The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education in Bridgeport will award $6 million in grants, providing grants to 43 local Fairfield County programs. The charity announced its plans to dissolve and distribute its considerable assets earlier this year.
“We wish we could have gone back and given funds to everyone we have supported over the years – about 200 grantees over 30 years,” said Executive Director Karen Barry Schwarz, “but that was not feasible. We looked at those grantees that we regularly supported over the last 10 years or so and chose carefully from a large group of proposals. We’re delighted that our donors’ funds will be doing good in Fairfield County for many years to come and, in some cases, in perpetuity.”
In a closing statement to donors, Schwarz added, “For almost three decades, The Inner-City Foundation, with your help, has helped to feed the hungry, house the homeless and educate those living in poverty in Fairfield County, granting $38 million to 200 local programs over the last 30 years. It has been our distinct honor, and our mission, to help families in need, helping to construct with them a path to a better future. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for supporting us and our friends in need over all these years. We hope you will continue the good work we began together.”
For more, visit innercityfoundation.org.
