Member eBrief - February 2017
A monthly benefit of CCP membership, the February 2017 Member eBrief features: CCP Updates; Member News & Releases; New Resources; Colleague News and Other Events. Remember to login to access this member benefit!
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A monthly benefit of CCP membership, the February 2017 Member eBrief features: CCP Updates; Member News & Releases; New Resources; Colleague News and Other Events. Remember to login to access this member benefit!
Mark Abraham of DataHaven and Nancy von Euler of Fairfield County's Community Foundation presented their 2016 Fairfield County Community Wellbeing Index and 2015 Community Wellbeing Survey PowerPoint during the the Fairfield County Funder Network's January 19, 2017 meeting.
TORRINGTON, CT -- The Women & Girls Fund of the Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation invites nonprofits to apply for grants. Programs eligible for grants include those that serve women and girls in the development of economic self-sufficiency by means of education, financial literacy and social services. Applicants may request up to $5,000 for programs. The application deadline is March 8, 2017.
NEW HAVEN, CT -- A number of Connecticut’s leading education organizations -- the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE), the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS), the Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS), the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), and the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER) have agreed to a set of design principles for the development of a new school funding formula that supports student learning. These guiding principles were developed with Professor Ken Wong, of Brown University and with the assistance of the independent, nonpartisan Connecticut School Finance Project.
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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.
BOSTON, CT -- David Radcliffe, director of the Connecticut Working Cities Challenge at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, blogs about the Connecticut Working Cities Challenge.
Connecticut is the latest state participating in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Working Cities Challenge competition, an economic development effort that builds cross-sector collaboration and leadership to solve challenges affecting urban communities.
BRISTOL, CT -- Main Street Community Foundation is currently accepting grant applications from area nonprofit organizations through its competitive General Grant Cycle and the Plainville Community Fund while scholarship applications are being accepted from local students. General Grant Cycle proposals are due March 31, 2017. Plainville Community Fund proposals are due March 15, 2017. Scholarships are March 17, 2017.
BRIDGEPORT, CT -- Avangrid (formerly United Illuminating) has granted $10,000 to United Way of Coastal Fairfield County's Neighbors Helping Neighbors initiative.
TORRINGTON, CT --The Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation is awarding scholarships for the 2017-2018 academic year. Scholarship applications are now available for the more than $130,000 available to area students.
DANBURY, CT -- The NewsTimes reports on CCP's Giving in Connecticut Report: Connecticut residents and chariable foundations donated $4.5 billion in 2014, according to the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy, a 3.1 percent shortfall from the year before primarily due to a drop in posthumous bequests.
RICHMOND, VA -- Dominion Resources announced today that it will once again provide $1 million in environmental grants this year through its charitable arm, the Dominion Foundation. Eligible organizations in Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and other areas within Dominion's footprint can submit applications through March 1, 2017.
WATERBURY, CT -- Applications are now open for students in Greater Waterbury and the Litchfield Hills to apply for college scholarships from Connecticut Community Foundation for the 2017-18 academic year. Most scholarships are renewable for up to four years. First-time applications are due on March 15. Applications for scholarship renewals are due February 15.
NEW GLOUCESTER, ME -- The Avangrid Foundation is now accepting scholarship applications for master’s studies in energy and/or the environment at Binghamton University, Cornell University, the University of Connecticut, Oregon State University, the Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of Maine, and the University of Rochester in the United States; ICAI School of Engineering in Spain; and the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom for the 2017/2018 academic year. The Scholarship application deadline is 8 a.m. (EST) February 17, 2017.
NEW BRITAIN, CT -- Highlighted by major funding for early childhood development programs as part of its signature First Years First Initiative, the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain has wrapped up its 2016 grantmaking year with more than $230,000 in grants and scholarships.
HARTFORD, CT -- Connecticut By The Numbers Reports on CCP's Giving in Connecticut: The latest report from the Connecticut Council of Philanthropy (CCP), which highlights philanthropic giving in Connecticut shows that as giving across the U.S. has increased, the opposite is true of Connecticut, even as individual giving – which makes up the lion’s share of giving – has increased.
HARTFORD, CT -- Hartford Business Journal reports on CCP's Giving in Connecticut: Charitable donations by Connecticut foundations, companies and individuals dipped 3.2 percent from 2013 to 2014, according to an annual analysis by the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy.
The January Digest includes feature headlines: Nominations Sought for Philanthropy Awards; United Way Report Analyzes ALICE Data Across 13 States; Nonprofits Need to Stand Together to Push for Smart Public Policies; CCP Report Shows Connecticut Giving Up 14% over last 5 Years; Nominations Sought for Philanthropy Awards; CCP's Annual Convening & Philanthropy Awards Slated for May 12; 16M Gift to Benefit Birds, Animals and the Environment; AND regular topics -- PHILANTHROPY NEWS LINKS; SCHOLARSHIP NEWS LINKS; GRANTS & RFPS; EVENTS & OTHER OPPORTUNITIES; PEOPLE and JOBS IN PHILANTHROPY!
HARTFORD, CT - Individuals and foundations in Connecticut gave $4.51 billion in charitable contributions during 2014*, according to Giving in Connecticut, an annual report published by the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy (CCP).