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HARTFORD, CT -- As part of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Awards, Hartford Business Journal is honoring JoAnn H. Price, a trailblazer in the investment world having co-founded Fairview Capital, which is now one of the country’s largest minority-owned private equity investment management firms. JoAnn is the Boad Chair for the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
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TORRINGTON, CT -- The Women & Girls Fund, a fund of the Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation has awarded a grant of $4,275 to Northwestern Connecticut Community College to support a Girls and Women in Manufacturing, a program that includes manufacturing, and financial literacy courses.
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HARTFORD, CT -- Nearly 3,400 children will participate in summer learning programs and receive healthy food as part of United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut’s Summer Smarts initiative. Eleven community organizations serving children in Greater Hartford benefited from awards totaling $429,500.
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WATERBURY, CT -- “There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.” Connecticut Community Foundation’s newly released 2018 annual report, You Cared, opens with those words from Margaret J. Wheatley as a tribute to the Foundation’s donors and community partners who tackled local issues with passion and tenacity—organizing, contributing, and seeking solutions together.
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HARTFORD, CT -- United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut has awarded $25,000 to the Hartford Working Cities initiative, which focuses on reducing unemployment among young adults in Hartford’s Barry Square, Frog Hollow and South Green neighborhoods.
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TORRINGTON, CT -- The Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation has awarded grants to 23 area nonprofit organizations, totaling $107,700 during its first grant cycle of 2019.
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HARTFORD, CT -- In February, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, in partnership with the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and the City of Hartford, announced the Hartford Area Inner City Capital Connections (ICCC) program to drive job creation, capital investment, and economic growth in underserved communities.
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NEW LONDON, CT -- The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut announced today its grants of $1,943,371 to 145 nonprofit organizations to ensure a healthy, thriving, sustainable Eastern Connecticut for all who live and work in this region.
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HARTFORD, CT -- Brad Drazen, an award-winning former anchor and reporter at NBC Connecticut, has been appointed Vice President, Communications and Marketing at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.