The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the Valley Community Foundation partner with Resilia to strengthen BIPOC-led nonprofits

Partnership to offer invited BIPOC-led and serving nonprofits across the Greater New Haven and Valley region support with organizational growth and impact

New Orleans, LA. - The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the Valley Community Foundation (CFGNH) has partnered with Resilia, a social impact organization that offers nonprofits access to their exclusive online platform and 1:1 coaching to support effectiveness, creativity, and workflow in organizations across the country.

Acknowledging the limited time, resources and specific needs of social justice and grassroots organizations, Resilia’s online platform enables on-demand access to bite-sized training and downloadable resources, along with tools for storytelling, impact capture, board development, diversity representation and compliance. The cohort also gets access to Resilia’s newly launched fundraising tool, “Funder Finder” to diversify funding sources while streamlining grant and funder research.

In parallel, all invited nonprofits get unlimited access to Resilia’s team of in-house nonprofit coaches whose expertise spans mission-facing functions like program management, advocacy, fundraising, board development and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), to back-office finance, operations, legal & HR. Given the importance of collective impact to social justice efforts, peer-to-peer learning sits at the heart of the program to enable mentorship, resource sharing and movement building.

CFGNH’s mission is to inspire, support, inform, listen to and collaborate with the people and organizations of Greater New Haven to build an ever more connected, inclusive, equitable and philanthropic community. The Valley Community Foundation partners with CFGNH to make the Valley a better place to live and work, both now and in the future, by connecting private philanthropy to the long-term public good in the Ansonia, Derby, Oxford, Seymour, and Shelton areas of Connecticut.

“The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the Valley Community Foundation are grateful for the partnership with Resilia,” says Jackie Downing, Director of Grantmaking and Nonprofit Support. “It enables us to provide a rich array of capacity-building resources to a group of grassroots organizations who would otherwise not have the same kind of access to the tools that can help them strengthen and grow. The ongoing support offered to the organizations, and the communication between the Resilia team and our foundations have created outstanding relationships.”

“We are excited about the opportunity to partner with The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, and the Valley Community Foundation to empower their change-makers on the ground and support fulfilling their mission for a more connected, inclusive and equitable philanthropic community,” says Resilia CEO and Founder Sevetri Wilson.

Through the partnership, UWGC has also joined Resilia’s flagship ELEVATE initiative, a first-of-its-kind national funders Learning & Action Network comprising more than a dozen grant-makers and aimed at elevating the capacity and voices of BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving grassroots organizations throughout the country.

More information about Resilia’s Funder Program can be found here.

The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven is a philanthropic institution that was established in 1928 as the community's permanent charitable endowment. For more than three generations, thousands of donors have built our community endowment by establishing permanent funds or making gifts to existing funds that distribute grants to a broad variety of issues and organizations. These donors, past and present, make their gifts to ensure that programs and causes that matter most to them will be supported today and forever. The Community Foundation is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the United States and remains the largest grantmaker in the twenty-town region located in the heart of south-central Connecticut.

The Valley Community Foundation
The mission of the Valley Community Foundation (VCF) is to make the Valley a better place to live and work, both now and in the future, by connecting private philanthropy to the long-term public good of the Valley. VCF is committed to providing leadership on critical community issues encouraging and engaging people to play a role in improving the Valley's quality of life, increasing philanthropy, which lifts our entire region, attracting and making grants from permanent endowed funds, connecting donors with vital nonprofit organizations, and managing and growing the endowments of non-profit organizations.

About Resilia
Founded in 2016, Resilia is a Black-led organization that leverages a combination of technology & human touch to help nonprofits and change-makers build capacity and elevate stories. Resilia’s Funder Program enables grantors (foundations, corporations, and cities) to empower their nonprofit partners with on-demand technical assistance and capacity support that meets them where they are.

To learn more about the program, please reach out to Tamara Zeidan, Senior Director of Institutional Partnerships at tamara.zeidan@resilia.com.