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Almanac
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Business New Haven
4/20/1998
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The Write Stuff
Bic Corp. of Milford, in partnership with Lifetime Leaning Systems Inc., earlier this month launched a new Web site for kids. The “Quality Comes in Writing” site is designed to help students in grades four through six develop strong writing skills through decoding pictures, planning and writing their own essays and stories and maintaining a journal of a famous person. Teachers and parents can download the activities off of the site, along with a teacher's guide, for use in the classroom or home. Where to find it? Check out www.qualitycomesinwriting.com.
Righting the Ship
When real estate development mogul Bruce Alexander takes the helm of Yale's Office of New Haven Affairs next month, he'll inherit a New Haven real estate portfolio that hemorrhaging money. So says the Yale Daily News, which reported April 8 that before this year, the university's residential properties alone in the city were losing on average $700,000 annually. That's because, according to the paper, the expense of managing and improving the properties has exceeded the rental income. Alexander, the creator of New York's South Street Seaport and Baltimore's Inner Harbor, has been touted for uniting the sometimes mutually exclusive goals of corporate profit and urban renewal.
Abroad Perspective
As Connecticut companies continue to penetrate new export markets (exports by state-based firms totaled some $6.85 billion in 1996, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce), the state's largest business organization has released a new international trade guide designed to help them do it even more successfully. The Connecticut Business & Industry Association's (CBIA) “Resource List of Organizations Supporting International Trade” is available both on paper and on the CBIA Web site (www.cbia.com). The guide is a comprehensive listing of state companies and organizations that provide services pertinent to international trade. Areas covered include consulting services, customs brokers, transportation services, international banking, taxes and law, language and cultural assistance and market research. It also includes information on Connecticut trade associations, state and federal agencies and programs and academic programs and resources. A printed copy of the guide is available by calling CBIA at 860-244-1900.
Hearty Human Stew
Eight individuals and organizations will honored next month as “People with a Heart” by the greater New Haven division of the American Heart Association. At a May 30 black-tie gala at Oak Lane Country Club in Woodbridge, the group will be cited for their contributions toward making greater New Haven a better place to live and do business. The honorees: David E.A. Carson, CEO of People's Bank (and BNH's 1998 Businessperson of the Year); Frances T. (Bitsie) Clark, executive director of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven Inc.; ConnectiCare Inc., Jack Landau, M.D.; American Medical Response CEO Robert P. LaTorraca; Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce President Matthew Nemerson; James Rawlings, chairman of the Health Committee of the NAACP; and Bill Silverman, president of the Silverman Group Inc. Info about the event is available by calling 203-294-3523.
They Left Their Heart
Griffin Health Services Corp. of Derby has acquired Planetree, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization founded 20 years ago as a patient-friendly, patient-centered model for hospital care. Planetree has 27 hospital and resource center sites in the U.S. and Norway. Griffin Hospital's patient-centered care initiatives, hospital officials say, were inspired by the Planetree model, and indeed is the largest Planetree site in the system. Planetree is the sycamore tree under which Hippocrates taught medicine in ancient Greece.
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