The CaRveR WORld Founded in 1938 as a neighborhood community center, named the 2013 “Nonprofit of the Year” by the Norwalk Chamber of Commerce, Carver today is the largest provider of free after-school programs for middle and high school students in Norwalk, CT. Carver’s free after-school Youth Development Program, so named in 1970, began its expansion into Norwalk Public Schools in 2008, and is now conducted in the Carver Community Center and in Norwalk’s four middle and two high schools. Carver also offers college scholarship funds and multiple summer programs, winning basketball travel teams, international learning opportunities, a parent leadership academy, health and wellness programming, spring and fall college tours, food drives, community holiday events and more for the benefit of the Norwalk community.
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