Uplifting Community: LGBTQ+ Dedicated Funds Across New England
Boston Spirit May 31, 2024
[Excerpt from feature article by Rob Phelps, May 13, 2024] All across New England, LGBTQ+ organizations do amazing, life-affirming, often lifesaving work to support our community. But who’s supporting them? For pro-LGBTQ+ programs and initiatives to survive and thrive, they need support too. Stepping up to offer that support are dedicated funds throughout our six New England states—some based within major philanthropic foundations, others scrappy grassroots orgs themselves, all sharing similar missions to uplift all LGBTQ+ people in our region. [....]… Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Answer the Call to Improve Your Community”: DataHaven and Partners Urge Residents to Participate in Landmark Wellbeing Survey of Connecticut Thousands of randomly-selected residents from all 169 Connecticut towns will participate in the 2024 DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey, the seventh wave of a large survey on happiness and quality of life that has been fielded since 2012… Read More
YWCA Greenwich Panel Talk Equity and Accessibility in Greenwich in Honor of Martin Luther King
Greenwich Free Press January 25, 2024
[Excerpt of feature article by Leslie Yager, Greenwich Free Press, 1/21/24. More photos are available in the article] Thursday night’s “Bending the Arc” panel discussion at the YWCA Greenwich focused on inequity and access in Greenwich. YWCA Greenwich CEO Mary Lee Kiernan quoted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s words from a speech given at the National Cathedral on March 31, 1968 when he said, “We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”… Read More
Advancing Racial Equity and Improving Communities in Connecticut with DataHaven’s Unique Survey
National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership News November 29, 2023
[Article by Elizabeth Burton and Kathy Pettit at NNIP News, November 2023]… Read More
DataHaven's Hartford Foundation 2023 Equity Profile Highlights Region's Challenges and Opportunities
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving November 27, 2023
DataHaven’s Hartford Foundation 2023 Equity Profile Highlights Region’s Challenges and Opportunities… Read More
Join the Advisory Council for DataHaven's statewide survey - participant incentives available
by Mark Abraham September 19, 2023
The DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey completed live, in-depth interviews with over 45,000 randomly-selected adults in every town in Connecticut in recent years, producing robust local-level information (such as data included in the Town Equity Reports) on the issues that are most relevant to community well-being. This survey has been supported by over 100 public and private partners throughout Connecticut, and will be fielded again beginning in early 2024.… Read More