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Council approves $73,000 one-time support for Abilities First after presentation and public testimonials
Summary
Middletown City Council voted to provide a one-time payment of $73,000 to Abilities First to cover a summer funding gap after the nonprofit detailed services, enrollment, and a shortfall in fundraising.
Middletown City Council on Tuesday voted to provide $73,000 in one-time funding to Abilities First, a local nonprofit that operates an early childhood learning center, autism learning center and pediatric therapies programs for children with developmental disabilities.
The council approved the payment after Abilities First Executive Director David Hood presented the agency’s services, enrollment figures and a short-term fundraising gap the organization said threatened continuity of summer programming. Hood said Abilities First served 423 children and families in 2024, 281 of them from Middletown, and that the nonprofit had raised…
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