As a community-based organization, we want to focus attention on local and regional groups doing good work where we live.

These organizations (most of which are registered 501(c)3 non-profits) are doing great work in our community - and in some cases, beyond:

• Calvin Hill Day Care Center - Calvin Hill Day Care Center is a preschool and kindergarten program affiliated with Yale University.

• Nicole Donzello Foundation, Inc. - Provides need-based financial grants to adult and pediatric leukemia patients and their families at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven

• Safe from Online Sex Abuse (SOSA) - Fights online child sex abuse through partnerships with schools, technology companies, and law enforcement

• Connecticut Bail Fund - Provides a variety of services to reduce the harms of criminalization, incarceration, and deportation, including bail funds for the criminal legal, and immigration systems

• Continuum of Care - Based in New Haven, CoC provides comprehensive services to enable community integration for individuals with mental illness, intellectual disabilities, and those with co-occurring substance abuse disorder.

• Food2Kids Orange - Volunteer-based charitable initiative working to feed school children who have little or no food resources when away from school

• IRIS (Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services) - Provides services in New Haven to help asylum seekers, asylees, and other immigrants that need assistance stabilizing their families, and support for long-term integration

• Jamie Hulley Arts Foundation - Provides educational and career development opportunities in the arts through its educational programs for schools, scholarship programs, community projects, early career awards, and legacy awards in memory of Jamie Hulley - both in the BOWA community’s schools and beyond.

• The Orange Foundation - The Orange Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 1976 to receive contributions from local residents and to distribute the earnings on those donations to local recipients as scholarships or grants. In a typical year, they distribute $15,000 in scholarships to local students attending college and $15,000 in grants to local community groups.

• Orange Youth Services - Orange Youth Services strives to promote positive growth and support for children, youth, and their families, while providing fun and educational programming.

• Women & Families Center (WFC) - Provides a variety of programs to support families, including before and after school programs, services to youth and young adult that are unhoused (or at risk for becoming so), sexual assault crisis services, and free employment training for low-income high schoolers

• Youth Continuum - Offers a comprehensive array of services for youth experiencing homelessness in Connecticut