$18.7M in expenses

In 2024, we invested in access to early childhood education, affordable housing, and economic opportunity:1) early childhood education/childcare: supporting expanding childcare incubators in five cities; building sector advocacy infrastructure; research regarding challenges to childcare access; educator professional development organizing capacity building support to child care advocacy organizations.

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2) housing: supporting a pre-development revolving loan fund; data strategic planning support for a housing-focused cohort; state housing voucher study to identify areas for improvement, tenants' rights advocacy, and the implementation of a housing opportunity and capacity building organization in eastern connecticut.

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3) economic opportunity: making government more responsive to the people by establishing, through tobin center for economic policy, a data scientist in the CT medicaid program to better connect medicaid clients to programs and services. Pilot the use of community navigators & care coordination to increase access to public benefits; support for implementation of CT waiver for re-entry medicaid enrollment project; support for office of workforce strategy's data capacity and quality jobs framework.