Three recent grants from the Jewett City Savings Bank Foundation, totaling $2,550, will benefit a trio of initiatives sponsored by non-profit organizations in Norwich, Pomfret, and Putnam.

The Foundation’s $1,000 award to Special Olympics Connecticut in Norwich will support 125 athletes from Windham County who are expected to take part in the 2010 Connecticut Eastern Region Bowling Qualifier in Brooklyn.

The Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Pomfret will use its $900 grant from the Foundation to purchase field sampling equipment and digital cameras as part of its environmental education programs.

In Putnam, Habitat for Humanity of Northeast Connecticut’s $650 Foundation grant will be used for the purchase of tools for use by volunteers, and also for computer software upgrades.

“These programs all contribute to building a stronger community,” said Kevin C. Merchant, president of the Jewett City Savings Bank Foundation. “That has always been a goal of the Bank, and of the Foundation.”

The three awards were among those announced at a recent reception in Griswold, where representatives from 18 local non-profit civic and charitable organizations were present to receive a combined total of $25,350 in grants from the Jewett City Savings Bank Foundation during the most recent funding period.