American Savings Foundation

The American Savings Foundation operates the robert t. kenney scholarship program, which in 2022 distributed $722,115 in scholarships for 437 individual students. The Foundation has significant involvement in the program and provides additional support and guidance to scholarship applicants and recipients, such as advice on applying for financial aid and other available scholarships. In 2021, the Foundation added a scholar assistance program, in partnership with wheeler, to provide access mental health resources for our scholars. The Foundation supports a paid summer internship program, providing grant funding to local nonprofits for career-oriented internships, which are open to recipients of the Foundation's scholarship. Total internship grants in 2022 were $75,276.

As part of the American Savings Foundation support for local after school programs in the city of new britain, ct, the Foundation provides and facilitates access to a common platform for tracking program attendance. This system, cayen afterschool, is used by all the after-school programs funded by the Foundation. The platform is also used for summer enrichment programming hosted by the consolidated school district of new britain, which operates in partnership with local youth programs. Foundation staff provides training to current and new users of the system and helps support accurate reporting and analysis of the data. Over the years, the system has allowed each individual agency to significantly improve program attendance reports and allows the Foundation to track and measure the impact of after school programming. It also saves each agency the individual cost of acquiring and supporting an attendance tracking system. In addition, the Foundation provides direct support for shared tra