St. Mary’s Episcopal Church (258 Concord Street, Lower Falls) will hold its Winter Clothing Drive on November 5, 9AM-Noon. Please bring to the church driveway your new or gently used winter items such as clothing (hats, gloves, mittens, scarfs, etc.), sleeping bags, blankets, and disposable handwarmers. If you have any…
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Meet the Newton Neighbors team at the Newton Harvest Festival this Sunday, 11AM-4PM in Newton Centre. Bring any or all of the five items being collected for their Drive for Five campaign: Individually wrapped snacks (e.g., any kind of snack, granola bars, cereal bars or protein bars, goldfish, pretzels etc.)…
For World Hunger Day on October 15, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church (258 Concord Street) will host a community meal-packing event, 3PM-5PM. It’s a fun, community service-orientated way for all people of all ages to learn more about global hunger! Participants will contribute to an assembly line process combined with an…
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a charity that helps those in need in Newton (and a frequent partner of Newton Neighbors Helping Neighbors), is holding a clothing drive this Sunday, October 2, 9AM-Noon and 4PM-6PM. The truck will be located in the parking lot of Our Lady Help…
Newton Neighbors is accomplishing so much, for so many: Making over 4,600 deliveries in the last 2.5 years from food pantries to 56 families who cannot get to the pantries Helping to stock the Freedge — Newton’s free community refrigerator and pantry — for the last 1.5 years Delivering thousands…
Food To Your Table (FTYT) is a local nonprofit that picks up food from the farmers market on Tuesday evenings and delivers the same evening to Newton residents in need. Volunteers are needed for approximately 2 hours (5:45PM – 7:30PM) on Tuesday evenings through October 18. For more information, email [email protected]. Come join the fun as…
Newton’s Community Table — a fundraiser to benefit the Newton Food Pantry — will be held on September 22, 6PM-9PM at The Windsor Club (1601 Beacon Street, Waban). Guests will experience the tastes of some of Newton’s best restaurants — Olivia’s Bistro, Farmstead Table, Thistle & Leek, Little Big Diner,…
Dignity Matters, a top-rated nonprofit based in Framingham, collects and distributes feminine hygiene products, bras, and underwear for women and girls who are homeless or disadvantaged, in order to help them stay healthy, regain self-confidence, and live with basic dignity. Women cannot use SNAP or WIC money for these products, and…
Last Thursday, Newton Neighbors invited the community to The Street in Chestnut Hill to gather — in-person, for the first time in a long time — and celebrate the successful conclusion of this month’s School Supplies Drive conducted in collaboration with The Street and Village Bank. Susan Vaughn, one of…
The Newton South HS Girls Varsity Soccer team will hold its 21st Annual Charity Car Wash on Saturday, September 10, 11AM-2PM, in front of Newton South (140 Brandeis Road). Proceeds this year will be donated to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research and Compassionate Care ALS.
Celebrate the end of the School Supplies Drive on August 18, 5PM-8PM, on the Green at the The Street in Chestnut Hill. Meet the Newton Neighbors team, make a donation to the drive, purchase a drink if you wish, and enjoy live entertainment, games, snacks, and more. Newton Neighbors is…
With many donors on vacation, our local hospitals are facing urgent needs for donations of both blood and blood platelets. You can donate blood in Newton on Friday, July 29, when the blood mobile operated by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital will be at Brae Burn Country…