There we were ... early on a Friday afternoon getting ready for our Saturday event, The Third Annual Great Pumpkin For Early Literacy. It was the end of a long week, the end of a long day and there was still a ton of work to do. Then a bus pulled up in front of the...
* UPDATE* Bishop Stang High School – Exemplifies Giving and Service
This year's freshmen class set new GiftsToGive records! Not only in making a huge difference but they collectively processed a week's worth of donations in a morning! Besides setting a new record for the most amount of donations processed in a morning, this year's...
Bridgewater State Students Define Renewable Energy!
Sixty BSU students from two groups: The Delta Phi Epsilon Sorority and The African Students Association came in at different times on Saturday and processed a week's worth of donations in one day! With over 30,000 SouthCoast children living in poverty, the need is...
Tabor Academy students defining Tangible Philanthropy and Big Citizenship
Last Saturday, Tabor Academy students and their faculty/advisers descended on an old Berkshire Hathaway mill in the south-end of New Bedford and moved the needle! Photos are here. Their gift? - 400 hours of motivated, high energy labor. With over 30,000 SouthCoast...
Boston University Freshmen Take New Bedford By Storm!
Talk about Big Citizenship - sixty-eight Boston University freshmen spent two days with us. Their impact was outrageous! These students gave a collective 400 hours of their love and their labor to help process thousands of items - "gently used" clothes, books, toys...
Student Intern SHOOTS FOR THE MOON!
* UPDATE Molly's quest to collect 1,000 gently used sports balls has hit snag after snag, then last week something positive happened. The back story - Initially Molly went to the Bruins and asked for help in the form of a player coming to New Bedford and she and her...
Student Interns Wrap Up Their Summer
Summer Intern Wrap-up Party Luncheon: Ice cream cake and water balloons in the conference room! Our summer intern story is a story of: service learning, small, medium and large challenges, heartbreak, immaturity, revelation, love, hope, mentoring, education,...
Edison Mission Marketing and Trading donate school supplies.
With over 30,000 SouthCoast children living in poverty, going back to school is very difficult for lots of kids - especially when it comes to clothes and school supplies. When people ask us how we are able to help so many local students with school supplies, we tell...
Student Intern Receives Service Award
15 year-old Intern and New Bedford High School Sophomore, Camron Frazier was honored Friday night at the Bay Sox final game by SouthCoast Serves (a UMass Dartmouth initiative) for his extraordinary volunteer service. The Bay Sox ended their 2013 season with a...
Unaccompanied teens and community service at the factory.
Students 17 and younger, for their FIRST visit, must be accompanied by an adult to get credit for their community service hours at our mill. We will, at our discretion, make acceptations for for teens to return on their own, for future visits. We know that parochial...