The Earl Exum Community Resource Center at AHCC

Building Community. Together.

What if a neighborhood’s greatest strengths could become even stronger—by working together?

The Earl Exum Community Resource Center (EECRC) at Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Hartford is being created around a simple but powerful idea: A neighborhood thrives when its residents, nonprofits, civic leaders, and faith community work together—not simply alongside one another.

The EECRC will be a place where those four forces come together around a shared purpose: cultivating connection, individual transformation, and collective wellbeing.

This approach is what makes the Center different. It is not intended to be simply another service provider, community room, or renovation project. It is a platform for collaboration—and an investment in a new way of building community.

The innovation is the collaboration.

To create the EECRC, Asylum Hill Congregational Church is transforming approximately 6,000 square feet of underused space into a welcoming, flexible neighborhood hub. The State of Connecticut has already embraced the vision and mission of the EECRC and has invested in it: a $3.8M grant from the State’s Community Investment Fund is funding design and construction of the new Center.