Ascend Mentoring, a Windsor-based youth and family services program, has received a $1,500 grant from Windsor Federal Savings to support and grow their organization’s involvement with at-risk youth. Ascend Mentoring officially launched in January 2013. The organization is in the early stages of its existence. It helps kids that might be “at-risk” to improve their situations through mentoring, family assistance, employment services, and life-skill improvements.
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Bob’s Discount Furniture donated $56,000 to local food banks and hunger-relief programs across the northeast and mid-Atlantic states to help feed families during the holiday season. Bob’s handed out $1,000 checks to 56 local hunger-relief programs — one in each of those markets. Through the Bob’s Discount Furniture Charitable Foundation and Bob’s Outreach program, Bob Kaufman, Cathy Poulin and all of Bob’s Discount Furniture employees support hundreds of nonprofits.
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The Association of Fundraising Professionals recently honored the Liberty Bank Foundation with the “Award for Outstanding Foundation” at The Association of Fundraising Professionals Connecticut and Fairfield County Chapters’ Best in the State Connecticut Philanthropy Awards breakfast.
The award is given to a private foundation that has demonstrated outstanding commitment through financial support and by encouraging and motivating others to take leadership roles toward philanthropy and community involvement.
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The Aetna Foundation recently presented a $25,000 grant to Community Mental Health Affiliates, which provides behavioral health and substance abuse treatment services in Connecticut. The Aetna Foundation grant will help fund CMHA’s Leaves of Progress program, a fitness and nutrition program for individuals with behavioral health illnesses or substance use disorders.
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Manchester engineering firm Fuss & O’Neill has launched a new matching gift initiative that will increase funding for the Fuss & O’Neill Endowed Scholarship Fund.
The company plans to invest up to $30,000 over the next three years into the scholarship to continue to support top engineers and scientists who graduate from the UConn School of Engineering.
