Nonprofit social services are struggling to keep programs open. Closures would leave clients unprotected and would financially doom some agencies.
CT Community Nonprofit Alliance
Posted inGovernment, Money
Nonprofits reframe their big ask, seek a share of future budget windfalls
Rebuffed in their bid last year to capture $100 million of the state’s growing reserves, Connecticut’s nonprofit social service agencies now want a share of future projected budget surpluses.
Posted inMoney
Nonprofits ‘greatly concerned’ about prospect of emergency budget cuts
Nonprofit agencies urged Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration to steer clear of community-based social services as it seeks to close a small hole in state finances.
Posted inMoney
Lamont eyes emergency budget cuts, even as reserves swell
Gov. Ned Lamont recently raised the specter of emergency budget cuts, which typically hit nonprofits and higher education the hardest.
Posted inMoney
Best of 2019: Nonprofits say philanthropy alone can’t save services
Frustration with Gov. Ned Lamont, who won’t give struggling nonprofits money from the state $2.5 billion reserve, surged after he urged them to ask more from wealthy donors.
Posted inMoney
Nonprofits say philanthropy alone can’t save services
Frustration with Gov. Ned Lamont, who won’t give struggling nonprofits money from the state $2.5 billion reserve, surged after he urged them to ask more from wealthy donors.
Posted inHealth
While nonprofits seek state aid, Lamont steers them to private donors
Nonprofits have been pleading for a share of the state’s $100 million budget reserve. The governor’s answer hasn’t changed.
Posted inMoney
Lamont’s ‘debt diet’ hits an already lean nonprofit safety net
Gov. Ned Lamont’s proposed “debt diet” would suspend a key grant program that helps nonprofit agencies make building repairs, upgrade information technology, purchase new equipment and meet other capital needs.
Posted inHealth, Money
Panel: CT could reap big savings with more competitive bidding
A new report asserts state government could save as much as $260 million per year — and potentially more in the future — by ensuring all service contracts are subjected to competitive bidding.
Posted inPolitics
CT nonprofits fear GOP tax overhaul will reduce charitable giving
WASHINGTON — Both the tax bill the Senate hopes to vote on this week and a House-passed tax overhaul would keep the popular charitable deduction, but Connecticut non-profits say the legislation still would shrink American help to those in need.
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Nonprofits say privatizing social services could save CT $1.3B
Hoping to stave off cuts in the next state budget, nonprofit social service providers said privatizing an array of services for the intellectually disabled and mentally ill could save more than $1.3 billion in total over the next three years.
