2025
Annual Report
Our Mission
Advancing Connecticut Together (ACT), with its partners, addresses the root causes of poverty, addiction and health inequities through strength-based services and advocacy to ensure all people in Connecticut have equitable resources necessary to achieve multi-generational health, wealth and happiness.
We see a future whereby our neighbors thrive in an equitable society.
A Message from our CEO
Our 2025 Annual Report is a reflection of the collective impact we’ve made over the past year. Every number in this report represents lives transformed, communities strengthened, and futures made more secure through our partnerships and programs.
Throughout 2025, we continued our commitment to (1) engage and empower people across Connecticut to secure their financial future; (2) create sustainable, accessible systems that eliminate health disparities, especially HIV/AIDS; (3) provide vital sexual health education and prevention services; and (4) facilitate stable housing and reduction of homelessness through financial assistance, data analysis, and comprehensive training.
While we stay grounded in our mission, we also embrace growth and innovation. We continuously evolve our outreach and programming, guided by a single goal: to make Connecticut a place where everyone can thrive—in health, wealth, and happiness.
To our partners, supporters, and community members—thank you for walking alongside us on this ever-changing, inspiring journey.
P.S. Big changes are coming in 2026, including my retirement!
Asset Building
We equip and empower all people in Connecticut to build a secure future.
- Financial Education
- Training & Workshops
- Financial Coaching
- Free Tax Preparation
- Promote Safe Banking
HIV Care Services
We build sustainable systems dedicated to eliminating health disparities.
- Case Management
- Drop-in Wellness Center
- Housing Support
- Quality Assurance
- Financial Assistance
Prevention & Outreach
We address sexual health issues for communities throughout Connecticut.
- Sexual Health Education
- Counseling & Testing
- PrEP Referrals
- Community Outreach
- Linkage to Care
Homelessness Services
We transform the lives of the unhoused by providing vital rental assistance.
- Data Analysis
- Systems Coordination
- Training Academy
- Rental & Security Deposit Assistance
(1) Asset Building
In 2025, ACT’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, with 571 volunteers at 56 sites, helped people file 13,793 returns. Participants received refunds totaling $13 million while saving $4.1 million in tax prep fees.
Our Connecticut Money School held 103 classes with 17 community partners, enabling 862 individuals to take control of their financial futures, learn about budgeting, grow their savings, build credit and manage debt.
The Returning Citizens program held 52 classes with the cooperation of 6 community partners. 465 clients in the re-entry community attended classes focused on preventing soon-to-be released individuals from struggling with money or other financial issues.
(2) HIV Care Services
ACT provided 141 HIV+ clients with medical case management and assisted 73 clients with services upon release from incarceration. Our drop-in center provided 94 clients with 3,506 food services (meals/vouchers) and provided psychosocial support to 82 clients.
Our Client Assistance Fund helped 184 clients with medical transportation, 23 with health insurance assistance, and 116 with emergency financial assistance. Our Housing Assistance Fund helped 99 clients maintain their housing and assisted 2 with housing placement.
A new program, Advancing Futures, began to offer employment navigation and professional development for people living with HIV who are considering employment.
(3) Prevention
In 2025, there were 135 HIV tests conducted and 94 HCV tests. 63 individuals were screened for PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), a prescription medicine that reduces the risk of getting HIV, 44 were eligible and 3 received referrals.
The CT Community Distribution Center Program, a warehouse funded by the Department of Public Health, processed 656 orders in 2025. We distributed 371,625 condoms and 111,340 prevention supplies to providers. Although the CT Community Distribution Center program and harm reduction activities (including syringe services and overdose prevention) came to a close at the end of 2025, we remain dedicated to providing comprehensive prevention and outreach services.
(4) Homelessness Services
The Rapid Re-Housing Program is centered on the idea that people are much more likely to find success when they are no longer in a stressful crisis situation. In 2025, we distributed $8,458,703 in funding to return 1,095 individuals and families back into housing and stability.
ACT served as the lead agency for the Connecticut Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), which collects and tracks services to those who are at-risk and/or homeless in Connecticut. We also took the lead in a partnership to provide programmatic monitoring, TA and training to all state-funded housing providers through the newly created CT Housing & Homeless Training Academy, an initiative funded by CT DMHAS and CT DOH.
CT Early Childhood Alliance
Fiscally sponsored by ACT, The Connecticut Early Childhood Alliance is a statewide organization committed to improving the outcomes of learning, health, safety, and economic security for children aged birth to eight and their families and caregivers. Our goal is for all children in Connecticut to enter kindergarten healthy, eager to learn, and ready for school success.
Keep the Promise Coalition
Fiscally sponsored by ACT, Keep the Promise is Connecticut's leading, community-driven voice on mental health. We organize our community to disrupt power and speak up for our needs. We prioritize community-based supports, which are designed and led by peers with lived experience of distress, trauma, psychiatric oppression, and different ways of being.
Other Partner Initiatives
ACT provided essential fiscal support to The Shawn Lang Task Force for the Connecticut AIDS Memorial, a tribute to those who have died, and are dying, from AIDS related illnesses. We also provided backbone fiscal support to The Connecticut LGBTQ+ Justice and Opportunity Network and continued to participate in the Governor’s Hate Crimes Commission.
Statement of Activities
| Grants | $13,335,325 |
| Contributions | $1,938,540 |
| In-kind contributions | $708,422 |
| Interest income | $18,201 |
| Investment income, net of fees | $58,429 |
| Miscellaneous income | $263,399 |
| Net assets released from restrictions | $550,550 |
| TOTAL SUPPORT & REVENUES | $16,872,866 |
| Change in net assets without donor restrictions | $1,707,089 |
| Changes in net assets with donor restrictions: | |
| Contributions | $339,000 |
| Net assets released from restrictions | ($550,550) |
| Change in net assets with donor restrictions | ($221,550) |
| Change in net assets | $1,495,539 |
| Net assets, beginning of year | $3,789,976 |
| Net assets, end of year | $5,285,515 |
| Financial Assistance | $9,003,689 |
| HIV Services | $2,046,904 |
| Financial Empowerment | $1,212,146 |
| Sponsored Programs | $804,369 |
| Quality Assurance | $970,070 |
| Other Programs | $103,627 |
| Management and General | $915,853 |
| Fundraising | $109,119 |
| TOTAL EXPENSES | $15,165,777 |
