HARTFORD — Several Connecticut organizations led by people of color, including three from Hartford, will participate in training to help them get grant funding and build organizational capacity — luxuries traditionally afforded to white-led organizations.
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation of Connecticut is leading the program with funding from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation. Hartford's Blue Hills Civic Association, San Juan Center and the Urban League of Greater Hartford will participate in the cohort with four other community development organizations from Bridgeport, New Haven and Waterbury. Leaders from each group will get funding and information on how to build capacity and capital in organizations that are often understaffed and underfunded.
"Disproportionately, nonprofit organizations led by Black and brown CEOs are funded at a lower level than organizations doing the same work led by a white individual," said David Hopkins, CEO of the Urban League of Greater Hartford. "And so that creates a level of funding gap in trying to do the same work."
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