2021 Grants and Donations Recipients

The following organizations received over $200,000 in total from the Exchange Club of New Canaan in 2021:

What was done with our grants

  • Educated, Equipped and counseled parents to prevent child abuse and neglect in lower Fairfield county
  • Provide summer courses for a better chance scholars attending New Canaan High School
  • Buying and renovating a home in support men being treated for drug and alcohol addiction and returning the men to their families usefully whole
  • Renovating residence to help the hungry, homeless, and addicted
  • Pre-HS summer STEM classes as start of a college-preparatory education, academic and life skills to inner-city youths
  • Public Transportation in New Canaan for seniors and adults who are unable to drive.
  • Providing individuals and families with Emergency Assistance / utilities for food, clothes, layettes, and some emergency financial aid in lower Fairfield county
  • A Psychologist working with Children suffering from physical and sexual abuse.
  • Delivering of meals to seniors and the disabled in New Canaan
  • Effort to break the cycle Crime, Violence, and incarceration by providing client-centered intervention and support services
  • Assisting Refugees and immigrants with legal support and assistance finding jobs
  • Consulting Services for therapeutic services for children and adults with emotional, physical, developmental, and social needs
  • Service to help Child and adolescent recover from trauma and abuse

Attached is a presentation that Donna Miller, Executive Director of the Exchange Club Parenting Skills Center made to the Exchange Club on February 21, 2017

Here is a video with Pivot Ministries, one of our grant recipients