NB-AGLY (New Bedford Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Youth) celebrated its Drop-in Center One Year Anniversary on June 22nd, 2013. A Perfect Place is an open and safe center where youth are welcomed to be themselves without judgement. They provide support, education, and...
Unaccompanied teens and community service at the factory.
Students 17 and younger, for their FIRST visit, must be accompanied by an adult to get credit for their community service hours at our mill. We will, at our discretion, make acceptations for for teens to return on their own, for future visits. We know that parochial...
Summer Interns setting a most perfect example of giving and service!
Summer interns Freddy and Tyler, spent last Saturday volunteering at Alma del Mar, to help them build their playground. Some kids talk the talk, others walk the walk and then there are the select few that help to define the great hope of their generation. WAY TO GO...
A “truck-load” of fun for the Jr. and Sr. Friends of The Plumb Library!
GiftsToGive Saturday was a "truck-load" of fun. The Junior and Senior Friends of Joseph H Plumb Memorial Library, Rochester, hosted a "Give and Go" drive for GiftsToGive last Saturday. Lisa Fuller, who manages Youth Services said - "The Jr. Friends, the library youth...
Dartmouth’s DeMello Elementary School 4th and 5th Grade Student Council take New Bedford by storm!
Last Tuesday, sixty-four, 4th and 5th Grade, DeMello Elementary School, Student Council members and 10 adults, spent three hours volunteering with us at the mill, processing thousands of donated toys and articles of clothing. Their gift? ... 200 hours of inspecting,...
Dartmouth Middle School Students Blow the Roof Off Book Donations
Dartmouth Middle School thought they’d collected a lot of books for GiftsToGive in 2010 when they collected over 3,200 gently used books for kids and teens in one week. Then they smashed that record in 2011 by collecting over 6,000 gently used books. Now DMS students...
Listening to Umair talking about our leadership dereliction
"A quick thought experiment: name a leader in a position of power you (really) admire, trust, and respect. Not just the head of an "alternative" company or political party, but a well-known, mainstream, orthodox, leader of the status quo. Can you? Even after a few...
Nate Helps Others for his Birthday
When Nate invited friends to his birthday party, he asked them to bring gifts of new socks and underwear for boys and girls who didn't have the things that they all had. Nate agreed with his mother that he already had enough "stuff" and decided instead to help kids...
The Worst Charities in America
When we saw this report it made us crazy! Worst Charities in America 2013 By Rank Worst-Charities-in-America_2013_With-Numbers (Video-CNN, Reports by The Tampa Bay Times and The Center for Investigative Reporting)
We’ve come to expect more from technology and less from each other
We spend a significant amount of our time interacting with and mentoring young people. One of our constant issues is separating volunteer teens from their hand-held technology. When we saw this story in the local newspaper - it brought to mind Sherry Turkle and what...