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Cuno Engineering Corp., the international company Cuno founded, is still headquartered in Meriden on Research Parkway, although it is now owned by 3M.
The foundation accepts grant applications for public, charitable and educational uses.
Soul Friends, Inc, an organization that provides clinical and educational programs that use animals to bond with children and adults in need, received $10,000.
Children attending the recently opened children's probate court at 1501 E. Main St. will benefit from the program, said John Stanton, chairman of the Cuno Distribution Committee.
Previously the animal bonding program was located in New Haven.
"It was highly touted," he said of the program. "It seemed to make sense."
A $8,000 grant was given to the Center Congregational Church, 474 Broad St., for its Parish Nursing Program. Nurses, who are congregation members, give free basic medical care to the community.
Maggie Sessa-Schillberg, a registered nurse, said she'd like to buy an automated external defibrillator.
"I was pleasantly surprised," she said of the grant.
She also plans to fund CPR classes in Spanish and English and hold a health and safety fair next fall.
Meriden Children First Initiative received $10,000 to help launch its Meriden Children Zone project, which aims to help lower-income neighborhoods in the city to improve health, early learning and self sufficiency. The project focuses on children age 8 and younger and their families.
David Radcliffe, executive director of Meriden Children First, said he hopes to launch the program over the next several months, and is getting ready to hire outreach workers.
"The idea is," he said, "we want the supports and services to go where the families are."
The outreach workers will visit families and work on education and recreation projects.
The GUS Robotics Team 228, a collaboration of Platt, Maloney and Wilcox Tech high school students that builds robots and competes in contests with them, will receive $8,700 for the purchase of hardware and software to help run its program, which Stanton said he was very happy about.
"There's always so much opportunity for the sports heroes, but not so much for the gifted or geeky," he said. "They'll probably be creating medical equipment for us," down the road.
New Opportunities of Greater Meriden will receive $2,500 for a series of field trips to museums for its Boys to Men youth enrichment program. The Charity Club of Meriden will receive $2,000 to make small scale donations to those in need, and the United Way of Meriden and Wallingford will receive a $20,000 for its community service and poverty relief programs.
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