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NEW HAVEN, CT -- Connecticut Voices for Children today released a report that reveals the likelihood and heightened risks of an inaccurate count during the 2020 Census.
HARTFORD, CT -- High school seniors who live in a Comcast footprint are invited to apply for the Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program. The scholarship deadline is December 6, 2019.
NEW HAVEN, CT -- The Melville Charitable Trust, the nation’s largest philanthropy focused exclusively on ending homelessness, announced today that it has selected Susan Thomas to be the foundation’s next President, effective January 6, 2020.
The MetroHartford Alliance's breakfast feautures a discussion between Jay Williams of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and Jeff Fuhrer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, about inclusive economic development and growth.
On-ramps to Good Jobs highlights a nascent market of innovative programs with the potential to launch 44 million working-class adults in America into good and better jobs.
This report examines educational and employment disparities in the United States and highlights policies, programs and strategies designed to improve current and future work for lower-wage individuals and their families.
This report from Urban Institute provides a conceptual framework for describing and measuring initiatives aimed at changing workforce systems.
Workforce Matters is a peer network of funders that draws on expert and practitioner knowledge to strengthen workforce development philanthropy and advance equitable access to quality education and employment for young people and adults.
EAST HARTFORD, CT -- In support a community-wide effort to provide recreational access for all of East Hartford’s children, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving awarded a $75,000 grant to Pitkin Playground, Inc.
WEST HARTFORD, CT -- Three new trustees have been elected to the Board of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford (JCF).
Based on survey responses of 205 leaders of nonprofit organizations with annual expenses between $100,000 and $100 million, Nonprofit Diversity Efforts: Current Practices and the Role of Foundations provides a collection of data on topics such as how diversity relates to the work of nonprofits and what demographic information nonprofits and funders alike are collecting — and how that information is used. The data in this report can inform foundation leaders and staff as they consider how they can most helpfully engage with their grantees on the topic of diversity.
