We were almost tipped, upside down, with the weight of a ton of wonderful toys donated by a group of amazing young people, students at Taunton High School and members of The Key Club. Rather than our telling the story, we asked Key Club President, Kayla Parrett and...
On Saturday morning we were visited by a small, but mighty philanthropist. Caroline is 2 years-old and with the help of her parents Calib and Scotlyn, she asked her family and friends to bring a present for GiftsToGive on her birthday in November. After meeting...
It has been a long, difficult year for so many of us. On the SouthCoast over 80,000 children live in poverty. One in ten of these children is homeless. Without our amazing volunteers, we would not have been able to help as many local children. Today we received a...
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...
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...
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...