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PHILANTHROPY
Year Round Calendar and Giving Highlights
Crest Lincoln of Woodbridge is proud to be a member of the Woodbridge, CT community! There are exciting events for Woodbridge and neighboring towns on the Woodbridge Town Calendar. Visit this page and fill up your schedule with some neat community events!
CCA
Crest Lincoln supports Christian Community Action which assists families in need in New Haven. To join in the good work of CCA, please visit https://www.ccahelping.org/!
Holiday SeasonÂ
The Soups, Socks and Sweats Drive is on at Crest! Drop off your new socks, sweats and some cans of soup and Columbus House will be warm and well-fed this holiday season!Â
HolidaysÂ
#GivingTuesday
Crest Lincoln of Woodbridge supports St. Martin de Porres Academy, a nearby middle school that provides tuition-free, extended day education for underserved girls and boys from low-income families in the New Haven Area. Happy Holidays to the St Martin's community! https://www.saintmartinacademy.org/
October
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, Crest Lincoln makes a donation for every vehicle sold to benefit The Susan G Komen Foundation
Back to School
Crest Lincoln of Woodbridge supports St. Martin de Porres Academy, which is a middle school that provides tuition-free, extended day education for underserved girls and boys from low-income families in the New Haven Area. Wishing you all an enriching school year!
Crest Lincoln supports Common Ground, a high school, urban farm and environmental education center! Common Ground - High School, Urban Farm, and Environmental Education Center (commongroundct.org)
JUNE MUSIC
It's Make Music Day and an Art Soirée in one at Crest Lincoln of Woodbridge from 4-6pm. Join us for a wonderful evening of music, art and refreshments.
Community Soup Kitchen
Crest Lincoln hosts a celebration for Community Soup Kitchen from 5-7pm. Support our services to the community with live music, refreshments and raffles!
ART SOIREE FOR OUTREACH & COMMUNITY
Art Soirée at Crest Lincoln celebrating the artistry of Andre Rochester (paintings) and Matt Ellison (ceramics) while listening to Moxanne and the Band and enjoying refreshments. Join us! RSVP cwalker@crestautomall.com
Crest Lincoln stands with Ukraine and supports the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America.
SCHOOL SUPPORT
Crest Lincoln is delighted to support Golf-Fore-Kids, a scholarship tournament which will benefit the students and mission of St. Martin de Porres AcademyÂ
Crest supports IRIS and the wonderful work that organization does in helping refugees settle into life in CT. More info and ways to support IRIS can be found on their website: irisct.org
Holiday and Winter Giving
Crest supports the following wonderful organizations this holiday season: Connecticut Foodshare, Woodbridge Land Trust, Brian House Inc, St. Martin de Porres Academy, IRIS, Islamic Relief, WVFA, Community Soup Kitchen, Diaper Bank of CT.
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Art at Crest Lincoln: A Soirée
Join us for "Art at Crest Lincoln: A Soirée" featuring CT artists Pam Blasavage and Barbara Shulman along with the music of Moxanne and the Fierce Kitties!
Light nibbles and sips will be serviced for this small celebration of art in Crest's gorgeous new showroom. Stop in and peruse the art - both the Lincolns and the paintings!
Cans & Cars @ Crest
Community Soup Kitchen and The Diaper Bank of Connecticut are going to be receiving the non-perishables and diaper donations from our wonderful customers this holiday season! Please feel free to bring those items to Crest Lincoln upon your next sales or service visit! Here's to a healthy, happy autumn for all.
DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CT
 Crest Lincoln supports the Down Syndrome Association of Connecticut's Step Up for Down Syndrome Walk this fall! A grandson of one of our Crest Team Members is our inspiration for supporting this fantastic cause. This walk shows our support for more than 400,000 individuals with Down syndrome in the U.S. These fundraising efforts will support local programs and services that benefit all individuals with Down syndrome. To join us in supporting this fantastic group of walkers, please visit: https://www.ds-stride.org/stepupconnecticut!
ART & OUTREACH AT CREST
Carole Abbate and Trevor Youngberg will be displaying their paintings and ceramics at Crest Lincoln!Â
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JCC & THE BAGEL RUN
Crest Lincoln will be sponsoring the JCC's 10th Annual Bagel Run on September 19th! More information to join the 5k Bagel Run, Free Kids Race, and/or 2 Mile Family Fit Walk visit www.jccnh.org !
Summer Sneaks
Crest Lincoln supports Champion Shoes. This organization "creates Champions one pair of shoes at a time!" https://a-champions-shoes.myshopify.com/
MAKING MUSIC AT CREST
Crest Lincoln is participating in Make Music New Haven on June 21st! Stop by to hear some special sounds in our gorgeous new showroom that day!
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Crest Lincoln of Woodbridge supports St. Martin de Porres Academy in their Golf-Fore-Kids Tournament! Way to go, St. Martin's! The event will happen on June 21, 2021 and more details about it and this terrific school in Downton New Haven can be found at: https://www.saintmartinacademy.org/gfk/
Crest Lincoln supports Community Soup Kitchen and the Storehouse Project in the Great Give Event this year. Two remarkable organizations that are devoted to nourishing bodies and souls in Greater New Haven. Thank you for all you do!
https://www.csknewhaven.org/ http://www.storehouseprojectct.org/
Crest supports New Haven Symphony Orchestra!
The New Haven Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 127th season on February 6th with a virtual gala that will feature award recipients and artistic performances. Below is the ad which Crest will display in their promotions. Congratulations to Burton Alter, winner of the Wattles Award, all who are receiving recognition!
Holiday Giving on Behalf of WHEAT
Crest Lincoln is happy to be holding a food drive on behalf of WHEAT: West Haven Emergency Assistance Taskforce. Crest will be collecting food in the Lincoln showroom on November 23rd through December 15th, 2020. Please feel free to bring in peanut butter, mac & cheese, canned vegetables, cereal, plain pasta, tomato sauce, soups - no perishables please. WHEAT provides supplemental food to low-income residents in need. The charity's foundation is based on feeding people in the spirit of social justice: wheatpantry.org. Keep up the wonderful work, WHEAT!
COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN
Community Soup Kitchen which has a "Squashing Hunger Championship" Fundraiser happening right now! Support this terrific organization at the link below to keep the hungry in New Haven fed - this organization is big-hearted, tireless and committed to supporting people who are struggling. A wonderful mission.
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
Crest supports The Greater New Haven Jewish Family Service  for their April Fundraising Celebration and with a van year round which helps with their Food4Kids delivery program (which service about 300 families). This hard-working organization has the following mission: Jewish Family Service of Greater New Haven (JFSGNH) strengthens and improves individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social and human services to people in the community at every life stage, especially those who are vulnerable, poor, and disadvantaged, and without regard to race, ethnicity, or religion. The agency is guided by the moral and ethical values of Judaism in its policies, programs, and services. More information about JFSGNH can be found at: https://jfsnh.org/
TOYS AND COATS FOR IRIS
Crest supports IRIS this month with a Coat & Toy Drive. If you have a gently-used coat or a new toy you'd like to share with IRIS, stop into Crest and join the staff with your Christmas spirit donations. Everyone needs warmth and something to smile about, right?! Happy Holidays to all.
PANCREATIC CANCER AWARENESS
Crest supports Pancreatic Cancer Awareness this month - stop by to check out a new Lincoln and help yourself to a purple ribbon for yourself and a friend! Here's to health, healing and community.
BREAST CANCER AWARENESS
Crest is making a donation to the Susan G Komen Foundation for every car sold this month in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness. Here's to health and healing for all touched by the disease!
CLOSER TO FREE
Crest supports New England Brewing on September 7, 2019 as they cycle with Team Craft Beer for Closer to Free fundraising to help fight cancer by furthering research. Go, New England Brewing cyclists! Ride on!
ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY
Back to School time! Crest supports Saint Martin de Porres Academy! We bought 20 much-desired copies of Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven for the students at Saint Martin's! Saint Martin de Porres Academy in New Haven has an holistic approach to education which emphasizes experiential learning, spiritual grounding and rigorous academics. It is a faith-based, private middle school that welcomes children of all faiths, races, cultures and skill levels and provides tuition-free, extended day education for children from low-income families in the New Haven area of Connecticut. https://www.saintmartinacademy.org/
IRVING SCHOOL
Crest supports Irving School! Crest Lincoln of Woodbridge donated 2 bikes to a raffle supporting Irving School in Derby! Above are the lucky winners. Have a great spring riding and smiling, kids. Congratulations.
WOODBRIDGE DOG PARK
Crest supports the Woodbridge Dog Park Cooperative! This neat organization is working to establish a Dog Park in Woodbridge. Everyone - including canines :) - deserves a place to roam! https://woodbridgedogpark.org/
IRIS SUPPORT
Crest supports IRIS! IRIS is Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services and its "Run for Refugees" in New Haven is one of the area's largest road races. Run for Refugees is a 5k with the international community across historic East Rock. Food, desserts, music, and awards await the participants once they cross the finish line. The event helps to support IRIS in its meaningful work helping to resettle immigrants and refugees. To join the 5k party, check out IRIS' website: http://www.irisct.org/
COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN
Crest supports Community Soup Kitchen (CSK)! Their annual fundraiser was Wednesday November 7th at 6:30-8:30 and our Navigate Your Road Party also raised funds for CSK! We support this remarkable organization that has been feeding the hungry day in & day out since 1977. In 2017, the Community Soup Kitchen provided 74,948 meals - an increase of more than 3% from 2016. https://www.csknewhaven.org/donate/
BREAST CANCER AWARENESS
Crest supports Breast Cancer Awareness Month! A portion of each Crest vehicle sale in the month of October will be donated to the Susan G Komen Organization. Here's to living well and good health. To see how Ford Motor Company is behind this important cause, please explore Ford Warriors in Pink, a group that helps those touched by breast cancer "through actions that support, inspire and empower patients, survivors and co-survivors throughout their journey."
YALE NEW HAVEN TOY CLOSET
Through the end of summer and early fall Crest is supporting organizations at Hole in One Golf Outings from the Toy Closet Golf Outing, which benefits Yale New Haven Hospital Auxiliary Toy Closet Program, to the Golf Fore Kids event supporting the enrichment and education of St. Martin de Porres Academy students from inner city New Haven.
COLOR RUN SUPPORT FOR SOBRIETY
Crest supports the Color Run! Held at the Guilford Fair Grounds in Guilford, CT on May 19th at 10am, the Color Run is a Family and Friend Event celebrating Youth Sobriety. There are color stations throughout the 5K course so you can run with family and friends and be met with a dose of color as you enjoy the route. Crest will participate in the race, support the cause, and have a vehicle placed at the Fairgrounds in static celebratory display! This event is sponsored by Lifelinx Corp and Guilford DAY helping people in recovery and on their way to a healthy life. Let's get our color on! More details can be found at: https://runsignup.com/Race/CT/Guilford/LifeLinxCorpRaceforRecovery
COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN
Crest supports New Haven's Community Soup Kitchen in their annual fundraiser. CSK is a wonderful organization which provides lunch weekdays at their Broadway location in downtown New Haven, in the Parish House of Christ Church Episcopal. Working with four other sites, CSK offers breakfast to the homeless and hungry 5 days per week. To join Crest in supporting this devoted generous organization, visit this page and click on "Donate."
IRIS SUPPORT
IRIS has its annual Run for Refugees on February 4, 2018 and Crest wishes them the very best in raising funds, support, enthusiasm, and welcome as they continue to help people settle in the Greater New Haven Area. //www.irisct.org/
