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...
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...
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...
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...
Our Senior, Student Intern is Diego Marroquin. Diego started with us as a Freshman, Pre-Med Student at UMass Dartmouth and will be a Senior in September. Diego has already been accepted at UMass Medical School in Worcester and will be leaving us in December. Diego's...
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...
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....
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,...
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...