Panera bakery-cafes raise $15,972 for CT Sports Foundation cancer effort

Fourteen Panera Bread bakery-cafes in Connecticut have donated a total of $15,972.16 in the first half of 2013 to the Connecticut Sports Foundation. Pictured, Jane Ellis (right), executive director of CSF, accepts the check from Wendy Kopp, director of marketing for Panera Bread/Howley Bread Group. Since the partnership was formed in 2009, Panera Bread/Howley Bread Group has donated a total of $238,801 to CSF, to support that organization’s efforts to assist cancer patients and their families.