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HARTFORD, CT -- Today, Comcast Corporation announced Internet Essentials, the nation’s largest and most comprehensive high-speed Internet adoption program, has expanded its senior pilot program to low-income seniors in Hartford. Comcast also announced that it has now connected more than 32,000 residents from 8,000 households across the state of Connecticut. Across the nation, Comcast has now connected more than four million low-income Americans, in one million households, to high-speed Internet service at home.
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NEW HAVEN, CT -- Neubert, Pepe & Monteith, P.C. is pleased to announce that Attorney Gregory J. Pepe has been appointed to The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven Board of Directors. The New Haven County Bar Association recommended that Mr. Pepe be its designee to the board of the Community Foundation for a 7-year term. Mr. Pepe assumes the position on Jan. 1, 2018.
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MARKETWIDE, CT -- The Liberty Bank Foundation has approved $99,800 in grants to nonprofit organizations serving in Liberty Bank’s footprint and surrounding areas to support programs that will provide early childhood education, affordable housing, and basic human needs.
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CROMWELL, CT -- The Middlesex Habitat for Humanity of CT is one of three winners of Liberty Bank Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Grant competition. It will receive a grant of $20,000 to fund expanded operations.
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WILTON, CT -- Thanks to a $5,000 grant from United Way of Coastal Fairfield County, Wilton youth will have access to the GoZen! program, an evidenced-based treatment that teaches children how to manage anxiety.
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BRANFORD, CT -- At 16 years old, Branford Early Childhood Collaborative (BECC), once a grassroots group, is evolving to meet its continuing mission. Now in the process of becoming a 501 (c)3 non-profit, BECC also has a newly established, 15-person Board of Directors chaired by Dr. Bruce Storm Ed.D. The new direction grew out of a change in funding support. For many years, BECC was largely funded with support from the Graustein Memorial Fund and operated under the umbrella of United Way of Greater New Haven.
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NEW CANAAN, CT -- Over the past 40 years, the foundation has given to local nonprofits in a range of areas, including youth programs, human services, elderly and special needs, health care and arts and culture. In 1987, its grants topped $100,000 and it distributed $1 million in grants in 2013. The foundation also awards over $100,000 worth of scholarships to students, many from the Sapienza Scholarship Fund established in 2007.
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HARTFORD, CT -- The Connecticut Health Foundation has awarded grants totaling $650,000 this quarter to 11 organizations largely focused on health equity causes. Recipients include Hartford-based Center for Children's Advocacy, which is getting $65,000 to develop an in-school model for identifying the mental and physical health needs of the increasing number of immigrant children arriving in Connecticut and helping them get care.
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NEW HAVEN, CT -- The United Way of Greater New Haven is launching an annual campaign to help children and families in need, at a time when “funding cuts and general instability around the state budget process have sent shockwaves through the nonprofit community in Greater New Haven.”
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FARMINGTON, CT -- CHDI welcomes its new President and CEO Jeffrey Vanderploeg, Ph.D., a leader in children's mental health who brings a decade of committed service to CHDI's mission.