2023 Projects
The Goodnow Fund provides grants for operating support and special projects to many types of organizations. For more information on The Fund, please see Our Process. In 2023, The Fund provided grants to the following organizations:
| Organization
|
Amount of Gift
|
Purpose
|
| Save the Children
|
$100,000
|
Children’s emergency fund
|
| Children’s Learning Center
|
$15,000
|
General operating
|
| Stamford Museum & Nature Center
|
$5,000
|
Planetarium
|
| Stamford Museum & Nature Center
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| WNET/Thirteen
|
$5,000
|
PBS support
|
| WQXR
|
$500
|
General operating
|
| Connecticut Public
|
$500
|
NPR support
|
| A Better Chance Darien
|
$2,000
|
General operating
|
| Catholic Community Foundation ESD
|
$10,000
|
Nurses St. Theresa’s Tshumbe
|
| Catholic Community Foundation ESD
|
$30,000
|
University of Notre Dame Tshumbe
|
| USO
|
$20,000
|
Bob Hope Legacy reading program
|
| LiveGirl
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| Family Centers
|
$20,000
|
General operating
|
| Family Centers
|
$30,000
|
Parents as Co-educators
|
| Family Centers
|
$50,000
|
Specialized support groups at SPS
|
| Yosemite Conservancy
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
| Laurel House
|
$5,000
|
Supported education at NCC
|
| Americares Free Clinics
|
$25,000
|
General operating
|
| OXFAM
|
$10,000
|
Food insecurity
|
| OXFAM
|
$10,000
|
Earthquake Turkey/Syria
|
| Doctors Without Borders
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
| Doctors Without Borders
|
$10,000
|
Earthquake Turkey/Syria
|
| Galapagos Conservancy
|
$20,000
|
General operating
|
| Admiral Nimitz Foundation
|
$5,000
|
Digitization project
|
| Admiral Nimitz Foundation
|
$5,000
|
Education portal
|
| Saint Luke’s Church
|
$3,000
|
Stewardship program
|
| Center for Wellbeing
|
$7,500
|
EMDR clinical training
|
| Horizons NCC
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
| Horizons GFA
|
$5,000
|
College scholarships
|
| Cure Alzheimer’s Fund
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
| NCC Foundation
|
$20,000
|
RN to BSN scholarship
|
| NCC Foundation
|
$10,000
|
Student Emergency Fund
|
| North Salem Bridle Trails
|
$2,000
|
General operating
|
| North Salem Open Land Foundation
|
$2,000
|
General operating
|
| Westchester Land Trust
|
$2,000
|
General operating
|
| Mianus River Gorge
|
$2,500
|
College internship progam
|
| The Elm Project
|
$15,000
|
General operating
|
| The Summer Camp
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| Teach for America
|
$15,000
|
CT recruitment pipeline program
|
| Norwalk ACTS
|
$5,000
|
Workforce development program
|
| Princeton University
|
$2,000
|
Annual Fund
|
| >New Canaan Country School
|
$1,000
|
Annual Fund
|
| Rhode Island School of Design
|
$2,000
|
Annual Fund
|
| Miss Porter’s School
|
$2,000
|
Annual Fund
|
| The Hotchkiss School
|
$2,000
|
Annual Fund
|
| University of Virginia
|
$5,000
|
Annual Fund
|
| Connecticut College
|
$2,000
|
Annual Fund
|
| Fresh Air Fund
|
$25,000
|
Fresh Air Summer camping
|
| Boys and Girls Village
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
| National WW II Museum
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
| Building One Community
|
$25,000
|
Immigration Legal Services
|
| Child Advocates of SW Connecticut
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| Gentle Giant Draft Horse Rescue
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
| Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| Live and Let Live Farm
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| Spirit of America
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
| Housing Development Fund
|
$2,500
|
FirstGen Homeownership Fund
|
| East Norwalk Blue
|
$2,000
|
CT pumpout program
|
| Kids in Crisis
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| At Home in Darien
|
$3,000
|
General operating
|
| Darien Book Aid Plan
|
$2,000
|
General operating
|
| Darien EMS Post 53
|
$2,000
|
General operating
|
| Darien YMCA
|
$1,000
|
General operating
|
| Darien Land Trust
|
$1,000
|
General operating
|
| Museum of Darien
|
$500
|
General operating
|
| Darien Fire Department
|
$500
|
General operating
|
| Friends of Selleck’s Woods
|
$500
|
General operating
|
| Darien Nature Center
|
$500
|
General operating
|
| Darien Police Association
|
$300
|
General operating
|
| Flying Cloud Institute
|
$1,000
|
General operating
|
| New Marlborough 5 Village News
|
$200
|
General operating
|
| New Marlborough Cultural Council
|
$200
|
General operating
|
| New Marlborough Library
|
$250
|
Electronic audiobooks
|
| New Marlborough Meeting House
|
$250
|
Patron membership
|
| National Trust for Historic Preservation
|
$5,000
|
Presevation of Civil War battlefields VA
|
| Family and Children’s Agency
|
$30,000
|
Senior home care
|
| Family and Children’s Agency
|
$10,000
|
Family programs
|
| Darien Library
|
$10,000
|
Electronic audiobooks
|
| Person to Person
|
$15,000
|
Food assistance
|
| Person to Person
|
$15,000
|
Emergency services
|
| Darien Community Association
|
$2,000
|
Scholarships
|
| Darien Community Association
|
$2,000
|
General operating
|
| New Marlborough Fire and Rescue
|
$1,000
|
General operating
|
| Serious Fun Children’s Network
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| Eisenhower Foundation
|
$25,000
|
IKE Education building
|
| Nuclear Threat Initiative
|
$15,000
|
General operating
|
| Mercy Learning Center
|
$5,000
|
Literacy and life skills program
|
| Mercy Learning Center
|
$5,000
|
Early childhood education
|
| Planned Parenthood of SNE
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
| English Learner Support Services
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| Wildlife Conservation Society
|
$35,000
|
Global elephants, big cats, whales
|
| Waterside School
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
| Waterside School
|
$10,000
|
College Success Fund
|
| Wee Burn Caddie Scholarship Fund
|
$500
|
Scholarships
|
| Guiding Eyes for the Blind
|
$15,000
|
General operating
|
| The Seeing Eye
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
| Environmental Defense Fund
|
$25,000
|
General operating
|
| >Breast Cancer Alliance
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| Let’s Get Ready
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
| Center Large Landscape Conservation
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| Women’s Mentoring Network
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| Horse of CT
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| National Parks Conservation Assoc.
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| Yellowstone Forever
|
$1,000
|
General operating
|
| Carver Foundation
|
$13,000
|
Math SAT prep for 2 Norwalk HS
|
| CRIS Radio
|
$6,000
|
General operating
|
| CRIS Radio
|
$2,400
|
Stamford Hospital CRIS
|
| Family Centers
|
$2,500
|
Titan breakfast
|
| Future 5
|
$5,000
|
NCC program
|
| Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| CT Humane Society
|
$8,500
|
Families with pets in crisis
|
| CT Humane Society
|
$4,000
|
Pop-up pet food pantries
|
| Breast Cancer Alliance
|
$2,500
|
Seize the Day luncheon
|
| Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Found.
|
$217,811
|
ALZ research
|
| National Museum of Am. Indian
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
| Nuclear Threat Initiative
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
| Atlantic Salmon Federation
|
$20,000
|
General operating
|
| Spirit of America
|
$20,000
|
General operating
|
| PAWS
|
$5,000
|
Senior pet program
|
| PAWS
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| Wildlife in Crisis
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| Tiny Miracles Foundation
|
$3,000
|
Financial assistance fund
|
| NHA Foundation Scholarship Program
|
$10,000
|
Scholarships
|
| Community Fund of Darien
|
$10,000
|
Touch a Life fund
|
| HomeFront
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
| Camfed USA
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| Per Scholas
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
| Family Centers
|
$20,000
|
General operating
|
| Total Gifts | $1,371,911 |
