Donor Stories

 

 

Local Conservationist Remembered Through Environmental Fund  
At 40, Tony Pinto Prepares to Continue His Legacy of Community Service  

Birthdays are Special, Especially When You Are a Cancer Survivor

Dr. Clare Ventre and Craig Carragan established their advised fund to forever support their project that helps cancer patients everyday.  

  
  Since 1984, Margaret Hallden Has Given More Than $3 Million to Keep Heart & Cancer Care Moving Forward in the Region  
Two anonymous donors worked with CCF to help area preschools keep their best teachers
Fred Baker and Lisa Powers of New Milford established an unrestricted fund to broadly support CCF’s grantmaking
Former educators, Lillian Brown and Juanita Kent started the In Search of Excellence Fund in 1994 to provide scholarships for top African-American students in Waterbury
The Preservationist Orton Camp’s unrestricted fund he established by bequest at CCF will continue to be his legacy of giving
Judith & Mehdi Eslami give from their donor advised fund to support CCF scholarships
A Quiet Gift
Helen Garvey’s gift was a surprise to her closest friend, but the reasons behind it were not
The Importance of Forever
Nelson Hart’s service to his community continues through his legacy
Patricia and Forest Herron started a donor-advised fund at CCF that supported their interests in nature and education
Raymond LaMoy was a successful Waterbury businessman, but people in need were never far from his mind.
The Leavenworth Family of Woodbury

A Family’s Love and Loss Leaves a $2.5 Million Legacy to Help Women in the Community
Kyungsook Petrahai, a retired social worker from Prospect, annually contributes to the donor-advised fund she established in her husband’s memory

Saunders Fund Provides Good Medicine for Naugatuck
As the longtime president of the Middlebury Land Trust, Lem Sperry knows the costs organizations face to maintain their land.

The Traurig Family of Waterbury
What siblings learned as children led to a lifetime and a legacy of giving
Following chemotherapy, Dr. Ventre and her husband Craig Carragan opened Reflections Boutique to provide wigs for cancer patients.
Victor Visockis wanted a lasting way to honor his parents.