AT&T Inc. has announced that seven schools and nonprofits in Connecticut will receive its Aspire grants totaling more than $335,000. The grants are designed to support high school retention programs at national and local levels for at-risk students. Programs receiving the grants include: Windham Public Schools, $146,000 over two years; Meriden Wallingford United Fund Inc., $35,000; Bristol Board of Education, $34,000; Natchaug Hospital Inc., Mansfield, $30,000; and Hartford Youth Scholars Foundation Inc., $25,000.
Public Allies Connecticut has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the Travelers Foundation to support its work in community development in the Hartford area. Part of a Milwaukee-based national nonprofit, Public Allies prepares young adults for leadership careers in the nonprofit and public service sectors in 15 states. Allies are ages 18 to 30 and reflect the changing demographics of Connecticut and the United States, including people of color, women, high school and college graduates, and individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
Author and marketing consultant Lewis Green of Avon is collaborating on a blog involving 237 marketing professionals from 29 states and 14 nations. Green joined other bloggers to write a book, “The Age of Conversation 2.” All proceeds from sales of the book, available in hardcover and softcover editions, as well as a downloadable e-book, will be donated to Variety, an international children’s charity. The downloadable e-book costs $12.50, of which $10 will be contributed to Variety. Orders for the hardcover ($29.95, with $6.04 to charity) and softcover ($19.95, with $8.02 donated to charity) also are available at http://stores.lulu.com/ageofconversation. More information can be seen online at www.ageofconversation.com.
The American School for the Deaf in West Hartford received a grant award of $30,000 from the John H. and Ethel G. Noble Charitable Trust with Deutsche Bank as trustees to the Early Childhood Intervention Program (ECIP). This program provides a variety of services to deaf and hard-of-hearing children, ages birth to three, and their families throughout Connecticut.
Achieve Financial Credit Union presented a check for $500 to the Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter in support of the 2008 Memory Walk. Funds were raised selling Forget-Me-Nots in the Berlin and Central Connecticut State University branches and the staff dressed casually on Fridays.
RE/MAX Premier in West Hartford recently donated time and $3,700 to the 2008 Habitat for Humanity Build-a-Thon on Enfield Street in Hartford.
