Are you a member of the Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) community? Your help is needed at the Newton Food Pantry!

Do you want to be a part of a local nonprofit that helps countless residents every week to provide healthy food options for them? Bring your own background and experience to benefit the clients of the Newton Food Pantry! The Pantry needs new volunteers with linguistic skills, BIPOC volunteers, and volunteers from diverse backgrounds to support and represent the diverse client community.

They’re still looking for BIPOC volunteers and people who can speak Spanish, Russian and Chinese to work the Wednesday afternoon client distribution shifts, 12:30 – 2:30 pm, 2:30 – 4:30 pm, and 4:30 – 6:00 pm. There are also a variety of other volunteer opportunities. Want to know more? Email president@newtonfoodpantry.org today.

Newton Food Pantry is an entirely volunteer-run, local nonprofit, working hard to bring nutrition and food justice to all of our neighbors.

Help Newton Neighbors Helping Neighbors send 15 – 20 students to camp this summer.

While camp scholarships do pay up to 80% of the cost, too many families can not afford the 20% – 30% payment required of them. Through this fundraiser NNHN has already raised $4,500 to help Newton school children continue to socialize, play and learn with their friends this summer, however as the word has spread, they have learned about more needs.

There is an amazing program – a collaboration between METCO and Newton Community Ed – to fund and sponsor 75 students to attend camp this summer. This program is $6,700 short of their need to cover the transportation and two-week camp costs for 6 more NPS students and NNHN hopes to help.

For every additional $1,100 raised, they can cover the cost for one more camper. For more information and donation links please visit the NCP sponsor link. And, for more about the METCO/NCE program click here Camp.

Here is an example of the campers they want to support (names changed for privacy).
“Alex and Dylan are twins, to a single mom, going into the first grade next year. Zoom Kindergarten was tricky for them, but they are back in school full time and loving their Continue reading →