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CT Philanthropy Digest - December 2018
The DECEMBER 2018 DIGEST includes feature headlines: Tras la Tormenta: Puerto Rico One Year After Maria; 29 Greater Hartford Cities and Towns to Benefit from Town-specific Endowed Funds; Good News: Long Island Sound Report Card Reveals Substantial Improvement; Cross-Sector Strategic Collaboratives Full-Day Workshop Announced; Corporate Foundation to Continue to Serve the Community as a Private Charitable Foundation; Plus -- LEADERSHIP TRAINING; PHILANTHROPY NEWS LINKS; GRANTS & RFPS; PEOPLE and JOBS IN PHILANTHROPY!
People's United Community Foundation Awards $318K in Grants to CT Nonprofits
Comcast Foundation Awards Grants to Connecticut Organizations
Liberty Bank Foundation Approves $241,500 in Grants
Liberty Bank, Rotary Clubs Raise Record $426,607 to Help Fill Thanksgiving Food Baskets
Liberty Bank Honors Jennifer Height for Volunteerism
The Broad View Fund Awards Grant to Innovative Collaboration
American Savings Foundation Announces New Community Grants Program
Fairfield County’s Community Foundation Announces New 2019 Board Chair, Officers & Members
Give Everyone the Same Tax Incentive to Donate — Not Just the Rich
WASHINGTON, DC -- The consumer orgies of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday have a rapidly growing nonprofit rival: Giving Tuesday, which celebrates its seventh year today. Begun by a coalition hoping to reinvigorate giving in the United States during the holiday season, Giving Tuesday has turned into a philanthropic juggernaut: Last year, the day moved at least $300 million to nonprofits by mobilizing hundreds of thousands of people, many of them infrequent donors, to give to charities of their choosing. Giving Tuesday champions the welcome spirit of ordinary donors and the amazing diversity of American charity. But when it comes to philanthropic giving in the United States, it proves the exception to a stubborn rule.
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.
Draper Foundation Fund Provides Over $800,000 in Support of Area Nonprofits
The Farmington Bank Community Foundation to Continue as a Private Charitable Foundation
The Leever Foundation Welcomes Saran D. White as Executive Director
Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Board Welcomes Two New Members
The NEA Foundation Names Sara Sneed New President and CEO
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
Prioritize Children and Families; Defend the Office of Early Childhood
HARTFORD, CT -- In a letter to our new governor, Merrill Gay, Executive Director of the CT Early Childhood Alliance, urges support for Connecticut's children and families and support the Office of Early Childhood.