Charitable Organizations
The Brookfield Community Club organizes the annual Apple Country Fair—featuring crafters, food trucks, music, children’s games, raffles, and an apple pie contest—on the Brookfield Town Common on the Saturday of Columbus Day weekend. Proceeds from the fair fund grants that enrich community life.
The mission of the BUUC is to support and promote the principles of Unitarian Universalism. By nurturing spirituality, intellectual growth, diversity of belief, and our ties to one another, we seek to inspire lives of passion, compassion and community.
The Friends of the Merrick Public Library support quality library services in the community by advocating for library resources and needs, promoting a public commitment to literacy and engagement with library programs, and supplementing town, state, and trustee funding.
Supporting Orphans and Children (SONG) raises funds to raise awareness about the plight of orphaned children globally and in the U.S,. and provides support to orphaned children including those in South Central Siberia, Russia.
The Tantasqua Education Foundation raises money to fund teacher-proposed innovative projects in the Tantasqua Regional and Union 61 elementary schools that expand learning opportunities for students.