New name for the same great organization
A nearly 50-year-old organization announced this week that it’s taking on a new name.
Cranberry Township Community Chest, which was first founded in 1976, is now going to be the Cranberry Foundation, as reported in the Thursday, July 10, edition of the Butler Eagle. The name is the latest change for an organization that’s evolved tremendously over the last half century.
The original name came with the founding in 1976, and referred to the fact the nonprofit was raising money for multiple community services at once — the library, the volunteer fire department and the ambulance service.
In 2005, the group was revived and reorganized with a new mission, to increase involvement in civic and nonprofit organizations and invest in projects that would improve the quality of life for the whole community.
Now, nearly 20 years later, the group has completed multiple such projects, including the Armstrong Great Lawn, where the announcement of the name change was made.
The new name is an appropriate change, and it reflects the evolution of the organization, as President Jerry Andree said during Wednesday’s announcement.
“It was the right time to rebrand ourselves to reflect the growth that we’ve been going through as a better representation of what we’re doing,” he said.
We wish the newly rechristened Cranberry Foundation many more decades of continued success.
— JK
