Fall 2013 Community Currents - Community Foundation for Greater

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Youth Unity Weekend
Decrease in the Number of Youth Victims
Positive, wholesome mentoring is
happening for youth in the Fair Haven
and Hill communities thanks to Books
Up Guns Down, a Neighborhood
Leadership Grant recipient for three
years running. The group brings
residents and surrounding businesses
of the neighborhoods together through
events that encourage healthy living
and stress the importance of early
intervention and positive role models
in the lives of neighborhood youth.
Photo courtesy of New Haven Family Alliance
Street Outreach Workers Build Trust
In 2007, the City of New Haven contracted with New Haven Family Alliance to
implement the Street Outreach Worker Program; since the beginning the program
has received funding from The Community Foundation. Outreach workers with
“street cred” help kids connect to training and jobs. They advocate for those on
probation or parole. Trent Butler (2nd from left, above), an outreach worker in
Newhallville, recently celebrated the high school graduation of one of the first kids
he mentored. A young man who had initially refused Butler’s help, wrote him an
apology from jail. Butler helped, and now the same young man is taking classes at
Gateway Community College.
Learn more at www.cfgnh.org/streetoutreach
Photo courtesy of Raymond Wallace
Working together to build a stronger community – now and forever.
$2M Bequest from North Haven Couple
Photo courtesy of the Konopacke Estate
Attorney Helped Clients with Giving
As a young lawyer, Geoffrey Hecht
taught an evening course through North
Haven’s adult education program
Let’s Talk About the Law. Through
wide-ranging conversations with
students on topics ranging from probate,
negligence, divorce, and the court system,
Hecht tried to humanize the law.
Among his students were Henry and
Lillian Konopacke who attended the
class for several years. And many years
later, Geoff Hecht is now serving as
executor of Henry’s estate.
Henry Konopacke was born on November 8th, 1917 at 145 Nash Street in
New Haven and graduated from Hillhouse High School. A machinist at
Winchester Repeating, Henry met and married Lillian Blair of New Britain
in 1960. Henry and Lillian had a good life in their home in North Haven, traveling
frequently and enjoying their boat with friends until Lillian’s death in 2003. Henry
died in March of this year at the age of 95 and created the Lillian and Henry
Konopacke Fund to “assist nonprofit animal shelters.”
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Photo by Judy Sirota Rosenthal
Animal Shelters Get Big Boost with Konopacke Fund
Legal and Financial Experts Partner with
Local Foundations to Help Clients
Professional Advisor Partners
Many advisors have found The Community
Foundation an ideal vehicle for their clients.
The Foundation is proud to partner with
the professionals listed.
Deborah Abildsoe
Asset & Retirement Investment Associates LLC
Photo by David Gunn Photography LLC
Donald Anderson
Brenner, Saltzman & Wallman LLP
Advisors Gather for Pizza and Conversation
Bankers, financial planners, attorneys and other advisors gathered with Board and
staff members from The Community Foundation and the Jewish Foundation in
early September. Both Foundations work with advisors ensuring their clients’
charitable wishes are fulfilled and offer consultations, special seminars, and onsite
presentations to firms. Advisors are increasingly using www.giveGreater.org® to help
clients learn about and give to local nonprofits and the Learn section of the website
to gain information about our local community categorized in eight interest areas.
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Stephen August
UBS Financial Services Inc.
Greg R. Barringer, Esq.
Reid and Riege PC
Patricia R. Beauregard, Esq.
Pullman & Comley LLP
Thomas Beirne III
Halsey Associates Inc.
Andrew Boone
UBS Financial Services Inc.
Stearns Bryant Jr.
Nugent & Bryant
James P. Carley Jr.
BNY Mellon Wealth Management
Mary S. Chromik
Law Office of Mary S. Chromik
Karen Clute, Esq.
Wiggin & Dana, LLP
William Colwell, Esq.
Parrett, Porto, Parese & Colwell PC
Timothy W. Crowley
Crowley Law Offices
Professional Advisor Partners continued
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Christine L. Curtiss, Esq.
Cohen & Thomas
Paul Greenberg
Ritch, Greenberg & Hassan CPAs PC
Ingi-Mai Loorand, Esq.
Reid and Riege PC
Elwood B. Davis
Northeast Financial Consultants Inc.
George Guertin, Esq.
Guertin & Guertin
Sheldon A. Messinger, Esq.
Law Offices of Sheldon Messinger
Lisa Nachmias Davis
Davis, O’Sullivan & Priest LLC
Michael Gulish
LPL Financial
Francis H. Michaud Jr.
Michaud, Accavallo, Woodbridge & Cusano LLC
Kevin J. DiAdamo, Esq.
Law Office of Kevin J. DiAdamo, Esq.
Elizabeth R. Hartmayer
Merrill Lynch Investment Managers
Joan C. Molloy
Loughlin FitzGerald PC
Timothy Dillon, Esq.
Sheehy & Dillon
Geoffrey A. Hecht
Caplan and Hecht LLC
John M. Monahan, Esq.
Murtha Cullina LLP
Victoria DiSesa, Esq.
DiSesa & DiSesa
Kimberly Hurd
Benjamin F. Edwards & Co.
Granville R. Morris, Esq.
Essex Savings Bank
Stan Dombroski, Esq.
Dombroski, Knapsack & Hollis LLC
Thomas L. Hutchison
Merrill Lynch, The GKH Group
Martha Murray, Esq.
Martha Murray, Attorney-at-Law
John H. Driscoll Jr., JD, LLM, CFP®
Webster Private Bank
Nancy Kelly
Northwest Mutual Financial Services
Charles Noble III
Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
Christian Edmonds, Esq.
Edmonds & Bruno PC
Hon. John Keyes
Probate Judge, New Haven
Susan B. Nobleman
Gesmonde, Pietrosimone & Sgrignari LLC
Barbara Ellinghaus
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
Charles C. Kingsley, Esq.
Wiggin & Dana LLP
Darin L. Offerdahl
Michaud, Accavallo, Woodbridge & Cusano LLC
James E. Fischer, Esq.
Fischer & Fischer
Charles F. Kreitler
Kreitler Financial
Bette Lynn Paez, CFP
Sammons Securities Company
Norman F. Fishbein
Fishbein Law Firm LLC
Robert P. Kreitler
Kreitler Financial
Gregory J. Pepe, Esq.
Neubert, Pepe & Moneith PC
Colin M. Gershon, Esq.
Colin M. Gershon Attorney at Law
David Ladd
Ladd Capital Management
Thomas J. Perrone
New England Consulting Group of Guilford
Christopher Getman
Soundview Capital Management
Frederick P. Leaf, Esq.
Frederick P. Leaf Attorney at Law
Matthew Peterson
Carmody & Torrance LLP
Marshal D. Gibson, Esq.
Law Offices of Marshal D. Gibson PC
Donna Levine, Esq.
Law Office of Donna R. Levine
Henry T. Petry, CLU, ChFC
Hentry T. Petry, CLU, ChFC
John D. Gordon, CPA
Donald L. Perlroth & Company, CPA
Barbara B. Lindsay, Esq.
Barbara B. Lindsay LLC
Edward H. Pikaart Jr., CPA, CMA, CFM
T.M. Byxbee Company PC, CPA
Stock Gifts Have Many
Advantages for You
Professional Advisor Partners continued
Kathy Priest, Esq.
Davis, O’Sullivan & Priest, LLC
Daniel M. Smith, JD, CFBS, AEP, CLTC, SCP
Daniel M. Smith & Associates
Helene Robbins, CTFA
Wells Fargo Private Bank
Sara R. Stadler, Esq.
Murtha Cullina LLP
Donald S. Rotzien
First Niagara
Gregory Stamos, Esq.
Law Office of Gregory J. Stamos
Michael D. Saffer, Esq.
The Pellegrino Law Firm PC
Fred Stanek, Esq.
May & Stanek
Stephen Saltzman, Esq.
Brenner, Saltzman & Wallman LLP
Carolyn Staub
Planning Partners
Anthony Santore, CPA
Beers, Hamerman & Co. PC
Thomas M. Sutnik, Esq.
Law Offices of Thomas Sutnik
Steven D. Sax
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.
Andrew H. Testa
Apicella, Testa & Company PC
David R. Schaefer, Esq.
Brenner, Saltzman & Wallman LLP
Dominick Thomas
Cohen & Thomas
Irving S. Schloss, Esq.
Murtha Cullina LLP
Alan J. Tyma, Esq.
Ryan & Tyma
Sandra Vigliotti Senich
U.S. Trust, Bank of America
Joshua A. Weinshank
Berchem, Moses & Devlin PC
Fred D. Sette, Esq.
Sette & Bonadies PC
John H. Welch Jr.
Welch, Teodosio, Stanek & Blake LLC
Fay Sheppard, CFM
Wells Fargo Advisors
Thomas J. Welch
Welch, Teodosio, Stanek & Blake LLC
Mary Shropshire
Wells Fargo Private Bank
Shelby Wilson
Berchem, Moses & Devlin PC
Michael I. Silverberg, CLU, ChFC
Michael I. Silverberg, LLC
Karen E. Yates
Withers Bergman LLP
Mark Sklarz, Esq.
Day Pitney LLP
John J. Zaprzalka, CPA
Apicella, Testa & Company PC
Laura Sklaver, Esq.
Susman Duffy & Segaloff PC
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Gifts of appreciated securities offer
tax advantages because their full,
fair-market value is deductible up to
30% of your adjusted gross income each
year when you itemize deductions.
Deduction amounts that exceed the
limit can be carried forward for up to
five additional years. And, you do not
have to pay federal or state capital
gains taxes on the appreciated portion
of the gift.
Learn more at
www.cfgnh.org/securities
Beginning of the
Latino Century in America
Progreso Latino Fund Forum
Photo by Judy Sirota Rosenthal
Progreso Latino Fund Wants You!
Volunteers Growing Action and Giving Among Latinos
Established in 2003, the Progreso Latino Fund (PLF) promotes the educational and
socio-economic well being of Latinos in the City of New Haven and the region.
The Advisory Committee, now led by Cynthia Rojas (pictured above) and Fernando
Muñiz, is looking for Latinos and others to join them to develop Latino leadership
and to build an equitable community. Engaging more Latinos in local philanthropy
and encouraging giving to PLF, an endowment now worth $280,000, will accelerate
Latino influence in the region’s civic life. Will you join them?
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For more information, contact
Sharon Cappetta at 203-777-7071
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In New Haven county,
Latinos are 15% of the population
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From 2000 to 2012,
the New Haven county Latino
population increased by 56%
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There are 239,000 eligible
Latino voters in CT,
the 14th largest nationally
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In 2012, a record 69% of Latino
high school graduates enrolled in
college nationally
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Latino estimated purchasing power
in the U.S. was $1.2 trillion in 2012.
From the Pew Research Hispanic
Trends Project and the Selig Center
for Economic Growth
For more information, visit
www.cfgnh.org/professionaladvisors
A Sampling of
Yale Fund Connections
Photo by Chris Volpe
Yale Folks Support Their Community
Partners from the Beginning
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The Foundation and Yale’s most recent partnership — New Haven Promise — is the
largest ever and continues under Yale’s new President Peter Salovey (pictured above,
with Promise Scholars). The relationship between the two institutions dates back to
February 1928 when Yale graduates Osborne Day and Henry Galpin gathered with
leaders in the President’s Room at Woolsey Hall to hear from the New York
Community Trust on starting a community foundation. These leaders adopted the
Cleveland Foundation’s model of selecting Board members via appointing
authorities; in New Haven’s case, this included Yale. Since then, fourteen Yale
appointees have served the community as a member of The Foundation’s Board.
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Elm-Ivy Awards Fund, created by
Fen and Phyllis Seton, honoring
individuals contributing to
understanding and cooperation
between New Haven and Yale
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Ulysses Grant Foundation Fund
supporting a summer program for
talented and motivated middle school
students from New Haven
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Yale University Women’s
Organization Fund providing
scholarships to women resuming study
or enhancing or changing their career
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Barnett Family Fund supporting
educational programs at the
Peabody Museum
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Promising Scholars Fund making
awards in honor of Edward A. Bouchet,
the first African American to receive a
PhD from Yale in 1876
And many more…
For more information, visit
www.cfgnh.org/yaleconnections
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