The REAS Foundation is pleased to announce, that it has awarded its first energy assistance grants to qualifying Sturbridge seniors. Clearly, those awards are distributed on behalf of those Sturbridge residents and businesses, who are members of the 10K Circle of Friends and 10K Circle of Businesses.

Those of you who have partnered with us thus far, as well as those of you who will soon be joining our 10K Circles, are the true conveyors of these gifts; we at the REAS Foundation are merely acting as your fiduciary agents. It is a role that we are most honored to fulfill, and one we take very seriously on your behalf.

Each of you, as members of our 10K Circles, are the reason that hope is easing some of the despair experienced by members of our community, during these uncertain economic times.

Your sense of compassion, commitment, and community, are the driving force behind the successful fundraising efforts thus far undertaken on your behalf, by the REAS Foundation. Without your support and generosity, our collective Foundation, of which you are surely members, is nothing but a name, and as such, would be of little consequence.

But, with the support of each of you who have thus far given, and certainly those who will soon give, the REAS Foundation has become a living, breathing extension of the great sense of kinship that exists here in Sturbridge. You have helped create something very special in terms of reestablishing community, as the central focus of our shared efforts, by means of true fellowship. 

While many across the nation are struggling to find solutions to the coming crisis faced by our seniors, you, the residents and businesses of Sturbridge, have demonstrated incredible community resolve in addressing this issue locally, one neighbor at a time.

Community is a term that has several meanings; 1) people with common interests living in a particular area; 2) an interacting population of various kinds of individuals; 3) a body of persons or nations having a common history or common social, economic, and political interests. Though each of these definitions are certainly applicable, they seem a tad too sterile to adequately describe what has happened here in Sturbridge.

Perhaps, the best definition of what is taking place within our community, is the manifestation of a “fellowship of interest, activity, feeling, and experience”. Truly, there is great interest and activity surrounding this endeavor, and it is no doubt that much of it comes from each of us experiencing the need to do something tangible, and the feeling that each of us can truly make a difference.

It is great to live in a community, but it is so much more rewarding and fulfilling to live within this great community; filled with an abundance of fellowship. 

Thomas R. Creamer - Executive Director

REAS Foundation
PO Box 737
Fiskdale, MA 01518

http://www.reasfoundation.org

info@reasfoundation.org