Community Service

We take pride in the cumulative impact of our community service efforts. The lives we’ve touched,
smiles we’ve elicited, and the positive changes we’ve catalyzed for our two-legged and four-legged
friends serve as testaments to the spirit that defines CVR.

We started 2025 with a food drive to benefit The Corner Food Pantry at the May DE event and
followed that with a very successful food drive at Porsches@TheRock. Our next two Community
Service events occurred in conjunction with the People’s Choice Concours in October and the CVR
Annual Meeting in November.

We continued to leverage our passion for the Porsche brand and our legacy of service to drive
positive changes within our communities. With each mile we travel and every initiative we launch,
our commitment to making a meaningful difference in the lives of those in our communities remains
steadfast.

Drivers Education Food Drive – May 2025

In May, Drivers Education (DE) held a very successful food drive to benefit the Corner Food Pantry in
Lakeville. The Food Pantry volunteers are very grateful for the generosity of those who made food and monetary donations at the DE event.

Photo by Susan Vaccaro – Food donations collected at the May DE event.

Porsches@The Rock – Fueling The Corner Food Pantry

Thank you to everyone who came to our Porsches@TheRock event and donated food and money to The Corner Food Pantry. We were able to fill Dave Hutchings’ trailer with a large variety of non-perishable food items, and CVR also presented a $3,500 check from the funds that were collected, plus an extra amount from the Community Service budget.

We had volunteers at the Front Gate who collected the bags and bags of food from the Porsche guests. While we handed out the giveaway bags from the trailer, we were filling the trailer back up just as quickly, with all of the donations.

The Corner Food Pantry is an all-volunteer, non‐denominational charity that offers nutritious food to families in need. All of their funding and food comes from private sources. Requests for food from the Pantry have continued to rise.

The volunteers at the pantry were very happy and impressed with the support they’ve received from CVR, dating back to 2019. The wonderful and abundant food donations helped them fill their shelves. They were especially pleased that so many of the donations were staple items such as pasta and sauce. One of their volunteers said that they especially like the donations from CVR because of the varied and unique foods that we collect for them. Find more information about The Corner Food Pantry at https://thecornerfoodpantry.org

Thanks to the Porsche community’s generosity, CVR helped to put a dent in hunger!

Photo by Susan Vaccaro
Food donations for the Corner Food Pantry under Porsches@TheRock LiquiMoly arch

Photo by Susan Vaccaro
Lynn Keller, CVR Community Service Chair, presents a check for $3500 to The Corner Food Pantry volunteers. (L to R) Thaddeus Gray, JoAnn Luning, Allison Gray (The Corner Food Pantry), Lynn Keller, Jeff Coe, Dave Vaccaro and Alan Davis (CVR).

Helping Pets at the People’s Choice Concours

On Saturday, October 18 CVR celebrated Porsche Turbos and CVR Community Service collected pet food, treats, toys and monetary donations to support Protectors of Animals.

Protectors of Animals (POA) is a non-profit, primarily volunteer, no-kill organization whose mission is to increase the quality of life for all dogs and cats in the communities they serve.
This year’s Concours participants generously donated over 700 pounds of dry dog and cat food and 64 cans of wet food plus kitty litter, treats, toys, and monetary donations. The Region also presented Protectors of Animals with a check for $750. The food, treats and monetary donations will help those fostering the dogs and cats while they are waiting for their furever homes.

To learn more about POA please visit Protectors Of Animals

Photo by Jacqueline Keller
Maggie Musumeci from Protectors of Animals approaches a 911 cabriolet to accept their donation.

Photo by Paul Roth
Lynn Keller, CVR Community Service Chair presents a check to Debbie Nichols from Protectors of Animals at the People’s Choice Concours.

Driving Children’s Literacy at CVR Annual Meeting

Our last Community Service event for 2025, a children’s book drive, was held in conjunction with the CVR Annual Meeting on November 16. Thanks to everyone who brought children’s books or made monetary donations to support Read to Grow, a children’s literacy organization in Branford, CT.

As a result of your generosity, CVR will be providing 355 books and $460 to help Read to Grow achieve their mission of promoting language skills and literacy for children, beginning at birth, and supporting parents as their babies’ first teachers. They want all children in Connecticut to have books of their own.

Photo by Jonathan Haggar
Children’s books and monetary donations for Read to Grow at the CVR Annual Meeting.