Community Organizations

A food pantry, a community development lender, a library a membership association has run since 1881, and a newsroom and a camera that carry your own town meetings. Every organization on this page takes volunteers, and several of them are how a resident with no title at all ends up in the room.

Community Organizations

Organization	What they do & contact
Ware Business & Civic Association	The local business and civic association, linked from the town’s own site, promoting the town under its own banner: Somewhere Worth Seeing.
Quaboag Valley Community Development Corporation	A community development corporation serving Ware and the Quaboag Valley: small business lending, workforce development, and community projects.
Jubilee Cupboard Food Pantry	Trinity Episcopal Church’s food pantry at 80 Pleasant Street, open Thursday mornings, with a diaper ministry alongside it.
Quaboag Hills Substance Use Alliance	A regional substance use prevention and recovery coalition, hosted inside Ware’s own town government pages.
Ware Community Television	The town’s nonprofit cable access station at 237 West Street. It records and carries Selectboard meetings, School Committee sessions, school events and town government, and its operator sits in the room at the board’s regular meetings.
Ware Library (YMLA)	Ware’s public library at 37 Main Street, founded by the Young Men’s Library Association in 1881 and still run by it, a membership association now in its second century of keeping the town’s library open.
Ware Historical Society	Keeps the town’s story alongside the town’s own Historical Commission. Profiled by the Pioneer Valley History Network; it publishes no site of its own.

Town Services You Can Use Today

Service	Notes
Council on Aging	The senior center, outreach, social services and programs for older residents. Executive Director John Zienowicz. 413-967-9648 x501.
Parks & Recreation	Grenville Park, the town’s fields, and pavilion bookings through Parks Manager John Piechota.
Veteran’s Agent	Benefits, claims, and services for Ware veterans and their families. Mark A. Avis, 413-967-9648 x115, Tuesdays and Thursdays 8 a.m. to noon or by appointment.

For current hours and a fuller list, see the town’s own department pages at townofware.com.

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