This year, Fairfield County’s Community Foundation (FCCF) is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its Center for Nonprofit Excellence.
As part of this celebration, they are introducing the inaugural class of its Center for Nonprofit Excellence Hall of Fame. The Carver Foundation as one of the Hall of Fame honorees to be featured at their CNE Anniversary Celebration on November 13, 2019.
Carver campers are learning the fun of dance from professionals this summer!
Founded in 1968 by former Broadway dancer and esteemed ballerina Doris Driver, New England Academy of Dance (NEAD) began as a boutique studio with only 12 dancers. Slowly, the school grew to extend class offerings to dancers of all ages, and encompass a studio company.
Jaden Snow, who will be a ninth grader at Rye Neck High School this fall, can solve the Rubic’s Cube in a minute or so. Jaden is revealing his technique in a workshop for 7 to 9 year old boys at the Carver Community Center this summer. The workshop occurs for one hour per day for two weeks. Jayden raised the funds to provide each participating camper with his own Rubik’s Cube to keep (and to take home to practice with during the summer’s workshop). Jayden also provides support to Carver summer camp counselors and their supervisors during the day.
On the first day of summer camp, Monday, July 1, 2019, at 11:30 AM, Norwalk Mayor Harry Rilling, Congressman Jim Himes, Norwalk Common Council member Greg Burnett, Doug Adams (Brookfield Properties), Vernece Richardson (King Industries), Stanley Seligson (Seligson Properties), Carver Board members and other Carver leaders and guests gathered together to officially open the new playground at the Carver Community Center.
Join Mayor Rilling and Congressman Himes for our Playground Ribbon Cutting on Monday July 1st at 11:30AM. Following a successful fundraising drive led by student volunteers at New Canaan High School, the new playground is now ready for Carver’s summer camp students to enjoy. Our new playground has all the latest safety and fun learning features for K-5 aged children, including a new padded surface that ties together all the pieces of the playground.
We have written before about Justin Forde, now a graduated senior at Brien McMahon High School and a former participant of Carver’s after school Youth Development Program. Here is a post about his receiving a full athletic scholarship from the University of Miami. Today, The Hour writes about Forde being named the 2018-19 Gatorade Connecticut Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year.
Old and new Carver friends gathered for fun fellowship and to learn about the great work being accomplished Carver youth, thanks to the hospitality and leadership of Roz & Phil Butterfield and Angela & Peter Keiser. Funds raised on Friday evening (June 21, 2019) will support Carver’s college scholarship fund.
