The PFF honors the memories of Jennifer Hawke-Petit, Hayley and Michaela Petit by continuing the kindness, idealism and activism that defined their lives.
Plainville, Connecticut
Joined February 2010
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We’re deeply honored to receive the Athena Education Award from @SpaceFoundation, recognizing our commitment to STEM education and empowering young people—especially young women pursuing careers in science. 🚀
Together, we’re opening doors and inspiring the next generation. ✨
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A $10,000 grant from @PFFPetit is helping Central bring healthcare where it's needed most💙🔱
Read more: ccsu.edu/article/petit-famil…
#WeAreCentral
TY @NewBritHerald for featuring the 19th Annual PFF 5K Road Race & Fitness Walk!
Join us this Sun. 7/12/26 to honor Jennifer Hawke-Petit, Hayley Petit, & Michaela Petit while supporting our mission.
📰 Article:
newbritainherald.com/news/pe…
🏃 Register:
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Space Foundation has selected @fireflyspace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 team for the 2026 Space Achievement Award and @PFFPetit for the 2026 Athena Education Award.
Read more: bit.ly/4kDGOpC
#spacesymposium #spacefoundation #41spacesymposium
✨Sending warm holiday wishes from all of us at the Petit Family Foundation!
We are grateful for our supporters, donors & volunteers. However you celebrate, may your season be filled with joy, peace & special moments
#HappyHolidays #SeasonOfGiving #Grateful #CommunitySupport
We are proud to support @ALSUnitedCT!
A big thank you to the @pffpetit for donating $8,000 to #ALSUnitedCT. The Petit Family Foundation has supported our mission for many years to provide durable medical equipment to those living with #ALS in Connecticut.
#PetitFamilyFoundation
#DME
#ALSUnited
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When you help empower women, you help empower their families and communities for the betterment of the world. We are so grateful to @PFFPetit for their continued support of our organization! #CapitalCatwalk #empoweringwomen
We’re proud to support The Hospital of Central CT with a Spring 2025 grant.
Funding will purchase a low-light laser unit to ease pain + swelling for breast cancer patients with lymphedema.
Tina Fabiani shares with Dr. Bill Petit how this will impact lives.
#NonprofitSupport
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Today we're proud to debut our Celebrating Unified Sports series! Joel Cookson shares the story of recent Plainville High School graduate Maja Grabowski who worked with @CIAC_Unified to donate $500 to a Unified Sports summer camp run by Wilby High School's DeVonne Parker. Maja's $500 came from a service award grant she received from the Petit Family Foundation. #WinWin @PLVBlueDevils @PFFPetit @SOCTconnecticut
Read the story: casci.ac/12007
One of our generous supporters shared this photo to spark inspiration for showcasing Michaela’s Four O’Clocks alongside other vibrant flowers and garden plants!
#MichaelaFourOClocks #FlowerGarden #GardenBeauty #LegacyInBloom
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Inspired by the life and memory of Jennifer Lynn Hawke-Petit, the @PFFPetit has established the Jennifer L. Hawke-Petit Pediatric Nursing Scholarship at Quinnipiac School of Nursing to support pediatric nursing students: go.qu.edu/SONPetit25
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The Children’s LAW Center is honored by the continued support of the Petit Family Foundation for our Legal Representation Program. This support enables us to continue to serve the state’s neediest children in complicated divorce and custody cases. @pffpetit #petitfamilyfoundation
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Thank you to @PFFPetit for their generous grant to Central's Go Baby Go program! This initiative provides free modified toy cars for kids with limited mobility. Since 2015, we've delivered 200+ cars, and with this support, we’ll keep going! 💙🔱
#WeAreCentral #petitfoundation
Thank you @StevenSeril! 💙💚💜
Visit our website to learn more about us:
petitfamilyfoundation.org/
#BeTheChange
We were proud to attend @IntervalHouseCT Breakfast With Champions! It was an inspiring morning filled with hope & community, all in support of their life-changing intervention & prevention services for survivors & families.
Breaking the cycle to change the future.
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I am so happy to see your movement thriving, @PFFPetit Foundation! Thank you for the postcard! ❤️ 🤍 💜
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We were thrilled to host the SITC Crew from @SpaceFoundation and Lt. Colonel Carey this week! Thank you @PFFPetit for supporting this program for @EnfieldPS!
Retired astronaut shows students in one CT town just how far science can take them ctinsider.com/journalinquire… via @insider_ct
We are so excited to partner with @SpaceFoundation!
Space In The Community program helps inspire, educate, and empower STEAM learning in communities!
Space Foundation and @PFFPetit are bringing the Space In The Community (SITC) program to #Conneticut!
#ThankYou to everyone for helping us to help others! 💙💚💜🌺
Petit Family Foundation awards more than $750K to groups newbritainherald.com/news/pe… via @NewBritHerald
A heartfelt #ThankYou to David Pierce!
Every year David collects his Michaela's 4 O' Clock seeds & returns them to us here at the Foundation!
We are so appreciative of his wonderful support!
This year he collected 18,000 seeds!
Pictured with David is his sister Sandy Salmond.
