The Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford recently donated $1,000 each to two charitable organizations including The Open Hearth, a temporary residential community serving homeless men in Greater Hartford, and Hartford Area Habitat for Humanity, a local nonprofit housing organization. The charities were chosen by the associates of the Convention Center to receive a portion of the funds raised by the Waterford Group Charitable Foundation.
The Children’s Law Center received seven grant awards in September and October totaling $105,000. The funding sources for the nonprofit’s Legal Representation Program include: American Savings Foundation; Community Foundation of Greater New Britain; Bissell Foundation; XL Group; Linford & Mildred White Charitable Fund; NewAlliance Foundation; and the Day Pitney Foundation. Children’s Law Center’s mission is to protect the interests of indigent children in family court and to advocate policies that advance their well-being and best interests.
Grants totaling $500,000 have been awarded by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving to 65 nonprofit agencies to support programs providing food and other basic human needs to clients throughout Greater Hartford. The grants support both regional and local agencies in Avon, Bloomfield, East Hartford, Enfield, Hartford, Manchester, Newington, Rocky Hill, Simsbury, Vernon, West Hartford, Wethersfield and Windsor. The majority of the grants — more than $300,000 — were awarded to agencies for use in food programs to support current needs as well as food services during the upcoming holidays.
