by Julie Martin Banks | Sep 15, 2021 | 210 Capitol Ave Blog
Fourteen police officers from seven municipalities are the first-ever graduates from the Connecticut Institute for Youth and Police Relations, from which they will go back to their communities with their own programs that will benefit the local youth and help build...
by Julie Martin Banks | Aug 17, 2021 | 210 Capitol Ave Blog
The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving will bring its exhibit – titled Art in Action: Young Artists’ Vision of 2020 – to Work_Space in Manchester through Sept. 24. The exhibit features the work of teenagers from the foundation’s 29-town region where they...
by Julie Martin Banks | Jun 14, 2021 | 210 Capitol Ave Blog
The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and the Connecticut Health Foundation have awarded $40,000 in grants to the UConn Foundation to support continued efforts to address health equity among boys and men of color. Recently, the UConn Health Disparities Institute...
by Julie Martin Banks | Jun 1, 2021 | 210 Capitol Ave Blog
The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving’s committee in charge of identifying and addressing issues in the Latino community has a new chair and vice chair. Barbara Fernandez, a Bloomfield resident, has been named chair of the steering committee for the Latino...
by Julie Martin Banks | May 21, 2021 | 210 Capitol Ave Blog
The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving recently announced inaugural grants awarded through its $2.9 million Greater Together Community Funds initiative, a program designed to help residents identify their own community needs through “inclusive civic engagement.”...