Radio 92.9, The MBTA and the Boston Herald need your help this holiday season. Help us fill a bus with toys and books for needy kids in our own backyard. This could be the hardest holiday season yet so by donating a toy – you’ll help local businesses and give a gift to a child who might not get one otherwise.
We will have a bus parked at the JFK T Stop every weekday now through Tuesday December 9th. We'll bring the bus, you bring the toys, and help us fill this bus!
Give and Get Back!
Everyone that donates a toy will be entered to win something back! We're giving one lucky giver 4 roundtrip airline tickets on Southwest Airlines from Manchester Boston Regional Airport! You can also score a custom White Hen Mug good for free coffee for the duration of the program (at all participating locations)!
The Beneficiaries
Roxbury Multi Service Center
Roxbury Multi Service Center (RMSC) is one of the oldest community based organization of its kind in the City of Boston. The founders sought to establish an institution where community residents could seek assistance for a broad range of concerns. Since 1964, RMSC has been serving and advocating for children and families coming from a variety of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds (African-American, Latino, Caribbean Islander, Cape Verdean, Asian, Native American and Caucasian). The agency has also been the incubator for more than 12 organizations that provide critical stabilization and empowerment services to the community.
Yawkey Club of Roxbury
The Yawkey Club of Roxbury has been serving the community since 1910. It is one of nine Clubs run by Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, which provides nearly 14,000 children and teens a safe place to go, ongoing relationships with caring adults, life enhancing programs, and experiences that build strong character and leadership qualities.
THE MSPCC
The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC), believes that every child is entitled to a safe and healthy start. MSPCC is a private, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. They advocate for strengthening families and preventing child abuse through essential services and effective public advocacy. For over 130 years, MSPCC has been a leader in helping children to heal and thrive through cutting-edge parenting support/education, child abuse and intervention programs and clinical mental health services designed to respond to the unique needs of infants, children, adolescents and their families.
Freedom House
Freedom House is a nonprofit, community-based organization with a decades long history of service to the community. Our mission is to promote economic self-sufficiency and social justice for residents in historically underserved neighborhoods through targeted educational development, increased civic and political engagement and progressive cultural advocacy. Situated in Grove Hall, one of Boston's oldest neighborhoods of color, Freedom House has an extraordinarily rich history of addressing issues of educational achievement and social justice.
Jumpstart
Every child enters the world with potential. Yet without the involvement of a caring adult, there is no guarantee that he or she will reach that promise. Enter Jumpstart. For over a decade we’ve been bringing at-risk preschool children and caring adults together through one-to-one relationships that focus on building literacy in combination with social and emotional readiness. Working alongside their parents and a strong community, we’ve seen how consistent, committed and caring one-to-one relationships between children and adults help to realize success not just in school, but also in life.
Manchester Boys and Girls Club
The Manchester Boys Club was incorporated in 1907 and became the Boys & Girls Club of Manchester in 1983. From its meager beginnings as reading and recreation rooms, the Club has grown to include the main Clubhouse at 555 Union Street, our Administrative Offices at 194 Concord Street, our Kids Club facility at 251 Merrimack Street, four school-based after school sites at Jewett Street and Highland Goffe’s Falls Elementary Schools and the Middle School at Parkside and McLaughlin Middle School, as well as our Camp Foster summer day camp facility located in Bedford.
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