Category: EGH
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EGH recommended for $250,000 planning grant through CIF
We are thrilled to share this MAJOR FUNDING NEWS! The CT Community Investment Fund (CIF) voted yesterday approving awarding Eli’s Garden of Healing a $250,000 planning grant to launch phase one of important work needed to create our healing garden! This funding will be used for structural engineering tests, invasive removal, and more. Thank you…
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EGH President Crystal Zukauskas receives the Liberty Bank Community Kindness Award at the Hartford Yard Goats
Labor Day weekend was extra memorable for our President, Crystal Zukauskas! She was invited to the Hartford Yard Goats to receive the Liberty Bank Community Kindness Award. Crystal was joined by EGH co-founder Kyle Zukauskas and some of EGH’s earliest supporters to watch as she went onto the field to be honored in front of…
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A message to the Hamden High Class of 2025
A message from our co-founders: Your friendship and support has been such a gift to our family during the hardest days, and years, of our lives. You matter, we all matter. You taught us the importance of remembering and valuing that. In your names, we made a donation of $5,000 to Eli’s Garden of Healing…
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Healing Garden FAQs
Transforming a former Winchester machine gun test firing range into a healing garden for anyone impacted by violence is not your every day construction project. We get it! Here are some common questions we get asked from the community: I’ve been to DeNicola Park tons of times. There isn’t a gun manufacturer test firing range. Where…
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Aerial images of the healing garden site
Imagine transforming a symbol of violence, into one of peace and hope That is our goal. To rewrite the script on community violence by taking a former gun manufacturer structure used to test weapons designed to harm and kill people, and reimagining it into a healing garden for anyone impacted by violence. To help tell…