The Valley Community Foundation is an affiliate of The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven that works to increase community philanthropy, connecting donors to needs and opportunities and

In 2007, the Vartelas-Stamos Family Fund was established by the Vartelas and Stamos families in honor of their beloved parents and grandparents, John and Paraskeve Vonetes Vartelas (seated). (l-r) The Vartelas children:  Paul, Mary, Jeremiah, Constantine, Alfredo, James, Theodore, George and Peter.

providing leadership on critical community issues in Ansonia, Derby, Oxford, Seymour and Shelton.

As an affiliate, the Valley Community Foundation can assure its donors that their gifts will have the benefit of local oversight while being administered and invested efficiently by one of the nation's oldest and most experienced community foundations.