The Connecticut Commission on Community Service, known as Serve Connecticut, provides funds and supports programs that encourage Connecticut residents to volunteer. A program with AmeriCorps Connecticut is launching, providing funding opportunities in Connecticut.
Read MoreVeteran observers of Connecticut politics, government and the judiciary will recognize the name instantly. Attorney General William Tong has appointed Eileen Meskill to serve as Deputy Attorney General, succeeding Margaret Q. Chapple, who will retire this month. Thomas Meskill, her late father, was Connecticut’s Governor a half-century ago.
Read MoreThe State of Connecticut has launched an advertising campaign that will target the recruitment of state healthcare and direct support workers. The latest effort is part of a larger initiative to recruit state residents to work for various state agencies, amidst a changing job market and an increase in the number of state employees opting for retirement.
Read MoreMembers of the Black Giving Circle Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, after considering a wide variety of programs aimed at supporting Greater Hartford’s Black community, chose three proposals to receive financial support in the coming year, including a project to educate students about the challenges and successes of the Tuskegee Airmen.
Read MoreMore than 1,000 local students throughout Connecticut are gearing up for this year's Model UN Conference, where they'll offer solutions to the world's most contentious issues and continue their individual journeys to becoming future leaders.
Read MoreThe Hartford Foundation for Public Giving launched Access Grants just over a year ago to support nonprofits aligned with its strategic priorities to dismantle structural racism and increase social and economic mobility for Black and Latinx residents of Greater Hartford. During three rounds of funding, the Foundation has awarded more than $1.4 million to 41 organizations. Now, the Foundation is issuing its fourth round of Access Grants.
Read MoreThe past two selections to lead operations at Tweed New Haven Airport have been simultaneously serving as elected members of the state legislature. With the apparent election of the current leader, Sean Scanlon, to statewide office, will Tweed again look to the legislative ranks to fill an anticipated vacancy?
Read MoreThe Connecticut Foundation for Open Government (CFOG) has announced that a former state comptroller, a longtime state official, a clinic at Yale Law School and a columnist for The Day of New London have been selected to receive the inaugural Mitchell W. Pearlman Freedom of Information Award.
Read MoreRocky Hill educator Nichole Pitruzzello has been named Connecticut’s Kid Governor® State Coordinator, and program originator Brian Cofrancesco has become Director of Kid Governor®, the national award-winning civics program created by The Connecticut Democracy Center at Connecticut’s Old State House.
Read MoreA classroom of Hamden sixth graders and members of a Farmington High School Political Action Club are this year’s recipients of the inaugural Governor M. Jodi Rell Center for Public Service Civility Awards.
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