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Youth Voice & COVID-19
NEW HAVEN, CT -- In April of 2020, as part of our institutional response to COVID19, The Perrin Family Foundation launched a youth communication project intended to capture how young people were experiencing the global crisis. Over the next few weeks the Foundation will be sharing the youth experiences and connecting the stories to larger themes and issues.
Butterflies Are Free. Saving Them Isn't, So Branford Is Helping
How $241,500 in grants will help New Haven schools address racial equity
NEW HAVEN, CT -- Two grants from the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund totaling $241,500 are intended to help the New Haven Public Schools support racial equity within the school district.
Office of Early Childhood launches CTCARES for Family Child Care
Connecticut Has 10 Years of Big Youth Justice Wins, But Much More Work Needs to Be Done
NEW CANAAN, CT -- Diane Sierpina, director of justice initiative for The Tow Foundation celebrates the progress of Connecticut's juvenile justice efforts over the last 10 years, and shares information about the barriers for improved outcomes for youth with high needs and high risk of breaking the law.
Age Well Ambassadors Program to Launch in Greater Danbury
In The Thick, a politics podcast, travels to Three Rivers Community College and Eastern Connecticut State University
Expanded Wheels to Learning Program Continues its Support for Transportation Funding for School Field Trips
New Canaan Philanthropist Earns Medal Named After Carnegie
NEW CANAAN, CT -- Leonard Tow, Founder and chairman of The Tow Foundation, is one of nine recipients of the 10th class of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. He was named during a ceremony held last week on the 100th anniversary of the death of Carnegie, a who was known for his charitable giving, at the latter’s ancestral home in Dunfermline, Scotland.
Waveny Park Conservancy in New Canaan Celebrates Donors, Projects
NEW CANAAN, CT -- The Waveny Park Conservancy in New Canaan, Connecticut, held a reception Saturday, June 15, 2019, in the restored parterre garden to celebrate its donors, including the Harlan and Lois Anderson Family Foundation, and longtime New Canaan resident Carole Clarkson, and her family’s foundation, the Jeniam Foundation.
Magdalena Cwintal Joins the Tow Foundation as Account
Newly Restored WPA-era Paintings Highlighted in New Exhibition at Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts
BROOKLYN, NY -- Thanks to a generous gift from the Class of 1964, the portrait of a young woman now hangs with 12 other paintings restored to their former vibrancy in the new Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts, part of the exhibit “A New Deal for Artists: Connecting Brooklyn College to Its Past, Present, and Future.”
The Leever Foundation Welcomes Saran D. White as Executive Director
Tauck Family Foundation Announces Second Investee Cohort
Connecticut Foundations Launch Pilot Program to Provide Transportation Funding for School Field Trips
New Funding for Critically Conscious Youth Development
NEW HAVEN, CT --The Perrin Family Foundation has launched the Critically Conscious Youth Development (CCYD) grant program. PFF developed this multi-year grant making and capacity building opportunity with the intention of sharing a framework that introduces a new lens for youth development programs, focused on centering identity, lived experience, and political education as a core competency.