Lee Cruz

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  www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/02/mystery_do - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2009    Last Visited: 3/29/2009  

  As they ate, Cruz, a philanthropic officer with the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven (CFGNH), announced that anonymous donors had offered the Chatham Square Neighborhood Association (CSNA), through the foundation, a $5,000 matching grant.
  
  "People endow schools, galleries, funds for girls or the blind," said Cruz. "Even the Quinnipiac River. So why not a neighborhood!"
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  Of the foundation's some 700 funds, this appears to be the first dedicated to a neighborhood, said Cruz (pictured with his English Street neighbor, Zac Riegelman and a CSNA leader, Hope Metcalf, in the background).
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  "And the incredible thing is that these people, it's a couple," Cruz added, "don't live here, don't really have a connection to Fair Haven. They just love the model of community that's being developed here."
  
  The same couple gave a similar amount in 2005 when CSNA was launched, with Cruz in the lead, to organize the area around Chatham Square Park based on the promotion of homeownership.
  
  Between 2005 and 2008, Cruz and others received funds from the GNHCF to hire community organizers, create summer events, intergenerational art shows, kid activities, and undertake traffic calming studies while also offering funding for local and in-coming homeowners to purchase and improve property.
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  So Cruz volunteered his home to host the beginning of the tradition.
  
  "There are so many people who love this area," Cruz said, "I don't see why we should limit ourselves in this fund to reaching out only to those who live here.
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  Although Cruz had said the potluck dinner was for socializing only, $200 was raised toward the $5,000 total before the last donuts were consumed. Those interested in supporting the effort further should be in touch with Lee Cruz at the foundation.

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  www.cfgnh.org/newsarticle.cfm?articleid=10021931&PTSide - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/30/2008    Last Visited: 6/25/2009  

  Lee Cruz, Director of Community Outreach for The Foundation, attributes much of The Foundation's achievements in Chatham Square to the residents who have come together to make positive changes where they live.

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  www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2008/12/lee_cruz_i - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2008    Last Visited: 3/29/2009  

  At his first meeting as a housing authority commissioner, Lee Cruz voted down a plan to forgive rents - and his position carried the day.
  
  Cruz, a Fair Haven community organizer, was sworn in Wednesday at his first meeting on the Board of Commissioners of the Housing Authority of New Haven (HANH).
  
  One of the first matters that came up was a proposal to forgive $272,000 of unpaid HANH rents. Cruz voted no. The HANH staff proposal did not pass.
  
  "I genuinely feel that for some of the more recent rents, a greater effort should be made at collection," Cruz said. "I can understand rents from a year and a half ago, but not a few months."
  
  Cruz, appointed by Mayor John DeStefano, is filling the chair of David Alvarado, whose term has just expired.
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  A senior philanthropic officer at the Greater New Haven Community Foundation, Cruz has been instrumental in piloting a homeownership-driven model of community building that has resulted in the revitalization of the Chatham Square neighborhood in Fair Haven. He is also active in area historic preservation projects.
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  Cruz said he too wants to see more of an effort, particularly as relates to the most recent accounts, before he would approve the proposal.
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  You have a great man for the job.good work Lee
  
  Posted by: Beansie's Mom | December 28, 2008 6:38 AM
  
  Lee, great job on your first vote.
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  Lee, I am so proud of you and proud to call you a friend. You have been such an asset to New Haven, and, in particular, the Chatham Square neighborhood. Keep it up!

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  www.cfgnh.org/newsarticle.cfm?articleid=10022242&PTSide - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/28/2009    Last Visited: 6/25/2009  

  For more information about Making a Good Gift Better, contact Lee Cruz at (203) 777-7074 or lcruz@cfgnh.org.

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  www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/04/the_new_vi - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2009    Last Visited: 7/6/2009  

  "We need to create much more affordable housing in Connecticut," said Dodd (pictured with Fair Haven Alderman Robert Lee, center, and HANH board member Lee Cruz).

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  www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/11/home_owner - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2007    Last Visited: 12/1/2007  

  Mary Wade's director, David Hunter (pictured in the middle with Lee Cruz, senior philanthropic officer with the Greater New Haven Community Foundation, which funds the stabilization efforts through home ownership around Chatham Square Park) toasted Darden as "a great nurse, a great mom, and now a great neighbor."
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  Lee Cruz said that the area's home ownership initiatives are producing other fruitful results.

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  www.cfgnh.org/newsarticle.cfm?articleid=125550&PTSideba - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/22/2007    Last Visited: 11/22/2007  

  For more information, contact Lee Cruz at 203.777.7074 or lcruz@cfgnh.org.

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  www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/05/solomon_re - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2003    Last Visited: 7/6/2009  

  Also elected were Reverend Jason Turner as vice chair, Lee Cruz as the assistant treasurer, and Sheila Carmen as assistant secretary.
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  Solomon, clinical professor at Yale Law School (pictured on the left, with Cruz), was executive director of HANH from August 1999 to June 2002.

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  Christian Community Action Photo Gallery - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/19/2006    Last Visited: 3/4/2009  

  Open House CCA Executive Director Rev. Bonita Grubbs and Lee Cruz of the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven chat in the living room of one of

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  Community Knowledge - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/1/2009    Last Visited: 9/17/2009  

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