CFB/Foodshare Merger - NEMusicians Relief Fund - Fairfield County's Giving Day
Today we're celebrating the merger of Foodshare and Connecticut Food Bank which just launched this historic union between the state’s two largest nonprofit anti-hunger organizations. We'll hear all about it and let you know how to help - or get help if you or someone you love is going hungry in Connecticut. Then we'll queue up the chairman of the New England Musicians Relief Fund, which has la...
55m Feb 14, 2021
55m
USDA Game day Food Safety - Career Resources - Mattress Recycling Council
This morning we're kicking off Super Bowl Sunday bright and early helping you avoid some of the most common issues that can turn game day into a nightmare because of foodborne illness. So we're bringing in a food expert from the US Dept of Agriculture to review some of the major things you need to know as you gear up for your game day feast. Then - whether you are an employer looking for quali...
56m Feb 07, 2021
56m
Umbrella Center Strength-4-Survivors - Choose Love Awareness Month - Human Rights Campaign
We're circling back to the Umbrella Center for Domestic Violence Services, which is serving thousands of families in greater New Haven and the Naugatuck Valley. We'll discuss their all important preventative tool -  community outreach and education, its Hope Family Justice Center, and how to help by participating in the 2021 Strength-4-Survivors challenge. Then we'll visit with Scarlett Lewis,...
55m Jan 31, 2021
55m
Broadband Affordability & Access - Southwest Community Health Center - Untapped Potential
Meet a Vice President from Western Governors University talking about how broadband affordability in Connecticut - especially in the New Haven and Bridgeport regions continues to be a barrier to education, skills training, workforce development, and economic development especially among historically under-served people and how WGU is helping bridge that digital divide. Then get the lowdown on ...
57m Jan 24, 2021
57m
Family Empowerment NOW - Stepping Forward @ CFGNH - Second Thoughts CT
Today we're welcoming back the founder of Guardian Ad Litem Services, a liaison agency that exists between its clients and their "unique, interrelated networks" - courts, mental health service providers, physicians, state agencies, guardians, nonprofit organizations, hospitals and conservators as they launch a brand new program called Family Empowerment NOW. The we'll bring in the CEO and Boar...
56m Jan 17, 2021
56m
CT Small Business Development Center - Fairfield University's Center for Social Impact - New Haven Magnet Schools
We're circling back to an organization aimed at helping local businesses and entrepreneurs either get started successfully, sustain themselves through the challenges posed by the pandemic, or take an existing enterprise to the next level - I'm talking about the CT Small Business Development Center. Then we'll meet a pair of researchers from Fairfield University's Center for Social Impact to di...
55m Jan 10, 2021
55m
'Network of Distinction' - Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness - 'Visit Norwalk'
We're kicking off 2021 with State Comptroller Kevin Lembo talking about a new “Network of Distinction” program designed to achieve the dual goals of lowering overall health costs and achieving better outcomes. Are you one of the roughly quarter million state residents benefiting - stay tuned and find out. Then we'll circle back to chat with the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness (CCEH) ...
55m Jan 03, 2021
55m
CT Paid Leave Authority - Compassion & Choices - COVID Challenges To Gyms
As we approach the launch of CT Paid Leave program, which will offer Connecticut workers the opportunity to take time to attend to personal and family health needs without worrying about lost income, we'll check in with the CEO of the CT Paid Leave Authority to help employers and employees better understand the program.  Next, have you heard about U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal's new legislat...
56m Dec 27, 2020
56m
The Patient is U Foundation - Back Yard Beekeepers Assoc. - CT Lead Poisoning Prevention and Control Program
We're replaying a segment reminding residents about the lingering dangers of lead with an environmental sanitarian from Meriden - who plays a role in a larger statewide effort to remind residents about the dangers posed by lead. We'll learn all the places where lead could still be lurking in places where kids and others could still be exposed - and how that lead exposure can be remediated forev...
55m Dec 20, 2020
55m
Techstars Startup Week @ SHU - Marijuana Policy Project - AARP Connecticut / Livable Communities
Meet the Dean from the Jack Welch College of Business & Technology at Sacred Heart University talking about Techstars Startup Week - a free five-day virtual conference open to the public starting Monday and hosted by SHU featuring inspirational mentors, entrepreneurs, professors, and industry experts from across the nation. Then we're bringing back the senior legislative counsel at the Marijua...
56m Dec 13, 2020
56m
CBYD Virtual Certification - Clean Energy/Green Jobs Report - Recovery Network of Programs
If your planning to do any digging between now and next spring or beyond you'll want to hear about a brand new educational resource and certification program from Call Before You Dig that will help you ensure any deep dig projects you are planning in the future at home or on the job - roll out safely. Then we'll clue you in on new job opportunities that are opening up in the new year with a pa...
57m Dec 06, 2020
57m
Adam's House - 2020 State of Lung Cancer - CT Epilepsy Advocate
The founder of Adam's House returns to our program to remind you about the free bereavement support they provide to families annually through “Helping Hearts Heal.” And we'll let you know how to help support their good work at the upcoming virtual Mistletoe & Margaritas event. Then as we move through Lung Cancer Awareness Month, we'll share some important news about the great progress Connecti...
56m Nov 22, 2020
56m
Partner In Lyme - Encore: CT Center for Economic Analysis - Encore: UNH Chief Diversity Officer
This morning we'll learn how one mom's agonizing journey to diagnose Lyme Disease in her teenage daughter has grown into one of the region's newest nonprofits - Partner In Lyme - and how you can help the cause at their first virtual fundraiser in early January. Then we'll encore a couple of segments from the summer starting with the CT Center for Economic Analysis. We'll hear some sobering sta...
57m Nov 15, 2020
57m
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America - ALICE 2020 Report - Stop & Shop’s Nutrition Partners
The CEO of the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America wants you to know how his organization is supporting, educating, and advocating for those affected - along with their hero caregivers and loved ones during Alzheimer's Awareness Month. Then, the new President from United Way of Connecticut checks in with a look at its ALICE 2020 report and an invitation to a series of virtual town hall events ad...
55m Nov 08, 2020
55m
Open Enrollment Focus: ConnectiCare / Sen. Matt Lesser - Special Report: Cybersecurity
It's November 1, that means time for open enrollment on the CT Health Insurance Exchange. So we'll bring in a representative from one of the original exchange providers - ConnectiCare with all you need to know if your signing up. Then we'll ring up state Senator Matt Lesser for a heads-up on a number of healthcare products the CT Insurance Dept is recommending you should avoid. Finally, we'll...
56m Nov 01, 2020
56m
The Rowan Center - CTDPH Flu Shots & COVID - The Southport CoLAB / Literacy How
Thanks to this pandemic we've all been inducted into the world of doing everything virtually - even fundraising, so we're opening by introducing The Rowan Center - working hard since 1979 serving and supporting victims of domestic violence. We'll talk about the center's critical mission and how you can help by signing on to build a holiday gingerbread house virtually. Then we'll turn to an epi...
56m Oct 25, 2020
56m
CT Green Bank Heat Pump Loans - Adult Family Living Initiative - RWJF Childhood Obesity Study
We're going to heat things up right off the bat talking about the newest CT Green Bank program to help you put heat pump technology into your home and digging into some details about a low interest rate, no money down option for heating, cooling, filtering, and taking care of your hot water service, too. Then we're circling back with Assisted Living Services focusing on an important state spon...
55m Oct 18, 2020
55m
Breast Cancer Awareness - Workforce Alliance / 'Recovery Works' - CT Coalition to End Homelessness
We're starting our October Breast Cancer Awareness month reporting with a skilled surgeon from Waterbury Heath System with nearly a quarter century of hands-on experience supporting breast cancer survivors - for an informed and heartening conversation focusing on some positive news regarding breast cancer research, awareness, and recovery. Then we're returning to a subject we've been covering ...
56m Oct 11, 2020
56m
Abilis SibShops - SHUand42: A Subway Series Celebration - Exercise And The Brain
Today we're kicking things off with Abilis, a nonprofit serving more than 700 developmentally disabled individuals and their families. We'll learn more about an internationally renowned program Abilis is now offering called SibShops, combining recreation, discussion and information for siblings who endure the good (and sometimes uncomfortable) parts of having a sibling with a disability. Then ...
54m Oct 04, 2020
54m
COVID Halloween Safety - CT Center for Economic Analysis - Beardsley Zoo / MonarchWatch
Halloween in a COVID world stands to be one of the potentially scariest holidays and it will be upon us soon. So where do you stand on celebrating - trick or treating - or maybe just taking a pass on Halloween 2020. We'll help you figure it out with a mom and medical authority from PhysicianOne Urgent Care. Then we'll get some sobering news - and maybe a little spark of hope - as we touch base...
56m Sep 27, 2020
56m
COVID Impact On Minority Households - New England for Offshore Wind - Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
Meet a director from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health discussing a brand new poll that amplifies how badly the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Latino, Black, and Native American households. Then we air out a few concerns about, and potential benefits of wind power as we touch base with the New England for Offshore Wind coalition to learn more about developing offshore wind projects...
55m Sep 20, 2020
55m
Connecticut Housing Finance Authority - Bigelow Tea Community Challenge - 2020 Veterans Stand Down
We're opening our doors to the CEO of CHFA - the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority - to chat about how this quasi-public agency is working harder than ever to support renters and homeowners, rental housing operators, and to promote broader affordable and workforce housing across the state. Then it's time for our annual visit with Cindi Bigelow. The 2020 Bigelow Tea Community Challenge, lik...
56m Sep 13, 2020
56m
Workforce Alliance of South Central CT (encore) - Aware Recovery Care - FEMA #BeReady
This Labor Day weekend, as folks whose jobs were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic take on the extra burden of finding new work, we'll open replaying a June segment with a representative from the Workforce Alliance of South Central CT to review new and enhanced online training and resources. Then we'll learn how the COVID-19 pandemic is taking a toll on folks trying to work through recovery - ...
59m Sep 06, 2020
59m
Keep America Beautiful 'Trash Dash' - Smilow Closer to Free Ride - Center for Family Justice
Today we're talking about 'plogging' - which incorporates picking up litter while jogging - and how you can discover plogging on September 20 as Keep America Beautiful launches it's 2020 Trash Dash in Stamford - and enlists ploggers across Connecticut virtually in targeting discarded PPE and other waste in our communities. Then we'll get Closer to Free with the folks at Smilow Cancer Hospital ...
55m Aug 30, 2020
55m
Yankee Institute - The Children's Center of Hamden - CT Office of Early Childhood/WBDC
We're opening today with the Yankee Institute, which just launched a new comprehensive database of every public labor contract in the state, and how it can help you and your elected leaders better understand how they impact our communities and economy. Then we're going to have an energized conversation with the new CEO of one of the state's oldest human services agencies, the Children's Center...
56m Aug 23, 2020
56m
SHRM’s Together Forward @Work - CT Public Pension Challenges - CAANH Energy Assistance
We're kicking it off talking about 'The Journey to Equity and Inclusion' in our workplaces with the Chief Knowledge Officer from the Society for Human Resource Management talking about SHRM’s Together Forward @Work initiative.  Then our guest from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University will hit the high points of a new study on how Connecticut has gone so wrong when it comes to adminis...
55m Aug 16, 2020
55m
COVID-19 & Family Dynamics - Goodwin University/UB Partnership - Project Yellow Light
Meet a Connecticut cultural anthropologist talking about a survey he completed that illustrates how COVID-19 will permanently transform consumer culture — and ways family relationships and values changed during quarantine. Then we'll catch up with the President of Goodwin University to hear how his institution is partnering with Sacred Heart University and the Paier College of Art to work with...
55m Aug 02, 2020
55m
'Counting On 2020' Census PUSH Week - Common Ground High School - ROVAC Primary Voting
We reached out to the President of ROVAC - the Registrars of Voters Association of Connecticut - to talk about the most important updates and things you need to know to easily and successfully cast your ballots in the upcoming August 11 primaries. Then we'll head to the gardens of Common Ground High School - a charter school in New Haven and the oldest environmental charter school in the Unite...
56m Jul 26, 2020
56m
CT Lead Poisoning Prevention and Control Program - A Promise to Jordan - Monitor My Health
Meet an environmental sanitarian from Meriden - who plays a role in the state's Lead Poisoning Prevention and Control Program residents identifying and helping folks understand and eliminate dangers posed by lead - which is especially risky to children. Then we'll hear another story of tragedy overcome by inspiration with the founder of A Promise to Jordan - a statewide nonprofit honoring a vi...
56m Jul 19, 2020
56m
UNH Center for Advanced Policing - CT Humanities - CT Coalition Against Domestic Violence
We'll engage the new Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer at the University of New Haven - Lorenzo Boyd - who also heads up the UNH Center for Advanced Policing, for the first of a couple of conversations we're planning around police practices, movements to de-fund police agencies, and the crossover points where racial diversity intersects with community polici...
56m Jul 12, 2020
56m
Independence Day Weekend Replay - NOFA's OrganiCONN 2020
This Independence Day weekend, we're paying tribute to all the folks who grow the good food we eat, who are taking steps to grow their own, or maintain their properties with organic standards in mind.  So we're playing an encore presentation from our annual pilgrimage to the Northeast Organic Farming Association's Organiconn conference - which was held earlier this year at Wesleyan University. ...
55m Jul 05, 2020
55m
Nursing Homes & COVID with AARP / Rep. Michelle Cook - Junior Achievement GFC - Save A Suit
Our focus on the issue of COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes and care facilities across Connecticut starts with a national expert from AARP talking about how that organization is pursuing legislation to better support and protect residents of those facilities. Then we'll take a very personal look at a tragic COVID-19 nursing home experience that affected State Rep Michelle Cook of Torrington,...
55m Jun 28, 2020
55m
Workforce Alliance SCCT - (ENCORE) HRRA Glass Recycling - Youth Continuum
Has COVID-19 put you out of a job - or have you been thinking about a career change anyway? Then don't miss our latest check-in with the Workforce Alliance of South Central CT. We'll tell you about new and enhanced online career training and which employers are hiring right now! Then we'll replay our chat with the Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority about the role glass plays driving up yo...
56m Jun 21, 2020
56m
ENCORE Replay: U.S. Surgeon General - Regional Hospice - Shatterproof 'Just Five'
Our first encore segment features U.S. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams talking about the first new national report on smoking cessation since 1990, and ways to begin kicking the habit today. Then we'll replay a difficult but important conversation with the CEO of Regional Hospice - which is working to complete the fifth in-patient children's hospice center in the entire nation right in western ...
56m Jun 14, 2020
56m
Election Cybersecurity - CT Insurance Commissioner - LGBTQ Pride Month
Protecting one of your most fundamental rights and privileges as a Connecticut resident & an American - the votes you cast in on Election Day - is the subject of today's chat with the director of the USC Election Cybersecurity Initiative. Then we'll move through a busy agenda of subjects with Connecticut's Insurance Commissioner: including a new free life insurance program for front line COVID-...
55m Jun 07, 2020
55m
EMS Charity Run - Assisted Living Services / CT Assc for Healthcare at Home - Aspetuck Land Trust
After celebrating National EMS Week earlier we'll circle back with an EMT who you'll see running through Shelton for 24 hours next weekend to help raise funds for a new Echo Hose Co. ambulance. Then we'll bring you some advice for folks who are aging in place while facing COVID-19 restrictions with our sources from Assisted Living Services, and the CT Association for Healthcare at Home. Then it...
55m May 31, 2020
55m
Wheeler Health Services - TEACH Connecticut - Trust for America’s Health
This installment of 'For the People' introduces the CEO of Wheeler discussing how this nonprofit is delivering an integrated approach to primary and behavioral health, education, and recovery - and the opening of Wheeler’s new, expanded Waterbury Family Health & Wellness Center. Then we'll talk to a former North Branford and Connecticut Teacher of the Year about how she found a successful secon...
55m May 24, 2020
55m
Drive-up COVID-19 Testing - EMS Week 2020 - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Our first field report in weeks finds us at Newtown's first-ever drive-up COVID-19 testing center. Check our chat with a PhysicianOne representative, the community's lead health official and First Selectman talking about testing and more. Then we'll celebrate all the front line responders and kick off National EMS week with a small town EMS volunteer and a municipal fire official about how they...
57m May 17, 2020
57m
4-CT - 2020 "State Of The Air" Report - 25th International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Today we'll start by introducing the co-founder of 4-CT, a a non-profit that unites donors with nonprofit programs that are struggling through the COVID-19 situation - and learn about local musicians uniting in song to help raise awareness for 4-CT projects. And we'll close touting the virtual 25th Annual International Festival of Arts & Ideas - bringing you artistic exhibits, food experiences,...
57m May 10, 2020
57m
NAMI Connecticut - Masksforcitizens.com - CT Council on Environmental Quality
Today we continue our deeper dive showcasing how local agencies and human service programs are maintaining, surviving, and continuing to serve in a COVID-19 world. First, we'll reach out to anyone who is feeling anxious, angry, sad, scared or alone during the current pandemic - to bring you an information packed and hopefully stress reducing conversation with the Executive Director of NAMI Conn...
56m May 03, 2020
56m
Circle of Care - Junior Achievement GFC - Fairfield County's Community Foundation
Today we continue our deeper dive showcasing how local agencies and human service programs are maintaining, surviving, and continuing to serve in a COVID-19 world. Home confinement doesn't compare to childhood cancer patients and their families struggling with cancer and coronavirus. So meet the founder of Circle of Care, providing assistance to meet the unique and challenging needs of pediatri...
55m Apr 26, 2020
55m
Eversource COVID Response - The Beardsley Zoo - Bridgeport Rescue Mission
Today we continue our deeper dive showcasing how local agencies and human service programs are maintaining, surviving, and continuing to serve in a COVID-19 world. We'll let you know how Eversource is keeping utility services operational, how you can save a few bucks even if you're using more energy these days, and how the utility is helping keep critical nonprofits operational during this heal...
55m Apr 19, 2020
55m
Diaper Bank of CT - AARP Community Connections - ENCORE: Boys and Girls Village
Today we continue our deeper dive into explaining how some local agencies and initiatives are maintaining, surviving, and continuing to serve in a COVID-19 world. We'll get a crash course on why diapers matter especially during this coronavirus emergency, and learn how and why you should reach out and help the Diaper Bank of CT. Then we'll check in with AARP CT to learn about a robust new onlin...
55m Apr 12, 2020
55m
ARI of Connecticut - CT League of Conservation Voters - Connecticut Food Bank
Today we'll begin a deeper and more comprehensive dive into talking with and discussing how local agencies and initiatives are maintaining, surviving, and continuing to serve in a COVID-19 world. We'll open with ARI of Connecticut, and learn how they're continuing to serve a population of disabled individuals and their families in Fairfield County - while moving forward with a virtual fundraise...
56m Apr 05, 2020
56m
Veterans Wellness Center of America - Center For Family Justice - NFIB
Today we'll meet a Connecticut neighbor walking Route 1 from border to border on Memorial Day Weekend to fortify her new nonprofit - the Veterans Wellness Center of America. Then we'll reach out to the Center For Family Justice to share important information for those facing or surviving domestic and family abuse situations during the current coronavirus outbreak.  And our guest from NFIB the T...
55m Mar 29, 2020
55m
Special Report: Northeast Organic Farming Association - OrganiCONN 2020
Today's Special Report was produced from the recent Northeast Organic Farming Association's 2020 OrganiConn conference at Wesleyan University in Middletown. We caught up with NOFA's director, the event's keynote speaker, as well as a number of other guests promoting organic practices and programs that can help enhance our state's environment and public health - while engaging 'back to the land'...
56m Mar 22, 2020
56m
Make-A-Wish CT - The WorkPlace - Child Poisoning Prevention
We'll learn why Jersey Mike's Month of Giving and their March 25th Day of Giving is a key contributor to Make-A-Wish CT, and how those donations are making a difference. Then we'll visit The Workplace to hear about new programs to help re-train or get veterans situated into clean, high-paying and secure advanced manufacturing and other career positions with the agency's 'Platform 2 Employment p...
53m Mar 15, 2020
53m
Courage To Speak Foundation - CT Institute For Communities - Monitor My Health
Learn the next generation of support to help keep your kids safe and protect them from substance abuse as we chat with Ginger Katz and learn about her latest Courage To Speak online system for parents, educators and communities - and how to be part of Ginger's next Empowering Youth to be Drug-Free Family Night. Then we'll visit the Connecticut Institute for Communities to hear how this unique a...
56m Mar 08, 2020
56m
Literacy Volunteers of Southern CT - Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority - 2020 CT Masters Games
There are thousands of folks in the region eager to learn to read and speak English. So we'll explain how you can help with the leader of the Literacy Volunteers of Southern CT and invite you to chill out and support the cause at next Saturday's 16th annual Leprechaun Leap Then we'll have a transparent conversation about glass, the role it plays driving up your local property tax bill, and what...
56m Mar 01, 2020
56m
Americares - Community Foundation for Greater New Haven - Shatterproof 'Just Five'
Today we'll celebrate 40 years of providing emergency response and introduce you to the new CEO of Americares. We'll learn how this Connecticut-based nonprofit is representing our state around the globe, and what Americares is doing right here at home. Then we'll touch base with the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven - and get the latest on why this philanthropic organization is committ...
55m Feb 20, 2020
55m