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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.

Ollie’s dad told us that it was great for Ollie to be able to learn more about all the kids and families that benefit from their donations.

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- 900 pairs of socks donated … no way! WAY!
  
  1,800 individual socks were donated to us on Tuesday of Christmas week, from an extraordinary group of students at the Dartmouth Middle School.
  
  According to our accountants, that is 900 pairs. At three pairs of socks per child, in every gift package we distribute, 300 local kids in-need will have new socks in January!
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- Berkley Brownies, help to define tangible philanthropy!
  
  Q: What do you get when you mix nine Berkley Brownies with 500 pounds of gently-used, children’s clothes donations?
  A: Enough warm winter clothes, inspected, sorted and organized to help 24 local children receive a great gift package!
  
  Photos from their afternoon are here.
  
  Here is an email we received from their leadership team – ” Thank you so much for allowing our Brownie Girl Scout Troop to come and volunteer at GiftsToGive and showing them that they can be an important part of helping others no matter how old they are. We had such a wonderful experience. The girls, at eight and nine years of age, were saying things like “this was awesome”, “it was a good experience”, and that “it felt good to help”.
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- Cardinal Spellman High School, Day of Service
  
  Other photos HERE
  
  It’s one thing for us to talk about what we do, it is entirely a better thing when a student volunteer talks about their experience. We are so proud of the students from Cardinal Spellman, and even prouder, if that is possible, of Charli.
  
  Changing Lives One Gift at a Time.
  By: Charli Carey
  
  My name is Charli Carey, and I am currently a junior at Cardinal Spellman High School in Brockton. While preparing for our annual service day, several of my classmates and I struggled with the decision of which service site to volunteer at. Last year, as a sophomore, I volunteered at GiftsToGive, and knew that I wanted to volunteer there again, this time as a junior. I spoke with several of my classmates about what they were expecting when they volunteered to serve at GiftsToGive.
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- Listening to Gabriela
  
  We see thousands of students every year – sometimes we ask one of them to write a story of their experience. Sometimes one of their stories makes us stop what we are doing and listen – really listen.
  
  Today we are listening to Gabriela; you should too!
  
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- Where Do Youth Leaders Come From?
  
  Troop 80506 – Brockton, MA
  
  We met four remarkable young women today. Girl Scouts all and they were on a mission – a mission to make a difference.
  
  We asked their leader to write a short background on this small but mighty group, this is what she had to say – “When we started our Girl Scout season this year we had a significantly smaller troop. The girls that stayed had one common interest and that was to volunteer and make a difference.
  
  They started together as little girls being led by leaders. They are now young women making their own decisions and leading others to make a difference. Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to make a difference. We look forward to coming back.”
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- Listening to Hunter
  
  We just spent two days with students from the Rocky Hill School in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
  
  It’s become an annual two day field trip and what’s the best for us is that we get to see students grow – not only in size and maturity but in their coming of age and increased connectiveness to giving and service. Photos from their service days are here.
  
  Rather than explain more – we’d like to share what student Hunter Corbett had to say – ” Our annual Rocky Hill sophomore trip to GiftsToGive is one of the most eagerly anticipated events of the year. The upperclassmen fondly remember their excursion, and this year’s trip did not fail to live up to our high expectations. I think everyone in my class left with a desire to do more to help people. I know I am definitely going back to GiftsToGive to volunteer again in my free time.
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- Meeting Liam, four year-old philanthropist!
  
  Philanthropy is a big word. It’s a big concept. For a child, it’s one of those ideas/concepts and values that takes perspective, experience and practice. Telling the truth, doing the right thing, not going with strangers, eating the right foods, washing your hands, respecting other people … but … giving away some of your toys, some of your treasure is a huge big deal! Very seldom do we meet a four year-old that had no problem with this, Liam brought us boxes full!
  
  In this crazy mixed up world we live in, to see a four year-old wanting to share his treasure – inspires us to do more and be better at doing it!
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- Listening to Chloe
  
  115 Old Rochester Regional Junior High School students spent last Thursday and Friday with us. We ask each group for a “journalist” to write about their experience. Rather than our writing their story, they did. Student Chloe Bean had this to say:
  
  “When I first found out that my 8th grade class was going to take a field trip to GiftsToGive, I was excited, but a little unsure of how we’d be helping out. What I learned is that at GiftsToGive, there are new donations being dropped off everyday, and therefore, there is always a job to be done. Many of my classmates were doing tasks like sorting and folding clothes, cataloging comic books and deciding their age levels, checking for missing pieces in puzzles and games, and even cleaning and dressing toy dolls. I helped out by cleaning toys and sorting them into boxes by category, and interviewing my classmates about their experience of the day in order to write this article.
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- Hannah Raised $2,500 for GiftsToGive for Her Mitzvah Project!
  
  Hannah McGuire is a 13 year old student at the Freetown-Lakeville Middle school. She’s also a philanthropist!
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- Michelle Collects 49 Winter Coats!
  
  The Amazing Michelle!
  
  Fourteen year-old Michelle, organized and collected 49 winter coats!
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- Gifts From the SKY
  
  SKY Campers
  
  An abundance of gifts came from the SKY (Summer Bible Camp) and found their way into the hands of hundreds of local kids in need, thanks to the children of St. Christopher and St. Theresa Parishes in Tiverton.
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- Ashley Donates Her Doll Collection
  
  The Amazing Ashley!
  
  Ashley attends Dartmouth Middle School.
  
  She donated her entire collection of dolls, dollhouses, furniture and accessories from her “Sweet Street Collections”
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News from GiftsToGive
- Logan sets a most perfect example for all of us!
  
  CEO Blog Acushnet, Massachusetts In the middle of a very hectic day, in walks Logan. Logan is 5 years-old. He was on a mission and needed Read More »
- Whaling City Golf Course focuses a bright and shining light on Corporate Citizenship!
  
  We had a visit from Sue Carlson, one of the new team members at the Whaling City Golf Club. Sue had this to say – “It Read More »
- GAB About Giving!
  
  Every once in-a-while, we’re flabbergasted and we don’t flabbergast easily! Nicole Long, one of our earliest adopters wrote last week – “SO PROUD of my niece Abby Read More »

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