The Connecticut affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure has announced more than $1 million in grants to community-based breast cancer organizations.
“This is a milestone not just for us as an organization,” said Anne Morris, executive director of Komen Connecticut in a news release, “but for the women and men in our communities who rely on local services to receive the care they need to be diligent about their breast health.”
Komen Connecticut supports the community each year in the form of grants to fund local education, screening and treatment programs throughout the state. This year, 21 breast health programs are receiving $1.02 million, the single largest investment in the organization’s 17-year history.
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Workforce Solutions Collaborative of Metro Hartford, one of 22 national sites supported by the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, is sharing in national recognition from the Council on Foundations. The National Fund for Workforce Solutions received the Distinguished Grantmaking Award for Collaboration from the Council on Foundations, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit membership association of some 2,000 grantmaking foundations and corporations.
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Trinity College has received a $5 million challenge — the largest conditional gift in its history. The anonymous donor has offered to endow a fund for new scholarships, if at least 55 percent of Trinity’s more than 20,000 living alumni are donors to the college by June 30, the close of the current fiscal year. The all-or-nothing giving incentive will require 11,400 alumni donors. To date, the College has attracted almost 6,500 alumni donors. The anonymous challenger has two fundamental interests: returning Trinity to 55 percent alumni participation, making it one of few colleges nationally at that level; and increasing the number of eligible students receiving financial aid from Trinity’s dedicated scholarship resources.
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Volunteers from Lowe’s of Hartford and Rebuilding Together Hartford donated their time and expertise to improve homes in the Hartford community as part of National Rebuilding Day. Lowe’s sponsored two home projects — at 314 and 334 Lyme St. in Hartford. The Hartford repairs are among 50 projects funded by Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation through a $250,000 grant. Lowe’s volunteers and more than 200 Rebuilding Together affiliates are completing critical home repairs for families across the United States on or around National Rebuilding Day.
