Marlborough Greater Together Community Fund
The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has established a $100,000 Greater Together Community Fund for the Town of Marlborough.
The purpose of the Greater Together Community Funds is to:
- support the community in taking ownership around the needs in their towns
- encourage broad and inclusive civic engagement and
- anchor the Hartford Foundation in each town.
Join Us!
The Marlborough Greater Together Community Fund Advisory Committee is growing and in search of additional committee members. Join us to give back to your community in an exciting way.
To serve on the committee, applicants must be residents of Marlborough, not serve as an elected town official, and be at least 14 years old.
If you have questions, please contact the committee at communityfund.marlborough@gmail.com
To apply online, please click here.
Marlborough Greater Together Community Fund Announces Grant Awards
In March, 2024, the following organizations were recipients of grant awards:
- AHM Youth and Family Services - $1,000 to replace books in the Here 4 You Library
- Marlborough Arts Center - $4,600 for a sustainable Art Trail
- Marlborough Education Association - $4,842 to make the Elementary School Library adaptive and inclusive
- Marlborough Food Bank - $4,500 to establish a fund for a Fuel Bank
- Hartford County 4H Camp - $4,000 towards building an Outdoor Pavilion
- Marlborough Junior Ancient Fife & Drum Corps - $3,660 to upgrade uniforms
- Marlborough Preservaton Society - $2,600 to purchase a monument commemorating the early black settlers
- Richmond Memorial Library - $7,866 to replace computers used by the public
- Marlborough Senior Housing (Florence Lord Building) - $6,000 to replace the fencing around the pond
- Team Rham Special Olympics - $1,000 for transportation & other items
A grant reporting form is available for download, here. Please respond reflectively and email completed forms to communityfund.marlborough@gmail.com.
Past Grant Awards
In November 2021, the following organizations were recipients of grant awards:
- Andover, Hebron, Marlborough Youth Services, Inc. ($3,127) - to support and broaden the CHOREs for Marlborough Seniors program
- Hartford County 4-H Camp, Inc. ($5,000) - to support the landscape issue resolution project.
- Marlborough Association for Senior Housing, Inc. (Sponsoring organization: Elderly Housing Management, Inc.,) ($9,211) - to support elevator and door upgrades at Florence S. Lord Senior Housing.
- Marlborough Food Bank Inc. ($7,284) - to support the refrigerator and freezer replacement program.
- Marlborough Historical Society ($750) - to support the cemetery walk and clean up.
- Richmond Memorial Library Association, Inc. (5,475) - to support the purchase of guided learning tablets.
Advisory Committee Members
The role of the Advisory Committee is to design and lead an inclusive process to identify the needs in your community, and design a grantmaking process aimed to ensure that the Community Funds can have the greatest impact for the benefit of town residents.
The Advisory Committee members for your town are:
Diana Cardet; Cynthia Christie; Debbie Ghirlanda; Elizabeth Keister; Christopher Richard
Click here to read the Advisory Committee Conflict of Interest Policy
For questions, please contact the Marlborough advisory committee at communityfund.marlborough@gmail.com.
For media inquiries, please contact Chris Senecal at csenecal@hfpg.org.