,000 of our region’s most vulnerable residents — that’s a quarter of the entire population of Fairfield County!

The Community Foundation has been very impressed with the way our region’s nonprofit sector immediately pivoted in response to this public health crisis and we are honored to support their important work.

We are indeed lucky to have such a strong nonprofit sector here in Fairfield County.