The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven is seeking a qualified candidate for the position of Grants Administrator. The application deadline is December 23, 2022.

For more information and to apply, click here.

PROJECT MANAGER - PARENT AND MENTORING INITIATIVES

 Are you a talented Program Manager with a passion for Mentoring?  This position will work closely with a team of professionals and oversee The Partnership’s grant funded projects to serve youth with effective mentoring services, and community-based fatherhood programs providing drug and alcohol prevention services.  The Project Manager will manage all aspects of the fiduciary relationships with contracting agencies,…

City Gallery is excited to announce the return of its long-standing GIVE ART holiday exhibit and sale being held December 2 through December 23, with an Opening Reception on Sunday, December 4, from 1 - 5PM. This month-long event includes a variety of small works on sale for $100, and there will be a flat file of work for sale at a variety of…

This is a new program funded by the CT Department of Housing and Connecticut Housing Finance Authority and administered by LISC Connecticut, designed to introduce women of color to the community development sector. Recruitment is still underway for a new cohort of participants for 2023. The deadline to apply has been extended to Friday, December 16^th.

Elements of the HCDLI include:

• Monthly workshops with industry…

Aisha Benson and Jen Talansky

November 21, 2022

It wasn’t for-profit companies. The nonprofit sector, along with community-based …

Bridgit Antoinette Evans and Tracy Van Slyke

November 21, 2022

Who will tell the stories that shape our future? These days, in the…

In the social change field, some phrases are repeated so often that we no longer ask what they require of us. But words matter. I have pages and pages of notes with…

Published on LinkedIn November 17, 2022…

HOUSTON—JPMorgan Chase & Co. is launching a national program to try to get more loans into the hands of minority small-businesses owners and close a persistent racial gap in financing...…

From the Boston Tea Party to the Montgomery bus boycott to the boycott of apartheid South Africa, politically motivated consumer boycotts have long been part and parcel of American politics. But are they protected by the First Amendment? For 40 years, the answer has been an unequivocal “yes.” But in a recent case from Arkansas, a federal court of appeals ruled otherwise. If the right to boycott is to be preserved, the Supreme Court must step in...…

With funding from US EPA through the Long Island Sound Study (LISS), Connecticut and New York Sea announce an opportunity open to municipalities and community organizations to facilitate the hiring of grant preparation and writing support to assist with the development of a grant application for sustainable and resilience focused projects that will impact a community(ies) within or partially within the Long Island Sound Coastal boundary (within Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk counties, Western…

Jhumpa Bhattacharya, Maile Chandand Andrea…

Even as the Covid-19 pandemic shifts to more of an endemic, it continues to eat away at the connective fibers that bind our society together. As with so many things, Covid accelerated an existing trend: America was in the throes of a …

In collaboration with CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), the Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation (CIRCA) is requesting grant proposals for projects that increase the capacity of vulnerable communities to mitigate, plan for, and respond to climate change impacts. This funding supports the recommendations of the Governor’s Council on Climate Change (GC3).

This grant program is open to community-based organizations, tribal governments,…

What do you see when you spend time in nature…the trees? the clouds? sunlight on water? the path ahead? Abstract painter Judy Atlas sees the patterns, movements, and shapes. Come see the world as she sees it, ABSTRACTIONS…Naturally, on view at City Gallery from November 4 - November 27. There will be an Opening Reception on Saturday, November 5…

Picture this: Your team is racing against time and working weekends to submit a new client proposal. You finally manage to put all the documents together, and just in the nick of time, you press “send.” You take a deep breath and thank the team for their hard work. The proposal looks great and you’re confident that you’ll probably win it...…

Raise your hand if you’ve recently engaged in an insult-slinging argument that started as an attempt at a civil discussion about some hot-button issue. Many of us have, and with high-stakes elections looming, the already fiery discourse will likely only intensify.

Though it might feel satisfying in the moment, calling someone a bleeping—insert your favorite…

Grant to The Community Foundation supports growth for underserved businesses

New Haven, CT (Oct. 26, 2022) The Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) awarded $7.2 Million to The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven on Monday in support of work to make the small business landscape more equitable. The grant is part of a…