Five Connecticut Nonprofits Vie for $10,000 IMPACT Award from Red Sox Foundation; Fan Voting Ends Friday

Five Connecticut Nonprofits Vie for $10,000 IMPACT Award from Red Sox Foundation; Fan Voting Ends Friday

Voting is now underway in a competitive awards program for nonprofit organizations in the New England states, including Connecticut. The 7th Annual “IMPACT” Awards (Inspiring More Philanthropy Across Charities Together) is presented by the Red Sox Foundation focusing on organizations that have “demonstrated deep impact in raising awareness and improving the mental health outcomes of the young adults in their community.”

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Grants from Connecticut Health Foundation Support Efforts to Expand Access to Health Care Coverage

Grants from Connecticut Health Foundation Support Efforts to Expand Access to Health Care Coverage

The Connecticut Health Foundation, the state’s largest independent health philanthropy dedicated to improving health outcomes for people of color, has awarded five organizations, in Bridgeport, Hartford and Middletown, 15-month grants ranging from $62,500 to $82,000, to support their advocacy work to expand access to health care coverage. Additional grants support the ongoing work of other organizations across the state.

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Good News for Summer: 13% Increase in the Number of Long Island Sound Beaches Recording Excellent Water Quality

Good News for Summer: 13% Increase in the Number of Long Island Sound Beaches Recording Excellent Water Quality

As we head into the summer season, the number of Long Island beaches reporting excellent water quality is 13% higher than previous years, based on data released this month by nonprofit Save the Sound in the organization’s 2021 Long Island Sound Beach Report.

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U.S. Safesport Centralized Disciplinary Database Includes 17 From Connecticut

U.S. Safesport Centralized Disciplinary Database Includes 17 From Connecticut

The U.S. Center for SafeSport maintains a Centralized Disciplinary Database to keep the public informed when individuals connected with the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Movements, are either subject to temporary restrictions or are subject to sanctions. That database includes the names of 17 individuals who are, or were, Connecticut residents when incidents occurred or disciplinary action was taken.

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Himes to Lead Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth

Himes to Lead Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth

Connecticut Congressman Jim Himes’s past, it turns out, is prologue for a new, high-profile, assignment. Himes was selected by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve as Chairman of a newly created Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth, leading the Congressional effort to respond to a growing disparity that has been exacerbated - and more blatantly exposed - by the pandemic.

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Fauci: COVID Booster Shot Likely Needed, More Needs to be Done to Build Adult Vaccine Infrastructure

Fauci:  COVID Booster Shot Likely Needed, More Needs to be Done to Build Adult Vaccine Infrastructure

“We will likely need a booster shot for durability of protection,” explained Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on a Connecticut-based podcast this week, adding that unlike vaccines for some other diseases – such as measles - that essentially offer lifelong projection, “we are not likely to see that.”

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Perhaps a Second Bite at the Apple for Transportation and Climate Initiative Program

Perhaps a Second Bite at the Apple for Transportation and Climate Initiative Program

with the legislature promising to return to the State Capitol later this month to convene a Special Session to take care of some unfinished business from the regular 2021 session that concluded on June 9, efforts are intensifying to put back on the agenda an item that didn’t make the cut in the final days earlier this month - the Transportation and Climate Initiative.

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