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Staff of Brooker Memorial review a report together.

Staff of Brooker Memorial. Brooker is a long-standing grantee partner of FCH, through their School-Based Oral Health Program which serves several school districts in Litchfield County.

Photo by Anne Day.

How we learn

Our evaluation tools center the experiences, expertise, and goals of the nonprofits we partner with. We utilize surveys to understand the impact of our unrestricted funding, hold conversations in lieu of written reports, and track key metrics that we believe the strategies of the foundation can be attributed to.

Learning & Results

Members of the Litchfield County Opiate Task Force, a collaborative effort in northwest Connecticut. FCH provided seed funding to staff the task force which currently is sustiaining its operations through federal funding.

Photo by Anne Day.

How we’re improving

We measure our effectiveness as a trust-based funder through an annual Grantee Perception Survey to understand how our grantee partners perceive our processes and approach to partnership. We regularly identify and share how we’re looking to improve and where we’re making changes.

Ways We’re Improving

Health& is a series designed to explore the ways health influences every aspect of our lives and how our life circumstances impact our health. We offer this series to spark conversation, encourage new thinking, and inform decision making at the local level.

Photo courtesy of Jordan Schmidt.

October 15, 2023

HEALTH & NUTRITION SECURITY

Food is the most basic of human needs; still, roughly 41 million adults and children across America live in food-insecure households — a staggering fact that sheds light on one of the nation’s leading health and nutrition issues.
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Photo courtesy of Foundation for Norfolk Living.

June 28, 2023

HEALTH & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

The single biggest indicator of a thriving community is residents who take an active role in the process of cultivating positive change. From voting to volunteering, engaging in the community allows individuals to both develop and use knowledge, skills, and voice to shape the environment in which they choose to live, work, and raise their families. 
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December 21, 2022

HEALTH & AFFORDABLE HOUSING

As more people experience the burden of severe housing costs, a dangerous spiral ensues — one where more children are living in poverty; more neighbors don’t know where their next meal will come from; and more community members are in poor health.
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Explore Our Publications

Addressing Gender-Based Violence at its Roots

Despite decades of crisis intervention, policy advancement, and funding for crisis services, domestic violence continues to affect a shockingly large proportion of the population.

Health Profession Rural Summer Immersion Program

Facing critical health care professional shortages in its rural region, FCH spearheaded the creation of a low-cost “pipeline” program to encourage health…

Addressing northwest Connecticut’s Addiction Crisis

Addiction, a chronic illness that changes brain chemistry, disproportionately impacts rural communities, in part, due to insufficient: prevention outreach; addiction treatment and other health care resources…

Improving Children’s Oral Health

In an effort to stem the tide of untreated tooth decay, FCH has invested in school-based oral health preventative services since its inception. More than 7,000 children…