EMCOR Services New England Mechanical (NEMSI) has recently donated $4,000 to The Center for Hospice Care. The funds were raised through their annual charity golf tournament. Pictured (from left) are: Jennifer Wheelehon, Center for Hospice Care; Mike Bliven, NEMSI; Carol Mahier, Center for Hospice Care; and Dana Finnegan, NEMSI.• • •The Hartford Foundation for Public […]
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EMCOR Services New England Mechanical (NEMSI) has recently donated $4,000 to The Center for Hospice Care. The funds were raised through their annual charity golf tournament. Pictured (from left) are: Jennifer Wheelehon, Center for Hospice Care; Mike Bliven, NEMSI; Carol Mahier, Center for Hospice Care; and Dana Finnegan, NEMSI.
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The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving is launching a new Career Pathways Initiative, a collaborative, cross-cutting approach to providing residents with education and workforce training that places them on a trajectory to ascend a career ladder in industries that have job openings. The Foundation approved $3.95 million over three years in grants and technical assistance to support this initiative, which targets low-literate and low-skilled residents of Greater Hartford, including single parents, at-risk youth, immigrants, homeless heads of household, former offenders, and others who need a broad range of coordinated services to be successful. The initiative enhances or expands existing programs and pilots new approaches.
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The Prudential Foundation has awarded The University of Hartford's Entrepreneurial Center, located on the Asylum Avenue campus in Hartford, a renewed grant of $75,000. The award will be used to support the Small Business Technical Assistance Training Program, which provides training, business advising, and technical assistance to aspiring and established Connecticut small business owners.
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Now in its seventh year, KBE Building Corp.'s 50 Ways to Make a Difference corporate philanthropy program has donated more than $1.7 million and 11,474 volunteer hours. Residents in Farmington and Norwalk, where the firm has its offices, have received meals, gifts, grants, and more through the program.
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Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, a nationally known law firm with offices in Bridgeport, New Haven and Danbury, has made a $100,000 donation to Bike Walk Connecticut in recognition of the work of Sean Alexander and Colleen Kelly Alexander, who were elected to the nonprofit's board in 2015.
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