A Heartfelt Good-Bye

The Camphill Resident's Trust (CRT), a pooled supplemental needs trust for individuals with special needs, closed its doors in August 2025 after serving the Special Needs Community for over 35 years.

We want to take a moment to mark this event. The CRT was in the forefront of the of the special needs trust market. Begun in 1989 at the urging of Camphill families searching for financial security for their villagers, Camphill leaders and coworkers took the initiative and created something innovative.

The CRT Board of Trustees, consisting of representatives from the Camphill Villages, the Camphill Association of North America, the Camphill Foundation, and trust account sponsors and parents, set out with the mission to enhance lives by investing, managing and dispersing funds for the benefit of individuals with special needs. Each account supported the beneficiary’s care, education and enrichment without compromising government benefits. With the help of the trust administrator, the CRT grew to manage over 4.5 million dollars and served nearly 100 individual beneficiaries over its lifetime.

Since the beginning, the trust accounts have funded vacations and trips for the beneficiaries, Bar Mitzvahs, hobby equipment, computers, optional dental work, travel expenses for sibling visits to the beneficiaries, massage therapy and funeral expenses of the beneficiary. Our charitable mission also has supported many Camphill Villages and the Camphill Foundation through account remainder contributions.

Camphill communities have been innovators in the care and support of people with disabilities and now in the world of Special Needs Trust administration, the world has caught up. It is time for us to let go of the responsibility with the knowledge that we have contributed to the good in the world.

Our Successor Trustee

On August 1, 2025, the Board of Trustees successfully transferred the assets and active accounts of the Camphill Resident’s Trust to Commonwealth Community Trust (CCT), in Richmond, Virginia, our successor trustee. The accounts were received into the caring hands of the Client Services team at CCT, and we are confident that they will continue to support our families in the way that the Camphill Resident’s Trust has for the last 36 years. To learn more about CCT, please visit their website. Visit Commonwealth Community Trust