HARTFORD, CT -- United Way's Board of Directors held a special meeting last week to approve a $150,000 investment in the organization's Neighbors in Need fund. The fund, which is dedicated to disaster relief and response, will provide individuals and families with food, emergency assistance and childcare services through community-based organizations.
COVID-19
HARTFORD, CT -- The first round of the Hartford Foundation's COVID-19 Response Fund, with a grant total of $1.6 million, is supporting community-based organizations that provide basic human needs to residents with the greatest need.
NEW YORK, NY -- A coalition of more than twenty national arts funders, including Connecticut's Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, has launched an emergency relief fund that will provide millions of dollars to artists struggling financially in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States.
HARTFORD, CT -- In this CT Mirror article, Patricia Baker, president of the Connecticut Health Foundation, which focuses on health disparities, gives her brief thoughts on the State virus data and health disparities.
RIDGEFIELD, CT -- Boehringer Ingelheim has significantly stepped up its support in the fight against COVID-19. A Global Support Program has been set up to bring more financial relief, protective materials and medicine donations to healthcare institutions and communities in need around the world.
RIDGEFIELD, CT -- As part of Boehringer Ingelheim’s commitment to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and long-standing partnership with the pulmonology community, the company is donating $500,000 to the American Thoracic Society (ATS) COVID-19 Crisis Fund.