A new fund at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has given out its first grant to the Brother Carl Hardrick Institute, which is aimed at training people to engage in violence intervention in the city.
The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has a new, $5 million Patricelli Family Fund, which nonprofit officials said will go to support civic, arts and cultural initiatives in the Greater Hartford area.
According to information from the foundation, Simsbury residents Robert and Margaret Patricelli are namesakes for the new fund, which is the largest donor-advised fund created in nearly a decade.
Robert Patricelli is a well-known serial entrepreneur who founded and sold various businesses in Connecticut.