Supporting Our Annual Fund
The Annual Fund is the only ongoing, annual fundraising activity that touches every member of the Carver community. Participation in the Annual Fund is a show of support and demonstrates your commitment to our youth. We ask that you give at whatever giving level you can participate. Every gift is important. Your participation sends a clear message to other donors, including foundations, that our community cares about our continued success.
Planned Giving
Planned Giving is a way for you to make a gift to help the Carver Center while securing the financial needs of your family and loved ones. The benefit of planning is twofold: To ensure the gift fits your financial needs and objectives and to ensure your gift will be put to the best possible use. A planned gift may provide for loved ones and Carver as well as create tax benefits for you. You can make a current planned gift, such as giving stock, or a deferred planned gift. Deferred planned gifts include a spectrum of options from establishing an annuity to (the most common form of planned giving) remembering Carver in your will.
If you are interested in learning more about making a planned gift to Carver, please contact Jim Schaffer, Director of Development at jim@carvercenterct.org or 203-912-2802/mobile.
Annual Spring Child of America Gala & Auction
The Carver community comes together every year for our annual Child of America gala. Guests enjoy silent and live auctions, dinner and entertainment, and in particular the opportunity to meet our Child of America honorees. The Child of America award honors leaders in the fight for educational opportunity and a just society. Past honorees were Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Roger Wilkins, in 2002, the first year of the award; Helene Gayle, MD, President and CEO of CARE USA; James Comer, MD, the Maurice Folk Professor of Child Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine; Geoffrey Canada, CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone; Cynthia Thompson, National Chair of The Girl Scouts of America; Cornell Leverette Moore, Esq., Grand Sire Archon-Elect, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity; the Reverend Dr. James Alexander Forbes, Jr., Senior Minister Emeritus of Riverside Church, NY, NY; Richard Fuller, the past Executive Director of the Carver Center (1978-2004); in 2010, Debo P. Adegbile, director of litigation for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; and in 2011, Elizabeth “Betty” Molina Morgan, Ph.D., the leader of the America’s Promise Alliance Grad Nation, the former superintendent of Washington County Schools in Maryland and 2010 American Association of School Administrators National Superintendent of the Year. 2011 Keynote Speaker, Ray Dalio, CEO of Bridgewater Associates, spoke movingly of the need for all youth to receive an excellent education.
Online Giving
Please note that your personal information submitted to Carver in your giving online or in any way is kept strictly confidential. Carver does not sell or trade donor information to any other entity or individual. This is a secure online giving webpage. Any information submitted on this page will be encrypted using SSL.
