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UI and SCG Help Downtown Businesses Recover from COVID-19 Impacts
ORANGE, CT -- As part of a broader commitment to support COVID-19 relief and recovery AVANGRID subsidiaries, United Illuminating and Southern Connecticut Gas, are providing funding to support the struggling downtown business districts in Bridgeport and New Haven. They are providing $20,000 to Bridgeport's Downtown Special Services District to help small, independent, ground-floor businesses plan and execute their reopening. Another $20,000 grant will help the Economic Development Corporation of New Haven/REX Development provide micro-grants so that downtown restaurants and shops can provide safe outdoor dining and retail spaces.
Firebox, Hartford's farm-to-table restaurant with a community mission, to close after 13 years
HARTFORD, CT -- Firebox, the innovative farm-to-table restaurant in Hartford’s Frog Hollow neighborhood, will close after 13 years, citing the COVID-19 pandemic and “the uncertainty it has brought.” The Melville Charitable Trust launched Firebox on Broad Street in 2007, with a vision “to serve extraordinary food and to bring jobs, investment, and opportunity to the community." The restaurant became a destination for locally grown fare, crafting its daily menus with produce, meats and dairy from Connecticut farms.
Bank of America, Travelers and City of Hartford Contributions Will Enhance Hartford Small Business Emergency Grant Program
Pandemic Child Care Relief Justification Briefing and Fact Sheet
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization advancing policy solutions for low-income people, has developed a Justification Briefing and Fact Sheet with state-by-state estimates of public funds needed by the child care industry during the pandemic to sustain the viability of our providers.
Hartford Launches $1 Million Small Business Grant Program, Plans Additional $300,000 Grant Program, and Awards $120,000 to Small Businesses
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City Inner City Launches Second Round of Inner City Capital Connections Program
Regional Leaders Craft Economic Strategy for Metro Hartford
Economic Development Symposium: Building Resilient Communities: Leveraging Anchor Institutions
Opportunity Zones: Choose Connecticut
CHEFA Hosts First Nonprofit Education Forum
Hartford Area Inner City Capital Connections Launches Capacity-building Training Initiative for Over 60 Businesses
The Chelsea Groton Foundation Makes 2nd $100K Grant to Support Global City Norwich
HFPG Impact! Greater Hartford Helping to Secure Community Use at Dillon Stadium and Colt Park
Hartford Foundation Announces New Community and Economic Development Initiative
Chelsea Groton Foundation Makes $100K Grant for Establishing a Global City Initiative — Supporting the Revitalization of Downtown Norwich
Regional Leaders to Craft Economic Strategy for the Hartford Metropolitan Region
Bank of America Awards Grant to KNOX, Helping Provide Green Job Opportunities, Revitalize Hartford Neighborhoods
Meeting Resource - Workforce Affinity Group - 3/7/2016
Resources for Further Reading - Giving in Connecticut 2015
Resources for further reading related to Giving in Connecticut, published December 2015.