A brighter future. You can do more than just wish for it.

Fund for the Dixwell Community
House
$66,845
Est. 1992 by gifts from friends for
support of the neighborhood
center’s many activities for youth
and residents.
Robert B. & Isabella E. Dodds Fund
$390,055
Est. 1981 as a Donor Advised Fund.
Robert B. Dodds Estate Fund
$687,411
Est. 1996 by the estate of Robert B.
Dodds for the benefit of Boys Scouts
of America, Quinnipiac Council;
Boys and Girls Club of New Haven;
Central CT Coast YMCA; First
Church of Christ in Woodbridge;
Gaylord Hospital; Georgia Tech
Foundation; Girl Scouts of America,
CT Trails Council; Jr. Achievement of
South Central Connecticut; New
Haven Kiwanis Club; Quinnipiac
College Scholarship Fund; University
of New Haven; Yale-New Haven
Hospital; Yale University
Scholarship Fund.
Grace Donahue & Doris Feldman
Fund #1
$474,891
Est. 1993 by testamentary trust of
Doris Feldman for the testing
of Hamden children ages 2‒7 to
determine any learning or emotional
disorders or for the treatment and
rehabilitation of these children.
Grace Donahue & Doris Feldman
Fund #2
$1,184,401
Est. 1993 by bequest of Grace
Donahue for testing Hamden
children ages 2‒7 to determine any
learning or emotional disorders or for
the treatment and rehabilitation of
these children or to help handicapped
Hamden children.
Karen & Harold Donegan Fund
$13,634
Est. 2004 for the benefit of programs
in the Greater New Haven
region designed to help people with
mental illness.
Clarence Doolittle Fund
$309,782
Est. 1967 by bequest of Helen R.
Doolittle, in memory of her husband,
to consider the needs served by the
Yale Hope Mission.
David Doolittle Fund
$16,382
Est. 1946 by gift of Clarence L.
Doolittle, in memory of his son,
for an award to a West Haven
High School student for academic
achievement, preferably in
American history.
Frances C. Doolittle Fund
$294,674
Est. 2000 by bequest to support
programs benefiting children and
youth in the Greater New Haven
community.
Brian D’Orso Scholarship Fund
$35,784
Est. 2003 by friends from Amity
Senior High School.
New Haven Downtown Recovery Fund
Est. 2007 at the behest of the City of
New Haven, the Town Green
Special Services District, downtown
area businesses and non-profit
organizations, and concerned
residents to provide support to
individuals and families affected by
the fire that took place on 12
December 2007, on the block
bounded by Chapel, Center, Orange
and Church Streets in downtown
New Haven.
Elizabeth Doyle Memorial
Scholarship Fund
$139,791
Est. 1985 by bequest for students
studying to be teachers, preferably
from North Haven.
East Rock Institute Endowment Fund
$53,321
Est. 2006 for the benefit of the East
Rock Institute Inc.
Friends of East Rock Park Fund
$18,345
Est. 1998 by transfer of assets by The
Friends of East Rock Park.
Arthur & Margaret Ebbert Memorial
Fund
$160,012
Est. 1993 by gift of Arthur Ebbert Jr.
in memory of his parents.
Ecology, Environment & Alternative
Energy Research Prize Fund
Est. 2006 to benefit the New Haven
Citywide Science Fair, run by Yale
and the New Haven Public Schools,
for the purpose of awarding prizes for
projects that focus on ecology, the
environment or energy alternatives
that would improve the environment.
Edgerton Park Conservancy Fund
$34,426
Est. 2003 by the Edgerton Park
Conservancy.
The Edwin & Maye Edmonds
Scholarship Fund
$43,835
Est. 2001 by Edwin R. Edmonds as
an endowed scholarship fund for
the purpose of providing college
scholarships, based on financial need,
to single parents and grandparents
who have deferred their own studies
in order to help raise their children
and grandchildren.
Education Fund
$12,220
Est. 1981 to support education.
H.R. Edwards M.D. Fund
$56,565
Est. 2006 for the benefit of Trinity
School, New York, New York.
Robert R. & Anita Brand Eisner Fund
Est. 1984 as a Donor Advised Fund.
Helmer N. Ekstrom Fund
$21,334
Est. 1994 by donations made by the
community to honor the work of
former Foundation executive director
Helmer Ekstrom. The Fund will
support endeavors that recognize and
build on the capacity of citizens
to help themselves and their
communities or the practice of
philanthropy.
T H E C O M M U N I T Y F O U N D AT I O N F O R G R E AT E R N E W H AV E N 2 0 0 7 A N N U A L R E P O R T
12 13
F U N D S : 2 0 0 7