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CT Philanthropy Digest - December 2018
Comcast Foundation Awards Grants to Connecticut Organizations
Liberty Bank Foundation Approves $241,500 in Grants
CONNECTICUT -- The Liberty Bank Foundation has approved $241,500 in grants to nonprofit organizations serving Liberty Bank’s market area and surrounding towns to support programs that will provide early childhood education, affordable housing, and basic human needs.
The Broad View Fund Awards Grant to Innovative Collaboration
Fairfield County’s Community Foundation Announces New 2019 Board Chair, Officers & Members
The Problem With Charitable Giving
NEW YORK, NY -- Starting this fall, and well into the future, medical students at New York University will get free tuition. In a few years, shiny new facilities will welcome cancer patients in Atlanta and brain researchers at Stanford. The announcements about these developments credit generous philanthropists, but fail to mention who else is footing much of the bill: American taxpayers. Like most charitable giving, health care philanthropy is tax-deductible. When wealthy people give away millions of dollars, their tax bills go down. But that leaves the rest of us either to pick up the slack or go without the investments that our government could have made with those funds.
The Leever Foundation Welcomes Saran D. White as Executive Director
WATERBURY, CT -- The Leever Foundation is delighted to welcome Saran D. White as its inaugural Executive Director effective December 3, 2018.
The NEA Foundation Names Sara Sneed New President and CEO
Insurers Unite to Help 'Seed' Hartford's Financial Reboot
The Growth in Total Household Giving Is Camouflaging a Decline in Giving by Small and Medium Donors: What Can We Do about It?
Grand Opening for the Bushnell Park Playground
Community Foundation of Greater New Britain Establishes James G. Williamson Education Assistance Fund in Memory of Former President
More Data, More Networking, More Equity
Public Service Executive Leadership Collaborative Inaugural Workshops Announced
HARTFORD, CT -- The Connecticut Council for Philanthropy has joined with the University of Connecticut Department of Public Policy and eleven other Connecticut public and nonprofit sector associations as a Partner Organization of the Public Service Executive Leadership Collaborative.