Sal Khan MIT 2012 Commencement Address ↓
Bono Delivers Penn’s Commencement Address
Bono Delivers Penn's Commencement Address
Why Mayors Should Rule The World
Benjamin Barber at a TED, June 2013
Tabor Academy students defining Tangible Philanthropy and Big Citizenship
Last Saturday, Tabor Academy students and their faculty/advisers descended on an old Berkshire Hathaway mill in the south-end of New Bedford and moved the needle! Photos are here. Their gift? - 400 hours of motivated, high energy labor. With over 30,000 SouthCoast...
Boston University Freshmen Take New Bedford By Storm!
Talk about Big Citizenship - sixty-eight Boston University freshmen spent two days with us. Their impact was outrageous! These students gave a collective 400 hours of their love and their labor to help process thousands of items - "gently used" clothes, books, toys...
Student Intern SHOOTS FOR THE MOON!
* UPDATE Molly's quest to collect 1,000 gently used sports balls has hit snag after snag, then last week something positive happened. The back story - Initially Molly went to the Bruins and asked for help in the form of a player coming to New Bedford and she and her...
Retired city educator teaching new lessons at GiftsToGive!
Every once in a while something happens that fuels change. That something, for us, is Martha Kay. It's one thing to facilitate thousands of children in community service, it's another to connect them to service learning and then to something much bigger than...
Abby shares her birthday – again!
Nine year-old Abby is in the 4th grade and lives over an hour away from New Bedford. For the second year in a row, Abby asked friends coming to her birthday party not to bring her any gifts. Instead, she wanted them to bring new things that she could donate to...
Student Interns Wrap Up Their Summer
Summer Intern Wrap-up Party Luncheon: Ice cream cake and water balloons in the conference room! Our summer intern story is a story of: service learning, small, medium and large challenges, heartbreak, immaturity, revelation, love, hope, mentoring, education,...
Edison Mission Marketing and Trading donate school supplies.
With over 30,000 SouthCoast children living in poverty, going back to school is very difficult for lots of kids - especially when it comes to clothes and school supplies. When people ask us how we are able to help so many local students with school supplies, we tell...