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City of Norwalk Announces Initiative to Help Bridge Digital Divide As the Fall Semester Approaches
Youth Voice & COVID-19
NEW HAVEN, CT -- In April of 2020, as part of our institutional response to COVID19, The Perrin Family Foundation launched a youth communication project intended to capture how young people were experiencing the global crisis. Over the next few weeks the Foundation will be sharing the youth experiences and connecting the stories to larger themes and issues.
Butterflies Are Free. Saving Them Isn't, So Branford Is Helping
How $241,500 in grants will help New Haven schools address racial equity
NEW HAVEN, CT -- Two grants from the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund totaling $241,500 are intended to help the New Haven Public Schools support racial equity within the school district.
Young People’s Voices Are Key to Recovery
NEW HAVEN, CT -- Laura McCargar, president of the Perrin Family Foundation, recent op-ed in CT Mirror's CT Viewpoints, lifts up youth voice during the coronavirus pandemic.
Office of Early Childhood launches CTCARES for Family Child Care
How Small Arts Nonprofits in the US Are Responding to the Existential Threat of COVID-19
NEW YORK, NY -- Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation's art program director, Heather Pontonio @HPontonio is quoted on how the foundation is working to respond to COVID-19. “Collectively, this whole group is trying to figure out how to get money on the ground as fast as possible,”
COVID-19 Relief Fund to Give $10 Million to Artists
NEW YORK, NY -- A coalition of more than twenty national arts funders, including Connecticut's Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, has launched an emergency relief fund that will provide millions of dollars to artists struggling financially in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States.
Opinion: Census 2020: Connecticut’s avoidable fiscal problem
Connecticut Must Invest in Census or Risk Losing Federal Funds
Family Foundation Webinar Series | Top 10 Tips for Navigating Red Flags Leading a Private Foundation
Family Foundation Webinar Series | Preparing New Generations to Serve on Family Foundation Boards
Connecticut Has 10 Years of Big Youth Justice Wins, But Much More Work Needs to Be Done
NEW CANAAN, CT -- Diane Sierpina, director of justice initiative for The Tow Foundation celebrates the progress of Connecticut's juvenile justice efforts over the last 10 years, and shares information about the barriers for improved outcomes for youth with high needs and high risk of breaking the law.
Age Well Ambassadors Program to Launch in Greater Danbury
In The Thick, a politics podcast, travels to Three Rivers Community College and Eastern Connecticut State University
Expanded Wheels to Learning Program Continues its Support for Transportation Funding for School Field Trips
Children's Reading Partners Seeks Volunteers for New School Year
New Canaan Philanthropist Earns Medal Named After Carnegie
NEW CANAAN, CT -- Leonard Tow, Founder and chairman of The Tow Foundation, is one of nine recipients of the 10th class of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. He was named during a ceremony held last week on the 100th anniversary of the death of Carnegie, a who was known for his charitable giving, at the latter’s ancestral home in Dunfermline, Scotland.
Foundation Will Match Funds Raised by Steeple Chase Event
MANSFIELD, CT -- The Steeple Chase Bike Ride and Walk on August 17, will again benefit three social service organizations in northeast Connecticut, and every dollar raised by Steeple Chase participants or sponsors will be matched in 2019 by the Jeffrey P. Ossen Family Foundation.