Stories
John Staver’s Legacy of Love
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 [...]
An Astounding Outpouring of Generosity: Give Local Greater Waterbury and Litchfield Hills Raises $1.36 Million in 36 Hours
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 [...]
Unassuming Watertown Man Leaves Connecticut Community Foundation $4 Million for Local Causes
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 [...]
Keeping the Faith in Diabetes Management
“I’ve got to tell you what happened. I’ve lost 40 pounds. My A1C [glucose level] is below seven. The nurse who has been seeing me for a year [...]
Meet the Youth Mobilizing to Make Your Water Cleaner
Stormwater that flows directly into storm drains and into rivers seems pretty harmless, right?Think again.The number one known cause of pollution in rivers and streams is stormwater [...]
Kim Deyo: Foundation scholarship paves the way from Thomaston to Italy
Meet Kim Deyo from Thomaston, Connecticut! She's a Studio Art major at the University of Hartford. For the second consecutive year, she was awarded the Lois Livingston McMillen Memorial [...]
New Video, “We’ve Met Before,” Celebrates the Generosity of Neighbors
"We've met before" can be viewed in English and Spanish. So you think we haven’t met before? In fact, if you live, work or play in Greater [...]
Chore Services Deliver Safety and Peace of Mind for New Milford’s Older Residents
“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 [...]
Connecting Nature and Health Through Catchafire
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. [...]
Connecticut Legal Services: “Catchafire can help us go from good to great…”
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 [...]
Generosity Overflows for Sarah Gager
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 [...]
Waterbury’s Juneteeth: Inspiring Cultural Pride to Improve Communities
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 [...]
Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries: Feeding Community
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, [...]
Connecticut Community Foundation Trustees Recognize Innovation and Collaboration with 2018 Awards to Community Groups
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 [...]
“We are energized and activated”
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 [...]