Invest in a place for everyone: Today & for Generations to Come
Your gift helps us provide welcoming spaces, creative opportunities, children's programs, a free Teen Rec afterschool program and unique events that bring the community together.
Ways to Support
Planned Giving
In 1939, Cora Putnam Hale founded the Elizabethtown Social Center to provide "the greatest good for the greatest number" in the Elizabethtown area. The endowment she created still funds 58% of our operating budget. Her foresite has sustained and inspired us. Continue her vision and invest in our future by making a legacy gift to the Elizabethtown Social Center.
More ways to get Involved
Business Partnership Program
Our partnerships with North Country businesses amplify our impact exponentially. One upcoming sponsorship option is our annual trip for 50 teens to see the play "The Last American Newspaper" at theREP theater in Albany with a stop at the MiSci Museum.
Interested in supporting a specific program or project?
Choose a program that inspires you:
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Free, daily after school Teen Rec Program with trips, special events and a healthy staff:teen ratio
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Children's Enrichment Events
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Cultural and musical theater trips for Teens and Adults, Senior Excursions
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Summer lawn concerts and year-round cultural events
Our capital projects currently include:
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Kitchen Expansion
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Exterior Painting
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Court Maintenance
Contact: Laurie House, Executive Director (518)873-6408
“It is one of the few places in our region where the full community gathers—kids, teenagers, parents,seniors—crossing paths in ways that build familiarity, trust, and a shared sense of belonging. The reach of the Teen Rec program alone, serving the vast majority of local students, is extraordinary. But just as important is the cumulative effect of everything else: the events, the informal encounters, the sense that there is a place to go, and to be.”
Aaron Woolf, Local Business Owner