WATERBURY — Good news arrived for the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund this week, with a donation that will provide a huge push toward this year’s $165,000 campaign goal. The David, Helen and Marian Woodward Fund, through its Watertown-based trust committee, notified the Campership Fund’s board of directors it will allocate $40,000 for Camperships. The sum… Continue reading Greater Waterbury Campership Fund Update: Woodward Fund provides huge boost to campaign
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Greater Waterbury Campership Fund Update: Application deadline extended to June 15
WATERBURY — With camps given the option of opening June 29, and donors who note “there’s always next year,” support continues to pour in for the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund’s efforts to send local, underprivileged children to summer camp. And there’s still time to apply. The deadline for families to apply for camperships this summer… Continue reading Greater Waterbury Campership Fund Update: Application deadline extended to June 15
Greater Waterbury Campership Fund Update: Ion Bank customers vote to donate $5,000 to fund
WATERBURY — Ion Bank customers voted to be friends of the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund, with $5,000 headed toward sending local children to camp from the Ion Bank Foundation. Each year, the bank’s foundation asks bank customers to vote for whatever charity they’d like to receive a donation. Last week, the foundation informed Karen Montini,… Continue reading Greater Waterbury Campership Fund Update: Ion Bank customers vote to donate $5,000 to fund
Greater Waterbury Campership Fund Update: Prospect couple holds up its end of fundraising challenge despite pandemic
WATERBURY — Loyal and generous to the cause, Frank and Sandy Monteiro of Prospect are not going to let a pandemic dampen the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund’s fundraising season. In March, as the state slid into a coronavirus shutdown, the Monteiros and the Campership Fund’s nonprofit board agreed to suspend the couple’s annual fundraising challenge.… Continue reading Greater Waterbury Campership Fund Update: Prospect couple holds up its end of fundraising challenge despite pandemic
Greater Waterbury Campership Fund Update: Donor says, ‘I just want to help the kids’
WATERBURY — Robert Orintas, of Waterbury, had a simple explanation as to why he made a donation the past week to the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund. “I just want to help out the kids,” he said. “And I am hoping there will be camping this summer for them.” That sentiment is shared by all who… Continue reading Greater Waterbury Campership Fund Update: Donor says, ‘I just want to help the kids’