We focused this special holiday on our service learning initiative with local Middle School students. We bused two-hundred students to Normandin Middle School. Forty high school and college student leaders and select faculty, facilitated a three hour "Teach-in"...
1,800 individual socks were donated to us on Tuesday of Christmas week, from an extraordinary group of students at the Dartmouth Middle School. According to our accountants, that is 900 pairs. At three pairs of socks per child, in every gift package we distribute, 300...
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...
We met a remarkable group of faith-based, high school students this week. Photos from their visit are here. We asked junior, Anastasia to write about her experience. Here is what she had to say. By Anastasia - "On November 4, 2015, fifteen eleventh-grade students...
Submitted by student Casey G. "A team is a group of people linked in a common purpose. Today, Dartmouth High’s Girls Soccer Team showed great teamwork while volunteering at GiftsToGive. The team has been putting in time at GiftsToGive for the past 3 years and they do...
We see thousands of students every year - sometimes we ask one of them to write a story of their experience. Sometimes one of their stories makes us stop what we are doing and listen - really listen. Today we are listening to Gabriela; you should too! My...
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...
We see thousands of student volunteers every year, most are amazing! Some are extraordinary and then there is Olivia. To call Olivia super extraordinary or unbelievable, would be an understatement! Olivia has volunteered with us for five months and in that time has...
When people talk to us about what is wrong with kids today; we smile and listen politely, then reply with a recent story about Matthew, Jonathan and Arthur. Read the local paper's story here. Johnathan who is a sophomore at Bishop Connolly High School has been...
Tabor Academy student Wendy Liu accepted the assignment of reporting back on her group's volunteer experience yesterday. Here is what she had to say - "September 22 may be another mundane Tuesday for most students, but not for those at Tabor. Today was our Service Day...