November 15, 2016
Nonprofit announces two $1 million gifts and final phase of $5.75 million capital campaign
Burlington, VT – November 15, 2016 – During a ceremonial groundbreaking for a new, world-class community waterfront campus and sailing education center, the Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center (CSC), a nonprofit with a mission to provide community access to Lake Champlain, today announced two anchor gifts, each for $1 million, in their $5.75 million Love Your Lake Capital Campaign. The gifts, one from the Pomerleau Family Foundation, and the second from family and friends in honor of Raymond P. Sullivan, will help to support the construction of The Pomerleau Community Waterfront Campus and Raymond P. Sullivan Sailing Education Center.
Published on November 15, 2016
Burlington, VT (November 15, 2016) – During a ceremonial groundbreaking for a new, world-class community waterfront campus and sailing education center, the Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center (CSC), a nonprofit with a mission to provide community access to Lake Champlain, today announced two anchor gifts, each for $1 million, in their $5.75 million fundraising campaign.
The gifts, one from the Pomerleau Family Foundation, and the second from family and friends in honor of Raymond P. Sullivan, will help to support the construction of The Pomerleau Community Waterfront Campus and Raymond P. Sullivan Sailing Education Center.
Posted: Nov 15, 2016 12:05 PM EST
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BURLINGTON, Vt. –
Work is underway on a new Burlington Community Sailing Center. The $5.7 million privately funded project is a major part of the city’s efforts to remake the northern waterfront.
It’s anchors aweigh on Burlington’s latest waterfront development.
Work is underway on the Community Sailing Center’s new home. It’s a facility open to all residents and visitors.
“To connect to their lake, to discover the lessons it can teach and nurture a relationship with it as stewards for our future,” said Mark Naud, Community Sailing Center.
Joel Banner Baird , Free Press Staff Writer 7:46 a.m. EST November 16, 2016
The tossing of ceremonial anchors on Tuesday made it official: A new home for the Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center on Burlington’s waterfront is underway.
A pair of $1 million gifts to the nonprofit, announced at the groundbreaking, ensures that the facility will open as scheduled this summer, officials said.
November 15, 2016 – Community
During a ceremonial groundbreaking for a new, world-class community waterfront campus and sailing education center, the Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center (CSC), a nonprofit with a mission to provide community access to Lake Champlain, today announced two anchor gifts, each for $1 million, in their $5.75 million Love Your Lake Capital Campaign. Read more[…]
The tossing of ceremonial anchors on Tuesday made it official: A new home for the Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center on Burlington’s waterfront is underway.
A pair of $1 million gifts to the nonprofit, announced at the groundbreaking, ensures that the facility will open as scheduled this summer, officials said.
Local philanthropist Tony Pomerleau delivered a dinghy-sized replica check. So did family and friends of the late Raymond P. Sullivan, an avid sailor and advocate for greater accessibility to water sports, who died in May 2015.
The sailing center opened 22 years ago. Its makeshift headquarters in and around the old Moran power plant lacked plumbing and, sometimes, even electricity.
Roomier headquarters will allow the center to expand its mission of exposing people of all ages to hands-on relationships to the lake, said Executive Director Mark Naud.
On November 15, 2016, the Community Sailing Center celebrated the groundbreaking of the world-class, net zero Pomerleau Community Waterfront Campus and Raymond P. Sullivan Sailing Education Center. Watch to learn more about this exciting announcement for the future of Burlington’s Waterfront!
For many teachers in northern Vermont, the answer is to take their students out of the traditional classroom and into nature.
The Community Sailing Center on Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vt., has been helping teachers in these efforts through the Floating Classrooms program since 2009.
The program provides science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, learning opportunities through hands-on experiences related to sailing.
