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Drug Rehab Nonprofit Buys CVS Site
A Danbury-based addiction-treatment nonprofit plans to move its local outpatient clinic to the former CVS site at Whalley Avenue and Orchard Street, after purchasing that recently shuttered ex-pharmacy property for $2.5 million.
On Monday, Midwestern Connecticut Council of Alcoholism Inc. (MCCA) bought the 1.15-acre commercial property at 215 Whalley Ave. from the Brandfon Family Limited Partnership for $2.5 million, according to a recent filing on the city’s online land records database.
That property — previously home to a CVS pharmacy, which closed its doors earlier this year — was most recently appraised by the city as worth $2,427,600.
Founded in 1972, MCCA bills itself on its website as “the primary provider of substance abuse prevention, evaluation and treatment services in the greater Danbury area.” It currently operates seven outpatient clinics in Danbury, Milford, Waterbury, Bridgeport, and in the Whalley-Edgewood-Beaver Hills neighborhood at 419 Whalley Ave.
In a brief email exchange with the Independent on Wednesday, MCCA Chief Financial Officer Glenn Connan said that MCCA purchased the former CVS site with the intention of moving its current Whalley Avenue clinic to that location.
“We currently operate our New Haven Outpatient Clinic just up the road at 419 Whalley Avenue and are just looking to relocate to better serve the community,” Connan wrote.
He did not respond to a follow up request for comment on what specific types of medical services will be provided at this location, how many patients MCCA expects to treat there, and what if any types of changes to the prominent Whalley Avenue corner property the healthcare nonprofit intends to make.
MCCA’s website states that it offers at all seven of its outpatient clinics medication-assisted treatment – such as Suboxone, Naltrexone, and Subutex — in combination with “counseling and behavioral therapies” to treat patients struggling with opioid addictions.
Its website also says that the current outpatient clinic at 419 Whalley Ave. offers a range of “addiction services,” including outpatient treatment, intensive outpatient, and programs for pre-trial intervention, anger management, and relapse prevention.
“Our New Haven Outpatient Clinic offers a full-range of outpatient treatment options for those dealing with addiction. From individual to group to intensive outpatient (IOP), our supportive therapies help clients to recognize their triggers and destructive behavior and begin to create the positive changes leading to a healthier lifestyle and improved sense of well-being,” the MCCA site reads in part.
“Intensive Outpatient (IOP) is ideal for individuals unable to enter a residential program due to work and family obligations. One of our most popular groups for individuals struggling with drug or alcohol addiction, IOP meets three times a week for three-hour sessions.”
The New Haven Independent is a not-for-profit public-interest daily news site founded in 2005.
Charlie Kirk nonprofit Turning Point Action paid Kimberly Guilfoyle’s $60,000 speaking fee on Jan. 6 with money from Publix heiress
The two people said the sponsoring donor was Julie Fancelli, the 72-year-old daughter of the founder of the Publix grocery store chain.
Eight days before the Jan. 6 rally, Fancelli wired $650,000 to several organizations that helped stage and promote the event. The Washington Post previously reported that these groups included Women for America First, a nonprofit that helped organize the rally, and $150,000 to the nonprofit arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association, which paid for a robocall touting a march to “call on Congress to stop the steal.”
She also enlisted the youth organization run by Kirk, a 28-year-old activist and friend of Donald Trump Jr. A spokesman for Turning Point Action declined to comment. Neither Guilfoyle nor Fancelli responded to requests for comment.
Guilfoyle’s speaking fee, for her remarks introducing her fiance, was disclosed in a Monday appearance on CNN by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), a member of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
Lofgren pointed to the payment as an example of what she described as a misleading marketing effort run by the Trump campaign, which raised roughly $250 million in the weeks after the Nov. 3 election with promises of a massive legal effort to uncover voter fraud. But the payment did not come from the campaign or affiliated political committees. CNN first reported Tuesday that Turning Point Action covered the speaking fee.
“I’m not saying it is crime, but it’s a grift,” Lofgren told CNN’s Jake Tapper after the committee’s second hearing.
In the hearing, committee members used video testimony from former White House and campaign advisers to recount the origins of Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him. And they argued that this false accusation proved profitable for Trump and the people around him, who encouraged supporters to travel to D.C. on Jan. 6.
Among the groups that encouraged people to attend the rally at the White House Ellipse was Turning Point Action, a 501(c)(4) organization and an affiliate of the better-known Turning Point USA, a 501(c)(3). The difference is that Turning Point Action has more leeway to engage in political activity, but it is still barred from making politics its primary focus. Kirk leads both nonprofits, which are exempt from paying federal income taxes and disclosing their donors.
Representatives of Turning Point Action have previously said the group’s involvement in the rally included sending seven buses with about 350 students to Washington.
Kirk tweeted, but later deleted, a promise that his organization was sending 80 buses to “fight for this president.” An Instagram post on Dec. 30 from Students for Trump, a project of Turning Point Action, advertised buses leaving from Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Hoboken, N.J., Richmond and Greensboro, N.C., and arriving in D.C. on the morning of Jan. 6.
On the morning of Jan. 3, a website publicizing the rally listed Turning Point Action as a “coalition partner,” along with nine other organizations, including the Republican Attorneys General Association, Stop the Steal, Tea Party Patriots and Women for America First. The Internet Archive shows the site was later updated to refer to groups such as Turning Point as “participating” organizations.
In addition to promoting the rally, the site noted: “At 1:00 PM, we will march to the U.S. Capitol building to protest the certification of the Electoral College.”
Kirk was a leading promoter of Trump’s false claims of election fraud in the run-up to the Jan. 6 rally. On the eve of the event, he used his radio show to call Jan. 6 “the most important day that will determine the future of the republic.”
On the afternoon of Jan. 6, as the mob pushed its way into the Capitol, Kirk condemned the violence on Twitter. Fancelli did not attend the rally and has also denounced the violence.
Fancelli, who splits her time between homes in Florida and Italy, has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republican candidates and party organizations over the past two decades. But she did not become a top-tier donor until Trump moved into the White House, records show.
Some relatives and other associates, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, attributed her support for the rally to her enthusiasm for Infowars founder Alex Jones. In the weeks before the rally, Fancelli emailed relatives and friends with links to Jones’s talk show, according to two people with knowledge of the messages.
Jones was a leading proponent of baseless claims that Trump’s reelection was subverted by systematic fraud and that Congress could refuse to certify Joe Biden’s victory.
Nonprofit Declines Donation From Jamie Lynn Spears’ Book Amid Backlash
This nonprofit would like to be excluded from the narrative.
Last week, Jamie Lynn Spears announced she had finished her book, Things I Should Have Said, which she wrote to give herself “closure” on this chapter of her life as she tries to “share my truth the proper way.”
She also revealed that a portion of her book’s proceeds would go to the mental health nonprofit This Is My Brave. Not anymore.
“I know how scary it can be to share personal struggles, especially if you don’t feel you have the support or a safe space to do so,” Jamie Lynn wrote on Instagram. “They are doing amazing work to support and encourage people as they bravely share their experiences.”
However, the organization announced on Oct. 18 that it has rejected the Zoey 101 star’s offer to donate to their cause following public outcry about the book. Britney Spears herself seemed to slam Things I Should Have Said on Instagram, joking that she should write a book as well, and call it “S–t, I really don’t know” or “I really care what people think.”
A tech mogul, a rockstar and an NBA team owner set new fundraising goal for Utah nonprofit
Encircle founder and CEO Stephenie Larsen speaks during
a press conference at the Silicon Slopes Summit at the Salt Palace
in Salt Lake City on Wednesday. (Deseret News)
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SALT LAKE CITY — An unexpected team of prominent figures in tech, music, sports and politics came together to raise $8 million in eight months to support LGBTQ youth, and now they’re doing it again.
In February, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Imagine Dragons lead singer Dan Reynolds and Jazz owner Ryan Smith appeared on Good Morning America and announced that they were going to raise $8 million to build eight new homes for Encircle, a Utah-based nonprofit that provides safe spaces and mental health services for LGBTQ youth. They met and then exceeded their goal and, with the sponsorship of the Kahlert Foundation, will be building a ninth Encircle house in the southern end of Salt Lake County.
The team, along with former NBA player Dwyane Wade; Domo founder Josh James and his wife, Rayna; Heather Kahlert of the Kahlert Foundation; as well as Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and his wife Abby, announced a new goal of raising $13 million to sustain the 13 Encircle homes for the next few years at a press conference during the Silicon Slopes Summit Wednesday.
“We know it’s a huge ask. We also know that these mental health services are keeping children alive,” said Encircle founder Stephenie Larsen.
The goal of Encircle is to “bring family and community together to enable LGBT youth to thrive,” she explained. And gathering leaders from so many areas shows those youth that they are supported, she added.
Cook said that reaching that goal and starting a new campaign was “another milestone” and “(it) represents another major step forward.”
The Apple CEO came out as gay in a 2014 editorial for Bloomberg Business, saying, “I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.”
Because of his personal experience, Cook says that he sees himself in many queer youth and knows what it’s like to be isolated and lonely.
“It’s not easy when you’re made to feel different because of who you are,” he said. “Slowly, too slowly, we’ve seen that begin to change, especially through the inspiring efforts of Encircle.”
Smith pointed out that Encircle didn’t happen in Utah merely by chance. Utah was a place that needed it and had the people to support it, he said.
The nonprofit currently has homes in Utah, Idaho, Arizona and Nevada, but Smith said “every city in the United States needs an Encircle.”
Wade, also a part-owner of the Utah Jazz, visited the Salt Lake Encircle home before the Wednesday press conference and invited everyone to go in and see the vision. He explained that he stood there as a representative of the Jazz, but he was also there as a parent.
Wade’s daughter Zaya is transgender, and when she approached her parents about it when she was 8 years old, her parents wanted her to live by who she is; but they also “had to do a lot of learning and a lot of listening,” Wade said.
“We’re living in a world where everyone is different and we all have the same goal to be the best version of ourselves,” he continued.
Reynolds told reporters that his wife, Aja Volkman, who is the lead singer of Nico Vega, was a large part of how his eyes were opened up to LGBTQ issues.
“It’s really easy for straight, white, hetero man to skate through life and not have the difficult conversations,” he said. “The strange thing is that it’s really such an easy concept that we’re all fighting for. Our kids are born knowing this.”
Volkman encouraged LGBTQ youth to be who they are because the world needs “the wholeness of you are.”
“We need evolution,” she said. “We need to grow through this.”
Larsen was thrilled when she first saw billboards from tech company Domo in one of the most conservative counties in Utah that read, “Domo loves LGBTQ+ (and everyone else too!).”
The billboards drew strong reactions from the community — both negative and positive.
“I experienced firsthand what a polarizing issue this topic is,” said Domo founder Josh James.
Even people within his own community and company “came in hot” ready to criticize the billboards, James said; but when he didn’t engage, they eventually came to the conclusion on their own that it does make sense to spread love to vulnerable youth. Josh and Rayna James donated $1 million dollars to Encircle’s February campaign.
Gov. Spencer and Abby Cox also spoke about how children are born with the inherent ability to love people. They raised their children in a rural, conservative community; however, their children still learned this and brought home their LGBTQ friends. One day when Cox came home to a house full of kids and Abby said, “I think we have every color of the rainbow in that room.”
“It was an awesome feeling to see those kids interact,” Cox said, citing data that shows that even one person who accepts someone who comes out decreases suicide rates among LGBTQ youth drastically.
And Encircle is providing that kind of support, he added.
“(Encircle) is the best of Utah,” he said.
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