Sponsors & Friends
Connecticut Democracy Center:
Connecticut History Day is a program in residence at the Connecticut Democracy Center (CTDC). The CTDC provides people with a lifetime pathway to active citizenship and the tools to take civic action in their own communities. CTDC strengthens civic engagement in the Constitution State by providing comprehensive and unbiased educational programming and outreach on state government, civics, history, and citizenship, particularly through its two signature programs: Kid Governor® and Connecticut History Day
Online at: ctdemocracycenter.org
Thank you to our Funders and Supporters:
Founded in 1974, Connecticut Humanities (CTH) is an independent, non-profit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. CTH connects people to the humanities through grants, partnerships, and collaborative programs. CTH projects, administration, and program development are supported by state and federal matching funds, community foundations, and gifts from private sources.
Program Support
Additional Funding:
- State Library and the Connecticut State Historical Records Advisory Board through a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
- Retired Teachers of Fairfield County
- Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford
- Travelers Community Connections
- Numerous individual donors
Contest Hosts:
- Central Connecticut State University
- Norwich Free Academy
- Sacred Heart University
- Southern Connecticut State University
- University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus
Special Prize Donors:
- Akomawt Educational Initiative
- Association for the Study of Connecticut History
- Connecticut Coalition for History
- Connecticut Council for the Social Studies
- Connecticut Democracy Center
- ConnecticutHistory.Org, a program of Connecticut Humanities
- Connecticut Explored, the magazine of Connecticut History
- Connecticut Landmarks
- Connecticut League of History Organizations
- Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society
- The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
- History Department, Southern Connecticut State University
- Jewish Historical Society of Fairfield County
- New England Air Museum
- Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford
- The Washington Library at George Washington’s Mount Vernon