Our deepest thanks to GFWC Metropolitan Community Club (MCC) who donated $1000 to purchase backpacks and school supplies. Using their generous donation 100 backpacks filled with supplies including headphones, composition notebooks, pencils, crayons, gluesticks, and scissor were made for K-2nd grade students. We are grateful for their generous and continued support!
Our deepest thanks to our friends at Sts Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church of Washington DC for their generous donation of 250 filled backpacks and extra school supplies! We are so grateful for your friendship and continued support!
A huge thank you to our friends at Mortenson who generously donated 80 backpacks filled with supplies for elementary school students. This wonderful group is currently working on the Brookville Bus Depot Microgrid in Silver Spring. Our thanks to them for their caring hearts!
Our deepest thanks to Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Center for their amazing donations-books for our literacy program, toys for our holiday presents, school supplies for our current backpack/school supplies drive, and knitted items for the upcoming winter months! We are so grateful for their amazing support and partnership! #kindness
STM’s annual backpack drive kicks off on August 1-28. Middle School and High School students can earn 2SSL hours for each backpack filled with supplies. Details on the supplies and instructions are here: https://montgomerycountymd.galaxydigital.com/need/detail/…
Filled backpacks will be collected at our office at 14516 Bauer Drive, Rockville, MD 20853, TPSS Co-op, Tabletop DC, Main Street Pearl, Old Takoma Ace Hardwards, and Silver Spring Cares. Our thanks to them and our other partners Metropolitan Community Club (MCC), a chapter of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs and Sts Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church of Washington DC. Backpacks filled with school supplies are one of the items most needed and appreciated by our families so please help if you can!
Our thanks to CE Marc Elrich and the Food Security Task Force team for continuing their support of food insecure families in Montgomery County. For the FY22-23 they are partnering with Manna and Capital Area Food bank so that food providers such as Small Things Matter and the county hubs can continue our work. We are grateful for their support and for all the many wonderful groups that we met through this amazing community effort!
Summer 2022 Virtual/Remote MCPS Approved SSL Opportunities
Note: Please check our updated opportunities and drop off locations from June – August on the Montgomery County Volunteer Center website.
Summer 2022 In Person SSL Opportunities
Come out and help pack produce at our food distributions on Friday mornings from 7:30am-9:30am at the TPSS Coop (201 Ethan Allen Ave, Takoma Park, MD 20912). Or join us on the 1st and 3rd Fridays from 9am to 11:30am at the TP Seventh Day Adventist Church (6810 Eastern Ave NW, Washington, DC 20012). We will post additional in person opportunities through the Montgomery County Volunteer Center site as well as on our website (under Current Events).
Congratulations to our Class of 2022 Seniors: Lana Anderson, Ethan Shoham, Jacob Hutter, Sam Chen, Sam Bush, and many others who served with us virtually this year making food and donating gift cards, holiday toys, and more. Our deepest thanks for your hard work and service to those in need!
We wish you continued success and happiness!
This week we welcomed Seth Baker from St. Andrew’s Episcopal School to our team. He will be interning with STM for his Senior Service Project for the next 2 weeks! Seth is busy creating a database of our partner contacts and is helping distribute food to those in need.
Wonderful celebration of #GlobalYouthServiceDay #GYSD2022 with Youth Service America projects on 1) hunger awareness (fundraising-surpassing our goal with $417 in bake sales with a match from YSA and packing nonperishable foods for Hampshire Tower Apts sponsored by the Sodexo Foundation, Amerigroup, Bella Ballet Kentlands, Saydam Properties Group at Keller Williams Capital Properties, 2) pronoun usage (buttons and coloring pride flags sponsored by Hillshire Farm #AllowanceGrant and Girl Scout Troop 34039) and 3) spreading kindness (friendship bracelets sponsored by Hershey Foods, Hershey Foundation #HeartwarmingProject)! Our thanks to all the AMAZING youth volunteers, youth leaders Ocean, Sahana, Marion, Shreya, and Lana, elected officials Mayor Kate Stewart, Delegate Lorig Charkoudian, and Delegate David Moon, and our community for coming out to support us!