... preparing food that Jerome Hauser, Jr. served up to guests like James Davis, in the Hill.
Jerome Hauser, Jr., Diamond Tree, Zelinda Clark, Tony Evans, and Rev. William Mathis had half an hour to go Thursday before the expected lunchtime rush at a newly opened soup kitchen in the Hill.
The fried chicken, beef, hash browns, and corn were hot. The takeout containers were stacked and stickered. Motivated by a commitment to feeding the hungry, the crew was ready to serve.
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Board prez French on site Monday at Gateway outpost: No word for public on charitable group's situation.
(Updated) Literacy Volunteers of Greater New Haven furloughed staffers this week, leaving the public to read between the lines as to why or what it means for adults seeking help learning to read.
Edward Beverly (above) and Killian Dobroth (below) performing Thursday night at Musical Intervention Studios.
“You gotta be who you are,” Edward Beverly sang Thursday night in an alcove retail space beneath the suspended concrete planet known as the Temple Street Garage, “because that’s who you are.”
CT VIP Director of Operations Linda Baylor: “I want to change the mood when you walk in here."
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 at WNHH FM: It didn't all turn out the way we planned.
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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Tracking the GDDC's progress over the years ...
... at 30th anniversary celebration.
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.
Elm City Reentry Pilot participants Michael White (with son Micah) and Kevin Boyd: Cash transfer program was a "life saver."
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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DuBois-Walton: A new top-level civic challenge.
(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.
PFTL Program Manager Yvonne Elung, Executive Director Tahnesha Bonner, and Director of Admissions and Outreach Kyleigh Marrero at Saturday's cookout.
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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Jim Farrales and Nancy Navarretta: This center is the "first of its kind" in the state.
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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Former student, current instructor Paul Nunez hosts drilling practice.
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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Nathaniel Joyner and Damien, reading side by side at summer camp.
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.
Yahya, Rayyan, and Amira stay cool in Hillhouse's pool for open swim.
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.
Kica Matos (right) flips the script and has LEAP students read aloud to her ...
... as books and kids and volunteers come out to the Green.
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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Quanisha Morrison helps her cousin with arts and crafts ...
... at city's first Family Fun Day of the summer.
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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LEAP Aquatics Director Oscar Rodriguez at the soon-to-be-filled-with-water Jefferson Street pool.
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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Valley Street residents Nyla and Kenadi secure strawberry cones.
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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Continuum Prez Patti Walker (right) and successor Jim Farrales.
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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New Haven Counts ED Ronald Coleman (center) and New Haven Reads ED Kirsten Levinsohn on Tuesday.
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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Parent Raquel Sanchez checks out the headlines during PLTI media literacy lesson.
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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Students tell Ranger Harry the stories of their tracks.
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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Brandon Haynes and Javon Culbreath on a mission: groceries first, then basketball.
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.”
