The CT Nonprofit Center, part of the CT Community Nonprofit Alliance, is winding down and will cease its operations.
“Following discussions with the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and CIL (Corporation for Independent Living), we have made the the difficult decision to discontinue the CT Nonprofit Center program and will be phasing out services over the next several months,” according to a letter from Gian-Carl Casa, president and CEO of the CT Community Nonprofit Alliance.
The CT Community Nonprofit Alliance had been subsidizing the center for many years.
The CT Nonprofit Center is located in the historic Atlantic Works building at 75 Charter Oak Ave. in Hartford. The owner of the building, CIL, put it up for sale last spring.
The CT Nonprofit Center is a shared home to nonprofit organizations. It provides shared conference room space for nonprofits and makes group purchases for equipment such as copiers and internet hardware.
Casa said the center needed technology upgrades and became too costly to operate, despite support from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
“The center has high annual costs and with the building for sale it did not make sense to go forward with the kind of large investments necessary …” Casa said.
The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has offered to help nonprofit members of the center, and CIL is making other space in the complex available for meetings, he said.
The CT Community Nonprofit Alliance, the state’s association of community nonprofits, will not be affected.
“We are alive, well and healthy,” Casa said. “The ending of services to the nonprofit center will help us do more for the 300 nonprofit organizations in our statewide membership.”
