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Index
■ Reporter's Notebook: PG. 5
■ Week in Review: PG. 6
■ The List: PG. 10
■ Deal Watch: PG. 16
■ Movers & Shakers: PG. 16
■ Nonprofit Notebook: PG. 18
■ Opinion & Commentary: PG. 20
Home Cooking
The Hartford Yard Goats' Neighborhood Flavors
Cart is giving small, local restaurants a chance to
show off their cuisine during ballgames, while also
diversifying Dunkin' Donuts Park's fare beyond the
traditional staples of hotdogs, peanuts and
Cracker Jacks. PG. 3
FOCUS:
MANUFACTURING
Mobile Training
Goodwin College's recently launched mobile lab
offers continuing education workshops that can
refresh and upgrade the skills of experienced
workers while also introducing new employees to
advanced manufacturing techniques and equipment
— all without leaving the company site. PG. 8
Charitable givers
expect uptick
in nonprofit
demands
By John Stearns
jstearns@HartfordBusiness.com
S
ome corporate foundations are fielding
more calls for financial assistance as
nonprofits struggle under real or threat-
ened cuts from city and state governments
choked by deficits — calls that may intensify.
It's not just uncertain local and state bud-
gets that are clouding nonprofits' financial fore-
casts, said Karla Fortunato, president of the
Connecticut Council for Philanthropy (CCP),
which has about 120 members comprising cor-
porations, their foundations and others.
Planning is also complicated by what's
happening in Washington, D.C., where short-
handed agencies are affecting operations
nationally, she said.
"Things that used to happen quite smoothly
are not happening quite smoothly anymore,"
Fortunato said. "And a lot of the nonprofits in
Connecticut do rely on a real mix of revenues
from different kinds of local, state and federal
players — so in Connecticut, I feel like our non-
profits are really facing kind of a triple whammy."
That's particularly true in Hartford, where
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Millennial
Appeal
Diane Cantello, The Hartford's VP of corporate sustain-
ability, is preparing for 2018 nonprofit funding requests.
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Three Millennials who live and work in downtown Hartford — Andrea Hartman, Mitchell Jackson and
Christopher Pagano — recently sat down with HBJ, to share their pros and cons of the city, and their
outlook for its future.
Young professionals say
Hartford's urban assets
underappreciated
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