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Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Board Welcomes Three New Members
Bracket-Style Fundraising Tournament to Raise Awareness and Funds for Connecticut Charities
Fifty-One Percent: the Goal for Women and Girls
NEW LONDON, CT -- While a new report on the status of women and girls in eastern Connecticut will serve the region as a rich source of statistics, solutions and challenges, it is really an iron hand in a velvet glove. It comes with an agenda The Day heartily endorses: a coordinated philanthropic strategy for better lives for girls and women. The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut has begun the rollout of the report, subtitled "A Catalyst for Action," to document where women of all ages stand in regard to health, education level, employment, financial stability and security from domestic violence.
United Way of North Central Connecticut Invests in Education in Enfield
Off To a Great Start! Early Childhood Fair Set For Saturday, Feb. 24
Tauck Family Foundation Grant Deadline is March 18
Member eBrief - February 2018
Hartford Foundation’s Respond-Rebuild-Renew Fund Awards First Grants to Support Newly Relocated Residents from Natural Disaster Areas
Nonprofit Organizations Invited To Participate in Give Local Greater Waterbury and Litchfield Hills
New Report Highlights A Better Way to Assess the Developmental Needs of Children in Early Childhood Systems
Community Foundation Accepting Grant and Scholarship Applications
CT Philanthropy Digest - February 2018
Today Is Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Awareness Day
Solidago Foundation CEO to Speak at Briefing on Grantmaking and Civic Engagement
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Awards Over $2.3M to More Than 900 Organizations in 2017
WELLESLEY, MA -- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation today announced that it awarded more than $2.3 million in grants to more than 900 nonprofit organizations in over 300 communities in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire in 2017. Since its inception in 1980, the Foundation has granted more than $145 million in funds throughout the four states.
United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut Raises $60,000 in Grants to Support Neighbors in Need
HARTFORD, CT -- United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut is pleased to announce that it has received $60,000 in grants to support Neighbors in Need, a local effort that will help meet the immediate and longer term needs of children and families displaced by the devastation of recent hurricanes and others needing basic human services. United Way has itself contributed $100,000 to Neighbors in Need.
Foundation Grant Will Help Meet the Needs of Area Youth Struggling with Homelessness
Households Which Earned $54,000 or Less in 2017 Can File State and Federal Taxes for FREE
PERSPECTIVE: Access to Healthy Foods: How Far Are You Willing to Go?
HARTFORD, CT -- Blog post by by Garth Graham, M.D., MPH, is a leading authority on social determinants of health. President of the Aetna Foundation since 2013 and Vice President of Community Health for Aetna, Inc., Dr. Graham is a former deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Obama and Bush administrations where he also ran the Office of Minority Health.
For the first time in the history of the United States, today’s youth are expected to have a shorter life-span than their parents. With medical, scientific and technological advances, this notion seems dumbfounding. But when we step away from the science and technology and take a deeper look at our communities, you can find the root causes. Access to healthy food, public safety and environmental factors are all driving forces behind this decline in longevity. These social determinants of health are becoming increasingly influential to our health . . .