Ollie, an 8 year-old, third grader, started a book club at Sippican Elementary in Marion this year. Parents and Educators organized a holiday party for the book club group and all the kids decided to donate gifts to GiftsToGive instead of a gift exchange among them....
Listening to Reshma!
"We're raising our girls to be perfect, and we're raising our boys to be brave", says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code. Sajama has taken up the charge to socialize young girls to take risks and learn to program — two skills they need to move society...
Listening to Wendy – A student’s perspective on service.
Tabor Academy student Wendy Liu accepted the assignment of reporting back on her group's volunteer experience yesterday. Here is what she had to say - "September 22 may be another mundane Tuesday for most students, but not for those at Tabor. Today was our Service Day...
Fairhaven Neighborhood News, August 20, 2015
A huge GiftsToGive thank you to Beth Davis for the publicity, but even more importantly for truly being a bright and shining light in our community! "CLICK BELOW" to Enlarge or Download original here
A Bright and Shining Light!
Thomas, Allison and Sierra are students at U Mass Dartmouth. They're also representatives for Greek Life on campus. We've partnered with the Greek Life Council at UMD to help us connect middle school students to giving and service. We're starting with their working...
Theta Delta Chi walks the walk!
On Saturday, we met brothers from Theta Delta Chi, at UMassDartmouth Peter Coyne, Theta Delta Chi Brother and Education Major had this to say - "I wasn’t sure what to expect when my fraternity, Theta Delta Chi, would be helping at GiftsToGive. Obviously I assumed we...
MIB Group from Bridgewater State University sets a most perfect example!
Five brothers from Men Integrated in Brotherhood (MIB) a student group at Bridgewater State spent the day with us, helping to build racking for our new thrift shop. They learned a lot about working together, team work, tangible philanthropy and big citizenship. They...
$669.28 – You’ve got to be kidding!
With over 30,000 SouthCoast children living in poverty, and with most of them living in single head of households with one or two siblings - getting ready for school is a huge stress point for these parents and almost an impossible task! Please think about cleaning...
HUGE Mirrors FIND A Home!
MIRRORS ARE GONE! New story: (As of Saturday, June 19) Taken by a martial arts studio in Wareham! Old Story: As our mill building is being demolished around us and we're packing and moving - we totally forgot about our Project Cinderella mirrors. We have FIVE...
Wareham’s Middle School Student Council set a most perfect example!
We came away from our day today - inspired! Wareham Middle School Student Council Members redefined altruism for us. Talk about the power of one and then multiply that by a factor of forty! Photos from our day are here. Wendy Brogioli, Student Council Advisor for the...