TORRINGTON, Connecticut, Sept. 16 -- The Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation issued the following news: The Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation and Danosky & Associates, LLC congratulates 10 new graduates of the Leadership Enrichment for Advancing Professionals (LEAP) program. The graduates completed the intensive seven-week program designed toward building skills in all areas of nonprofit leadership. Since 2014, The LEAP program has educated nearly 50 nonprofit employees from 40   more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Sept. 19 -- The Connecticut Business and Industry Association issued the following news release: Connecticut's largest business organization today described the state's August employment report as "welcome news" and called for a sustained focus on job growth. "The August jobs report for Connecticut was a welcome change," CBIA economic adviser Pete Gioia said today. "We saw nonfarm jobs grow by 2,800 and the unemployment rate remained at 3.6%. In addition, the July numbe  more

STAMFORD, Connecticut, Sept. 17 -- Keep America Beautiful issued the following news release: * * * - Dart Committed to Prevent Litter from Entering Waterways through its Support of Keep America Beautiful Trash Dash Events * * * Dart Container Corporation and Keep America Beautiful(R), the nation's leading community improvement nonprofit organization, today announced Dart will be the Title Sponsor on all Keep America Beautiful national plogging initiatives, including the Keep America Beautifu  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Sept. 16 -- The Connecticut Business & Industry Association will host a Manufacturing Summit at the Trumbull Marriott Shelton, Connecticut, Oct. 25: Agenda and Speakers: Hiring & Retaining Great Employees in a Boom or Bust Economy Speaker: John Frehse, Senior Managing Director, Ankura * * * Technology & Innovation Moderator: Marni Rozen, Director, Management Consulting Practice, RSM Speaker: Marty Guay, VP of Business Development, Stanley Black & Decker * * * Stat  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Sept. 16 -- The Credit Union Executives Society will host a New England Council event at the Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, Connecticut, Oct. 7-8: Agenda and Speakers: World Class Service Speaker: Rick Olson, Consultant * * * Leadership Speaker: Patrick Adams, CEO, St. Louis Community CU * * * Economic Update Speaker: Mike Schenk, CUNA * * * Think Like a Consumer: Making It Easier for Members to do Business With You Speaker: Mia Perez, Chief Administrative Officer, Loui  more

WEST HARTFORD, Connecticut, Sept. 16 -- The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators issued the following news: My first month as IACLEA's new executive director has been an opportunity to listen to you, the membership, and to the volunteer officers, directors, and leaders of this exciting organization. What you have shared with me is that IACLEA is more than just a membership association. Why do campus law enforcement and public safety professionals join IACLEA? It i  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 20 -- Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America, issued the following news release: Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc. (HWZOA), announced today that the Never Again Education Act (H.R. 943), which now has 280 cosponsors, now includes Nevada and Connecticut in the list of states whose representatives in the House unanimously support this important and urgent legislation. With more than 3 million residents each, Nevada and Connecticut are the m  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The Human Rights Campaign Foundation issued the following news release: Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, in partnership with the University of Connecticut, released the 2019 Bi+ Youth Report, a groundbreaking resource detailing the experiences of bisexual, pansexual, queer and sexually fluid (bi+) LGBTQ youth. The report, which analyzes responses from nearly 9,000 young people who participated in HRC's online 2017 LGBTQ Teen Survey, reveals elevated le  more

STORRS, Connecticut, Sept. 17 -- The Journal of Symbolic Logic, a journal that says it features mathematical logic and its applications from the Association for Symbolic Logic, published 20 research articles, including the following topics, in its September 2019 edition: * Characterizing Downwards Closed, Strongly First-Order, Relativizable Dependencies * Computability in Uncountable Binary Trees * Countable Models of the Theories of Baldwin-Shi Hypergraphs and Their Regular Types * Groupoid  more

NEWTOWN, Connecticut, Sept. 17 -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation issued the following news release: Today, the National Shooting Sports Foundation(R) (NSSF(R)), the trade association for the firearms industry, in advance of the first day of its 2019 NSSF CMO Summit, extends its thanks to the events many sponsors. This annual event, now in its third year, is designed to gather marketing professionals from across the industry to share insights and solutions to the challenges they face.   more

NORMAN, Oklahoma, Sept. 18 -- The Native American Journalists Association issued the following news release: This year's National Native Media Conference features over two dozen Native vendors selling handmade items such as jewelry and other traditional regalia. One artist among them is Dan Simonds (Mashantucket Pequot), an Indigenous wampum jewelry maker. Simonds, born and raised in Norwich, Connecticut, is a lifelong artist. He has spent the last 10 years learning and perfecting his skill in  more

WINDSOR, Connecticut, Sept. 19 -- LIMRA issued the following news release: LIMRA today announced Ty R. Sagalow, a founding member of Lemonade -- the first fully licensed and regulated InsurTech Insurance carrier in the U.S.--will be the opening keynote speaker at the 2019 LIMRA LOMA Latin American Conference, on Nov. 4-6 in Mendoza, Argentina. The conference will explore new perspectives and innovations to help advance the insurance industry in Latin America. Attendees will gain insights on th  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, Sept. 18 -- Save the Children issued the following statement by Michael McGrath, director of Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand, in response to the Special Rapporteur on Myanmar's update at the Human Rights Council in Geneva: "Thousands of children in Myanmar's Kachin, Rakhine, and Shan states are still awaiting justice for gross human rights violations and abuses perpetrated against them by the Myanmar military and other groups. No one has been held to account for heinous   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- The National Governors Association issued the following news release: Governors are supporting a variety of policies to encourage greater use of electric vehicles, but many barriers to adoption remain, the National Governors Association (NGA) concluded in a white paper that summarized discussions from four regional workshops. Motivations for taking action include potential environmental, economic development, resiliency and financial benefits. State interest in the topi  more