
Winner Winner. Turkey Dinner.
It’s a sad fact that, even with the Great Recession behind us, lots of Connecticut families struggle to put food on the table every day—never mind providing a Thanksgiving feast. Almost 1/5 of the kids in our state are in households that are “food insecure”—in other words, their parents are having to make choices about feeding their kids or paying other expenses like rent, utilities, or transportation. And more than 432,000 households of our Connecticut neighbors rely on food stamps.
HERE'S WHERE YOU — AND WE — COME IN…
The Goal: to make sure that everyone in our communities sits down to a bountiful feast on Thanksgiving Day.
The Team: Liberty Bank, the Liberty Bank Foundation, 41 Rotary Clubs — and YOU!
How It Works: Right after Columbus Day, our Liberty branches and Rotary partners start raising money for Thanksgiving food. Our foundation kicks in an additional 25 cents for every dollar raised — and our Rotary friends distribute the funds to local agencies that give Thanksgiving baskets to families in their towns.
Since we started doing this in 2004, we’ve raised more than $1.7 million to feed our neighbors on Thanksgiving. We’re looking to raise $325,000 this year. Please help us shoot for another recordbreaking drive in 2017!
See the results of the recordbreaking 2016 drive, read about our upcoming 2017 drive, and browse our past Thanksgiving Drive photo gallery.
Get social, and help promote the drive!
The more buzz we can generate about the drive, the more money we’ll raise. Don’t forget to Like and tag us on your social media accounts! Be sure to include these hashtags in your posts; that way, they’ll also appear in Liberty Bank’s feeds.
#Thanksgiving2017
#LibertyBank
@LibertyBank_CT
Thank you to our participating clubs and community partners!
Beacon Falls Rotary Club
Branford Rotary Club
Bristol Rotary Club
Cheshire Rotary Club
Chester Rotary Club
Clinton Rotary Club
Colchester Rotary Club
Derby/Shelton Rotary Club
East Hampton Rotary Club
Rotary Club of Essex
Groton/Ledyard Rotary Club
Haddam/Killingworth
Rotary Club
Kensington/Berlin Sunrise
  Rotary Club
Madison Rotary Club
Meriden Rotary Club
Middletown Rotary Club
Mystic Rotary Club
Naugatuck Rotary Club
  Rotary Club
New Haven Rotary Club
New London Rotary Club
Newington Rotary Club
Niantic Rotary Club
North Haven Rotary Club
Norwich Rotary Club
Plainville Rotary Club
Seymour/Oxford Rotary Club
Southington Rotary Club
Rotary Club of the Stoningtons
Tribury Rotary Club
of Woodbury/Southbury
/Middlebury
Waterbury Rotary Club
Waterford Rotary Club
West Hartford Rotary Club
Wethersfield/Rocky Hill
  Rotary Club
Willimantic Rotary Club
East Haddam Lions Club