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HARTFORD, CT -- Today, Comcast Corporation announced Internet Essentials, the nation’s largest and most comprehensive high-speed Internet adoption program, has expanded its senior pilot program to low-income seniors in Hartford. Comcast also announced that it has now connected more than 32,000 residents from 8,000 households across the state of Connecticut. Across the nation, Comcast has now connected more than four million low-income Americans, in one million households, to high-speed Internet service at home.
BRANFORD, CT -- At 16 years old, Branford Early Childhood Collaborative (BECC), once a grassroots group, is evolving to meet its continuing mission. Now in the process of becoming a 501 (c)3 non-profit, BECC also has a newly established, 15-person Board of Directors chaired by Dr. Bruce Storm Ed.D. The new direction grew out of a change in funding support. For many years, BECC was largely funded with support from the Graustein Memorial Fund and operated under the umbrella of United Way of Greater New Haven.
WATERBURY, CT -- Barbara Bradbury-Pape of Woodbury, Elizabeth Johnson of Cheshire, John Newton of Warren, and Rabbi Eric Polokoff of Southbury, have been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut Community Foundation, which serves 21 towns in Greater Waterbury and Litchfield Hills.
FARMINGTON, CT -- CHDI welcomes its new President and CEO Jeffrey Vanderploeg, Ph.D., a leader in children's mental health who brings a decade of committed service to CHDI's mission.
NEW HAVEN, CT -- The United Way of Greater New Haven is launching an annual campaign to help children and families in need, at a time when “funding cuts and general instability around the state budget process have sent shockwaves through the nonprofit community in Greater New Haven.”
HARTFORD, CT -- The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving is pleased to announce a $25,000, dollar-for-dollar matching contribution to the “Black Giving Circle Fund” to support the needs of Greater Hartford’s Black community.
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WATERBURY, CT – The Board of Trustees of Connecticut Community Foundation announced today the appointment of Julie Loughran as its next President and Chief Executive Officer. Loughran has served as the Foundation’s Director of Development and Communications since 2014 and will take over the reins from Paula Van Ness, who plans to retire in December after leading the Foundation for six years.
RIDGEFIELD, CT -- The Boehringer Ingelheim Cares Foundation (BI Cares), today announced the addition of new leaders to oversee the Foundation’s direction and programs, including Karen Iannella as president.
NEW BRITAIN, CT -- David Obedzinski, who assumed his new post in mid-August following the retirement of long-time President Jim Williamson, has scheduled a series of community meetings with non-profit organizations in Berlin, New Britain, Plainville and Southington during the month of October, a “Fall Listening Tour.”
DANBURY, CT -- United Way of Western Connecticut (UWWC) is pleased to announce an extension of the application period for the 2017-18 Danbury Collaborative Awards to Monday, October 16, 2017.