This section features reports, CCP newsletters, member spotlights, best practices, sample documents, and resources we believe can help grantmakers and foundations. Some of these items are only available to members. There are several different ways to search the resource library. Using the filters on the right side of this page, you can search by type of Resource Type, Topic, Funding Area, or Audience. For example, if you are looking for a Report, select Resource Type, then you can filter by Audience or Topic to refine the results. Please note, the search box below only searches resources. If you're looking for news or events, use the search box in the top navigation bar.
Asset Funders Network’s latest report, in collaboration with the Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap (CWWG) and the Insight Center for Community Economic Development reveals the current economic reality for millennial women and the primary drivers contributing to their wealth inequities.
The Connecticut Council for Philanthropy (CCP) reserves the right to cancel or re-schedule any program (including workshops and events) due to inclement weather or unforeseen situations.
CCP's Infographic reviews activities and milestones from 2018.
Find resources for grantmakers funding immigrants and refugees.
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.
The comprehensive report on the city of New Britain draws together data from a wide variety of sources on more than 50 important indicators, from housing costs to preschool enrollment to high school graduation rates.
The city of Waterbury has made significant progress on many key human services issues over the past decade, according to the 2018: A Demographic, Social & Environmental Scan, released by the American Savings Foundation.
The Foundation Center compiles Foundation Landscapes that combine multiple resources, including data visualization tools, original research, and more to illuminate critical issues in philanthropy. This page, focused on racial equity, includes a collection of research, upcoming trainings and webinars, news articles, and blog posts from experts in the field.
HARTFORD, CT -- On December 4, 2018, funders from across Connecticut came together to discuss an opportunity to create community-driven solutions to poor health, health inequity, and growing health care costs in Connecticut. The topic for the discussion was the Health Enhancement Community (HEC) Initiative. Access the meeting brief.
RE-Center is offering Equity in Education Workshopsthese workshops in November 2018 through May 2019. The workshops are designed to help educators and others understand the different ways racism and other forms of oppression show up in classrooms and workplaces and how to interrupt these forms of oppression through Equity Shifts, Restorative Justice Practices, and problem solving for equity.
Find materials to support Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue victims.
Find resources to help support relief efforts for disaster created by Hurricane Michael.
The Early Childhood Funder Collaborative, a project of CCP, is please to share its new paper, Full, Equal, and Equitable Partnerships with Families: Connecticut’s Definition and Framework for Family Engagement.
Find resources to help support relief efforts for disaster created by Hurricane Florence.
Connecticut Council of Philanthropy was one of 33 philanthropy serving organizations that signed onto a letter opposing the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
ACCP's August 2018 Blog Post about the History of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Find resources for 2018 California Wildfire disaster relief and recovery.
Achieving race equity — the condition where one’s racial identity has no influence on how one fares in society — is a fundamental element of social change across every issue area in the social sector. Yet the structural racism that endures in U.S. society, deeply rooted in our nation’s history and perpetuated through racist policies, practices, attitudes, and cultural messages, prevents us from attaining it. The impact of structural racism is evident not only in societal outcomes, but in the very institutions that seek to positively impact them
Connecticut Council for Philanthropy was one of more than 190 foundations and philanthropy serving organizations from across the country to have signed onto a joint Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) statement in support of children and families seeking refuge in the United States.
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.
