Clients, Awards & Credits: Fairfield County 9-17-12

Bank of America Charitable Foundation has awarded $80,000 in grants to support housing and community development initiatives in Fairfield County as part of $200,000 in total funding to Connecticut nonprofits. Grant recipients in Fairfield County include the Bridgeport Neighborhood Trust, Community Action Committee,
Fairfield County Affordable Housing,
Habitat for Humanity of Coastal Fairfield County, Homefront,
Housing Development Fund in Fairfield County, Mutual Housing Association of Southwestern Connecticut and
New Neighborhoods Inc.

Trumbull Rotary Foundation has awarded The Kennedy Center a $778 grant that will enhance its Group Supported Employment program for individuals with disabilities and special needs. The center will purchase a new pallet truck, which will be used to carry work-related materials. 

New Neighborhoods Inc. (NNI) has received a grant from People’s United Community Foundation. The $7,500 grant will support NNI’s ongoing work to identify, build and preserve critically needed affordable rental and ownership housing in Stamford, Norwalk, Danbury and across Fairfield County.

From left, Tammy Torres, Rosalind M. Rubin, Cathleen Miller and Ross Burkhardt

Heidi E. Opinsky has joined McCarter & English L.L.P. as partner. She will split her time between the firm”™s Stamford and New York City offices. Most recently, Opinsky was a family law partner at Fox Rothschild L.L.P. in Connecticut and New York. She holds a Juris Doctorate from Hofstra University School of Law and a bachelor”™s degree from St. Lawrence University.  

Joseph L. Sullivan has been named president of Facultative Resources Inc. (Fac Re) in Greenwich, a broker market property casualty facultative underwriting manager that underwrites reinsurance on behalf of Berkley Insurance Co., a U.S. domestic professional reinsurance. Most recently, Sullivan served as Fac Re’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, having joined W. R. Berkley Corp. in 2010.

John Adams Vaccaro, founder and CEO of Westport Resources, has been named ”“ for the fourth consecutive year ”“ one of Barron”™s Top 100 Independent Financial Advisors in America for 2012. Barron”™sU.S. , published by Dow Jones & Co., is a weekly financial newspaper.