Connecticut State Treasurer Erick Russell has released investment performance numbers for calendar year 2023 showing Connecticut’s pension funds and trusts earned returns of 12.8%, placing them in the top 27% among the nation’s public pension plans.
Read MoreAcross public libraries in Connecticut, 2023 was a banner year, with COVID increasingly in the rear-view mirror. Newly released reports include metrics that reveal increased use of libraries for a range of purposes.
Read MoreAt the State Capitol, among the hundreds of legislative proposals being considered is one under the jurisdiction of the Government Affairs and Elections Committee, which would have the state designate various commemorative days.
Read MorereSET, the Hartford-based entrepreneur support organization committed to nurturing businesses with a social mission, has accepted ten Connecticut-based startups into its 2024 Impact Accelerator, getting underway this spring.
Read MoreThe League of Women Voters of Connecticut is calling on Governor Lamont to ensure that sufficient funds are in place so that Connecticut’s first experience with early voting, due to begin just weeks from now, is successful.
Read MoreThe Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, the community foundation for 29 cities and towns in Greater Hartford, awarded $50 million in grants to the region’s nonprofit agencies in 2023.
Read MoreAmerica 250 | CT is leading the state’s efforts to support diverse, inclusive, and impactful programs in collaboration with cultural, education, history, and arts organizations throughout the state in 2026.
Read MoreFifty years ago, the Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund was founded “with a big goal: to create an equitable society where women and girls thrive.” Five decades later, there’s a new name alongside a renewed commitment.
Read MoreGovernor Ned Lamont announced this week that Rachel Lenda, a Connecticut native, will serve as the new director of the Connecticut Office of Tourism. A year ago, she told legislators “It is time we took our cultural and tourism assets and gave them the attention they desperately deserve.”
Read MoreThe Connecticut Paid Leave Authority has now provided income-replacement benefits to more than 100,000 Connecticut workers, having paid $638,030,870.74 in benefits since its launch in January 2022.
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