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Brockton High School Concert Choir

June 2016 – Sodade performance

Brockton High School concert choir sings “Sodade” by the late Cabo Verde artist Cesaria Evora

Tribute to Marvin Gaye

Inspirational Video, MusicVideo, Think About It

Relevant in 1971 and even more relevant now.

On June 24, 2009 Iranian musician Andy Madadian went into an LA recording studio with Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and American record producers Don Was and John Shanks to record a musical message of worldwide solidarity with the people of Iran.

Stand By Me

MusicVideo

Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Phoebe Snow, Joan Jett, Garry Tallent, Max Weinberg, Joe Ely, Aztec Two-Step, Randy Moore, Highway 9

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Stories – Youth Philanthropy
- Listening To Emma!
  
  A story about her visit with her classmates, from Emma. Photos from their day are here.
  
  It’s a Saturday in Acushnet, and a group of students from Rising Tide Charter Public High School are spending it sorting clothes. Rising Tide’s Community Action Club has been planning their December 19 trip to GiftsToGive for weeks, and twenty five students arrived in the sprawling warehouse building excited to work.
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- 4-Year Old Austa Shares Her Birthday
  
  4 Year Old Austa Shares Her Birthday Presents
  
  Four year-old Austa taught us a thing or two about sharing!
  
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- Learn, Lead, Serve, Succeed
  
  Learn, Lead, Serve, Succeed is the mantra for the Alma del Mar Public Charter School.
  
  We are huge fans of the work they do and especially of how much they have been able to accomplish since starting four years ago. We have always supported their community service efforts and we recently had a visit from their entire 5th grade class.
  
  Photos from our day are here.
  
  Rather than we tell the story, we asked 5th grader Rosa to interview some of her peers and send us a story.
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- 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 and her cousin Georgia: over Christmas vacation they brainstormed a charitable organization called “GAB” and collected over $100 in one weekend to help people less fortunate. This morning, Abby gave me the money… (Which is being matched by their Grandmother Blair!) to deliver to GiftsToGive and I can’t think of a more beautiful start to a new year. Love these girls and their giant hearts.”
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- Words of wisdom from an eight year-old!
  
  Wisdom is all around us, if we listen. Most recently, brilliant, simple and very clear wisdom came to us from Sophia, our favorite eight year-old, Uber Volunteer!
  
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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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- Listening to Olivia, eighth grade philanthropist!
  
  Youth Philanthropist Olivia
  
  We see thousands of student volunteers every year, most are amazing! Some are extraordinary and then there is Olivia. To call Olivia super extraordinary or unbelievable, would be an understatement!
  
  Olivia has volunteered with us for five months and in that time has directly helped hundreds of local children receive clothes, books, toys and other basic essentials. Recently she arrived with bags and bags full of brand new items to donate.
  
  We asked her to tell us in writing what was going on and here is what she told us – ” I was first introduced to GiftsToGive while on a field trip with my fellow classmates and teachers from the Albert F. Ford Middle School here in Acushnet. After spending half of a school day volunteering in the building, I decided I would begin coming back throughout the summer. Through the course of the summer I worked to assemble clothing packages for children. When I first assembled the packages, I was blown away by how many orders there were to be filled.
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- Worcester Academy
  
  Students from Worcester Academy made a field trip to visit with us last week. Photos from their visit are here. We ordinarily would talk about the experience, but teacher David Baillie was kind enough to send us the following:
  
  “Community. We’re about community.”
  
  “This was the response of a student to a seemingly simple question: “What is Worcester Academy all about?” The question, posed by GiftsToGive founder Jim Stevens, hung over the fifty Worcester Academy students for several heartbeats before it was answered.
  
  We had traveled that Saturday morning from Worcester to Acushnet to fulfill a community service obligation, a school-mandated requirement that is part of every student’s experience. The fifty boys, all upper classmen, were dorm mates; they boarded the bus that morning without complaint, napped or talked or joked around for the hour it took to get to Acushnet, and then assembled in the bare-bones repurposed warehouse that served as the factory’s base of operations.
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- Twin inspiration!
  
  Matthew and Lily
  
  We literally were overwhelmed with a huge donation of great new toys and other items on Saturday from FOUR year-olds, Lily and Matthew.
  
  We work everyday at receiving donations from some very remarkable people, lots of them children, but this donation was overwhelming for us. It was overwhelming not only for the volume of the things we received but for how and why they came to us. We were so busy the day they arrived we really didn’t get to hear the whole story. We emailed their mother and asked for details. What we got back was the best email in recent memory.
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- Paige Donates Her Birthday Presents
  
  Paige sets a most perfect example
  
  Eight year-old Paige, did something amazing on her birthday.
  
  Her parents held a party and Paige asked her friends to bring a new birthday present for a GiftsToGive child, who would not ordinarily receive a gift on their birthday.
  
  Paige brought us 31 new birthday presents to be given to local children on their special day.
  
  In her “doing” Paige has not only made a huge difference, but has become a most excellent example to her siblings and friends about the power of giving.
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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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- There is more to this Brownie Troop then just cookies!
  
  Question: What is better than Girl Scout Cookies?
  Answer: Girl Scout Philanthropists!
  
  We hosted our “First Annual Crafts Fair For A Cause” last Sunday. Fifty-five Vendors came to sell their wares, among them was Fairhaven Brownie Troop 65427 and boy did they sell a lot of cookies!
  
  What could be better than that you ask? They collected and donated 153 children’s books for us to re-purpose.
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