Service Day Yields 600 Volunteer Hours for Local Agencies
On Saturday, April 21, some 200 Shore family members, teachers, and friends came together to make an impact in partnership with the Mass Bay United Way. Through 11 service projects around the region, participants contributed more than 600 volunteer hours to benefit local organizations that included Family Promise, Acord Food Pantry, Windrush Farm, Beverly Children’s Learning Center, Backyard Growers, Open Door Food Pantry, Salem YMCA, RAW Arts, Beverly Hospital, and the United Way's Summer Learning Collaborative.
According to Shore parent Julee Haley, co-organizer of United in Service 2018 along with fellow parent Abby Albrecht, "It was an amazing day for our volunteers. Working together, we collected 198 pounds of food for the hungry, delivered 12 meals for homeless families, created life-size gaming boards to help battle summer reading loss, prepped beds and planted eight trays of veggie seedlings, and much more." 2018 represents the third year of partnership between Shore and the United Way.
This year's event began with a kickoff brunch in Shore's Dining Hall, where families all pitched in to create cheerful cards and decorations to go to Beverly Hospital. As teams prepared to depart to work sites across the region, the United Way's Senior Director of Community Impact, Sarah Bartley, told them, "All the research we have available shows that kids who are involved in service at a young age are more likely to stay involved as adults—so a big thank you to Shore families for kick-starting a lifetime of giving back."
Bartley continued, "I also want to congratulate the school for taking the time and making the space available for this kind of volunteering. At the United Way we really believe that the most complicated challenges we face as a society—providing access to high quality education, addressing food insecurity and poverty—aren't solved by one organization or one program. It takes a whole community coming together to effect positive social change. So we love supporting what Shore's doing."
A sunny, warm morning meant kids and adults alike were eager to roll up their sleeves for spring planting, cleanup, painting, and other projects. A new service beneficiary this year, RAW Art Works in Lynn, welcomed food donations from Shore families and generously provided a morning of creatvity for paricipants. RAW's development manager, Sarah Brogna, is herself a graduate of Shore. "We're a youth arts organization rooted in art therapy," she explained. "At its core, RAW believes that all kids should be seen and heard and that everyone has a story to tell. Through our 100% free programming—from painting to filmmaking, for kids ages 7-19—RAW uses art to ask kids 'what is really going on' in their lives, giving them the tools to create in unexpected ways, and envision new possibilities for their future."
United in Service 2018 By the Numbers
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According to Shore parent Julee Haley, co-organizer of United in Service 2018 along with fellow parent Abby Albrecht, "It was an amazing day for our volunteers. Working together, we collected 198 pounds of food for the hungry, delivered 12 meals for homeless families, created life-size gaming boards to help battle summer reading loss, prepped beds and planted eight trays of veggie seedlings, and much more." 2018 represents the third year of partnership between Shore and the United Way.
This year's event began with a kickoff brunch in Shore's Dining Hall, where families all pitched in to create cheerful cards and decorations to go to Beverly Hospital. As teams prepared to depart to work sites across the region, the United Way's Senior Director of Community Impact, Sarah Bartley, told them, "All the research we have available shows that kids who are involved in service at a young age are more likely to stay involved as adults—so a big thank you to Shore families for kick-starting a lifetime of giving back."
Bartley continued, "I also want to congratulate the school for taking the time and making the space available for this kind of volunteering. At the United Way we really believe that the most complicated challenges we face as a society—providing access to high quality education, addressing food insecurity and poverty—aren't solved by one organization or one program. It takes a whole community coming together to effect positive social change. So we love supporting what Shore's doing."
A sunny, warm morning meant kids and adults alike were eager to roll up their sleeves for spring planting, cleanup, painting, and other projects. A new service beneficiary this year, RAW Art Works in Lynn, welcomed food donations from Shore families and generously provided a morning of creatvity for paricipants. RAW's development manager, Sarah Brogna, is herself a graduate of Shore. "We're a youth arts organization rooted in art therapy," she explained. "At its core, RAW believes that all kids should be seen and heard and that everyone has a story to tell. Through our 100% free programming—from painting to filmmaking, for kids ages 7-19—RAW uses art to ask kids 'what is really going on' in their lives, giving them the tools to create in unexpected ways, and envision new possibilities for their future."
United in Service 2018 By the Numbers
350 snacks for hungry young artists at RAW Art Works
198 lbs. of food and $130 collected for Acord Food Pantry
100 Financial Wellbeing and Literacy Kits for children participating in pre-K programs
100 crepe flowers created to cheer up Beverly Hospital patients
90 gallons of water stored, 8 trays of seedlings planted, and soil prepared for planting at Backyard Growers
50 hours spent cleaning brush bags and tack room at Windrush Farm
40 get-well and congratulations cards for the Beverly Hospital hospital patients
32 breakfast kits made for Gloucester elderly
12 meals for families experiencing homelessness
4 garden beds rebuilt and prepped for spring at Open Door
2 life-size board games for local early education centers to help battle summertime learning loss
1 freshly painted conference room and hallway at Beverly Children's Learning Center
1 cleaned up gazebo, garden, and picnic area at Windrush Farm
198 lbs. of food and $130 collected for Acord Food Pantry
100 Financial Wellbeing and Literacy Kits for children participating in pre-K programs
100 crepe flowers created to cheer up Beverly Hospital patients
90 gallons of water stored, 8 trays of seedlings planted, and soil prepared for planting at Backyard Growers
50 hours spent cleaning brush bags and tack room at Windrush Farm
40 get-well and congratulations cards for the Beverly Hospital hospital patients
32 breakfast kits made for Gloucester elderly
12 meals for families experiencing homelessness
4 garden beds rebuilt and prepped for spring at Open Door
2 life-size board games for local early education centers to help battle summertime learning loss
1 freshly painted conference room and hallway at Beverly Children's Learning Center
1 cleaned up gazebo, garden, and picnic area at Windrush Farm
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Filling a raised bed at Open Door Food pantry
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United Way's Sarah Bartley with Head of School Clair Ward and daughter Ella Williams, co-organizers Abby Albrecht and Julee Haley, and project leaders Nina Wilson and Patti Murphy
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Making crepe flowers for Beverly Hospital
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Finishing up a raised bed for Backyard Growers
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RAW's development manager and a Shore alumna, Sarah Brogna, welcoming volunteers
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