A look at the finances and leadership of the nonprofit Connecticut Women’s Council as well as other nonprofit news from Greater Hartford.
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Comcast NBCUniversal awarded $54,000 in scholarships for the 2016-17 school year to 45 Connecticut students (shown above) as part of its annual Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program. The program, funded by the Comcast Foundation, is a one-time, $1,000 scholarship awarded to the best high school seniors for their community service, academic performance and leadership skills.
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The Corporation for National and Community Service has awarded a grant of $247,714 to Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters' Foster Grandparent Program. The grant will support 54 senior mentors per year at 24 mentoring sites in Hartford, Bloomfield, East Hartford, New Britain and Middletown. Pictured below (from left) are: Shayla Williams, program officer, Corporation for National and Community Service; Andy Fleischmann, president and CEO of Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters; and Anne Ostberg, Connecticut program director for the Corporation for National and Community Service.
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Wheeler's 31st Annual Wheeler Golf Classic at The Country Club of Farmington raised $56,000, bringing the amount raised since inception to more than $1 million.
Proceeds from Golf Classic events have helped Wheeler provide access to integrated primary and behavioral health services in underserved communities.
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