When we think about service, one of the first things we think about is our Fire Department. Men and women who put themselves in harm's way every time they report to work. Today we met Firefighter Andy Bois. Andy grew up in New Bedford with our Russell Souza and have...
Every Monday and Wednesday, students from grades 6-8 at Normandin Middle School have chosen to take part in the 21st Century grant program - “Community Service Group.” The purpose of the 21st Century program is to establish or expand community learning centers that...
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...
GiftsToGive student volunteers along with mentors Matt and Bob met up with over 400 neighbors in the first annual walk to raise awareness around the crisis we share as a community about the alarming rise in suicides, especially among teens. Student leaders Nathan...
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...
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...
* 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...
Every once in a while something happens that fuels change. That something, for us, is Martha Kay. It's one thing to facilitate thousands of children in community service, it's another to connect them to service learning and then to something much bigger than...
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,...
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...