CRIS Radio, a Windsor-based radio-reading service, recently introduced its new Spanish-language streaming service at the Toivo Center in Hartford. The launch was made possible by funding from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. The service, called CRIS en Español, is the first in the nation to offer an extensive line of audio versions of Spanish-language […]
CRIS Radio, a Windsor-based radio-reading service, recently introduced its new Spanish-language streaming service at the Toivo Center in Hartford. The launch was made possible by funding from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. The service, called CRIS en Español, is the first in the nation to offer an extensive line of audio versions of Spanish-language magazines for Spanish-speakers who are blind or have a print disability, including those with learning, physical, emotional or intellectual disabilities.
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The Ron Foley Foundation, a West Hartford nonprofit that raises funds for medical research for pancreatic cancer, has raised more than $1 million this year since its inception. The foundation uses funding to promote public awareness and education about pancreatic cancer and provides direct financial aid to those suffering from the disease.
The foundation was established in 2010 in memory of Ron Foley, a respected business leader in the community and a former Travelers executive, who died from pancreatic cancer in 2005.
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Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation has been awarded a $20,000 grant from Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation in support of its Apprentice Guide Dog Trainer Education program. The program is an intensive three-year program that prepares trainers to work with Fidelco's German shepherd guide dogs in-training, and then, through Fidelco's In-Community Placement program, to place those guide dogs with men and women who are blind and teach them to work as a team.
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Wheeler's Health & Wellness Center has been awarded a new access point grant as a federally qualified health center by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration. The grant will allow Wheeler to expand healthcare services to meet the needs of residents of Bristol and the surrounding communities. Wheeler's award is part of the $169 million investment in Affordable Care Act funding to 266 new health center sites in 46 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico for the delivery of comprehensive primary healthcare services in communities that need them most.
