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After 18 Years of Leadership, CHDI Founding Chief Executive Judith Meyers Announces Plans to Step Down

Release Date: 
06/19/2017
Meyers to leave CHDI September 30, 2017, but will remain President & CEO of the Children's Fund ... grew from one to 30 employees, more than quadrupled its annual operating budget, and forged partnerships to ... as Chair of the Board of the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy . Although much has improved in health and ...
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Appointments, Transitions, Colleague News
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CCP Members
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Early Childhood
Health

Over 150 Students to Share $184,000 in Scholarships

Release Date: 
06/19/2017
... were awarded during the Community Foundation’s June 13, 2017 Scholarship Reception at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel ... and grateful to the donors whose generosity has made these awards possible for the last 22 years.” Scholarship grants ... all applicants before recommending recipients. The 2017 Main Street Community Foundation scholarship recipients ...
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Scholarship News
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CCP Members
Community Foundation
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Scholarships

CT Philanthropy Digest - June 2017

Release Date: 
06/20/2017
... THE POWER OF GOOD PEOPLE >> JOBS IN PHILANTHROPY >> ABOUT CCP and the CONNECTICUT PHILANTHROPY DIGEST >> ... Nominations Liberty Bank is soliciting nominations for the 2017 Willard M. McRae Community Diversity Award . This annual award is designed to recognize an individual who has ...
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Digest

Directors & Officers Liability Insurance

... and volunteers in the event of a lawsuit. The United Philanthropy Forum, endorses the D&O liability insurance ... member organization, including Connecticut Council for Philanthropy. Fiduciary Liability and other coverage is also ... should let Aon know they are a member of a participating philanthropy-serving organization. Directors & Officers ...
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Member Service
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CCP Members
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Legal Issues

Member eBrief - June 2017

Release Date: 
06/08/2017
The power of good work . . . CCP updates >> The power of good networks . . . CCP program ... . . . Member news >> The power of good ideas . . . New resources >>      Trends and perspectives >>       ... of CCP's new president, Karla Fortunato . View the 2017 Annual Meeting photo albums >> CCP thanks the following ...
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eBrief
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CCP Members

Philanthropy’s Role in a Healthy Democracy

Release Date: 
09/02/2014
Maggie Osborn, President, Connecticut Council for Philanthropy This blog post is created from my remarks for ... deeply about roles. The New Deal and the deployment of resources and opportunity post WWII, brought about a ... Philanthropy was seen as having the ability to utilize resources in ways different than the private sector or ...

Key Learnings From a Leader

Release Date: 
08/06/2014
... vibrant conversations and comments shared last May at our Annual Luncheon. Carlton Highsmith was the recipient of the ... H. Filer Award Recipient Award acceptance remarks from the CCP's Annual Luncheon – May 2, 2014 What Inspires You? ... had to learn the hard way. Yours is a world of too few resources, chasing too many challenges. Too many difficult ...
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Giving Voice
Audience: 
CCP Members
Non-member Grantmaker

Philanthropy’s Response to the Government Shutdown

Release Date: 
10/08/2013
Over the last eight days, CCP members have been urging the us to take a position on the ... to kids ages 3 to 5. For a family of four, that’s an annual income of about $23,500. Hannah Matthews, the director ... by government irresponsibility. We could exhaust all the resources held in private philanthropy and not sustain ...

The Largest Organization Supporting Philanthropy in the World

Release Date: 
08/26/2013
... of grantmakers, to which the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy belongs, represents the largest organization supporting philanthropy in the world.  The Council is one of the 34 ... and opportunities to leverage our statewide philanthropic resources. The Connecticut Council for Philanthropy, as a ...

Greetings from Maggie

Release Date: 
07/23/2013
... of my work as the President of the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy to build philanthropy to build a better Connecticut.  This blog will ... be transparent, be innovative and seek impact from philanthropy using lessons from leaders and innovators from ...
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Giving Voice
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CCP Members
Non-member Grantmaker

Doing Good Is About to Get Better

Release Date: 
02/06/2015
This post appeared in PHILANTOPIC, the Philanthropy News Digest Blog, a service of the Foundation ... for a looming conversation around charitable regulation. Philanthropy needs to be able to demonstrate its commitment ... all of us to tell a more accurate version of the story of philanthropy. The Get on the Map campaign encourages funders ...
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Giving Voice
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CCP Members
Non-member Grantmaker
Topic(s): 
Data Standardization

Philanthropy Advisors Should Partner with Regional Associations of Grantmakers

Release Date: 
02/09/2015
... advisors partnering with knowledgable and trusted resources in an ever-changing and complicated charitable landscape. Philanthropy is personal, especially to families who need ... like the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy (CCP) and  Regional Associations of Grantmakers across the ...

The Power of a Network to Amplify Philanthropy’s Voice

Release Date: 
04/23/2015
... that he recently posted on the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s (CEP) site.  This post is about the power of the network to which the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy belongs and the important collective work ... I’d love to dialogue with any of our Connecticut CCP members and colleagues about the work we are doing ...

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