This is a story about one person making a difference and a corporate culture that supports helping others. One day, a few weeks ago, Patti Serpa came to shop in our Thrift Store and became curious about what was behind the curtain. Volunteer Manager, Ray Carpenter...
SMEC Students Lead the Way
One of our favorite student groups are the students from SMEC. These amazing young people volunteer weekly and have made and continue to make a real and tangible difference. They recently did a wonderful and helpful action. Rather than we tell the story, we would like...
Salve Regina Students Reflect a Bright and Shining Light!
With over 80,000 Southcoast children living in poverty and with one in ten of these children homeless, the need is overwhelming. Knowing this need, Salve Regina Nursing Students; Megan Caccamo, Erin Dericks, Mia Lang, Alexia Moreno, and Annemarie Haas did something...
Ocean Spray Helps Define Corporate Giving
Winston Churchill said that we make a living by what we get , but we make a life by what we give. We think Sir Winston knew what he was talking about. Today we hosted 25 terrific volunteers from Ocean Spray. All came on time, all prepared to work for a five-hour...
A bright and shining light, Ruthann Levesque
We had a surprise visit today with a most remarkable woman, Ruthann Levesque (Pictured here, second from right). Ruthann brought us several dozen beautiful, handcrafted quilts. Not only was the workmanship amazing, the choice and content of the fabric patterns were...
Theta Delta Chi at UMD
We see thousands of elementary, middle, high school and college student volunteers every year. (Except of course for the Covid Year). It is hard for us to pick our favorites. There have been some salient third graders, some amazing seventh graders, some outstanding...
School Supplies NEEDED!
We are collecting school supplies: Crayons, 2 pocket folders, glue sticks, rulers, calculators, three-hole filler paper, three and five subject notebooks, highlighters, three-ring binders and colored pencils.
Ready for School Items Needed!
"Gently-used" warm, winter clothes and NEW School supplies are needed. With over 50,000 SouthCoast children living in poverty, and with most of them living in single head of households with one or two siblings - getting ready for school is a huge stress point for...
Bill O’Keefe Our Magical Gardener and Bee Keeper is PLANTING!
Mosquito Squad To The Rescue!
So ... here we were in mid-November trying to get warm winter clothes packages out the door for local children with inventory getting dangerously low. We put out a call to action and the results were overwhelming and allowed us to help a ton of local kids get the...