Our Supporters
Our supporters in the business community play an integral role in our ability to offer award-winning, theatre productions and comprehensive education programming to everyone in our community.
AKC Fund
Due to the AKC Fund’s generous funding since 2007, WCT has been able to produce both the Play Factory program and My Story. Both programs have grown tremendously over the past four years, becoming WCT treasures. The programs have provided nearly 200 students the opportunity to rehearse and perform non-musical, literature-based plays, as well as write and perform their own works based on their personal experiences. In addition, approximately five hundred local students, including those from in-need communities, have attended the performances free of charge. Our organization, students, and families are grateful for the AKC’s support in helping to launch this valuable program.
Watertown Community Foundation
The Watertown Community Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization established in 1979. The Watertown Community Foundation promotes philanthropy, receives and administers charitable gifts and invests in programs that improve the quality of life in Watertown by promoting charity, education and culture in the community.
The Watertown Community Foundation encourages philanthropy at all levels, provides donor services and responds to the ever-changing needs and opportunities in the community.
The Watertown Community Foundation has supported WCT by awarding us with grant funding for specific programs, like WCTAP.
Watertown Savings Bank
Each year for its Customer Choice Awards, Watertown Savings Bank sets aside $50,000 that is distributed according to voting results. Every qualified non-profit that earns at least one percent of the total votes received is awarded funds. To qualify the organization must serve the local community in some way and have 501(c)(3) status. Religious and political organizations are ineligible. Charitable organizations within a church community are eligible.
WCT is a Customer Choice award winner for 2012! Thank you to the WSB customers whose votes helped us win an award. Each year WSB customers may vote for their favorite local, non-profit organization – anyone with a Watertown Savings Bank account can vote, and each customer gets one vote. Voting has closed for 2012, but be sure to vote next year!
GoodSearch
The goal of GoodSearch is to help as many nonprofits and schools as possible. They want to help fund the great works they are doing. And, as important as the money, GoodSearch allows people to feel connected to organizations helping to make the world a better place and support them every single day.
GoodSearch is a search engine which donates 50 percent of its sponsored search revenue to the charities and schools designated by its users. You use GoodSearch exactly as you would any other search engine. According to the GoodSearch website, 100 people using GoodSearch twice a day can raise as much as $730 a year! Each time you search the Internet, a penny is donated to Watertown Children’s Theatre!
Constant Contact Cares4Kids
Cares4Kids is Constant Contact’s way of helping small businesses help their smallest neighbors.
With Cares4Kids, Constant Contact empowers their customers to give back and help strengthen their local communities. All paying customers in good standing are eligible to sponsor a local community organization that is 100% focused on programs for children with a free* Constant Contact account. These accounts have full access to Constant Contact’s entire suite of small business tools and services.
WCT is able to provide our community with monthly emails free of charge through this generous service.
Tech Soup
TechSoup is a nonprofit with a clear focus: providing other nonprofits and libraries with technology that empowers them to fulfill their missions and serve their communities. As part of that goal, we provide technology products and information geared specifically to the unique challenges faced by nonprofits and libraries.
Learning resources, including articles, blogs, free webinars, and forums led by expert hosts are available to all users. Once qualified with TechSoup, nonprofits and libraries can access 400+ technology products from more than 40 donor partners — including Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco, Intuit, and Symantec. All donated and discounted products are available for a small admin fee that supports our work in the United States and around the world.
