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A monthly benefit of CCP membership, the May 2017 Member eBrief features: CCP Updates; Member News & Releases; New Resources; Colleague News and Other Events. Remember to login to access this member benefit!

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HARTFORD, CT -- On Thursday, May 4, Lucy Nalpathanchil, WNPR's Where We Live host, interviewed Heather McGhee, CCP's May 12, 2017 Annual Meeting keynote speaker.

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HARTFORD, CT -- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy (CCP), the state’s association of grantmakers, welcomes its new president, Karla Fortunato, who starts work on Monday, May 1, at the organization’s office in Hartford. 

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HARTFORD, CT -- A letter on behalf of the CCP board and signed by Judith Meyers, CCP Board Chair, and Frances Padilla, CCP Chair of the Government Relations and Policy Committee, expressing CCP's strong opposition to legislation that would repeal the Johnson Amendment, was published in the CT Mirror's CT ViewPoints.

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  • The APRIL Digest includes feature headlines: Keep Partisan Politics Out of the Charitable Sector; Funders to Hear from Thought Leader on Bridging Our Nation’s Racial Divide; Ten Receive Boston Fed’s Working Cities Challenge Design Grants; CT United Ways Partner With EARN to Bring ALICE® Households a Matched-Savings Program; News Integrity Initiative Is Launched to Increase Trust in Journalism; UWGNH's Video in Competition for $100K A Community Thrives Prize; AND regular topics -- PHILANTHROPY NEWS LINKS; SCHOLARSHIP NEWS LINKS; GRANTS & RFPS; EVENTS & OTHER OPPORTUNITIES; PEOPLE and JOBS IN PHILANTHROPY!
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HARTFORD, CT -- The Connecticut Council for Philanthropy's public policy update from April 21, 2017 includes information H.B. No. 7322 with a provision to repeal exemption of nonprofits from the sales tax.

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NEW HAVEN, CT -- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven (TCF), the region’s charitable endowment and largest grantmaker, has created a new competitive grant process to benefit nonprofit animal shelters in Greater New Haven. Nonprofit shelters are eligible to apply year-round for up to $7,500 in funding from The Lillian and Henry A. Konopacke Fund.  

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NEW BRITAIN, CT -- Jim Williamson, who as president of the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain for the past 12-plus years led the organization through a transformative period of growth, change and influence, has announced his retirement. The Strategy Group, LLC of Darien has been retained to lead the executive transition process.

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HARTFORD, C T -- On Wednesday, ten groups from small and midsize cities across Connecticut gathering at Real Art Ways in Hartford to mark the first step of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Working Cities Challenge Connecticut.

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HARTFORD, CT --Liberty Bank Foundation, a funder of the Connecticut Working Cities Challenge, and a participant on the statewide Advisory Board, reviews the Design Grant formal announcement at Real Arts Ways in Hartford. Ten Connecticut cities were selected to receive a $15,000 design grant under the Connecticut Working Cities Challenge.

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