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CCP is a Comcast Newsmaker
View the Comcast Newsmakers interview with Eric Clemmons and CCP President Karla Fortunato.
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.
Hartford Among Five Connecticut Cities Winning Grants In 'Working Cities Challenge'
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.”
Challenge Moves Forward for CT’s Working Cities
Looking for Progress in America's Smaller Legacy Cities: A Report for Place-based Funders
This joint publication of The Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities and the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and New York, looks at four cities and how place-based funders are helping in post-recession economic recovery.