CAPOSSELA HONORED
The Connecticut Bar Association Planning and Zoning Section recently honored attorney Joseph A. Capossela with its lifetime achievement award for service to the legal profession, to the land use bar, and to the Connecticut community. Capossela, partner at Kahan Kerensky & Capossela LLP in Vernon, has beaen in the profession for 42 years. Pictured are, from left, attorney Jane Freeman; Ira Bloom, chair of the bar’s Planning and Zoning Section; Capossela; attorney Dorian Resier Famiglietti, and Ralph J. Monaco, president of the bar association.
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ENCORE! HARTFORD RECEIVES AWARD FOR JOB TRAINING
Encore!Hartford, a nonprofit leadership and job training program for transitioning corporate professionals, has received a national Outstanding Program Award from the University Professional and Continuing Education Association.
The program was launched last year by the University of Connecticut’s Center for Continuing Studies in conjunction with Leadership Greater Hartford and other area nonprofit groups.
Encore!Hartford assists unemployed corporate professionals in transitioning their skill-sets and experience into successful professional and managerial employment in Connecticut’s nonprofit sector. The first class of 23 Encore!Hartford fellows graduated in June 2010. To date, 78 percent of the pilot class is working as full- or part-time nonprofit professionals. The second class of 24 fellows will graduate on June 16.
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IN BRIEF
• Ellen Alemany , chairman and chief executive officer of Citizens Financial Group Inc., has been presented the Foreign Policy Association’s Corporate Social Responsibility Award.
• The National Minority Supplier Development Council presented its Minority Business Leadership Award to Louis R. Chênevert, chairman and CEO of United Technologies Corp., for his ongoing commitment to developing a global network of diverse suppliers.
• Attorney Lyn Gammill Walker, a partner in the Hartford office of Shipman & Goodwin LLC, was recently elected to the board of directors of United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut.
• Maria Bonetti of Raynard & Peirce Real Estate Co. in East Canaan has been named Realtor of the Year by the Litchfield County Board of Realtors Inc.
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