CWAers Give More in '24…Continued

In response to our call for stories of charitable giving and community outreach, CWAers sent in so many stories we’ve decided to continue to share the good news. You can read our original story here. If you have a story you’d like to share, please submit it here.

CWA Local 2100

Members of CWA Local 2100 have a tradition of ending their annual holiday party by choosing a charity to donate to. In 2024, members chose Fidos for Freedom, a non-profit organization with a mission to provide highly trained service dogs to residents of the Washington-Baltimore Metropolitan area. These special pups are trained as service dogs, hearing dogs, and therapy dogs for a wide range of people, including individuals with disabilities, children with reading difficulties, and patients in health care facilities. Individual members contributed $596 of the $1000 donation made by the local.

IUE-CWA Local 84901

Since 1981, members of IUE-CWA Local 84901 have provided the use of their hall to an Alcoholics Anonymous group. The group, in turn, uses money collected from members to make an annual rent payment to the local. IUE-CWA Local 84901 matched the rent payment and used the combined money for a $1050 donation to Wellspring Interfaith Social Services, a local non-profit organization that supports the community through after-school programs for children, summer camps, and a food bank. Wellspring serves approximately 18,000 clients, 80% of whom are children.

 
Members of the IUE-CWA Local 84901 Charity Committee presented a representative of Wellspring Interfaith Social Services a check to help support the many programs Wellspring runs for the local community.