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SAVE THE DATE! Sunday, December 9 – Crafts Fair For A Cause!

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It is almost time for our fifth annual Holiday Bazaar and Craft Sale Fund Raiser inside the GiftsToGive Philanthropy Factory.

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Sunday, December 9, 2018 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

We want to honor and celebrate local artisans! Holiday items, gifts, art,  jewelry, candy, wood workers and more. As is our policy; we are limiting tables to one (1) branded space or consultant, per product category; such as Avon, Pampered Chef, Tupperware etc.

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  • SAVE THE DATE! Sunday, December 9 – Crafts Fair For A Cause!

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  • Got a bike you don’t need? Help complete the circle!

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  • Student to Student Tutoring

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  • Thrift Store MAGIC-Saturdays, 9am to 2pm

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  • #GiftsToGiveThanks

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  • Adult Volunteers NEEDED!

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• Stories – Youth Philanthropy

  • Our 2016 MLK Teach-in and Day Of Service

    We focused this special holiday on our service learning initiative with local Middle School students. We bused two-hundred students to Normandin Middle School.

    Forty high school and college student leaders and select faculty, facilitated a three hour “Teach-in” revolving around the history of the voting rights movement, the activism and specifically, how students made a difference then and can again. The program also focused on the importance of voting and participating citizenship. (Day after local press here).

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  • Wareham’s Middle School Student Council set a most perfect example!

    

    Wareham Middle School Student Council

    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 Wareham Middle School wrote – “Thank you very much for allowing us to help at GiftsToGive today. It was amazing to see such a big place filled with so many things that will be given to families in need. We had a great time sorting all of those toys, clothes, and books. This is one of the best field trips we’ve been on – mostly because we were helping kids, but also because it was fun. We’ll be back!

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  • Tabor Academy’s Baxter House – ROCKS!

    

    Baxter House Students

    The winners of Tabor Academy’s first quarter “Green Wars” competition, were the 25 young women in Baxter House! They collectively chose to give back.

    Under the careful eye of the dorm’s “dean of green,” junior Sara Kosicki, the Baxter House residents were declared the campus’s best and most conscientious recyclers.  As a result, money accumulated at the redemption center was given to the Baxter girls as a prize for their dorm’s thoughtful approach to caring for the planet. Rather than use the money for a weekend pizza party, the girls chose to use the money to buy socks and underwear. Why?  Because they answered our call for help!  Our supply of new socks and underwear, essentials many take for granted, is dangerously low. Hearing this, these amazing students acted!

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  • Listening to Anastasia

    We met a remarkable group of faith-based, high school students this week. Photos from their visit are here. We asked junior, Anastasia to write about her experience. Here is what she had to say.

    By Anastasia  – “On November 4, 2015, fifteen eleventh-grade students from Cardinal Spellman High School, including myself, hopped in a bus and drove almost an hour to Acushnet for one of the most eye-opening experiences of our lives. As none of us had ever been to GiftsToGive or knew about everything it stands for, we quite frankly didn’t know what to expect for the trip. Despite this, though, the students and I were just as excited as ever to get to work and make a difference in the poverty surrounding our area.

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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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  • Abby shares her birthday – again!

    

    Abby and her family

    Nine year-old Abby is in the 4th grade and lives over an hour away from New Bedford.

    For the second year in a row, Abby asked friends coming to her birthday party not to bring her any gifts. Instead, she wanted them to bring new things that she could donate to GiftsToGive.
    

    Abby likes to bring everything down to the mill with her sister, Maggie. Maggie is in the 2nd grade and just turned seven.

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  • Old Rochester Regional Junior High – Artists For Change

    

    ORRJH Student Art Cards

    Over a two day period, students at Old Rochester Regional Junior High School in Mattapoisett, produced the first of our one-of-a-kind GiftsToGive Inspirational Cards.

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  • Thrift Store PSA filming

    Sunday morning in Acushnet … A crew from “AdLab” at the School of Communications at Boston University and our own Sophia; uber student volunteer, actress extraordinaire and 3rd grader!
    Photos from our morning HERE

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  • Elementary Stars

    

    Parker students present GiftsToGive CEO Jim Stevens
    with a check for $382.96.

    With the support of Parker Elementary School Principal Paul Fay, teacher Tamara Wells-Reynold’s and her 4th grade After School Art Club raised $382.96, from raffle ticket sales of their art work.

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  • GNBVTHS students have gifts to give!

    

    Alex Pinarreta

    

    Michael Perreira

    But wait … there’s more!

    Lead by Michael Perreira and Alex Pinarreta students at the Greater New Bedford Vocational Technical High School and members of the Business Professionals of America (BPA) Chapter’s officer team held a donation drive to gather clothing, toys, and books for children ages three to twelve. The students and staff at the school generously donated many items which were delivered to GiftsToGive.

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  • 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 would be packaging toys and other things for children in need, but what I didn’t expect was the eye opening experience it turned out to be. Going on a tour of GiftsToGive was the first thing my fraternity did when we got there. I never knew some little old factory could contain tens of thousands of various items that are shipped to kids in need every day from this facility.

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  • Being inspired by Sam

    On a cold and drizzly Saturday, October 14, 2014 to be exact, in walks a 13 year-old young woman who matter of factly and unpretentiously tells us that she wants to help local children who don’t have the basic things they need; clothes, books, toys and birthday presents. She goes on to tell us that she wants to start now and off she goes to work in the factory on her first volunteer day!

    This remarkable young woman is Sam McGill. Sam is currently a freshman at Greater New Bedford Vocational Technical High School and has accumulated 470 volunteer hours to date, mostly on Saturdays and we are hard pressed to think of more than a few Saturday’s Sam has not been with us! Sam is currently helping us manage our Thrift Store.

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• News from GiftsToGive

  • Freetown Lakeville Middle School – Friends Of Rachel Club

    Yesterday, we met a most remarkable group of students from the Freetown Lakeville Middle School, Friends Of Rachel Club. Rachel Scott was the first student killed Read More »

  • Our inaugural flight, or .. the first time we crashed the fist drone!

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  • ADULT Volunteers NEEDED!

    We need ADULT Volunteer help! Spend an hour with us on May 19th and see what we’re up to. Can’t make the 19th ,,, no worries, Read More »