Several times a year Give Local, a 36-hour community event that encourages donors to lend support to their favorite nonprofit organizations takes place. Hosted by the Connecticut Community Foundation and sponsored by Ion Bank for eight years, hundreds of non-profit organizations benefit.
The goal of this event is to unite nonprofits with businesses, donors, and organizations to give back to their community. Since 2013, when this program started, Give Local, has raised more than $7.2 million dollars for the vital work of local nonprofit organizations. Every dollar given is stretched with bonus funds. Nonprofits also have the opportunity to win prizes.
This year, The Merwinsville Hotel in the charming village of Gaylordsville along with the New Milford River Trail Association is donating their Give Local pledges to participating organizations that are helping the most vulnerable in the area. They are suggesting that rather than making a donation to the Merwinsville Hotel, a historic gem, that people make a donation to Camella's Cupboard, the Community Culinary School of Northwestern CT or Loaves and Fishes Hospitality House. The Give Local event runs from April 21 through April 22 and ends at 7 pm. To donate click here.
About the Merwinsville Hotel
The Merwinsville Hotel Restoration, located along the Housatonic Railroad in Gaylordsville, Connecticut, was a meal and rest stop which opened for business in 1843. The Merwinsville Hotel Restoration is a non-profit, living museum that continues the ongoing care, restoration and preservation of the Hotel to educate, inspire, challenge, and invigorate both present and future generations, and to raise awareness within the local community of the Hotel's contribution to the collective local history by promoting cultural events.
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