While EJ’s H.E.A.R.T Inc. (Helping Educate Adolescents Reach True Success) is an independent charity, it is also at the heart of the Carver community. Its co-founder, Tremain Gilmore, is Carver’s longtime Teen Center manager.
As you can see in the video below, Tremain and his wife and foundation co-founder, Fritzsa, are celebrities!
Another Carver hero is BIC. Carver afterschool students Alaysia Ashley, Fanendra Auvelus, Matthew Hazzard, Elijah Lesperance, Brook Nash, Anthony Delon, and others joined together recently to receive a vast BIC donation of pens. A portion of this generous in-kind donation benefits Carver’s afterschool programming at the Carver Community Center, and the donation balance was distributed to other Norwalk youth by EJ’s H.E.A.R.T.
Carver’s beloved Tremain and Fritzsa Gilmore appeared on the Ellen Show with guest host Tiffany Haddish and regular cohost Stephen Laurel "tWitch" Boss.
The finale of Ellen DeGeneres' daytime talk series aired on May 26. Ellen DeGeneres pulled out all the celebrity stops for the final episodes of her daytime talk series.
Who better to invite to the show than Fritzsa and Gil?! How did the Ellen Show find our Norwalk heroes?
The Carver community enthusiastically nominated them.
With the invention of its Cristal® pen in 1950, BIC democratized handwriting in classrooms on a global scale. For the first time in history, an affordable, high-quality writing instrument was made accessible to every student in every corner of the world. Today, the spirit of this ingeniously simple product and the essential role writing instruments play in helping children receive a quality education is at the heart of the Company's Global Education Week initiative, which this year provided a product donation of 2.5 million pens and pencils to schools and others in need around the world.
BIC's Global Education Week, now in its fifth year, is an education-based charitable initiative that mobilizes the Company's global workforce to help improve learning conditions for students.
We are deeply grateful to Ka’Ran Housey and Jennifer Gilchrist for nominating us to receive over 1,000 pens.
We often write here about Tremain’s many roles and accomplishments and the couple’s EJ’s H.E.A.R.T. charity.
