In its May grant round, Connecticut Community Foundation awarded a total of $18,800 in sponsorship grants to 23 nonprofit organizations hosting community events in Greater Waterbury and the [...]
Connecticut Community Foundation has released its 2017 annual report, which highlights the impact of the Foundation’s donors and community partners in improving the quality of life in [...]
The grant request raised eyebrows and spoke volumes: community college students in Waterbury needed a food pantry. Sarah Gager, dean of student services at Naugatuck Valley Community [...]
Could they program their robot to flush a toilet? It was a wintry Saturday morning in February, and dozens of middle school boys and girls, their parents [...]
As Hurricanes Irma and Maria ravaged Puerto Rico in September 2017, profound fear and anguish reverberated all the way to Greater Waterbury and the Litchfield Hills. The [...]
An art show would seem to be the last thing on someone’s mind when departing the confines of a mental health treatment center after weeks or months. [...]
January 1, 1984. That’s when Mary-Kate Gill, director of elder services, and Lisa Labonte, director of senior nutrition services, began working together at New Opportunities, a social [...]
A $30,000 grant from Connecticut Community Foundation to the Connecticut affiliate of FoodCorps, a national organization that connects kids to healthy foods, will give schoolchildren in four [...]
If you ask Jill Mahoney about her organization, the Naugatuck Partnership for Children, be prepared to listen for a while. That’s because working with dozens of partners [...]
Sixth annual 36-hour online giving campaign raised more than prior years Hailing from local towns and such far-flung places as China and New York City, 4,465 donors [...]