Discover What The Connecticut Forum Is All About

Mission The Connecticut Forum’s mission is to encourage the free and active exchange of ideas in Forums which inform, challenge, entertain, inspire and build bridges among all people and organization in our community.

Profile The Connecticut Forum, founded in 1992, is a cool, rare and impactful nonprofit organization serving the Greater Hartford Region and beyond with live, issue-driven panel discussions among renowned experts and celebrities. Forums, held four times each year, have featured panelists Walter Cronkite, Toni Morrison, Gene Wilder, Bill Moyers, Howard Dean, Beverly Sills, Alec Baldwin and over 250 others to audiences of 2,800 in Bushnell Theater, Hartford. The Forum Family enjoys the support of over 300 volunteers. Just as powerful and unique as Forum evenings are the outreach programs of our Forum Community Institute, particularly the award-winning Connecticut YOUTH Forum program, in which teenagers from 30 high schools and youth organizations come together in a variety of meetings and activities throughout the year. Over 750 youth, from city and suburbs, public and private schools, with diverse heritages and life experiences, share, learn and appreciate one another in civil, constructive dialogue and interaction.

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