Riverfront Recapture received a two-year, $59,000 grant from the Lincoln Financial Foundation in support of its Lincoln Sculpture Walk tour and the development of a free mobile app version of the tour. The Lincoln Sculpture Walk makes the Riverfront parks an outdoor art and history museum, with 16 sculptures that reflect Abraham Lincoln’s legacy, values, and life experiences
The audio app version of the tour will take visitors through the parks and provide information about Lincoln’s life and legacy. Riverfront hopes to launch the app in the spring of 2015.
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Hartford’s TheaterWorks was selected as one of 886 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive a NEA Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The nonprofit theatre company was recommended for a $10,000 grant to support its 2015 production of “Good People” by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire.
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The UConn Health Center received a $3 million gift from Ray and Carole Neag to expand its research on genomics-guided cancer treatment. The gift, which was announced at the annual White Coat Gala fundraising event, will support research at the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center to develop new medical treatments tailored to each patient’s unique genetic makeup.
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Hartford’s Charter Oak Health Center has been awarded a $50,000 grant to provide cancer awareness, education, and breast cancer screenings to individuals throughout Hartford County.
The grant is part of a $6.4 million gift from the Walgreens Way To Well Commitment program that engages Walgreens customers in supporting the American Cancer Society.
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Middletown’s Rockfall Foundation is distributing $25,000 in grants this spring for environmental programs benefitting Middlesex County.
Local recipients include the Connecticut Forest and Park Association, which will use the money to bring the Project Learning Tree GreenSchools! program into the Middletown school system.
The Rockfall Foundation has been supporting environmental education and conservation since 1935.
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Groton’s Charter Oak Federal Credit Union announced that nine Connecticut nonprofits that support affordable housing, education and economic revitalization will get $18,250 in first-quarter funding.
Since 2009, the credit union’s Community Giving Program has provided nonprofits nearly $850,000 in funding.
Grant recipients include:
Eastern Connecticut Housing Opportunities Inc., Children’s Museum of Southeastern Connecticut, Madonna Place, Eastern Connecticut Community Gardens Association Inc., Bring Our Music Back Inc., Southeastern Connecticut Enterprise Region, Habitat for Humanity of Eastern Connecticut, New London Main Street and Writers Block Ink Inc.
