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October 28, 2013 Nonprofit notebook

Webster Bank Grant Supports Micro Loan Programs

Photo | Contributed Pictured, from left: Buck Harris, technical advisor, CIC; Tim Bergstrom, SVP & regional manager of business banking at Webster Bank; and Mark Cousineau, president of CIC.

Webster Bank recently provided the Community Investment Corp./New Haven Development Corp. a $25,000 grant to support their micro loan program. CIC is a nonprofit economic development lender that provides financial expertise and practical guidance to small business entrepreneurs in Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Citizens Financial Group Donates Meals for 100,000 families

RBS Citizens Financial Group Inc. recently marked international Customer Service Week with the donation of meals for 100,000 families in honor of the customers of Citizens Bank, Charter One and RBS Citizens. The donations come as part of the bank's broader “Customer Experience Week” initiative — timed to coincide with international Customer Service Week. Customer Experience Week is focused on thanking customers and recognizing colleagues for their commitment to customers.

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CT Health Foundation Awards $25K to Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services

Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services in New Haven has been awarded a one-year $25,000 grant from the Connecticut Health Foundation to ensure health equity for refugees. The grant will be used to fund health care access, insurance navigation, and language access to enable refugees to achieve medical self-sufficiency in the midst of the major health insurance reforms.

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UConn Wins Grant for Sports Exchange Program with South Africa

For the second year in a row, the University of Connecticut has been awarded $225,000 for an International Sports Programming Initiative exchange grant by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Sports United Division.

The grant will fund the Sports for Social Change two-way exchange program, aimed at promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing and mutual understanding between the U.S. and South Africa. The program seeks to increase the professional capacity of individuals who design and manage community or school youth sport programs that function as tools for fostering positive social change.

UConn's Global Training and Development Institute (GTDI), located in the UConn Office of Global Affairs, developed and piloted the Sports for Social Change program in Hong Kong in 2012.

The success of the pilot program led to the development of a similar program for South Africa. The program serves as both an educational and cultural exchange, which will enable American and South African youth sport administrators to share their experiences, challenges and successes in managing and organizing youth sport programs.

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Community Foundation Bolsters New Britain Schools' Chronic Absenteeism Initiative

Building on improvements made over the past year in the number of New Britain children attending school regularly, the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain has authorized an additional $21,000 in grant funding to the New Britain school district to enable the effort to continue. The money will be invested in the following manner: $9,978 to continue the work of Attendance Works, a San Francisco-based consultancy, and $11,022 as needed for the school district to continue employing an attendance outreach worker.

District-wide, the number of New Britain children attending class on a more regular basis — and therefore not deemed “chronically absent” — improved by 41 percent at the kindergarten level and 44 percent at the first-grade level from the school year ending in 2012 to the school year ending this past June. In 2012, 30 percent of kindergarten students were considered chronically absent. The figure dropped to 17.6 percent in 2013. In grades K-8, chronic absence has been reduced by 18 percent.

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Our Piece of the Pie Receives Federal Grant for Path Academy

Our Piece of the Pie Inc. has received a federal grant to support the development and startup of Path Academy-Windham, a state charter school opening in 2014.

The award is from the U.S. Department of Education's Charter Schools Program. Our Piece of the Pie was awarded $200,000 for the first year, with two additional years of funding contingent on performance totaling $585,800 over the three-year period. The award supports startup, ramp up and implementation of Path Academy, helping to finalize curriculum, and allow for early staff hiring to learn the model. The school will open in August 2014 with up to 120 students.

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