NEW YORK, NY -- Futuro Media’s politics podcast, In The Thick, travels to Connecticut this month for two live shows. Live tapings of In The Thick and podcast workshops are made possible through support from the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut and the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund.
WINDHAM COUNTY, CT -- Wheels to Learning offers transportation funding to all K-12 public schools in Windham County, Connecticut for field trips to designated educational and cultural non-profit in
WEST HARTFORD, CT -- Children's Reading Partners, an initiative of the Jewish Community Relations Council is looking for reading partners and is offering trainings in September. Major grant funding is provided by the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford, SBM Charitable Foundation, the Jeffrey P. Ossen Family Foundation, People's United Community Foundation, and George A. & Grace L. Long Foundation at Bank of America.
NEW CANAAN, CT -- Leonard Tow, Founder and chairman of The Tow Foundation, is one of nine recipients of the 10th class of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. He was named during a ceremony held last week on the 100th anniversary of the death of Carnegie, a who was known for his charitable giving, at the latter’s ancestral home in Dunfermline, Scotland.
MANSFIELD, CT -- The Steeple Chase Bike Ride and Walk on August 17, will again benefit three social service organizations in northeast Connecticut, and every dollar raised by Steeple Chase participants or sponsors will be matched in 2019 by the Jeffrey P. Ossen Family Foundation.
NEW CANAAN, CT -- The 5th annual Camp LiveGirl brought together 130 girls from across Connecticut, including girls from as far away as the Waterbury Boys & Girls Club and the Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants. LiveGirl scholarships were funded by New Canaan Community Foundation, the Connecticut Community Foundation, the Grace J. Fippinger Foundation, and Refinitiv.