Employees from Companions & Homemakers recently participated in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s in Hartford. The team raised over $700 and was one of the six Companions & Homemakers teams to participate in walks across the state.• • •The 25th Annual McLean Golf Tournament and Auction was recently held by McLean senior living community of […]
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Employees from Companions & Homemakers recently participated in the Walk to End Alzheimer's in Hartford. The team raised over $700 and was one of the six Companions & Homemakers teams to participate in walks across the state.
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The 25th Annual McLean Golf Tournament and Auction was recently held by McLean senior living community of Simsbury. The silver anniversary tournament netted more than $52,000. All proceeds will benefit McLean's Home Care and Hospice program, as well as the Hospice volunteer program.
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Somers High School has been awarded a $15,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation to fund the purchase of state-of-the-art technology to support the school's Technology, Innovation, Design and Engineering program.
The TIDE program helps engineering students develop critical and creative thinking skills with an emphasis on human innovation and its effects on society and the environment.
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Chelsea Groton Bank recently held a ribbon cutting for its new lending center in Glastonbury. Michael Rauh, president and CEO of Chelsea Groton Bank, closed the ceremony by presenting a donation to Theresa Buckson, an outreach social worker and Food Bank manager at Riverfront Community Center, to be used toward the Community Center's Food Bank fund.
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The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut will award $75,000 to seven nonprofit organizations that aim to ensure adequate protection, care and humane treatment of animals and wildlife in New London county.
This initial round of animal welfare grants was made possible through the Peter Grayson Letz Fund for Animals and the Environment.
The grant recipients include: Connecticut Humane Society; TEAM (Tait's Every Animal Matters); Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center; Ocean State Animal Coalition; Animal Welfare League of New London County; Waterford Country School; and Beech Brook Farm.
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For the second year in a row, the Travelers Championship has donated over $1.5 million to 140 charities. The PGA tour event has raised more than $10 million since becoming the Travelers Championship in 2007.
The tournament, which began as the Insurance City Open at Wethersfield Country Club in 1952, has raised more than $33 million for charity since its inception. All of the net proceeds from the tournament, now held at the TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, go to nonprofits.
“When we decided to sponsor the tournament in 2007, one of our primary goals was to support the Connecticut community,” said Travelers executive vice president and CAO Andy Bessette. “Now, nine years later, we are extremely proud of what we've been able to accomplish, having reached more than $10 million in charitable contributions.”
The 2016 Travelers Championship will be held Aug. 4-7. Its normal June date changes for 2016 because golf has become an Olympic sport.
