Sixteen young women from our Normandin Middle School Sorority, spent two hours after school on Tuesday, with Executive Chef Victor Vieira. Chef Victor brought $33.22 worth of groceries and demonstrated how to make two meals for five people that are not only...
Pies, Pies, Lots of Pies! CamRon Frazier, our extraordinary Student Intern, is helping to raise money for his ROTC unit at New Bedford High School, for their uniform fund! Grandma's Gourmet Country Pies in great varieties: Grandma's Apple, Wild Blueberry, Strawberry...
Bristol County Savings Bank gives $10,000 in matching funds to our "Batting 1000" fundraising campaign. Lots of businesses talk about corporate citizenship, then there is BCSB who actually "walk the walk". Talk about making a difference, talk about building a more...
Reel Serious has just completed the summer program, Hungry But Not Hopeless in conjunction with the Mayor’s Learn and Serve program and New Bedford Public Schools. This summer, eight teens embarked on a journey of discovery through research, community service and film...
Every once in-a-while a photo or two arrives in our inbox that makes us smile. Sometimes we smile and are amazed. Sometimes we are flabbergasted! This story starts with two women remarkable women: Annette and Vivian. Annette is an amazing woman and a wonderful...
Our lease is up! When our building was sold two years ago, our rent was tripled! Now it gets even better - we learn from the newspaper, that the mill is being demolished! The challenging news is that we need to raise the cash to retrofit the new space and then of...
Al Condeluci is an advocate, a catalyst for building community capacities, and leader in understanding social culture. He works as the CEO of Community Living and Support Services (CLASS), a community based support system for people with all types of disabilities in...
We're collecting "gently-used" sports balls! Spring is on the way and our current inventory is wiped out! Student Intern, Molly has organized a sports balls collection drive with the Boston University Hockey Team. On Friday February 28, in their game against...
Sonia Cabral, Nicole Resendes, Julie Leach, David Martins, Garrett Gomes, Joshua Brien, and Jackie Bartoloni volunteered today and helped us inspect and sort children's clothes. They also brought donations of clothing, toys and books. DCF Manager Sonia Cabral wrote in...
When we think about service, one of the first things we think about is our Fire Department. Men and women who put themselves in harm's way every time they report to work. Today we met Firefighter Andy Bois. Andy grew up in New Bedford with our Russell Souza and have...