Windham Regional Community Council, Inc.

Windham Regional Community Council, Inc., a Connecticut-based nonprofit organization, serves as a federal grant recipient addressing homelessness and food-system equity in eastern Connecticut through HUD and USDA funding. The organization operates as a prime recipient on community development and social service grants (67% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient on child nutrition programs (33%), with no federal contract work in its portfolio.

Windham Regional Community Council is a tax-exempt corporate entity headquartered in Willimantic, Connecticut. Its federal grant footprint centers on two core program areas. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development funds the majority of activity — 32 awards across the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267), which supports permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, homeless management information systems (HMIS), and homelessness prevention for persons experiencing housing instability in the Windham region. Recent CoC awards include a $607,044 Project Grant for the period July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027; a $511,248 award covering July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025; and awards dating back to at least fiscal 2022, representing an annual cycle of HUD funding. The Department of Agriculture provides the secondary customer base — 17 awards through the Food and Nutrition Service and 2 awards through the Agricultural Marketing Service. The Food and Nutrition Service awards consist of sub-recipient allocations from the Connecticut Department of Education for child nutrition programs, including Cash-In-Lieu/Commodities Child Care Food Program (CCFP) and Child Nutrition Program Block Consolidated awards, with distributions in October 2021 through May 2026. A single Agriculture-funded prime grant of $325,007 from the Agricultural Marketing Service (awarded October 31, 2021, completing October 30, 2023) supported the "Rooting Deep and Scaling Up" partnership for food system equity and viability in eastern Connecticut, convening producers, nonprofits, and community stakeholders to strengthen regional food system resilience and expand markets for small-scale producers.

Combined obligated dollars across all prime and sub awards total $9.9 million. Activity has recently accelerated — one award in 2025 but seven awards in 2026 — with only one award completing within the next twenty-four months, indicating stable funding runway. The organization's award portfolio reflects concentrated reliance on HUD's CoC program, which accounts for the entirety of prime grant activity, while Child Care Food Program sub-awards provide operational support for nutrition services in the region.