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Newman's Own Gives $1 Million to Virtual Camp for Children with Serious Illnesses

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08/04/2020

WESTPORT, CT -- Newman's Own Foundation will provide SeriousFun with $1 million over and above their regular giving to help SeriousFun's 16 Member Camps provide virtual camp and family weekend programs, live-streamed programs, virtual discussion groups, at-home activity resources, and camp-inspired recipes to make at home, among many more. All programming and materials are provided to the campers free of charge.

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WPKN Receives $5000 Grant From Newman's Own Foundation

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07/30/2020

BRIDGEPORT, CT -- WPKN has been awarded a $5,000 grant from Newman’s Own Foundation, the independent foundation created by the late actor and philanthropist, Paul Newman. The award to WPKN was made as part of the foundation's commitment to support community broadcasting through independent radio. The grant to WPKN will be used to support the ongoing operating expenses of the station.

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What Paul Newman Would Tell Small Foundations in the Pandemic: Don’t Shift Course

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04/22/2020

WESTPORT, CT -- The Newman's Own Foundation’s Acting CEO Miriam Nelson shares her thoughts about staying the course during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Newman's Own Foundation Supports Leadership Development

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03/12/2020

WESTPORT, CT -- Newman's Own Foundation announced grants supporting internal professional and leadership development for nutrition-focused nonprofits.

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Newman's Own Foundation Supports Team Rubicon's Relief Efforts in Bahamas

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10/09/2019

WESTPORT, CT -- Newman's Own Foundation, founded by the late actor and philanthropist Paul Newman, announced its support of relief efforts in the Bahamas, following Hurricane Dorian, through the award of $100,000 to Team Rubicon, which is on the g

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Newman's Own Foundation Supports Nutrition Initiatives With $2 Million in Grants

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10/01/2019

Focused on Fresh Food Access and Nutrition

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Newman's Own Foundation Donates Grant To Silvermine for Outreach Education Program

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08/12/2019

NEW CANAAN, CT -- Silvermine Arts Center has been awarded a $5,000 grant from Newman's Own Foundation, to support Art Partners, Silvermine's Outreach Education program providing curriculum-based studio art classes each year to over 1,000 under-resourced children and teens in Norwalk and Stamford.

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Kindness in Real Life: Grants Support Garden Projects in Groton, New London

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07/10/2019

GROTON and NEW LONDON, CT -- Recent grants awarded to the Eastern Connecticut Community Gardens Association will support ongoing projects in Groton and New London. A grant from the Newman’s Own Foundation, given as part of the foundation’s food access and education mission, will support Grasso Technical High School’s farm-to-table programming.

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The 100-Percenters

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06/12/2019

WASHINGTON, DC -- Following a victory in Congress last year, when it staved off a looming tax penalty that would have forced it to change its structure or go out of business, Newman’s Own has intensified a plan to increase the number of groups that follow its profits-to-charity model.

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Norwalk River Valley Trail Receives $20K in Grants from Newman's Own Foundation

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04/23/2019

NORWALK, CT -- The Norwalk River Valley Trail (NRVT) has received $20,000 in grants from Newman’s Own Foundation, the independent foundation created by the late actor and philanthropist, Paul Newman.

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Newman's Own Distributes $200K to 5 Vets Organizations

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10/19/2018

WASHINGTON, DC -- The nation, writ large, has a moral responsibility to ensure the needs of veterans are met, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said at a ceremony where the Newman’s Own Foundation distributed funds to charities serving service members, their families and veterans. Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford praised Newman’s Own for its dedication to service members, veterans and their families. The group distributed $200,000 to five organizations during the Oct. 5 ceremony in the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes.

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Newman's Own Foundation CEO on the Business of Giving

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10/11/2018

WESTPORT, CT -- Bob Forrester, Newman's Own Foundation CEO, discusses the packaged food company's charitable mission.

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Newman's Own Foundation Provides Over $1.7 Million to Support Nutrition Initiatives

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10/02/2018

WESTPORT, CT -- Newman's Own Foundation, founded by the late actor and philanthropist Paul Newman, today announced that more than $1.7 million in grants will be awarded to 37 nonprofit organizations that are focused on fresh food access and nutrition.

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Newman's Own Foundation Launches New Website to Share the Common Good

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09/12/2018

WESTPORT, CT -- Newman’s Own Foundation, founded by the late actor and philanthropist Paul Newman, announced today the launch of CommonGood.com — a new web platform dedicated to sharing upli

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Newman's Own Foundation Names John Frascotti to Advisory Board

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07/10/2018

WESTPORT, CT -- Newman's Own Foundation, founded by the late actor and philanthropist Paul Newman, today announced that John Frascotti has been appointed to the Newman's Own Advisory Board. Frascotti is President of Hasbro, Inc., where he has worked since 2008, helping to shape the company into a global brand and entertainment leader.

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Newman's Own Foundation Announces New Class of Fellows

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06/06/2018

WESTPORT, CT -- Newman's Own Foundation, founded by the late actor and philanthropist Paul Newman, welcomes a new class of Fellows, as it enters the fourth year of its Fellowship Program. There will be 14 new Fellows starting the program, as 17 Fellows graduate today.

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Budget deal has plenty for Connecticut

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02/09/2018

WASHINGTON, DC -- In rare bipartisan agreement, Congress on Friday approved a massive budget deal that will increase federal spending in Connecticut, providing big boosts for the state’s defense industry and health care programs and even helping schools educate displaced students from Puerto Rico. ...A new measure was added to the extenders package that would help Westport’s Newman’s Own Foundation, which gives 100 percent of the profits made from the Newman’s Own food business to charity, but would have been hit with a 200 percent tax this year unless it divested or got the exception.

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Budget deal would rescue Newman’s Own from tax problem

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02/08/2018

WASHINGTON, DC -- A massive budget agreement headed for a vote in the Senate contains a provision that would save Newman’s Own from a thorny tax problem that threatens Paul Newman’s iconic food company.

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Newman's Own Foundation Reaches Milestone of $500 Million to Charity

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02/01/2018

WESTPORT, CT -- Newman's Own Foundation, founded by the late actor and philanthropist Paul Newman, today announced that it reached the milestone of donating a total of $500 million to charity since Newman's Own started in 1982.

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As Tax Deadline Looms, Newman’s Own Marks $500M Milestone

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02/01/2018

NORWALK, CT -- Newman’s Own Foundation has reached the milestone of $500 million in donations since 1982, when the late actor Paul Newman began selling salad dressing and devoting profits to charities. But the foundation is inching closer to a self-proclaimed April deadline at which point it has indicated it could begin the process of soliciting buyers for the operating company that has been the engine that generates its funds. That would happen if Congress does not create an exemption for huge excise taxes it faces under the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

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