DANBURY, CT -- A city-wide collaborative focused on helping lower-income residents build better lives has been awarded a $22,000 grant from Fairfield County’s Community Foundation (FCCF).
HARTFORD, CT -- United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut has awarded $25,000 to the Hartford Working Cities initiative, which focuses on reducing unemployment among young adults in Hartford’s Barry Square, Frog Hollow and South Green neighborhoods.
DANBURY, CT -- DanburyWORKS, a collaborative supported by the Boston Federal Reserve’s Working Cities Challenge Grant, officially launches on May 20, 2019.
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DANBURY, CT -- United Way of Western Connecticut (UWWC) will announce the launch of Cora’s Kids, a program to invest $1 million over the next 3-5 years to support new family childcare centers in Danbury at a press event on Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 9:00 am at the Danbury Fair Mall Center Court.
WATERBURY, CT -- Waterbury has been awarded a $450,000 jobs grant, which will be used in a $1 million, three-year, effort to improve employment statistics in a depressed South End neighborhood. The city is among five Connecticut communities that will each get $450,000 grants from the Working Cities Challenge. Local politicians and civic activists have spent more than a year applying for the grant through the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
MIDDLETOWN, CT -- Kevin Wilhelm of Middlesex United Way announced that Middletown has won the Boston Federal Reserve Working Cities Challenge, which promotes economic growth throughout cities in Connecticut, as well as other parts of New England. This grant provides $450,000 in a multi-year commitment to support the implementation of different strategies and resources to help single parents in need begin their journey toward financial stability and economic independence.
DANBURY, CT -- Danbury has won the Working Cities Challenge put forth by the Boston Federal Reserve and been awarded $450,000 in a multi-year commitment to improve the lives of low- and moderate-income residents.
DANBURY, CT -- United Way of Western Connecticut and the City of Danbury celebrated their successful application for a $450,000 Working Cities Challenge grant. The City's 10-year plan to reduce poverty in Danbury by 30 percent will be aided by the grant. Their three-part strategy includes building trust among immigrants and minorities, improving the quality of affordable childcare, and coordinating the city’s English language programs so that more people can use them.
HARTFORD, CT -- Hartford is among five cities in Connecticut to win a competition for grants of $450,000 that will fund programs focused on increasing opportunities for low- and moderate-income residents. In addition to Hartford, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston will announce Tuesday that Danbury, East Hartford, Middletown and Waterbury were selected as winners of the “Working Cities Challenge.”
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.
TORINGTON, CT -- One of the most exciting initiatives we have undertaken this year is the Boston Federal Reserve Working Cities Challenge. The City of Torrington and the Chamber are the co-leads. It features a competition for three year grant funds in ten selected postindustrial cities in Connecticut.
MIDDLETOWN, CT -- Middletown received a $15,000 design grant to develop a plan to improve the lives of low-income Middletown residents by decreasing poverty rates among single heads of household with children under 18, hoping to reduce our current rate of 41 percent to our goal of 25 percent over the next 10 years. Since March, a collaborative team led by Middlesex United Way, The Connection and the city of Middletown, representatives from over 30 other organizations and businesses and Middletown residents have been meeting monthly to develop a plan to achieve this goal, and in turn, improve the lives of low-income residents.
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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HARTFORD, CT -- Today Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President and CEO Eric Rosengren, along with Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy and public and private funders, officially recognized ten $15,000 design grant awards as part of the Working Cities Challenge in Connecticut.
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.
DANBURY, CT -- Improving the lives of low-income Danbury residents is the purpose of new funding awarded to the city by the Boston Federal Reserve. Called the Working Cities Challenge Grant, it was awarded to a collaborative team led by the United Way of Western Connecticut (UWWC) and Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut (CAAWC).
MERIDEN, CT -- At an October 4 event at the Meriden Green featuring Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren and other Federal Reserve Bank of Boston partners, the Working Cities Challenge celebrated 16 Connecticut communities that are eligible to pursue collaborative and ambitious economic development strategies to improve the lives of low-income people in small- and mid-size cities in Connecticut.
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.
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