A look at the finances and spending of the Connecticut Bar Foundation.
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The Hartford Symphony Orchestra has reached a new agreement with The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts that gives the musical organization more control over its operations.
The new, renegotiated four-year management services contract returns overall management responsibilities to the HSO administrative staff and retains some support services with The Bushnell.
As part of the renegotiation, Steve Collins has been named the HSO's new executive director, effective immediately. Collins has served as the orchestra's director of artistic operations and administration since Aug. 2014.
Previously, the HSO had been run by David Fay, president and CEO of The Bushnell.
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The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has awarded a $197,700 grant to Oak Hill's Center for Relationship and Sexuality Education in Hartford. The program offers specialized therapeutic education and psychotherapy to youth and adults with developmental disabilities to promote safe and healthy relationships.
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West Hartford's Mercy Community recently received a $3,000 grant from The Stanley D. and Hinda N. Fisher Foundation at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving in support of Music and Memory, a therapeutic music program. The funds will be used to purchase iPods, headphones, and iTunes gift cards towards music for residents and clients.
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The People's United Community Foundation awarded $135,500 during its first grant cycle of 2016 to nonprofit organizations throughout Hartford County.
Recipients included: Farm to Family; Connecticut Center for School Change; Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness; Connecticut Housing Investment Fund; Connecticut Public Broadcasting; Local Initiatives Support Corp.; Connecticut Science Center; Rebuilding Together of Manchester; Prudence Crandall Center; and YMCA of New Britain.
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More than 25 arts and cultural organizations in the Greater Hartford region received funding totaling $82,500 from the Greater Hartford Arts Council's Hartford Events Grants. These grants support dozens of free exhibits, festivals and parades that draw community engagement, generate economic growth for local businesses and celebrate Hartford's cultural diversity.
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Bank of America's 2016 Give A Meal program has raised $15,330 for Foodshare to help fight hunger in Greater Hartford. For every dollar donated to Give A Meal, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation gave an additional $2 to help Feeding America and its network of food banks that provide meals to individuals and families at risk of hunger.
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