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,...
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"...
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...
Update: Monday, December 2, 2013 The Scouts of Pack 32 in Marion, made a huge difference today! In November the scouts participated in their soap box derby and used the event to: help help a local family, collect donations for a food pantry and collecting...
* 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...
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...
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...
Dartmouth Middle School thought they’d collected a lot of books for GiftsToGive in 2010 when they collected over 3,200 gently used books for kids and teens in one week. Then they smashed that record in 2011 by collecting over 6,000 gently used books. Now DMS students...
When Nate invited friends to his birthday party, he asked them to bring gifts of new socks and underwear for boys and girls who didn't have the things that they all had. Nate agreed with his mother that he already had enough "stuff" and decided instead to help kids...