State Treasurer Erick Russell, Trustee of the Connecticut Higher Education Trust (CHET), has announced the winners of the 2025 CHET Dream Big! Competition, recognizing students across the state for their creativity and ambition.
Read More“Not reporting on food insecurity doesn’t mean the problem will somehow magically disappear,” UConn’s Rudd Center points out, criticizing the USDA’s decision to discontinue an annual report that provided national data on household food insecurity across the United States.
Read MoreThe Cigna Group Foundation, the philanthropic arm of The Cigna Group, has opened its 2026 Improving Youth Mental Health grant program, part of The Cigna Group Foundation’s $9 million, three-year commitment to improve youth mental health.
Read MoreHigh school students from across Connecticut travelled to Hartford recently to participate in Connecticut's We The People: The Citizen and the Constitution State Finals. Winning school teams will head to national competition in the spring.
Read MoreAffter more than a century, The Children’s Museum in West Hartford, the nation’s 5th oldest children’s museum, will not have doors open to children in the region and beyond, as the search for a new permanent home continues.
Read MoreIn 2025, Connecticut jumped to #3 in the state rankings from #21 a year ago, the largest advancement of any state in the annual arts-vibrancy rankings..
Read MoreAmidst a tumultuous time in American democracy, high school students from four local school districts are headed to Connecticut’s Old State House this Saturday, January 24, to participate in Connecticut's We The People: The Citizen and the Constitution State Finals.
Read MoreMembers of the Latino Endowment Fund (LEF) at the Greater Hartford Gives Foundation (formerly the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving) have approved grants totaling $50,000 to support Greater Hartford students pursuing post-secondary education and career advancement.
Read MoreDecember 14: Newtown, now Providence. The fact that these college students were elementary school students in 2012 underscores the sobering truth: an entire generation of youth in America has grown up with threats of being shot in a classroom.
Read MoreThe Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has announced that it will change its name to the Greater Hartford Gives Foundation in January 2026.
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