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Community Service Day at Common Ground High School
By Kyle Zukauskas, co-founder of Eli’s Garden of Healing My mom was an art teacher for over 30 years and was consistently encouraging my brothers and me to create art at school and at home. So using those skills as an adult always evokes some cherished memories. On April 10th, I was happy to bring…
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Transforming Tomorrow: NEW FUNDRAISER DATE
Hello everyone, As we shared in our newsletter, the snow forced us to postpone our Transforming Tomorrow fundraiser which was originally January 18th. Luckily, we were able to secure another long holiday weekend for our replacement date. Join us on Sunday February 15th from 1-5 in the Barrel Room of New England Brewing Company (Woodbridge…
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Susan Rubino named Vice President of EGH
We are thrilled to share that Susan Rubino was named Vice President of our Board of Directors during our Board meeting yesterday. Sue has served on the Board for two years as a Director and has the passion and experience to help EGH deliver on our mission to create a healing garden for community members…
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CIF Planning Grant Press Conference
On October 9th EGH hosted a press conference to discuss the recent news that EGH is being recommended $250,000 in planning funds to support the creation of our healing garden by the CT Community Investment Fund. The event, which was live streamed on the Town of Hamden facebook page, featured the following speakers: Lauren Garrett,…
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2025 Makers Market Fundraiser
Our 2nd Annual Makers Market fundraiser took place on a lovely, sunny fall afternoon on the lawn of Spring Glen Church on October 25th. The community enjoyed shopping, delish food, and made sure to come by the EGH information tables to learn more about our work this year advancing the healing garden initiative. This year…
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Hamden High Football joins EGH and HPD for a wonderful afternoon of Yale Football
Taking students to watch college sports has quickly become some of our favorite events of the year. This time the game was Yale vs Stonehill for their first match up in the history of the two schools. Yale won 47-7 making an exciting game for the home team! Our trip with the HHS football team…
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EGH joins AFSPCT for a suicide prevention and awareness walk
Over 600 people (and dozens of pups) gathered at Town Center Park today for suicide prevention and awareness. Eli’s Garden of Healing was so glad to join our community as friends, family, and local organizations gathered to remember lives lost to suicide and celebrate the strength of those with us today managing their own struggles.…
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Donor engagement updates
As a volunteer-led organization, I take great pride in hearing comments from friends and neighbors about how present and active EGH is in the community. Over lunch this weekend it was heartwarming hearing from a family friend how impressed they were with the amount of engagement and investment EGH has made in our community. That…
