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United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut Awards $25K to Hartford Working Cities
Launch of DanburyWORKS to Take Place on May 20
United Way of Western CT To Launch Cora’s Kids, Focus on Early Childhood Development Through Infant and Toddler Childcare
Middlesex United Way Wins $450K Working Cities Grant to Help Single Parents
Danbury Wins Boston Fed’s Working Cities Challenge Competition
Grant to Help Danbury Efforts to Overcome Trust Issues, Reduce Poverty
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.
Challenge Moves Forward for CT’s Working Cities
Working Cities Design Grant Winners Celebrate
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.
Ten Connecticut Cities Receive Design Grants through the Boston Fed’s Working Cities Challenge
Danbury Awarded Working Cities Challenge Grant
Working Cities Celebrates Expansion to Connecticut
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.