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Request for Proposals (RFP)
for Architectural Services

Request for Proposals (RFP) – Advocacy to Legacy, Inc.

Home Roots Initiative

AMENDED: August 20, 2025
Submission Deadlines: EXTENDED September 23, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.

Submission Contact & Address:
Violette Haldane, Executive Director
Advocacy to Legacy, Inc
860-930-2508
Advocacy2Legacy@gmail.com

**Proposals will be accepted in electronic form only.***

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112 Cottage Grove Rd
Bloomfield, CT

Request for Proposals (RFP)
for Community Engagement & Marketing

Request for Proposals (RFP) – Advocacy to Legacy, Inc.

Home Roots Initiative

Date: July 29, 2025
Submission Deadlines: August 26, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.

Submission Contact & Address:
Violette Haldane, Executive Director
Advocacy to Legacy, Inc
860-930-2508
Advocacy2Legacy@gmail.com

**Proposals will be accepted in electronic form only.***

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

  • Is there a confirmed or anticipated start date for the project following proposal selection and contract execution? The start date is as soon as a consultant is chosen. Hopefully by early Fall 2025
  • What is the estimated budget that should be used for budgeting purposes? $65-70K
  • Are there any preferred formats or templates for submitting the CHRO Contract Compliance Form beyond the standard PDF available online? No
  • Will Advocacy to Legacy Inc. provide access to existing business owner profiles, local community data or prior engagement reports to inform the needs assessment and strategy development? No prior data was collected or engagement reports done. Businesses in the building are available to speak to contractors based on availability.

OUR MISSION

Educating individuals, families and communities on how to advocate for themselves to change lives and leave a legacy.

We do this through

  • One on one discussions/coaching/interviews

  • Classes or workshops on various topics

  • Community conversations on specific topics

  • Facilitation of focus groups for community input

  • Community Surveys and data analysis

  • Photovoice (A method to collect data/ information from groups who would not normally participate in a focus group to share their thoughts and experiences.)

  • Seminars on how specific local communities’ governments works, including the process on how to change the law

  • Support of other organizations in their advocacy or community work.

Advocacy

  • Ability to speak up to express a thought, idea or position

  • Act or process of supporting a cause or proposal: the act or process of advocating something

  • Activity by an individual or group that aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions

Friends, Partners and Supporters

  • AARP
  • Access Health
  • America Walks
  • American Cancer Society
  • American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
  • American Lung Society
  • Ascend Pipeline
  • BiCiCo
  • Blue Hills Civic Assoc
  • BUSY Radio
  • City of Hartford
  • Colored Hemisphere
  • Columbia Univ
  • Community Coalition
  • CONNECT
  • CREC
  • Cricket Hall of Fame
  • Ct Children’s Hospital
  • Ct Clearinghouse Tobacco Merchant & Bcomm.
  • CT Health Foundation
  • Ct Urbanist
  • Fees, Fines Justice Center
  • Friends of Keney Park
  • Frog Hollow NRZ
  • Greater Hartford African American Alliance
  • Greater Hartford Harm reduction
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Hartford Food Policy Commission
  • Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
  • Hartford Health Initiative
  • Hartford HealthCare
  • Hartford NEXT
  • Hartford Public Library
  • Hartford Public Public Access TV
  • Hartford Public Schools
  • Hartford Votes
  • Hispanic Federation
  • Impact Academy
  • Intercommunity
  • Kamoras Cultural Center
  • Katal Center
  • Keney Park Sustainability Project
  • Liberty Bank
  • MATCH Coalition
  • MPACT
  • Mr. Pizza
  • National Alliance of Mental Illness
  • National Assoc for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  • Nonprofit Accountability Group
  • North Hartford Ascend Pipeline
  • North Hartford Ascend Pipeline
  • North Hartford Triple Aim Collaborative
  • Northeast NRZ
  • Phillips Health Ministry
  • Phillips Metropolitan CME Church
  • Policing Equity
  • Rainbow Variety Show
  • Skyline Foundation
  • Southern CT State Univ
  • State of Ct
  • The Center for Latino Progress
  • Tobacco Free Kids
  • Transforming Communities Initiative
  • Transport Hartford
  • Trinity Medical
  • United Way
  • University of CT
  • University of CT- School of Medicine
  • Upper Albany Main St.
  • Upper Albany Merchant Assos.
  • Upper Albany Neighborhood Collaborative
  • Upper Albany NRZ
  • Urban League of Greater Hartford
  • URISE Ventures
  • Voice of the Women of Color
  • Wellville
  • West Indian Foundation
  • West Indian Social Club
  • WQTQ
  • Young Women’s Christian Assoc.
  • Young Legends
  • Youth MATCH Coalition

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."

Margaret Mead