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Long Wharf Memorial Project

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The National Veterans Council is currently working on a project to develop a schematic plan for redevelopment of the Long Wharf Waterfront Park ,where there is a collection of war memorials, including the Vietnam Veteran Memorial and are sited between I-95 and the New Haven Harbor.This project will not only be enhancement of the Vietnam Memorial and how it is use by the public as a place of memory, but will also be an exciting new comprehensive vision for this…

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Added by Olivia C Henderson on July 30, 2016 at 1:30am — No Comments

Vietnam Veteran Monument

Added by Olivia C Henderson on July 30, 2016 at 2:12am — 1 Comment

Fighting Sex Trafficking

Young girls clad in red dresses, accessorized with numbers for identification sat as prey among predators. As the girls watched cartoons, the predators watched them, shrewdly choosing their next victim. But, one girl in particular stood out – her number read 146. 

“Her name became a number, her number became our name” reads the website of Love146, an international human rights organization…

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Added by The Community Foundation for GNH on July 28, 2016 at 5:13am — No Comments

Common Ground is seeking a social studies teacher!

Common Ground — the nation’s oldest environmental charter high school, creating the next generation of successful college students and powerful community and environmental leaders — is seeking one passionate, creative, and certified Social Studies/History teacher. This teacher will have the chance to:

  • Teach Common Ground’s core history and social studies classes
  • Help to build a social studies curriculum that addresses intersections of social studies and social justice…
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Added by Joel Tolman on July 27, 2016 at 5:28am — No Comments

Job Opening: Program Manager for Nonprofit Educational Organization

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Program Manager for Nonprofit Educational Organization

 

Overview: 

Salma Khatoon Academy (SKA) is looking to grow its organization and programming by hiring a Program Manager to oversee its educational initiatives.  Programs will take place in Branford, CT in a 12,000 ft2 school building on 2.75 acres of bucolic…

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Added by Kelly Hebrank on July 22, 2016 at 7:03am — No Comments

Check out this Article about the bail fund in the Wall Street Journal

Nobody deserves to be in jail simply because they cannot afford their bail. #decriminalizepoverty #endcashbail

http://www.wsj.com/articles/group-to-pay-bail-for-poor-defendants-in-low-level-cases-1469130423

Added by Patrick Sullivan on July 22, 2016 at 4:11am — No Comments

Seeking volunteer opportunities for Yale law students

Hello!  On Thursday, August 25, we will hold a day of service for our incoming law students to better acquaint them with volunteer opportunities in and around New Haven.  We have 200 students and are looking for placements for part or all of that day.  

If your organization has any general volunteer needs (painting, lawn work, maintenance, food preparation, office support, etc), please contact me at ellen.cosgrove@yale.edu.  Please let me know how many students you need and…

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Added by Ellen Cosgrove on July 15, 2016 at 8:38am — 1 Comment

Nonprofit Board Hiring; Do looks matter?

Board members that judge a "book by its cover" may seriously lose-out on opportunities in prospective CEOs. That's my basic takeaway from the following Washington Post article about a study that examined how:

CEO's "faces" send messages;

"looks" for for-profits are likely different than what nonprofits (and their donors) desire; and, bottom line, there may be some truly hidden gems out there that get missed because of personal bias by board members or just plain mis-judgement. I…

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Added by Mike Burns on July 12, 2016 at 1:48am — No Comments

Community Fund for Women and Girls Reports on Status of Girls; Awards $135,000 for Gender-Specific Work

Citing Experience and Recent Data, Panel of Young Women Recommend Investing in Girls of Color at 21st Annual Meeting of Community Fund for Women & Girls

New Haven, CT (July 6, 2016) –The Community Fund for Women & Girls, Greater New Haven’s permanent charitable endowment dedicated solely to advancing women and girls, convened stakeholders to hear the status of girls in Connecticut and the region on June 29 at its Annual Meeting. The event featured Dr. Andrea…

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Added by The Community Foundation for GNH on July 6, 2016 at 10:18am — No Comments

New Reach in Need of Tools & Equipment

Last week New Reach's maintenance van was broken into and over $3000 worth of tools were stolen.  These are literally the tools we use to build hopeful futures.  If you can we are in need of the following tools:

Dewalt 18V cordless tools:

Impact Driver, 2 reciprocating saws, Hammer drill, drill, circular saw, cut off tool/grinder, 7 x 18V batteries, Milwaukee reciprocating saw with blades, Pneumatic staple gun, Bosh left hand circular saw.

If you can help by…

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Added by Mary Grande on July 6, 2016 at 9:19am — No Comments

Position opening at United Way of Greater New Haven

Coordinator, Community Impact

 

Job Summary:

United Way of Greater New Haven (UWGNH) brings people and organizations together to create solutions to Greater New Haven’s most pressing challenges in the areas of Education, Income, and Health.  We tackle issues that cannot be solved by any one group…

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Added by Susan Nappi on July 5, 2016 at 7:45am — No Comments

An article in the New Haven Independent about our recent Community Meeting

This article captures some of the excellent feedback we got at our community planning meeting last week. Thanks again to those who came out!

http://http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/CT_bail_fund/

Added by Patrick Sullivan on July 1, 2016 at 9:41am — No Comments

Happy 4th of July Grove Street Cemetery

To Each and Every One of You.....

Happy 4th…

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Added by Patricia B. Illingworth on July 4, 2016 at 4:24am — No Comments

Building a healthy community with food

Kitchen at CitySeed is open! It's great new resource for cooking classes, community events, food business incubation and more. Read all about it…

Added by The Community Foundation for GNH on June 30, 2016 at 4:50am — No Comments

PHILANTHROPY AND DISEASE PREVENTION: A LONG PARTNERSHIP

Philanthropy has long played a major role in the search for cures to deadly and debilitating diseases.  From the dawn of modern medicine until World War II, philanthropists were the primary sources of funding for medical research. That role changed after the war, when science and technology became a national priority and the government began making massive…

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Added by The Community Foundation for GNH on June 30, 2016 at 4:46am — No Comments

Nonprofit Board Duty of Care & D&O Insurance

Talk about a life lesson in fulfilling one's duty of care AND addressing personal risks, the NC New Schools board is a case example that couldn't be better. Simple lessons: one of the first questions a nonprofit board member should ask: do you have Directors & Officer's Insurance? Another question each year: has our D&O Insurance been paid?

Of course, the board should have been asking a lot more questions to understand first, how the organization was doing that it was heading…

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Added by Mike Burns on June 29, 2016 at 7:59am — No Comments

Baltimore Officer / Driver In Gray's Death Walks FREE!

OneWorld Progressive Institute, Inc is a 501(C)3, 100 percent volunteer organization serving Greater New Haven and the broader CT community since 1996.  We produce three…

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Added by N'Zinga Shani on June 23, 2016 at 10:30am — No Comments

Helping New Arrivals

The Supreme Court of the United States struck down the Obama Administration’s immigration executive actions that would have expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and created Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA). Despite this setback to immigration reform, we would like to highlight the work of an organization in Greater New Haven that creates a…

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Added by The Community Foundation for GNH on June 23, 2016 at 6:26am — No Comments

Planned Parenthood Offers Insurance, Counseling & Testing

OneWorld Radio Presents a Profile of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England (PPSNE) Programs and Services In CT.  PPSNE has 17 health centers in CT; these centers offer family care including HPV screening and testing; HIV testing, counseling and referral; screening and treatment for STDs/STIs; HPV & Hepatitis B vaccinations, annual gynecological exams and Tuberculosis testing.

  •  If you will be…
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Added by N'Zinga Shani on June 22, 2016 at 5:30pm — No Comments

An American Dream Clean Story

Connecticut Food Bank COO Paul O’Leary explains that becoming an American Dream Clean client--while he receives great value from our cleaning--was about “more than just a cleaning service.” You see how Taichi's relationship with American Dream Clean is "creating a path to college" for her daughter Kiki. And the video helps to tee up that American Dream Clean will need more smart business partners like the Connecticut Food Bank to scale its impact for…
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Added by JP Hernandez on June 22, 2016 at 1:37pm — No Comments

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PNC Bank Invests $20 Million in LISC to Fuel Growth in Under-resourced Communities

New capital from PNC Bank includes innovative, equity-like funding to support LISC’s long-term community investment strategies. "With this capital, PNC has made a remarkable commitment to the well-being of families and communities, with a ripple effect that will support economic growth long into the future,” said Michael Pugh, LISC president and CEO.

Nadia Villagrán Named to Lead Rural LISC, Fuel New Investments in Housing, Economic Development, Jobs

With deep personal and professional experience in rural community development, Villagrán, a veteran LISC staffer, will build on nearly 30 years of Rural LISC investments in affordable housing, workforce development, economic growth and culture.

LISC & Enterprise to Launch New Book on Community Development & Climate Resilience

Next month, LISC and Enterprise Community Partners will release “What’s Possible: Investing NOW for Prosperous, Sustainable Neighborhoods,” an urgent collection of essays on the intersection of community development and climate resilience.

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