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GUILFORD, CT -- Chloe Melillo of Killingworth, a graduate of the Sound School who will attend The University of Rhode Island in the fall to study aquaculture and fisheries technology, was the recipient of the second annual Alison Varian Memorial Scholarship, a fund held at The Guilford Foundation.
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BRISTOL, CT -- A new fund at the Main Street Community Foundation, the Geoffrey M. Pierce Memorial Fund, made its first grant to BEST-4-Bristol Thursday to assist with their youth substance abuse prevention efforts.
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BLOOMFIELD, CT -- The Cigna Foundation is inviting nonprofit organizations working to reduce child food insecurity to apply for funding through its Healthier Kids For Our Future grant program. The program will provide grants to community organizations totaling up to $5 million over the next year.
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NORWALK, CT -- Norwalk Community Health Center, Inc. (NCHC) has received a $30,000 grant from Fairfield County's Community Foundation Fund for Women and Girls to provide low income teens and women of child bearing age tools to make informed decisions about family planning and family spacing and expand access to appropriate contraception.
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NORWALK, CT -- This summer, Fairfield County’s Community Foundation distributed funds totaling $1,274,091 to 59 nonprofit organizations who align with the Community Foundation’s result areas and its vision to close the opportunity gap in Fairfield County by eliminating disparities in income, education, employment, housing and health.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- Connecticut tax professionals are warning clients that the IRS may not let them keep benefits from a state program designed to ease the pain of the tax law’s cap on state and local deductions.
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HARTFORD, CT -- The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has awarded a two-year, $200,000 grant to enable the Hartford Consortium for Higher Education to offer its Career Beginnings program at all Hartford high schools, with the addition of New Visions High School.
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GLASTONBURY, CT -- The Hartford Marathon Foundation (HMF) is proud to announce Webster Bank as the Presenting Sponsor of the RiMaConn Relay, its first-ever team relay on the East Coast Greenway. The sold-out event will engage over 700 participants in a day-long race spanning 21 communities in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut on Saturday, August 24, 2019.
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GROTON, CT -- "Retired Connecticut College vice president and former D.C. Court System executive officer Ulysses B. Hammond was named to the Chelsea Groton Bank's Board of Trustees. A former bank corporator and Chesea Groton Bank Foundation board member, Hammond has spent nearly three decades in public service at all levels of government.
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WATERBURY, CT -- Thanks to a grant from the American Savings Foundation and the Frederick W. Marzahl Memorial Fund, the Connecticut Junior Republic (CJR) has been able to provide a six-week Work-Based Learning Summer Program for 40 at-risk and disadvantaged boys and girls from Waterbury.