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CT Public-Private Partnership Summit Reception
CT Public-Private Partnership Summit
CCP Urges Congress to Support Nonprofits in Stimulus Bill
HARTFORD, CT -- CCP sent a letter to the Connecticut Congressional delegation urging support for the nonprofit community in response to the COVID-19 emergency.
Opinion: Census 2020: Connecticut’s avoidable fiscal problem
HARTFORD, CT -- This op-ed, written and supported by leaders from Connecticut's philanthropic community, urges the state government to invest additional funds in the 2020 Census to ensure an accurate count or risk recieving a full compliment of federal funds.
CCP Public Policy Update: Census Workshops for Nonprofits
CCP Public Policy Update: New Tax Changes
Nonprofit Organizations Are Focus of January Workshops on 2020 Census
Tufts Health Plan Foundation Awards Nearly $1 Million to Nine Community Organizations
The State Might Not Provide a Grant to Community Nonprofits This Year. The Effects Would Be Painful.
HARTFORD, CT -- As the governor and legislators negotiate a bond package to be considered in the upcoming special legislative session, they are considering not funding the grant program this year. Not funding the grant program would mean that while the state is generating a massive surplus for this fiscal year, as much as $1.6 billion, we would still cut assistance to community nonprofits that provide substance abuse and mental health services, house the homeless, provide residential and day programs for people with developmental disabilities, help people re-enter the community from prison, and promote arts and cultural programs that keep our communities vibrant, to name just a few of the vital programs nonprofits provide.
Response to Financial Challenges: Funder - Nonprofit Survey Report
The Connecticut Council for Philanthropy and the CT Community Nonprofit Alliance surveyed their members in an effort to learn how nonprofits and funders were experiencing and responding to financial challenges.
CCP Policy Update: Bills That Would Have Levied Taxes on Nonprofits with Endowments - May 15, 2019
HARTFORD, CT -- CCP follows up on bills SB1137 and SB38, that would have levied new taxes on nonprofits with endowments, pension accounts, or significant savings accounts.
CCP Public Hearing Testimony Against "An Act Concerning Deposits in Lieu of Taxes"
CCP Policy ALERT: New Bill Would Levy Fees on Nonprofits with Endowments
CCP Policy Update (3/1/19)
The Problem With Charitable Giving
NEW YORK, NY -- Starting this fall, and well into the future, medical students at New York University will get free tuition. In a few years, shiny new facilities will welcome cancer patients in Atlanta and brain researchers at Stanford. The announcements about these developments credit generous philanthropists, but fail to mention who else is footing much of the bill: American taxpayers. Like most charitable giving, health care philanthropy is tax-deductible. When wealthy people give away millions of dollars, their tax bills go down. But that leaves the rest of us either to pick up the slack or go without the investments that our government could have made with those funds.