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Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance Receives $302,000 Grant to Reduce Unemployment in Hartford’s South End
Hartford Selected to Participate in National Job Quality Initiative
Challenge Moves Forward for CT’s Working Cities
HARTFORD, CT -- In early 2018, up to five winning teams will be selected for larger Working Cities Challenge awards expected to be $450,000-$475,000 to implement their initiatives over a three-year period.
Capital Workforce Partners Awarded $150K Hartford Foundation Grant to Support Student Internship Program
Hartford Generation Work Launches Workforce Leaders Academy
American Savings Foundation Continues to Invest in the New Britain Community
Hartford Re-Engages Youth in Paid Community Service
HARTFORD, CT -- The Hartford Youth Service Corps kicked off its second year of helping youth participate in paid community service projects Thursday. This year, Mayor Luke Bronin raised $2.5 million for the YSC. Funders include: Barbara Dalio and the Dalio Foundation, the Travelers Foundation, the Newman's Own Foundation, United Technologies Corporation, The Hartford, the Aetna Foundation, and Key Bank.
Private Donations Will Support Hartford's Youth Service Corps For Second Year
In its first year, Mayor Luke Bronin’s youth service corps has put more than 200 young people to work on hundreds of projects across Hartford. The program, anchored last year by $2.2 million in private donations, has received enough funds to push ahead for another 12 months. Funds came from insurance giants like The Travelers, Aetna and The Hartford, and from the Newman’s Own Foundation, the Dalio Foundation and other charitable groups.
For 10 Connecticut Cities, A Hopeful Project Aims To Solve Problems
Welcoming the Challenge to CT’s Working Cities
BOSTON, CT -- David Radcliffe, director of the Connecticut Working Cities Challenge at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, blogs about the Connecticut Working Cities Challenge.
Connecticut to Join The Boston Fed's "Working Cities Challenge" to Help Communitites Improve Economic Outcomes
HARTFORD, CT – Governor Dannel P. Malloy has announced that Connecticut will be the latest state participating in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Working Cities Challenge competition, an economic development effort that builds cross-sector collaboration and leadership to solve challenges affecting urban communities. The Connecticut Council for Philanthropy (CCP) has played a significant role as the catalyst and aggregator of matching funds from the private sector for the Working Cities Challenge.
Avangrid donates $268,000 through Connecticut’s Neighborhood Assistance Act
NEW HAVEN, CT — Avangrid, INC. and its Connecticut subsidiaries, The United Illuminating Company, The Southern Connecticut Gas Company and Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation, announced today they distributed $268,000 to 39 nonprofit organizations, through the State of Connecticut’s Neighborhood Assistance Act (NAA).
Resources for Further Reading - Giving in Connecticut 2015
Resources for further reading related to Giving in Connecticut, published December 2015.