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A longtime supporter and donor, Larry Lunden recently established an endowed internship in the WNPR newsroom. The Larry Lundon WNPR internship adds another level of support that is essential to the public media mission — the education of the next generation of journalists. With this support, each fall and spring, a paid intern will have the […]

The Connecticut Public recently received a $11,500 Good Neighbor Citizenship Grant from State Farm. The grant will support CPBN’s Veterans Vocational Training Program. Based at the Connecticut Public Learning Lab in Hartford’s Asylum Hill, the program works with veterans to ease their transition to civilian careers by providing hands-on training, job shadowing, internships, and career services […]

Called “a Connecticut treasure” by The Hartford Courant, David T. Chase, founder of Chase Enterprises, Holocaust survivor, civic leader and philanthropist, died on June 1 at the age of 88. Few individuals have made more of a mark on the city of Hartford than Chase, whose building projects included the iconic Stilts Building, and the Gold Building. […]

In the last month of her life, Betsy Corman sent a second donation to Connecticut Public within six months of the first. Her husband Steve thought she had forgotten about the first one, but because the couple had been ardent supporters of CPTV and WNPR for 21 years, he decided that two gifts – even if one was sent in error – were better than one!