What an amazing night! What an amazing food fest! What an amazing group of neighbors! Photos from our evening are here. Two hundred neighbors spent their Saturday evening together! It was a blast! None of this would have been possible without a most wonderful group of...
This is a story about tempered glass, but not really. This is really a story about a remarkable woman, Iris Wallace of Glaser Glass. It's also a story about the power of giving. Where to begin? We opened our thrift store in Acushnet to help offset our programming and...
At first glance it is bittersweet - to see our original home being demolished - but then we think about what Paul Bloom said - "We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our...
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...
We met a most remarkable young woman on Saturday, Jessie Barbosa. Photos from our day are here. Jessie is a student at Bridgewater State University. She organized a day of service with several groups on campus. We asked Jessie to write about their experience, she had...
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...
While our goal of building a more caring community is beautiful, it's not easy. Being connected is the foundation for our work and last Thursday we held a community conversation about children and social media, after work, at the philanthropy factory. Students in the...
Circle K students at Bridgewater State University, gave up part of their Saturday to make a difference. We think they're a most perfect example of giving and service and we're looking forward to engaging even more. Their president, Ashley Martins had this to say...
January 19, 2015
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