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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

  • 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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  • 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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  • Michelle Collects 49 Winter Coats!

    

    The Amazing Michelle!

    Fourteen year-old Michelle, organized and collected 49 winter coats!

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  • Gifts From the SKY

    

    SKY Campers

    An abundance of gifts came from the SKY (Summer Bible Camp) and found their way into the hands of hundreds of local kids in need, thanks to the children of St. Christopher and St. Theresa Parishes in Tiverton. 

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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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  • 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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  • Listening to Madeline, truly a great hope for her generation!

    A small but mighty group of Moses Brown Freshmen and Seniors spent part of their day with us, last week. We asked Freshman Madeline to write about their collective experience.

    We talk a lot about service learning; to have this remarkable high school freshman reach the enduring understanding that she has, inspires us to be better and do more!

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  • A story of great hope for this generation of children

    

    Cardinal Spellman Students

    This week we met sixteen students from Cardinal Spellman High School in Brockton.

    Photos from our day are here

    We talked as a group about child poverty, the importance of education and graduating high school. We talked about giving, philanthropy, making a difference, social justice, big citizenship, the power of one, the power of a group and then we went to work. These sixteen students inspected, cleaned and processed enough great stuff to allow us to help three dozen local children in-need. How great is that?

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  • Listening to Five Year-old Elmire

    We just met two remarkable women; Kelli, an ageless beauty and Elmire, a five year-old beauty, brainiac and philanthropist.

    Elmire had a birthday party last week and in her own words, told us: ” I just turned 5. I had a birthday party and I asked all of my friends to bring something to donate to GiftsToGive instead of a gift for me. It made me feel good inside.”

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  • Presidential Service Award for New Bedford High School Sophomore!

    

    CamRon Frazier receives the Presidential Service Award!

    What does the President of the United States and Sophomore, CamRon Frazier have in common?

    Last Saturday night, at our First Annual “Rising Tide” event, we awarded New Bedford High School Sophomore CamRon Frazier, the Presidential Service Award.

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  • Student Intern SHOOTS FOR THE MOON!

    

    Student Intern, Molly

    * 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 hockey team would host a skating event. The Bruins could not send a player but did offer some of their surplus equipment – so that is working itself through. Then Molly went to the Celtics for help and they also could not send a player down to New Bedford. (You can see Molly’s letters to them below).

    The positive thing that happened last week came in the form of Boston University and FYSOP! Sixty-eight incoming BU freshmen spent two days at the mill helping us process clothes (we were at the critical process place of swapping out summer clothes for winter clothes and getting ready for back to school.) See that story here.

    Last week we received an email from Anthony Moccia asking to be connected to Molly. Who is Anthony Moccia you ask? Anthony is a senior at BU and was one of the chaperones for the the visiting BU freshmen. Here is Antony’s email –

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  • The Power of One (or two, in the case of twins!)

    

    Ella and Liam

    Ella is 7 years old and has a twin brother Liam.

    “I decided one day that I did not do enough for this country, especially children and wanted to help kids without clothes and do a clothing drive.” Believe or not.. her exact words!

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• News from GiftsToGive

  • We are in awe of the generosity of our neighbors!

    UPDATE: September 3, 2015 Unbelievable! Seriously unbelievable! Actually amazing! We filled an extra 1,127 backpacks with school supplies specifically because of the generosity of some wonderful Read More »

  • Summer Interns setting a most perfect example of giving and service!

    Summer interns Freddy and Tyler, spent last Saturday volunteering at Alma del Mar, to help them build their playground. Some kids talk the talk, others walk Read More »

  • 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 Read More »