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  • 09/17 Friday
    Community Dinner
    6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
    09/18 Saturday
    Birdwatching
    10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    Pollinator Walk
    1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
    09/21 Tuesday
    Astronomy | Fall Equinox
    7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
    09/23 Thursday
    Birdwatching
    10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    Pollinator Walk
    1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Community Dinner

Sep 17, 2021
6:00 PM–7:30 PM
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Community

Community

Community

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Change is built by community, and
systemic change is sustained by community.

 

We provide a warm, welcoming environment that fosters meaningful community among people of all ages, backgrounds, and interests. With Grace Farms as an essential platform for our work, the Community Initiative offers programmatic gathering spaces, a diverse range of self-directed recreational and social activities, and opportunities for individuals and not-for-profits to come together to foster unity, forge new relationships and ideas, and advance good in the world.

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Cross-sector thought leaders engaged for the launch of our Impact and Innovation series (The Atlantic Philanthropies, Global Innovation Fund, Give Directly, Impact Fairfield County, Warby Parker)

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Mission-aligned partner organizations, including not-for-profits, government agencies, and quasi-governmental agencies, engaged through Space Grants in 2019

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Annual visits to the Court for free unstructured recreational basketball and pickleball

 

Featured Programs and Perspectives

Against the Grain

Watch the Series

Against the Grain is a series of videos created to raise awareness about the ongoing issue of food insecurity and highlight organizations that are achieving profound change through innovative strategies and collaborative models.

Inspiring Allyship for Asian American Communities

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This interdisciplinary conversation discusses how we can all work to build awareness around anti-Asian discrimination, identify ways to make a difference, and come together as a community to create lasting social change.

The Future of Food is Before Us

Read our Perspective

We all have an opportunity to create a more just, a more equitable, a more inclusive, and a more accessible food system. Community Initiative Director, Karen Kariuki, shares Grace Farms' commitment to fostering a more nourishing world of food sovereignty.

Our Approach

We believe that change is best catalyzed in community.

Community & Not-for-Profit Support

We invite our community to gather, support, and engage through private and public programming, working sessions, service projects, support with strategic resources, and action groups to advance good within and across sectors and communities.

We are also committed to supporting those at the front lines of service through the provision of hopeful spaces to advance their work and access to new models of social change.

 

Space Grants

Grace Farms provides a platform for not-for-profits, offering a supportive place for organizations to foster new partnerships, actively participate in the Foundation's programming, and advance their work by utilizing meeting space.

Caring for Community

Our Caring for Community series consists of three different programs, developed in collaboration with organizations and professionals that focus on well-being, to provide ongoing support for our community.

Leveraging Social Media to Advance Your Mission

The New York Times Social Media Editor Sona Patel discusses how not-for-profits can use social media most effectively. Learn about the various platforms, understand the opportunities and challenges presented by each, and discover how to ethically and effectively use social media to advance your mission.

 

 

Fostering Civil Communities

We embrace the intertwined texture of community. In a world that can feel increasingly siloed, we imagine community in a new way.

By engaging diverse audiences and putting them in proximity to some of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time, we seek to foster communities that are civil, communities that flourish, and communities that are inclusive of all – with the goal of generating thought and action toward sustained social impact.

Connection, Isolation, and the Role of Social Media

New York Times Social Media Editor Sona Patel joined Grace Farms Foundation’s Community Initiative Director Karen Kariuki for a conversation about the role that social media plays in communities, its implications on our ability to connect with one another, and the importance of social media ethics.

The Start of Change: Addressing Racism

We are partnering with New Canaan Library, New Canaan Museum & Historical Society, New Canaan Community Foundation, and the Interfaith Council of New Canaan to co-host a six-part series addressing our community’s understanding of race and racism.

Addressing Gender Equality & Making Space for Women

What does it mean to make space for women? To bolster the strength and voice of women and girls? Community Initiative Director Karen Kariuki discusses the importance of addressing gender inequalities.

 

 

Impact and Innovation

Our Impact and Innovation series, launched in 2019, engages with leaders across sectors to explore collaborative models that pursue innovative strategies while achieving profound social change. Through this series, philanthropic participants can identify new ways of investing, private sector participants can identify new models of collaboration, and not-for-profits can determine ways to effectively pivot and modify sustainability strategies.

Anchoring & Amplifying: Innovative Philanthropic Model

In an evolving world of philanthropy, Grace Farms Foundation is a new and noteworthy model, serving to advance good in the world through two distinct, but interconnected pathways: its strategic areas of focus and the platform of space itself.

Driving Social Good at the Intersection of Innovation and Impact

What if innovation alone is not sufficient? What if, in fact, we should consider factors beyond innovation as we seek to advance social good? Community Initiative Director Karen Kariuki discusses the launch of our Impact and Innovation series.

Where Innovation and Impact Connect

In November 2019, we hosted a conversation featuring organizations at the local, state, national, and international level that stand out as best-in-class exemplars of how to drive social good considering both impact and innovation.

Our Impact

By fostering a community that is reflective of all, we are building a pipeline of both thought and action to advance good, together.

The work inspired by our Community Initiative and its partners through classes, retreats, trainings, and collective impact seminars has generated bold ideas, created unique collaborations, and advanced strategic missions.

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Individuals provided with healthy meals through our Relief Fund for Connecticut, increasing food security for some of Fairfield County's most vulnerable populations

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People from 50 not-for-profits and 24 social enterprises and businesses engaged in the inaugural Impact and Innovation panel discussion

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Programs hosted for not-for-profits through our Space Grants program

2020

Established the Grace Farms Relief Fund for Connecticut in response to the COVID-19 crisis, collaborating with a network of partners to provide PPE to healthcare workers across the state and healthy meals for vulnerable populations in Fairfield County.

2019

Scaled the Space Grants program to include more national and international organizations, including eight organizations with global reach.

2018

Invited retired U.S. Army General Wesley K. Clark, in partnership with the New Canaan Library, to discuss global policy and America's potential for growth and leadership.

2017

Launched our Gifting for Good program to support those in need during the winter season. Together with our community partners, we assemble care pacakges of essential items and distribute them through our not-for-profit partners.

2016

We honored the 15th anniversary of 9/11 with Voices Center for Resilience, one of our not-for-profit partners that works with public and private partners to promote healing and resiliency in the lives of those impacted by traumatic events.

2015

Grace Farms opened on October 9 with a community opening weekend and welcomed 5,000 participants. Two weeks later, we launched our not-for-profit Space Grants program.

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