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In The News

See the latest news coverage, press releases, and announcements from Our Piece of the Pie, Inc. (OPP).

2025

10/31/2025 Hartford Leaders Announce Planning Grant To Reimagine Opportunity Academy For Disconnected Youth

7/2/2025 Connecticut employment program to offer 1,200 young people job experience

4/24/2025 Meet the Maxi Taxi- Nonprofit provides period products to people in need

4/22/2025 Four Nonprofits Join the Hartford Foundation’s Social Enterprise Accelerator 2025

2/25/2025 Blue Ribbon Commission aims to address educational challenges within Hartford Public Schools

2/14/2025 Interval House, OPP raises awareness for teen dating violence on Valentine’s Day

2024

10/10/2024 Financial literacy program launches in Hartford for area’s Hispanic community

10/1/2024 Hartford Athletic and Liberty Bank to Host Sixth Annual Match for a Cause Benefitting Our Piece of the Pie

8/27/2024 CT’s ‘invisible youth crisis’ discussed by state lawmakers, educators, and students

8/21/2024 Northend Agent’s Education Op-Ed

Black female graduate in cap and gown with her proud father.

7/15/2024 Blue Ribbon panel seeks answers to Hartford’s school issues

4/10/2024 NBCUniversal Local Impact Grant helps nonprofit combat period poverty

2/21/2024 Disconnected youth in CT say they feel hopeless and forgotten

2/16/2024 Stark reality for many CT kids: trauma, social isolation, negative impact of social media

      

2/13/2024 Adhlere Coffy and Amanda Olberg: How to address Connecticut’s unspoken crisis

1/28/2024 Crossroads Magazine: Our Piece of the Pie

1/8/2024 Cleaning up after Winter Storm Aspen rolls through Hartford

1/8/2024 Hartford’s new mayor, councilors join youth in shoveling residents’ driveways 

2023

12/20/2023 Connecticut’s young people on the state’s ‘Unspoken Crisis’

12/16/2023 Maria C. Sanchez Awards Banquet

12/7/2023 CT event raises $2.2 million. And no, it was not a political fundraiser.

11/15/2023 CT Faces Challenges in Collaborating to Support Disconnected Youth

10/25/2023 Dalio Education Report Highlights Connecticut’s Invisible Youth Crisis, Prompts Calls for Awareness, Action

10/25/2023 CT has 12,000 young people who have dropped out of high school. Experts are sounding the alarm

10/10/2023 There’s a new spot in CT for a smoothie. The owner says the tropical part is key.

7/31/2023 Increase CT’s employment pipeline by funding youth programs.

6/21/2023 Hartford HealthCare Field Service Analyst Helps Launch Digital DividENDs

6/30/2023 Girl from Hartford receives top Girl Scout honor

5/11/2023 Reconnecting Our Youth: Disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline in CT

5/1/2023 Digital DividENDs Program Reaps Benefits

4/27/2023 Hartford teens gather for youth forum, voice concerns to mayoral candidates
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Name

Kim Johnson

Senior Director of Development and Strategic Initiatives

ext. 7347

Kim Johnson joined Our Piece of the Pie (OPP) in January 2024. She has spent her career in the nonprofit sector. Kim brings over 35 years of experience in fund development, youth development, capacity building, and volunteer management. Most recently, Kim served as Chief Youth Development Officer and previously as Chief Development and Marketing Officer for LifeBridge Community Services in Bridgeport. She has also worked for United Way and multiple Girl Scout Councils. All of these organizations worked to increase the capacity and resilience of both the clients and communities they served. Kim is passionate about filling the opportunity gap for youth.

In her role as Senior Director of Development and Strategic Initiatives, Kim will use her experience and skills to increase OPP’s visibility as well as financial and community resources to support and expand our mission.

Kim earned her Master of Public Administration with a nonprofit concentration from Indiana University. She received her Bachelor of Science in Leisure Studies – Program Management from University of Illinois. She completed her certificate in Fund Raising Management with the Center of Philanthropy at Indiana University.