The Farmington Bank Community Foundation recently presented the Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation with a $4,000 grant (shown above) to support the organization’s partnership program. Fidelco is a Bloomfield nonprofit that promotes increased independence to individuals who are blind by providing them with German Shepherd Guide Dogs.• • •The Connecticut Children’s Office for Community Child Health […]
The Farmington Bank Community Foundation recently presented the Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation with a $4,000 grant (shown above) to support the organization's partnership program. Fidelco is a Bloomfield nonprofit that promotes increased independence to individuals who are blind by providing them with German Shepherd Guide Dogs.
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The Connecticut Children's Office for Community Child Health received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Hartford Foundation. The grant will fund a new initiative using the Strengthening Families framework developed by the Center for the Study of Social Policy. The Office will train Hartford-based child-health and early childhood providers in the Strengthening Families protective factors approach.
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UnitedHealthcare employees donated more than $12,000 to Make-A-Wish through its “Stars of Hope” campaign. The funds will help grant wishes for children in Connecticut with life-threatening medical conditions.
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Community Mental Health Affiliates was the winner of the first annual Hartford Brackets for Good tournament, a March Madness-style online giving challenge among Hartford nonprofits. Throughout the five-week tournament, CMHA raised more than $46,000 and won the grand prize of $10,000.
