The Naugatuck Valley Project (NVP) organizes and co-creates power with affected people to fight against areas of common injustice, working towards collective goals that generate positive change in communities throughout the Naugatuck Valley Region of Connecticut, and beyond.

Our mission is to build a broad-based organization for change that is initiated, organized, and led by low-income communities, working families, and people of color.

Founded in 1983, The Naugatuck Valley Project (NVP) is a network of 23 dues-paying faith-based congregations, local labor unions, housing cooperatives, and ethnic organizations. NVP’s leaders and members work together to build power to affect systemic change for the improvement of their local communities.

NVP trains leaders to identify issues of concern, research the issues, and develop workable solutions… then educates and activates members of their organization and their allies in the community to act together to bring about positive recognizable change. Since NVP's founding, systems change and structural transformation have been at the core of our work.

We currently have five focus areas:

• Affordable Housing

• Domestic Workers

• Environmental Justice

• Hospital Accountability

• Labor Unions and Factories