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New Leaders, Board Members Elected to Connecticut Council for Philanthropy
New Report: Even Before the Pandemic, 38% of Families in Connecticut Struggled to Pay for Basic Needs
CT Philanthropy Digest - September 2020
Child Care and Early Education Providers Are in Crisis. How Are Funders Responding?
NEW YORK, NY -- There is near-universal consensus that early-childhood education programs can break cycles of poverty and lead to lasting upward mobility. But funders say they have always been fragile, and have only become more so due to COVID-19. Early care and education do not receive much public investment compared to K-12 public education. The result is a patchworked system—if you can call it a system—kept afloat by various sources of revenue. Most early care and education providers teetered at the financial edge, with a month or two of reserves on hand even before the crisis. Weeks of closure have likely led to permanent closures for thousands of child care centers.
CT Philanthropy Digest - Summer 2020
Connecticut teams up with Indeed on back-to-work initiative
HARTFORD, CT -- Connecticut has teamed with employment search engine Indeed to create a state-specific online portal to link those who have lost jobs during the coronavirus pandemic with employers as the economy reopens. Gov. Ned Lamont said Thursday the portal is the first of its kind in the country and part of a new program called the CT Back to Work Initiative, which also will include an online job fair and online job training programs for the approximately 610,000 state residents who have filed for unemployment during the pandemic.
New Leaders, Board Members Elected to Connecticut Council for Philanthropy
CT Philanthropy Digest - Spring 2020
Funder COVID-19 News
CT Philanthropy Digest - FEBRUARY 2020
CCP Public Policy Update: Census Workshops for Nonprofits
CT Philanthropy Digest - DECEMBER 2019
CT Philanthropy Digest - OCTOBER 2019
CT Philanthropy Digest - AUGUST 2019
New Report shows Connecticut Giving By Individuals and Foundations Remained Steady in 2016, But Concerns Remain
Nonprofits See Challenges Ahead After Federal, State Tax Changes
HARTFORD, CT -- With the nonprofit sector facing numerous challenges in Connecticut - as a result of state budget cuts and the new federal tax law - 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 these challenges.