News & Views

Dear friends, In April, as the COVID-19 virus was radically transforming our lives and world, we shared details about the Trust’s response, which included immediately redirecting funds toward emergency COVID-19 relief in Connecticut, streamlining our grant processes and offering flexible support to our grantee partners. At that point the impact of COVID-19 was just beginning […]

Funders are increasingly recognizing that safe, decent, affordable housing as a cornerstone for progress in a variety of other areas. Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO) is a compelling example of a collaborative cross-sector funder approach to addressing the affordable housing crisis across the country. In this episode, Susan Thomas, Program Director at the Melville […]

We know housing is at the core of ending homelessness. We also know we can’t stop there.

Our latest grants to end homelessness.

Announcing our Latest Grants to End Homelessness.

The Melville Trust is one of the few family foundations that devote a large portion of grantmaking to social justice.

Details on our new grantmaking strategy that will drive our work to end homelessness.

A note from the Trust’s new Executive Director, Janice Elliott.