Our Senior, Student Intern is Diego Marroquin. Diego started with us as a Freshman, Pre-Med Student at UMass Dartmouth and will be a Senior in September. Diego has already been accepted at UMass Medical School in Worcester and will be leaving us in December. Diego's...
Eleven-year-old, Student Intern, Dylan, is a poster child for Philanthropy and Networking!
The back story for context is: Our youngest student intern, is Dylan Smith. Dylan is eleven-years-old, is currently being home schooled with Grandmother Patty and when there is no pandemic, he attends fifth grade in Freetown. Dylan's regular volunteer job is managing...
Two-Year-Old Finn Defines, Hope, Courage and Love
On Friday we were the recipients of a ton of brand new toys and new, beautiful children's clothing. Later on that day we received an email from Sharon, Finn's Mother. "My name is Sharon Barbosa and I am a proud mother of a two year old boy named Finn. Finn was just...
Everything you need to know in life is taught in kindergarten.
Kindergarten teacher extraordinaire Jo-Ann Silva just dropped off a ton of new pajamas with a note. The Acushnet Public Schools Kindergarten class was excited and generous with our December community service event! Although our annual Pajama Drive looked very...
Mother and Daughter set a most perfect example of love and caring!
The Mattapoisett Mother and Daughter Team of Monica O’Malley-Tavares and Callie Tavares showed up today to drop-off a ton of stuff and to meet our CEO and Founder, Jim Stevens. They brought dozens of Holiday Stockings full of terrific items for local people in-need....
A bright and shining light called Brenden.
We met a remarkable young man several months ago. Brenden Alexander. Brenden was working on his Eagle Scout Project and asked for our assistance. He wanted to help local homeless people. We connected Brenden to George Bailey at Mobile Ministries. Mobile Ministries is...
A bright and shining light called Jayden
On Saturday we met Jayden. She is a remarkable young woman. Jayden is an eighth grader at our local middle school. She arrived with six gigantic boxes and a story. "At the start of the school year, I applied for and was invited to join the National Jr. Honor Society....
Umass Dartmouth, Student Video
QUESTION: What do Umass Dartmouth students; Mikella, Samantha, Tracy, Jennifer and Veronica have in common, besides being passionate about recycling, re-using and re-purposing? ANSWER: They are bright and shining lights focusing on issues important to the whole world!...
Listening to Chloe
115 Old Rochester Regional Junior High School students spent last Thursday and Friday with us. We ask each group for a "journalist" to write about their experience. Rather than our writing their story, they did. Student Chloe Bean had this to say: "When I first found...
Learning a thing or two from Ollie!
Ollie, an 8 year-old, third grader, started a book club at Sippican Elementary in Marion this year. Parents and Educators organized a holiday party for the book club group and all the kids decided to donate gifts to GiftsToGive instead of a gift exchange among them....