YOUR Community Foundation
Enriching the quality of life in the Northwest Corner for 50 plus years.
NCCF's demographic report highlights local population trends and statistics in employment, housing and healthcare in our Northwest CT communities.
Nonprofits
The Alliance has released the 2025 Compensation and Benefits Report.
Students
More than $200,000 in scholarships are available for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Nonprofits
Grants are available throughout the year through the generosity of fundholders and donors.
Deadline: April 30, 2025 ›
Donors
Women & Girls Fund invites you to Together We Blossom at the Litchfield Community Center May 30th.
In 2024 NCCF funds awarded $4,420,946 in grants and scholarships, providing warm beds and nutritious meal for struggling families, enabling access to education, conserving natural spaces, supporting arts, and so much more.
Grants will help provide the most basic of necessities–food, warm clothing and shelter to our most vulnerable neighbors.
Grants benefit residents of NCCF's 20-town service area, empowering nonprofits through strategic giving for arts and culture, civic engagement, education, health, social services, and environmental stewardship.
NCCF donors and fundholders provide Northwest CT nonprofits millions of dollars in grants, and award more than $200,000 in scholarships to local students each year.
Northwest Conservation District received support through the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund in 2025 to expand garden programs at Beardsley and Memorial Library, including a blueberry patch and adult gardening group.
Riverton Theatre received support in 2024 to address critical needs—food, warm clothing, and shelter through the generosity of the Northwest CT Community Foundation Roberta Lee August Fund, Draper Foundation Fund, Making Cents Fund, Marion Wm. and Alice Edwards Fund, PLK Fund, Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund, and the Anson and Caroline Catlin Hungerford Trust;
In 2025, Connecticut Voices for Children received support from the Northwest CT Community Foundation Carlton D. Fyler and Jenny R. Fyler Fund.
Riverton Congregational Church received support in 2024 to address critical needs—food, warm clothing, and shelter through the generosity of the Northwest CT Community Foundation Roberta Lee August Fund, Draper Foundation Fund, Making Cents Fund, Marion Wm. and Alice Edwards Fund, PLK Fund, Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund, and the Anson and Caroline Catlin Hungerford Trust;
Riverton Theatre received support in 2024 from the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund for the purchase of a lighting system;
Hands of Grace received flexible support in 2024 from the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund;
In 2024, support from the Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund was awarded for the 2025 Earth Day Festival and the 10th anniversary celebration of the Barkhamsted Conservation Commission.
In 2024, the Barkhamsted Center Cemetery Association received support through the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund to assist with cemetery wall cap repairs and replacement (Phase 1).
The Barkhamsted Historical Society, in 2024, received support through the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund to assist with repairs and maintenance for Merrill Tavern and Center Schoolhouse, including shutters, heat pumps, and reroofing an outbuilding.
The Barkhamsted Housing Trust received support in 2024 through the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund to cover carrying costs for one year for the Mallory View housing project and the cost of a sewer pump station and generator to connect to existing sewer lines.
In 2024, the Barkhamsted Youth Baseball League received support through the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund for new baseball and softball batting cages at the Riverton Ballfield.
CT State Community College Northwestern received support through the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund in 2024 to create a documentary film showcasing student research on James Chaugham, a Narragansett man who escaped servitude in Rhode Island and made a home in Barkhamsted.
In 2024, the First Congregational Church of Barkhamsted received support through the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund to assist with site work and building improvements to mitigate exterior water drainage issues.
Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church received support through the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund in 2024 to assist with repairs and renovation of the Community Food Bank.
In 2024, the Union Agricultural Society of Barkhamsted, Colebrook, and Hartland received support through the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund to assist with repairs and maintenance of the Riverton Fair grounds, including tree removal, gutter installation, and painting.
Northwest CT Food Hub received support through their 2024 NCCF Northwest Corner Gives campaign to provide food to those in need throughout the Northwest Corner;
In 2024, Litchfield County Center for Housing Opportunity/The Housing Collective received support through their NCCF Northwest Corner Gives campaign to help house those in need throughout Northwest CT;
In 2024, thirteen Barkhamsted students were awarded scholarships from the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund;
In 2023, the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund supported the Barkhamsted Historical Society in their preservation projects of the Merrill Tavern and Barkhamsted Center Schoolhouse;
In 2023, the Town of Barkhamsted was granted support from the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund for a feasibility study of a pedestrian bridge across the Farmington River;
In 2023, the Barkhamsted Center Cemetery Association received support from the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund for a water system upgrade and lawn renewal;
In 2023, the Barkhamsted Youth Baseball League was supported by the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund for the construction of a new snack shack with bathrooms at the Riverton Ballfields;
In 2023, the Connecticut State Grange Foundation, Inc. received support from the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund for bathroom repairs and renovations at Riverton Grange Hall;
In 2023, the First Congregational Church of Barkhamsted received support from the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund for replacing parsonage oil tanks and for the exterior painting of the church;
In 2023, the Friends of American Legion and Peoples State Forests were supported by a grant from the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund for a documentary film in celebration of the 100th anniversary of People's State Forest;
In 2023, the Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church was granted support from the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund for roof replacement;
In 2023, the Riverton Theatre was supported by the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund for the purchase of a shed for storing sets and costumes;
In 2023, a grant from the Northwest CT Community Foundation Pierpont Chapter #49 Order of Eastern Star Fund supported the mission of Housatonic Youth Service Bureau;
In 2023, a grant from the Northwest CT Community Foundation Buchanan Fund supported the mission of Housatonic Valley Association;
In 2023, grants from the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund supported the Barkhamsted Historical Society’s Merrill Tavern and Barkhamsted Center Schoolhouse preservation projects and assisted First Congregational Church of Barkhamsted in the cost of exterior painting of the church, including belfry and window shutters;
In 2022, through a grant from the Northwest CT Community Foundation Elson-Slemmer Fund for the Environment, The Friends of the American Legion and People's State Forest purchased lumber to finish rerouting the Agnes Bowen Trail;
In 2021, the Northwest CT Community Foundation Douglas and Janet Roberts Fund provided a grant to aid in the repair of the roof of Squire's Tavern, a historic building that serves as a museum and the Barkhamsted Historical Society headquarters, and provided a grant to the First Congregational Church of Barkhamsted to support the cost of repairs in order to reopen the basement level community meeting hall for public use.
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Founded in 1969
NCCF transforms lives and strengthens communities in Northwest Connecticut by connecting donors who care with causes that matter.
NCCF has granted more than $50 million to area non-profits and scholarship recipients, making a meaningful difference for the homeless and hungry, for our libraries, our schools, our churches, and our environment.
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