Professional Advisors
As a professional advisor, you play an important role in providing opportunities for your clients to achieve their charitable wishes.
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As a professional advisor, you play an important role in providing opportunities for your clients to achieve their charitable wishes.
A donor can be an individual, an institution or an organzition. They help others by making strategic and informed giving decisions with their resources and monetary awards.
Your membership in the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy (CCP) offers a wealth of local, regional and national resources that will strengthen the work of your staff and trustees.
You are eligible to become a member in the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy (CCP) if you represent an organization or are an individual* whose principal function is the making of grants for charitable purposes.
In 1969, the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy (CCP) was founded in Hartford with just 7 members as the Coordinating Council for Foundations. Today CCP is the state’s association of grantmakers committed to promoting and supporting effective philanthropy for the public good. CCP's 110 members annually grant more than $1 billion from assets of more than $8.4 billion. Read a brief account of CCP's 50-year history and timeline.
The Foundation Administrator Network is for foundation operations and administrative staff and executive assistants of member organizations
Funders connect for peer sharing and learning. Contact: Carol Scholfield.
Find corporate philanthropy resources and news for CCP member corporate giving programs and corporate foundations.
Find resources and news for family foundations and other family philanthropies.
CEOs from member community foundations meet quarterly to share best practices, build capacity and awareness, and look for opportunities to adv
Representatives of grantmaking organizations located in or funding in Eastern Connecticut meet on a regular basis to connect with and familiarize one another about issues facing grantmakers in the region, and learn about activities, initiatives and areas of philanthropic engagement.
This group provides a forum for grantmakers who are located in or funding in the Greater Hartford region to come together, exchange information about news and topics of interest in the region.
Representatives of grantmaking organizations located in or funding in Fairfield County meet on a regular basis to connect with and familiarize one another about issues facing grantmakers in the region, and learn about activities, initiatives and areas of philanthropic engagement.
Find resources on aging for funders and news about the aging issue, including the issues related to long-term living (e.g. social and health services, housing, transportation, workforce); how communities can benefit from and capitalize on the knowledge, skills and energy of older residents.
Peer Networks offer Council members the opportunity to come together with funding colleagues at like organizations or with similar jobs to share best practices, information about grantmaking priorities, and current challenges and solutions.
Representatives of member organizations who live or fund in identified areas of the state meet to discuss issues specific to their region. These groups are led by chairs and vice chairs from the membership.
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The Connecticut Council for Philanthropy is the leading voice to policy makers on behalf of Connecticut’s grantmakers.
Access a list of external links to state, regional and national organizations and resources that support the philanthropy and nonprofits.