Community Leadership
2018
At NCCF, leadership means action, not just words. We strategically invest resources, foster vital partnerships, and champion innovative solutions to tackle our community's most critical challenges, ensuring long-term impact and well-being for all residents.
Behavioral Health Committee Launches
To build knowledge and explore opportunities in our community
2019
Community Listening
Sessions
Identify areas for collaboration and investment. Three key themes: stigma reduction, data cultivation, and increasing access to services.
2020
The COVID-19
Pandemic
Accelerated behavioral health needs. The Foundation allocated additional resources to respond, and continues to work with partner organizations to understand changing needs.
2022
New Canaan Urgent Assessment Program
Residents now have access to professional assessment for urgent behavioral health needs through Silver Hill Hospital.
2023
Community Behavioral Health Fund Launches
To shepherd the next phase of impact, focusing on a whole community approach to mental health and well-being.
Community Leadership Is Core to NCCF’s Work
The Foundation is uniquely positioned to build cross-sector partnerships, has deep expertise on local issues, and a commitment to improving the community. As an institution, we can problem solve in ways that bring people and organizations together – for impact that could not be accomplished alone. We bring resources to bear, in large part through our grantmaking, but also human capital, relationships, and influence to move the needle on important issues.
Community leadership is a tradition of local community foundations. In recent years, NCCF’s community leadership has:
Elevating Health
Elevated behavioral health efforts in our community.
Pandemic Response
Led philanthropic response to the COVID-19 pandemic, both in town and regionally
Local Partnership
Partnered and advised local government on the investment of federal ARPA dollars in our community
“The community foundation is a community partner that creates a better future for all by pursuing the community’s greatest opportunities and addressing the most critical challenges, inclusively uniting people, institutions and resources from throughout the community, and producing significant, widely shared and lasting results.”