Three years ago, former accountant Marion Ruthig created an organization that focused on increasing community involvement in the public sector through the art of storytelling over that of facts and figures. Her nonprofit, I Support Community, focuses on linking potential donors and volunteers to nonprofits based on the unique telling of each organization’s story. Through a series of videos, I…
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Added by Lee Cruz on April 7, 2015 at 7:47am —
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Join the effort to make America a Healthy Nation. This is National Public Health Week. Each individual can have a direct impact on our health care system; learn how by visiting the National Health Week web site linked below and getting the Toolkit. Know that good health is an important aspect of personal wealth. Learn how you can maintain good health and help your loved ones to be healthy.…
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Added by N'Zinga Shani on April 6, 2015 at 9:25am —
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Providing high-quality care for very young children is hard work. Family child care providers have to be energetic, positive, patient, and knowledgeable about child development and best practice in the field. However, they also must be able to manage a sustainable business, which takes a different set of skills.
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Added by Jessica Sager on April 3, 2015 at 3:28am —
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Family Centered Service of CT is pleased to announce that Dean M. Esserman, Chief of the New Haven Department of Police Service, will be the recipient of the Richard Manware Award at its annual Spring Cocktail Party and Auction on May 7, 2015.
“The theme of this year’s Spring Cocktail Party and Auction is Opening Doors. So much of what happens to victims of child abuse and domestic violence happens behind closed doors,” stated Cheryl Burack, Executive Director of Family Centered…
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Added by Susan D'Orvilliers on April 1, 2015 at 6:30am —
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Poverty Shrinks Brains from Birth
Studies show that children from low-income families have smaller brains and lower cognitive abilities
March 31, 2015 |By …
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Added by Lee Cruz on April 1, 2015 at 4:59am —
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Tickets now available to the Spring Cocktail Party & Auction go to www.familyct.org and click on the purple icon.
Added by Susan D'Orvilliers on April 1, 2015 at 2:59am —
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Greetings to All,
Usually I speak to the fact Grove Street Cemetery is starting to bud with the idea of Spring and come in an just enjoy a "walk-about" whenever.
But now I would like to endorse another walk - The Connecticut Autism Walk. It is a wonderful walk to assist in the curing of this disease. This year the walk will be on May…
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Added by Patricia B. Illingworth on March 29, 2015 at 11:30am —
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Added by N'Zinga Shani on March 25, 2015 at 3:02pm —
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A great deal has been going on in New Haven in the past several days. As usual, the New Haven Independent has captured much of it in words, pictures and videos.
Mayor Toni Harp stepped into the NHPD situation and says: Cops being investigated should be benched until the investigation is completed. This is par for the course; why didn’t it happen in this case? The images and the article in the New Haven Independent…
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Added by N'Zinga Shani on March 25, 2015 at 11:24am —
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Ovarian Cancer Awareness, Information and Action Save Lives. Angelina Jolie Pitt has written an enlightening article; it is more potent because it is about her own life and experience. It has a great deal to do with family history and the role of genetics in certain types of cancers. It emphasizes the importance of awareness, education and vigilance; and the importance of being knowledgeable and using your knowledge proactively. …
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Added by N'Zinga Shani on March 25, 2015 at 4:07am —
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Elm City Montessori School (ECMS) is New Haven’s first public Montessori school designed to serve students ages 3- 13. The school opened in the fall of 2014 as Connecticut’s only local charter school.
We seek a visionary Executive Director committed to Montessori as a vehicle for social justice to work with our Principal and Board in establishing Montessori as an…
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Added by Mira C Debs on March 24, 2015 at 8:53am —
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I have framed these stages to be akin to human developmental stages: infancy, juvenile, adolescence and maturity. My study suggests that boards in their infancy and early juvenile stages tend to pay more attention to operations and management (often being operations and management) and when past this, begin…
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Added by Mike Burns on March 23, 2015 at 7:02am —
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POSITION OVERVIEW:
This Development Officer builds and stewards relationships with high net-worth donors and prospects, as well as manage employee giving campaigns primarily in the higher education and legal industry communities in the greater New Haven area. This position also represents United Way at corporate and community functions and recruits volunteers to provide support for initiatives specific to the higher education and legal industry communities.
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Added by Kathleen Crisafi on March 23, 2015 at 6:15am —
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More than 300,000 women and girls are raped, assaulted and abused in USA annually.
This number does not include those who are emotionally, psychologically and verbally abused daily. It does not include those who are coerced, intimidated, financially deprived and isolated from family.…
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Added by N'Zinga Shani on March 20, 2015 at 11:19am —
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In 2013, New Haven was designated one of the nation's first urban wildlife refuges. With support for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Audubon Connecticut, and many other funders and partners, New Haven has been creating oases for people and wildlife at locations across the city. Now, we are seeking two more sites for restoration efforts. Do you know a corner of our city that needs to be turned into an urban oasis?
Click on the RFP below to learn more and apply!…
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Added by Joel Tolman on March 20, 2015 at 10:36am —
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The Quinnipiac River Watershed Based Plan identifies priority issues for the watershed and provides recommendations to address them.
Although advances and upgrades in wastewater treatment have improved water quality over the past several decades, the water quality of much of the Quinnipiac River and its tributaries remains poor as a result of elevated levels of bacteria and impairments to aquatic…
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Added by The Community Foundation for GNH on March 18, 2015 at 8:00am —
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In 2015, Serena Williams, First Rate Tennis Champion, and Proud African American, Rises Above the 2001 Fray of Venomous Bigotry, which was directed at her and her family, at the Indian Wells Tennis Tournament in California.
And in 2015, when so many areas in America are in racial turmoil, she returned to the Indian Wells Tennis Tournament. Just to be certain she would be safe, security guards were…
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Added by N'Zinga Shani on March 14, 2015 at 6:13pm —
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Violence Against Women Is a Chronic and Insidious Problem.
Prevention is Better Than Cure
Recognize Warning Signs of Domestic Violence and How to PREVENT IT!
OneWorld has been working on this issue for years.
We are pleased to see a Face Book post by…
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Added by N'Zinga Shani on March 12, 2015 at 6:41pm —
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The board of the Interfaith Housing Development Corporation of Bucks County (PA) has pretty much taken…
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Added by Mike Burns on March 12, 2015 at 6:36am —
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IRIS- Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services
Job Opening
Operations and Finance Director
March 2015
IRIS – Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (www.irisct.org), a dynamic nonprofit organization in New Haven CT, has an immediate opening for the full-time position of Operations and Finance Director. IRIS…
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Added by Kelly Hebrank on March 10, 2015 at 11:04am —
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