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HARTFORD, CT -- As Connecticut continues to respond to budget challenges and declining school enrollment, some school districts have been considering regionalizing their K-12 education services as a way to reduce costs. In an effort to get a clearer understanding of the potential educational and community impacts of school and district regionalization, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has sponsored a comprehensive analysis of the impacts of K-12 regionalization to help inform those efforts. The literature review focuses on what is known about the effects of K-12 regionalization on education expenditures and educational achievement, based on recent empirical studies.
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HARTFORD, CT -- At its March board meeting, the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy (CCP) voted Kathryn Luria of Woodbury, senior vice president of community affairs and director of philanthropy for Webster Bank, as the new board chair to replace outgoing Chair Judith Meyers, president and CEO of Children’s Fund of Connecticut.
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Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Invests in Economic and Community Development in the North End
HARTFORD, CT -- The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has awarded Upper Albany Main Street a three-year $287,000 grant that will allow the organization to bring on additional staff to oversee the administrative aspects of the the Route 44 Safety Improvement Project.
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CHARLOTTE, NC -- Bank of America today announced that more than $2.8 million has been delivered to Gulf Coast nonprofits collectively supporting short- and long-term Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. In addition to the previously announced $1 million in Hurricane Harvey relief funding the Bank of America Charitable Foundation committed to nonprofit organizations in the days following the hurricane, an outpouring of support from bank employee donations totaling more than $900,000 was also matched dollar-for-dollar through the company’s Employee Matching Gifts program.
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WELLESLEY, MA -- Physician practices in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire will receive grant funding this year from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s Quality Grants Program. Harvard Pilgrim’s 19th annual grant program will fund 11 initiatives up to $100,000 with each designed to improve care delivery and reduce costs within a variety of care delivery models.
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NEW CANAAN, CT -- New Canaan News Online interviews Diane Sierpina, director of justice initiatives for The Tow Foundation, and new Connecticut Council for Philanthropy Board Member.
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WATERBURY, CT -- More than 50 Webster Bankers spent the school day teaching financial literacy to students at Tinker Elementary School in Waterbury, the largest JA in a Day event of 2018 for the Bank.
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HARTFORD, CT -- Thanks to an $80,000 grant funded by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, the Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) has been able to support the Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Comprehensive Education and Needs Training (NASCENT) project. This project was created to educate clinicians about their role in decreasing opioid misuse, thus reducing the number of individuals exposed to opioids in the first place – a critical public health concern.
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NORWALK, CT -- Fairfield County’s Community Foundation’s Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNE) is offering an exciting, interactive and collaborative Advocacy Day on the morning of Thursday, May 31st at Grace Farms in New Canaan, CT.