The Savings Institute Bank & Trust recently raised nearly $4,000 through its quarterly employee-funded caring and giving program. The donations went to 14 different local nonprofits that treat substance abuse and mental illness. Some of the Connecticut organizations to receive donations included: United Services, Dayville; and Sound Community Service, New London.Boys & Girls Clubs of […]
The Savings Institute Bank & Trust recently raised nearly $4,000 through its quarterly employee-funded caring and giving program. The donations went to 14 different local nonprofits that treat substance abuse and mental illness. Some of the Connecticut organizations to receive donations included: United Services, Dayville; and Sound Community Service, New London.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford (BGCH) announced a new fundraising campaign aimed at financing a new facility in the Capital City's South End.
BGCH said the fundraiser has been kickstarted by a $1 million pledge from property and casualty insurer The Hartford, with its CEO and chairman, Christopher Swift, serving as the campaign's chair.
The new facility, also supported by $7 million pledged by the state Bond Commission, will serve an additional 1,500 children in the city's southeast corridor, where nearly a third of Hartford's youth live and go to school.
Alan Kreczko, chairman of BGCH's board of trustees, said the club will help increase graduation rates and lower crime and teen pregnancy rates.
The first Boys & Girls Club was established in Hartford 158 years ago. The organization now has clubs in all 50 states.
The club offers academic, civic and nutritional programs to help children and their families.
The Community Foundation of Greater New Britain awarded more than $280,000 in grants to 21 community programs serving Berlin, New Britain, Plainville and Southington. The grants went to arts, culture and heritage, education, economic development and health and human services programs.
Middletown-based MARC Community Resources received a $10,000 gift from Rene Bolt of El Cajon, Calif., who was the original founder of the nonprofit, which provides programs and services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The funds will go toward the newly established Rene and Burt Bolt Endowment Fund.
