Nonprofits

Two new businesses in West Hartford are set to formally mark their openings.

Hartford Public Library has turned its downtown café into a workforce training ground, partnering with a local nonprofit that employs people with disabilities to run a new coffee shop that is open to the public.

State lawmakers are considering legislation that would create a new state watchdog agency tasked with uncovering fraud, waste and abuse in government programs following recent controversies involving state grants to nonprofit organizations.

Gov. Ned Lamont used his line-item veto power Tuesday to cut grants and earmarks worth $4 million from six sections of Senate Bill 298, a 98-section emergency-certified bill that sped with little review to passage last week by the General Assembly.

A group of state lawmakers and advocacy organizations plan Wednesday to unveil legislation creating a Connecticut Child Tax Credit.

Gov. Ned Lamont has proposed a bill intended to strengthen Connecticut’s nonprofit health and human services providers as they face increasing financial and administrative pressures tied to federal policy changes.

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State leaders face difficult decisions about which federal programs to replace with Connecticut dollars as Trump administration cuts billions in aid to human services.

The 62-unit development at 20 Scott Swamp Road would provide apartments for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, with residents receiving support services while living independently.

Over the past five years, Sen. Doug McCrory helped to award more than $15 million in state grants to the Blue Hills Civic Association, a prominent 60-year-old community nonprofit that served part of his district in the north end of Hartford.