The Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage offices in Simsbury and Granby recently donated a total of $4,220 to local charitable organizations through the company’s charitable foundation, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Cares Foundation.
The donations went to HomeFront, One Full House, FOCUS Center for Autism, Interval House, Waste Not Want Not Community Kitchen.
• • •
The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and Foxwoods Resort Casino announced that its 2014 annual giving campaign generated more than $134,000 for local charities in need.
This includes $40,807 for Community Health Charities of New England, $70,271 for United Way of Southeastern Connecticut, and $23,266 for Employee Emergency Assistance Fund.
• • •
Hartford Consortium for Higher Education recently received the Bank of America Neighborhood Builder’s Award, a grant that includes $200,000 in funding as well as leadership training for a senior and emerging leader.
The consortium is planning to use the grant to expand their existing programs like Career Beginnings and Junior Apprentice.
They will also use part of the grant to better measure and communicate the economic benefits of their work.
• • •
The Comcast Foundation announced that it awarded more than $500,000 in grants to 21 nonprofit organizations throughout New England in 2014.
The grants support programs aimed at the Comcast Foundation’s areas of focus — expanding digital literacy, promoting community service, and building tomorrow’s leaders.
About $165,000 out of the total funding went to nine Connecticut nonprofits.
They include: Boys & Girls Club of Hartford ($20,000), Boys & Girls Club of New Britain ($15,000), Center For Latino Progress ($10,000), Easter Seals Capital Region & Eastern Connecticut ($20,000), Easter Seals Goodwill Industries ($20,000), MARC Community Resources Ltd. ($10,000), Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters ($40,000), Urban League of Southern Connecticut ($10,000), and Urban League of Hartford ($20,000)
• • •
Nonprofit training consultancy Leadership Greater Hartford said it has hired a marketing and communications company to refresh its brand, thanks to an $18,000 grant it has received.
The funding comes from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
LGH, which provides leadership training to high school students, seniors and others, has hired Massachusetts-based MRW Connected Inc. to help with the brand makeover.
MRW lists Camp Courant and the Central Connecticut Health District among its recent clientele.
LGH Marketing Director Carin Buckman said that it’s too soon to say if the rebrand would include a new name for the organization.
