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
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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’