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....
Why we volunteer
Rising Tide Students Reflect a Bright and Shining Light!
When people ask us why we do the work we do. We talk about the children we meet every day. Today we met teens from the Rising Tide School in Plymouth. They sorted through a ton of children's clothes and enabled us to help dozens of local children who don't have warm...
Inspiration from a ten year-old! (Really)
We could tell the story, but it is much better coming from a Mom! "Leah volunteered in December at the GiftsToGive Philanthropy Factory. While we were there, she learned that they were in need of new soccer balls, basketballs, footballs, children’s under garments and...
Logan sets a most perfect example for all of us!
CEO Blog Acushnet, Massachusetts In the middle of a very hectic day, in walks Logan. Logan is 5 years-old. He was on a mission and needed to talk to someone in charge. Luckily (for me), I was on duty and I received a huge dose of inspiration! Logan had something...
Bishop Stang Fresmen Class – Connecting to Giving and Service
One of our annual traditions, is meeting the entire Bishop Stang Freshmen class at the factory. Photo archive HERE. (This year's photos are a gift from students; Amelia Bailey and Emily Iovanna) We could talk all day, about what is right about young people, but we...