34 Foundations that have given Pets and Animal Wildlife grants in Connecticut

TO PROMOTE WILDLIFE AND LAND CONSERVATION THROUGH VARIOUS ACTIVITIES AND MEMBER DUES AND ASSESSMENTS

To foster and promote better sportsmanship and to further the interests of hunting and fishing in all ways possible.

FISH/FRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY OF NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT, INC. IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WHOSE PURPOSE IS TO PROVIDE THE MOST BASIC OF HUMAN NEEDS - FOOD, SHELTER, AND HOPE TO FAMILIES, VETERANS AND INDIVIDUALS.

TO EDUCATE AND PROMOTE AGRICULTURE TO THE COMMUNITY BY HOLDING EXHIBITIONS AND DEMONSTRATIONS OF FARM ANIMALS, HOME BAKED GOODS, SEWING, CANNING, FLOWERS and VEGETABLES.

A generous gift of $1,000,000 by Charlotte Colby Danly, herself a graduate of Lyme Academy, enabled a search for a teacher to carry forward the Academys distinguished tradition in the field of sculpture. A search committee was formed to carry out the search, comprised of: Ms. Danly; board member/artist Eileen Eder; Board Chair Michael Duffy; Jordan Sokol; Israeli sculptor Eran Weber; and the former head of the sculpture department at the Florence Academy, Robert Bodem. After reviewing a rich pool of applicants, the committee unanimously chose acclaimed sculptor Chad Fisher to be the Charlotte Colby Danly Sculpture Chair at Lyme Academy. The first cohort of full-time sculpture students will commence their studies in the Fall of 2023 under Mr. Fishers tutelage. In the winter, the Academys Chauncey Stillman Gallery played host to an exhibition of the works of the mid-20th century painter, Lennart Anderson. The show, which was favorably reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, included work of