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Mentoring has been practiced for millennia. It’s a fantastic way to build community, groom new leaders, forge ties between various groups, pass on institutional knowledge and culture, and feel connected to others. I’ve…

The Neighborhood Leadership Program at The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven is Accepting Applications

New Haven, Conn. (July 18, 2024) — Residents in New Haven, Hamden, East Haven and West Haven who are looking to make a difference in their communities…

The incident that landed me in a 12-step recovery was that I hit a codependent bottom. It happened as a result of inviting my homeless friend Dan from church to stay overnight at my home during a really heavy snowstorm in January 2015. He accepted my invitation, of course. Then he stayed another time and…

The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven is seeking a qualified candidate for the position of Administrative Associate, Grantmaking & Strategy. 

The application deadline is August 16, 2024.

For more information and to apply, click here.

Reflecting on my journey through the 12 steps of recovery, I can see that I previously expected the world and the people in it to meet my needs. I mean for things like validation, love, and acceptance. That seems pretty normal. But what I’ve learned is that if I give those things to myself first, I don’t go to the…

For its summer invitational, MOSAIC, City Gallery welcomes Yale School of Architecture graduates Uzayr Agha, Ariel Bintang, and Ethnie Xu, with a special mobile appearance by NXTHVN and cARTie. The show runs August 2 - August 25, with an Opening Reception on Saturday, August 10 from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.

The summer invitational is always an…

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This is the third part of my three-part series on my most important tools for life, which is learning to keep the focus on myself. If you missed the previous two,…

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This is part two of my series about the top three tools for managing life that I gained from 12-step recovery. If you missed part one of “Mastering the Art of Pausing” you can…

• Teachers MUST RSVP to attend. You can arrive at any time between 12pm and 5:30pm. Check out will begin promptly at 5:45pm.
• Sign up for a field trip to New Haven Reads during the school year. More information about our field trip program will be available during the event.…

Due to COVID, we had to postpone this event until November 15. We hope to see you then!

Come one, come all, to New Haven's first ever Open Benefit: The Great Nonprofit Game Show!

An open benefit is a collaborative fundraiser. We are bringing together six different community organizations to celebrate their work and raise funds together.

Join us at…

Join us at an upcoming public workshop! Our next workshop is a virtual workshop on Zoom on July 30, 2024 from 5:30pm-7pm.

Register here: https://newhavenct.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrf-2hqz4qHdPN37wKnqfomEfq39fgFhKK

At this workshop, special guest IfeMichelle Gardin will lead participants in creative writing and visual art imagining New Haven's future.

Please help us get the…

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This is part one of my series about the top three tools I learned about in 12-step recovery. Mind you, I have an entire tool shed of tools now, thanks to recovery. But these three have…

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Since doing the 12-step recovery, I now have the ability to look back at my life before recovery and see it with crystal clarity in a way that was just not possible before. I’m frequently able to look back at various situations and see: here's what I was…

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Seek and ye shall find. We all know this is true. When we look for happy joyful things, we find them. When we look for evidence that there is evil all around us, we find it. Same world, but our lens is different.

This is…

Featuring the work of Roberta Friedman, Joyce Greenfield, Sheila Kaczmarek, Kathy Kane

By definition, Praxis means “the process by which a theory, lesson or skill is enacted, embodied, realized, applied, or put into practice.” It is the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing…

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In my boundaries coaching business, I coach some pretty high-powered women. There's an enormous toll on them personally, professionally, physically, psychologically, emotionally and financially. There are many factors that lead to this, but it’s mainly because…

A new online resource called …

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We have certain instincts that we’re born with. They’re natural and are supposed to be there. These are things like security, self-esteem, and personal relationships. But what happens for many of us is that these…

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Yesterday a client told me her soon-to-be ex-wife called her “juvenile.” I wrote back “projection.” This was in response to my client asking to have their child’s car seat set up in her ex’s car according to the safety…

NOTE: This article is 2 years old, the current situation is even more urgent than in 2022.

Even before the pandemic and nationwide racial justice demonstrations gripped the nation in 2020, “climate philanthropy” was rapidly expanding and evolving, with large foundations and mega-donors pledging billions of additional dollars to address the climate crisis. With an estimated $125 trillion of climate investment needed by 2050 to decarbonize the world economy,…