CENTURY CLUB ENDOWMENT FUND

Since 1929, the Pancretan Association of America has donated over one and a half million dollars to establish and support hospitals, churches, orphanages, universities, and other institutions in Crete. PAA’s Funding has also helped the underprivileged as well as medical research programs to help combat Cooley’s. More recently, it was recognized that the demographic makeup and needs of PAA’s membership had drastically changed, and that the most important priority of the association should be to assist its members young and old retain their Cretan and Hellenic culture and Identity. PAA thus responded to the needs of its American born Cretans of second, third and fourth generation, consequently, the Century Club Endowment Fund was established to endow the Scholarship, Educational and Cultural Programs of the PAA through a national fund raising effort. The scope of the fund is to endow, on a continuing basis, both the Venizelion Scholarship Fund and the Educational and Cultural Program, to benefit the Cretan Youth of America.