When an 11-year-old made headlines for stealing a car, a team of violence preventers knocked on his door to ask him what he needed. They found only a mattress and a milk crate in his bedroom.
That child was on Len Jahad’s mind when a group of politicians arrived at Connecticut Violence Intervention & Prevention (CTVIP)’s headquarters to celebrate $275,000 in federal funds allocated for capital improvements to the building.
Will Ginsberg is leaving behind important unfinished business for his successor as he completes a 24-year run as CEO of New Haven’s leading philanthropic foundation.
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Maya McFadden |
Oct 7, 2024 10:57 am
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Community leaders and city officials gathered at the Canal Dock Boathouse to celebrate the Greater Dwight Development Corporation’s (GDDC) three decades of supporting affordable housing, shopping, and early childhood education in and around Dwight — now that that neighborhood nonprofit has turned 30.
An extra $500 a month didn’t cover every bill for Michael White as he reacclimated to life in New Haven outside of prison.
But it did allow him to stay home a bit longer with his newborn son; help him and his wife start their own “last-mile delivery” small business; cover some of the costs of groceries and diapers.
“You could rely on it. There was no hesitation. No withholding,” White said about those cash transfers. “You could count on that” regardless of what else may be going on. “It was everything.”
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Lisa Gray and Thomas Breen |
Sep 17, 2024 12:20 pm
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(Updated) The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, the region’s largest philanthropy guiding efforts to improve civic life, has tapped veteran community leader Karen DuBois-Walton to guide it into a new era.
As the sun beamed over a Broadway parking lot Saturday afternoon, Parents’ Foundation for Transitional Living (PFTL) Executive Director Tahnesha Bonner was in her zone on the grill.
While she’s usually in charge of logistics for the downtown nonprofit that provides residential care for adults struggling with mental illness, this day was different. Instead, she served smiles and cooked burgers and hot dogs for residents and family members to enjoy.
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Dereen Shirnekhi |
Aug 28, 2024 3:38 pm
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The city’s non-cop crisis response team now has a central location on Winthrop Avenue where first responders can bring adults who need short-term help for substance use and mental health challenges — while keeping them out of hospitals.
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Maya McFadden |
Aug 21, 2024 11:19 am
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In a Fair Haven warehouse, Paul Nunez watched closely as his student drilled a hole into a soon-to-be light fixture — reminding Nunez that less than a month ago, he was the one learning those same manufacturing skills on the same machine at the Manufacturing and Community Technical Hub (MATCH).
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Maya McFadden |
Aug 5, 2024 8:23 am
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Nathaniel Joyner took a quick break from reading aloud to a group of middle schoolers to spin an imaginary basketball on his finger before passing it over to eight-year-old Damien — who dribbled the “ball” between his legs, and then picked up the book to resume reading with the group.
Growing up in Syria and Jordan, 18-year-old Ibrahim Alhraaki didn’t learn to or take an interest in swimming. Then he began attending Common Ground High School — and was offered a chance to become a city lifeguard.
Nose deep in books on the Green, roughly 800 young New Haveners were transported to watching a Bronx street performer bust a move, to visiting a second-floor apartment in a Russian mining town, to spending some time with the Cat in the Hat — all as part of an annual “read-in” downtown.
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Maya McFadden |
Jul 12, 2024 9:36 am
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Brothers Logan and Mason Bacote enjoyed free ice cream that dribbled down their faces. Rasheem Jr. took a bite of a freshly made slice of pizza alongside his dad Rasheem Miller. And four-year-old Winter was gifted his first ever bicycle.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 28, 2024 9:14 am
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A privately owned pool will be open for free public access on Friday evenings — and for low-cost swim lessons throughout the summer — thanks to a youth athletics and tutoring nonprofit’s commitment to keeping the community in the water.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 24, 2024 8:56 am
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The temperature rose, and ice cream flowed, as neighborhood fifth-grader Saniyah cooled down during New Haven’s heat wave with the help of an Oreo and fudge vanilla sundae.
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Allan Appel |
May 23, 2024 3:20 pm
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More than 300 people filled Anthony’s Ocean View in Morris Cove to hug and celebrate Patti Walker, a local social-services leader with a big picture vision of human dignity and a big heart to go with it — who will be retiring from her leadership role at Continuum of Care after more than four decades at the helm.
The annual 36-hour “Great Give” exceeded its goal and raised over $3.8 million for over 500 nonprofits.
The “Foundationettes” took a momentary break Wednesday from running New Haven’s annual “Great Give” fundraising marathon to lift their voices in harmony — to try to lift the event to its goal in the home stretch. The Foundationettes are hard-working employees of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, which sponsors the annual Great Give. They came on air to sing a plea for donations, on WNHH FM’s “Great Give” radiothon.
Click on the video at the top of this story to watch their performance, and to hear about the event’s planning.
The song worked: The Great Give exceeded its $3.5 million goal. Click here to view all the Great Give results.
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Maya McFadden |
Apr 24, 2024 10:31 am
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A citywide math and literacy tutoring effort has reached 1,700 New Haven elementary school students since launching nearly a year ago — and is now on the lookout for 100 more volunteer tutors this summer, on top of the 240 who are currently signed up, to keep the program growing.
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Maya McFadden |
Apr 24, 2024 8:43 am
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Raquel Sanchez paged through recent issues of the New Haven Register and La Voz Hispana, on the lookout for opinion essays and articles about families — as part of a class teaching parents about the importance of media literacy for themselves, their kids, and others.
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Maya McFadden |
Apr 19, 2024 9:06 am
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Tree hollows, a raccoon track, and red-tailed hawk scat were all found by young New Haveners with the help of Ranger Harry as they practiced their tracking skills in Edgewood Park while on spring break.
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Maya McFadden |
Apr 17, 2024 11:37 am
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Sixth- and seventh-graders Javon Culbreath and Brandon Haynes headed to The Shack to kick off their spring break playing basketball in the sun — and wound up grabbing some free groceries to take home, too.
Charmain Yun wondered where life would take her next. A voice came to her with the answer.
“I heard something in my heart,” Yun recalled. “The phrase was, ‘Do what’s in front of you.’ At the time what was in front of me were the kids on my stoop.”
When the state made public buses free during the pandemic, it was a lifeline for Sean Tomany’s high school students. They could get to school earlier, stay later, participate in extracurriculars, and meet one-on-one with teachers.
The free buses went away, as did the opportunities that so many of his students could access for a short while, helping make sure they did not join the one in five kids in Connecticut who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Mar 25, 2024 8:58 am
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Jesus Christ and pre‑K kids will each get a “sliver” of city land — if the sale of two odd-cut, publicly-owned properties next to an adjacent Pentecostal church with plans for a daycare wins final approval.