“Do you know anybody who could rake my leaves?”It was late October 2016, and Leonardo Ghio’s elderly client kept calling him.And calling him.Ghio, municipal agent/senior adviser for New [...]
“Events like these are essential to bringing communities closer together.”Residents of Greater Waterbury and the Litchfield Hills will reap the benefits of $16,000 in grants for community events recently [...]
For small nonprofits with limited resources, finding quality, affordable professional services is hard. And finding volunteers who can provide those services for free is even harder. [...]
Earlier this year, Connecticut Community Foundation introduced an exciting capacity-building tool for local nonprofit organizations: Catchafire. A powerful, national online platform, Catchafire connects skilled volunteers with nonprofits [...]
Sarah Gager’s decades-long philanthropic journey started with dirty water. As she globetrotted through countries including Jamaica and Denmark, Germany and Bermuda and small villages in Mexico, Gager [...]
Sean Mosley was only five or six years old, but he remembers those Saturday mornings going door-to-door with his parents to various Waterbury neighborhoods, registering people to [...]
The line starts forming as early as 4 a.m. at the food pantry run by Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries (GWIM). It’s the last Monday of the month, [...]
Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries (GWIM) and the Waterbury Juneteenth Celebration Committee are the recipients of the 2018 Trustee Fund Award, an honor created by current [...]
Connecticut Community Foundation’s members have elected Brian M. Jones of Southbury and Stephen Seward of Roxbury to three-year terms on the Foundation’s Board of Trustees. Jones and [...]
Women’s Giving Circle, Aiming to Improve Lives of Women and Girls in Greater Waterbury and the Litchfield Hills, Awards First Grants The Women’s Giving Circle at Connecticut [...]