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Community Food Drive, Jan. 9-16

The Harmony Foundation, the City of Newton, the Rotary Club of Newton, and The Village Bank are collaborating on a Community Food Drive, January 9-16, in honor of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to benefit Newton’s three food pantries: Newton Food Pantry, Newton Centre Food Pantry,…

Cradles to Crayons: 20 years providing clothing and essentials for children

Carefully sorting through colorful, donated children’s clothing, Christie Webber and more than a dozen of her colleagues from Norwood’s HMI Performance Incentives happily returned to volunteer at Cradles to Crayons after a two-year absence due to the Covid pandemic. The nonprofit, located at 281 Newtonville Avenue, recently marked 20 years…

City of Newton: Request for Proposals for serving low- and moderate-income residents, providing emergency shelter, preventing homelessness, and rapid re-housing

The City of Newton’s Divsion of Housing and Community Development has issued a Request for Proposals for services to be funded by approximately $296,000 in Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) and approximately $151,700 in Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG). Applications will be available as of January 4 and are due February…

Newton Art Association fundraiser for Facing Cancer Together, now through Jan. 14

The Newton Art Association continues Art Works for Good, its annual fundraising for worthy causes, with a fundraiser this year for Facing Cancer Together (FCT), which provides care to cancer survivors and their families who cannot afford access to essential support services. Through January 14, NAA member artists selling any…

Help for the hungry in Newton

Have you heard of “the Freedge,” a source of free food for anyone and everyone? Freedges are springing up in many communities. Our Newton Community Freedge is located at 420 Watertown Street on the property of Central Drapery and Dry Cleaning, which allows use of its parking lot for the Freedge shed…

State Sen. Cynthia Creem and State Rep. Kay Khan join Sen. Ed Markey at Cradles to Crayons in Newtonville

Senator Markey, State Senator Cynthia Creem, and State Representative Kay Khan joined the staff of Cradles to Crayons (C2C) at its national headquarters in Newtonville last Friday to mark C2C’s 20th anniversary. C2C Founder and CEO Lynn Margherio led a tour of the facilities and explained the agency’s mission to…

Funding is renewed for Nourishing Newton, a win-win program for restaurants and the hungry

For the past two years, the Charles River Regional Chamber has received and distributed state funds to pay for meals made by local restaurants and delivered to local food pantries by Newton Rotary volunteers, in a program called Nourishing Newton. Now, thanks to Senator Cynthia Creem, the program has been…

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