Grantee LiveGirl aims to mentor the next generation of female leaders The Women's Giving Circle at Connecticut Community Foundation—65 women of all ages eager to make an [...]
When the call came to meet about the needs of Woodbury’s older residents, even the local grocer showed up.The concerns were many. Requests for fuel and food assistance [...]
“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.” Connecticut Community Foundation’s 2018 annual report, You Cared, opens with those words from [...]
Silas Bronson Library in Waterbury opened its doors 149 years ago, but rich history aside, it didn’t want to look like a 19th century relic.The library, the largest [...]
Connecticut Community Foundation's grant delivered medical equipment, exam tables and computers to Wellmore Behavioral Health's new Promoting Integrated Care clinic in Waterbury. [Photos by Jake Koteen Photography] [...]
The Staver Fund will help the Greater Waterbury YMCA expand the breadth and quality of its preschool. [Photo by Jake Koteen Photography] It wasn’t quite Valentine’s [...]
Give Local Greater Waterbury and Litchfield Hills, an online giving event hosted by Connecticut Community Foundation for the seventh year, concluded a 36-hour flurry of giving at [...]
Words cannot express our gratitude to you and the thousands of other donors, partners, sponsors and nonprofit organizations who worked together to make Give Local Greater Waterbury and Litchfield [...]
Our March 2019 newsletter features the story of John Staver of Watertown, whose bequest of $4 million is the largest donation by an individual in the Foundation's [...]
John Staver helps a woman prepare her taxes. (March 2007 photo by Jamison C. Bazinet, Republican-American) The donation is the largest by an individual in the [...]