The Mattapoisett Mother and Daughter Team of Monica O’Malley-Tavares and Callie Tavares showed up today to drop-off a ton of stuff and to meet our CEO and Founder, Jim Stevens. They brought dozens of Holiday Stockings full of terrific items for local people in-need....
Joe Dawicki and Bill Taylor, (Past Master) of Abraham H. Howland Jr. Lodge visited with us on Friday and DOUBLED their annual Holiday gift to help us reach even more local children. With over 80,000 SouthCoast children living in poverty, and with one in ten of these...
We met a remarkable young man several months ago. Brenden Alexander. Brenden was working on his Eagle Scout Project and asked for our assistance. He wanted to help local homeless people. We connected Brenden to George Bailey at Mobile Ministries. Mobile Ministries is...
On Saturday we met Jayden. She is a remarkable young woman. Jayden is an eighth grader at our local middle school. She arrived with six gigantic boxes and a story. "At the start of the school year, I applied for and was invited to join the National Jr. Honor Society....
Daughter Joyce, brought us a gift from her Mother, Celia LeClair. What a gift it was! Twenty-three mitten and scarf sets, five scarves, one hat and mitten set and one scarf and mitten set. Thirty local children will be recipients of not only wonderful, high quality,...
Project of the 1959-60 Seventh Grade class at the Crapo School Original book gift of Martha Kay. Scan by Intern Jacob Garcia
Resident Bee Keeper Bill O'Keefe, reported today that our honey bees are thriving, bringing back tons of pollen and making pounds of Acushnet honey. Bill has decided to add a third hive in the next few weeks!
QUESTION: What do Umass Dartmouth students; Mikella, Samantha, Tracy, Jennifer and Veronica have in common, besides being passionate about recycling, re-using and re-purposing? ANSWER: They are bright and shining lights focusing on issues important to the whole world!...
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of local community organizations have been meeting to strategize response efforts for those most vulnerable in our communities. Having identified mental health as a critical need for many, these organizations have...