Save The Date

A Better Chance of Wilton and friends will Celebrate Education, the key to America and our world’s future.
  

We will introduce our new ABC scholars to our community and welcome back our returning ones.

This event will be held Sat. Sept. 11, 2010 7-11pm

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Prospective Scholars:
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A Better Chance of Wilton began in 1996 with two students and has grown and graduated 20 young men through its thirteenth year. In 2006, because of space restrictions, our ABC boys moved to a larger house, the former Hanson property in Cannondale, leaving the 1st house empty. Subsequent to the boys move, ABC established a program for girls in the former boy’s house on Godfrey Place, next to the library. Wilton is only one of three community based programs in the country to host both boys and girls.

Wilton citizens and others have been extremely generous and committed to ABC, by raising over a quarter million dollars annually to maintain the quality of the programs. Continued financial support, is absolutely essential, especially in tough economic times like now. Fortunately, volunteers continue to help defray costs and provide the heart and soul for the program through their generous contributions of time, talent and love, in addition to their financial support. In short, they along with the resident directors have made the houses –homes.
There are currently 162 volunteers, including 30 board members,49 drivers, 11 host families, college coaches and talented and dedicated volunteer fund raisers and the list goes on. We are most grateful for all the wonderful happy faces that so willingly make the program successful. Wilton’s ABC Scholars partake in athletics, clubs, fine and performing arts, volunteer activities and town wide events. No question, they are part of the fabric of our town.

We have another volunteer cadre that provides scholars with access to stimulating summer learning experiences. Our aim is to help students understand and appreciate that learning is a life- long journey that grows with many fruitful and engaging experiences, especially those that make a difference in the live of others. We hope they will continue to make wise decisions and leverage these decisions and their talents to make the world a far better place because of all they have absorbed and experienced through ABC of Wilton.

We invite you to participate in helping the Wilton ABC Program continue to grow and thrive. We love ABC and ABC loves Wilton!

Sincerely,

Marylynn K. Clune
President

A Better Chance of Wilton, Inc.
PO Box 7658
Wilton, CT  06897