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GREATER NEW HAVEN and FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CT -- Sustainable CT, a new statewide initiative to support Connecticut’s cities and towns, will have its regional launch at two events in the Fairfield and New Haven areas on January 9th, one at the Comstock Community Center, in collaboration with the Western Council of Governments, at 1:00 p.m., and the other in Bowers Auditorium at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at 6:30 p.m. The initiative was developed under the leadership of the Institute for Sustainable Energy at Eastern Connecticut State University in partnership with the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities. Three Connecticut philanthropies – the New Haven-based Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, the Hampshire Foundation, and the Common Sense Fund – have supported the program's development and launch.
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NEW HAVEN, CT -- Environment and Human Health, Inc. (EHHI), an organization of physicians and public health professionals, is embarking on a new project to make schools healthier places for students to attend. In January 2018, EHHI will begin visiting local health departments and superintendents of schools with a new brochure that lists 12 ways to make schools healthier environments for students. The Connecticut Health Foundation has underwritten the brochure.
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BERLIN, CT -- For 10 years now, Comcast employees based in the Western New England headquarters in Connecticut, along with their friends and family, have knitted and crocheted for a cause. This year the group handmade over 260 hats and scarves, most of which were donated to Operation Gratitude, a non-profit organization that distributes care packages to active-duty troops, as well as veterans, wounded heroes and emergency first-responders. Over 2,000 pieces have been made and donated since the campaign began.
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NAUGATUCK, CT -- Quinnipiac Professor Courtney McGinnis spent the summer studying the river quality thanks to a $7,876 grant from the Connecticut Community Foundation. She and two research assistants specifically looked for the presence of phthalates, a group of chemicals used to make plastics more flexible.
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NORWICH, CT -- Recent studies show that up to half of community college students are housing insecure and 14 percent are homeless, so securing resources to assist its students is a priority at Three Rivers Community College. The College has been awarded a $7,000 grant by the Melville Charitable Trust to fund expenses related to the educational and employment goals of homeless students. In addition to the grant funding, Three Rivers is participating in the Youth Count Survey as part of the 2018 CT Coalition to End Homelessness and has named a point person for homelessness on campus.
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WATERBURY, CT -- Webster Financial Corp., one of the largest Connecticut-based banks, said Thursday it is joining the growing list of companies nationally handing out employee cash bonuses after federal legislation slashed corporate tax rates. Some of the savings from changes in corporate tax law will be shared in the community, boosting Webster's philanthropic endeavors by $1 million beginning this year.
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WEST HARTFORD, CT -- For the sixth consecutive year, Farmington Bank’s West Hartford center branch office was the scene of community goodwill when it hosted the WTIC Holiday Store benefiting The Salvation Army for an entire day.
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HARTFORD, CT -- Elysa Gordon has been appointed to serve as vice president and senior advisor to the President of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, the community foundation for Hartford and 28 surrounding communities.
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WESTPORT, CT -- A glitch in the Republican tax overhaul has created an uncertain future for Newman’s Own Foundation and the food company it operates. Under the 1969 tax law, Newman’s Own had five years to divest itself from the business after Newman’s death in 2008, or face a 200 percent tax on its assets. Newman’s Own was able to get congressional support for a waiver to extend that an additional five years. That waiver expires in November 2018.