The Community Foundation recently launched an exciting new feature on our website. Now contributors to many of our scholarship funds, special project funds, agency endowed funds and affiliate funds can visit these comprehensive donor landing pages to learn about the fund, read the latest news and easily make a safe online contribution. Visitors will also find links there to the funds’ websites if they exist. There are presently nine funds up and running with more scheduled for launch in the next six weeks. Click here to visit our homepage and then click on Donate Now to see these pages in action!

Some 60 area nonprofit leaders gathered at New Britain’s ITBD Center to participate in the Sept. 14th workshop with consultant Jane Lennox, “Collaborations, Alliances, Partnerships, and More: Winning Strategies for Uncertain Times.” The event was the second in a series co-sponsored by the Community Foundation and the American Savings Foundation in an effort to bring critical and timely information to the region’s nonprofit organizations. Read more.

The Community Foundation awarded $201,960 in second-round grants serving its four-town service area of Berlin, New Britain, Plainville and Southington. Some $115,000 of this grant money comes from the Foundation’s own First Year’s First Fund, which supports the early childhood initiative. Read more

A mobile van, a support group for monolingual Hispanic seniors and comprehensive assessments for seniors struggling to live at home are among the services described to members of the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain’s Catalyst Fund as three nonprofits shared their unique vision for how they would spend the Fund’s annual $10,000 award if selected to receive the funding.
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